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(), a.[OE. hor, har, AS. hr; akin to Icel. hrr, and to OHG. hr illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. ktus light, torch. Cf. Hoary.] 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser. 2. Gray or white with age; hoary. Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron. 3. Musty; moldy; stale. [Obs.] Shak. Hoar n.Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke. Hoar v. t.[AS. hrian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] Shak. スポンサード リンク
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