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hoar 音标拼音: [h'ɔr] a. 白的,灰色的,发白的
n. 灰白,灰白色,白霜 白的,灰色的,发白的灰白,灰白色,白霜 hoar adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; " whose beard with age is hoar"- Coleridge; " nodded his hoary head" [ synonym: { grey}, { gray}, { grey- haired}, { gray- haired}, { grey- headed}, { gray- headed}, { grizzly}, { hoar}, { hoary}, { white- haired}] n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit ( especially on objects outside) [ synonym: { frost}, { hoar}, { hoarfrost}, { rime}] Hoar \ Hoar\, v. t. [ AS. h[= a] rian to grow gray.] To become moldy or musty. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Gray or white with age; hoary. [ 1913 Webster] Whose beard with age is hoar. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] Old trees with trunks all hoar. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Musty; moldy; stale. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Hoar \ Hoar\, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 62 Moby Thesaurus words for " hoar": Jack Frost, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, argent, argentine, black frost, canescent, chalky, cretaceous, elderly, fleecy- white, frost, frost line, frost smoke, frosted, frosty, gray, gray with age, gray- haired, gray- headed, grizzled, grizzly, grown old, hoarfrost, hoary, killing frost, lactescent, lily- white, marble, marmoreal, milky, niveous, old, old as Methuselah, patriarchal, platinum, pure white, rime, rime frost, senectuous, sharp frost, silver, silvered, silvery, snow- white, snowy, swan- white, venerable, white, white as snow, white frost, white with age, white- bearded, white- crowned, white- haired, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old
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