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hoar /hɔː /archaic or literary adjectiveGreyish white; grey or grey-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....- Gertrude does speak of a willow which ‘grows askant the brook / That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.’
noun [mass noun]Hoar frost.There is still some depth hoar on the ground, but fairly consistent, and more importantly, frozen layers above....- Hector noticed spicules of rime adorning the packing-case shelves like fluffy moulds and hoar on his own beard.
- Depth hoar develops when a large, vertical temperature gradient causes vapour to sublime, diffuse and crystallize in a layer.
OriginOld English hār, of Germanic origin; related to German hehr 'majestic, noble'. Rhymesabhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, thaw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your |