hoar in English

adjective

1

grayish white; gray or gray-haired with age.

These depth hoar complexes, as they are called, can usually be counted as annual layers in the top portion of the GISP2 core.

noun

1

hoarfrost.

There is still some depth hoar on the ground, but fairly consistent, and more importantly, frozen layers above.

adjective

grizzly, white-haired, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, hoary

noun

hoarfrost, rime, frost

Use "hoar" in a sentence

1. Is very good meat in Lent; But a hare that is hoar

2. A1650 Amorphous frost Hoar frost which possesses no apparent crystalline structure.

3. The high hoar cliff, the grove's Benighting gloom, Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father

4. This steep north facing slope Avalanched about 3 weeks ago on depth hoar when a snowmobiler triggered it

5. MERCUTlO No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.

6. The airplane had sat on the freezing tarmac overnight, accumulating a layer of hoar frost on the wings estimated at some 1-2 mm thick.

7. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 7, There is a willow grows Aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream

8. The airplane had sat on the freezing tarmac overnight, accumulating a layer of hoar frost on the wings estimated at some 1 to 2 mm thick.