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[hawr, hohr] 
–noun
| 1. | hoarfrost; rime. |
| 2. | a hoary coating or appearance. |
–adjective
| 3. | hoary. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME hor, OE hār; c. ON hārr gray with age, OFris hēr gray, OHG hēr old (G hehr august, sublime)
bef. 900; ME hor, OE hār; c. ON hārr gray with age, OFris hēr gray, OHG hēr old (G hehr august, sublime)
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| hoar (hôr, hōr) adj. Hoary. n. Hoarfrost. [Middle English hor, from Old English hār.] |
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Hoar
Hoar\, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h[=a]r; akin to Icel. h[=a]rr, and to OHG. h[=e]r illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei[eth] brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k[=e]tus 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
Hoar\, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. --Burke.Hoar
Hoar\, v. t. [AS. h[=a]rian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [Obs.] --Shak.
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hoar
O.E. har "gray, venerable, old," the connecting notion being gray hair, from P.Gmc. *khairaz, from PIE *koi- "to shine." Ger. retains the word as a title of respect, in Herr. Of frost, it is recorded in O.E. (hoar-frost is c.1290), expressing the resemblance of the white feathers of frost to an old man's beard. Used as an attribute of boundary stones in O.E. (probably in ref. to being gray with lichens), hence common in place names.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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