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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 hoar /ˈhor, ˈhɔr/
 (a.)白的,灰色的,發白的灰白,灰白色,白霜

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hoar a.
 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. “Hoar waters.”
 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.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hoar, n. Hoariness; antiquity. [R.]
    Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.   --Burke.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hoar, v. t.  To become moldy or musty. [Obs.]
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hoar
      adj : showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or
            white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
            "nodded his hoary head" [syn: gray, grey, gray-haired,
             grey-haired, gray-headed, grey-headed, grizzly,
             hoary, white-haired]
      n : ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects
          outside) [syn: frost, hoarfrost, rime]