Associations to the word «Hoar»

Wiktionary

HOAR, noun. A white or greyish-white colour.
HOAR, noun. Hoariness; antiquity.
HOAR, adjective. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
HOAR, adjective. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
HOAR, adjective. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
HOAR, verb. (obsolete) (intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
HOAR FROST, noun. Alternative spelling of hoarfrost

Dictionary definition

HOAR, noun. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
HOAR, adjective. Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats