Hoar Definition
hôr
adjective
Hoary.
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Moldy; stale.
Webster's New World
(poetic) Hoarily bearded.
Wiktionary
noun
Hoarfrost.
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Other Word Forms of Hoar
Noun
Singular:
hoar
Plural:
hoarsOrigin of Hoar
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From Middle English hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēy(w)-, *ḱyē(w)- (“grey”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English hor from Old English hār
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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