† hoarnessn.
Obsolete.
a. The quality of being hoar or hoary; hoariness.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > hoariness
hoarnessa900
hoariness1580
canescence1855
the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > grey, hoary > quality of being
hoarnessa900
hoar?a1513
hoar-headedness1574
hoariness1580
a900 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 76/21 Canicies, harnes.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xx. 29 The dignete of olde men hornesse.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. iv. 1271 Þanne is white colour ygendred, as it fareþ in snowe, in hore froste, and in horenesse of her.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 570/13 Canicies, hoorenesse.
c1450 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 481/2 (note) (MS. Coll. Arms) A litelle harenesse hathe chaunged sumwhat his colour.
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Compoundes f. 17, in Bulwarke of Defence It kepeth..the hedde from horenes.
1564 T. Becon Demands Holy Script. Prayers, etc. (1844) 607 Having hoarness of manners, authority, gravity, and high knowledge.
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Mucor,..hoarenesse, such as is on breade or meate long kept.
b. A close growth of white or grey hairs.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > growth of white hairs
hoar1551
hoarness1578
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. v. 10 The leaues..hauing a certaine fine horenesse upon them like veluet.
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