hoar

See also: Hoar

English

Etymology

From Middle English hor, hore, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱēy(w)-, *ḱyē(w)- (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”) and Herr (“sir, gentleman”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hô, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hɔː/
• enPR: hôr, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hɔɹ/
• enPR: hōr, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹ/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /hoə/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: whore

Noun

hoar

1. A white or greyish-white colour.

   hoar:  

2. Hoariness; antiquity.
   • Burke

     Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

Translations

colour

• Bulgarian: сивобял (sivobjal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尨 (páng) (literally)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: branco gelo

Adjective

hoar (not comparable)

1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
   • Edmund Spenser

     hoar waters

   • Byron

     old trees with trunks all hoar

2. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
   • Thomas Warton

     And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
     Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

   • 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie

     This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,

     Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,

     Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,

     Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

3. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

Derived terms

• hoarfrost
• hoary
• hoared

Related terms

• haar
• horehound

Verb

hoar (third-person singular simple present hoars, present participle hoaring, simple past and past participle hoared)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Haro, Hora, ROAH, haor, haro, hora, oh ar

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Härre, haar, hoor, hàre

Etymology

From Old High German hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

Noun

hoar n

1. (Gressoney, anatomy) hair (the long hair on a person's head)

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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Swedish

Noun

hoar

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of ho

Verb

hoar

1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of hoa.