hoar

A white or greyish-white colour.

Hoariness; antiquity.

His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

Of a white or greyish-white colour.

hoar waters

old trees with trunks all hoar

Hoarily bearded.

And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

Musty; mouldy; stale.

But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

Figuratively, grey-haired with age.

Be Thou with me until Old-age, and even to hoar hairs do Thou carrie me. P. Isa. 46.4.

The great popularity of the Stuarts—certainly more allied to personal causes than we can at present calculate—is a curious fact. It was not one of those feelings drawn from hoar antiquity, when habit has become religion.

To become mouldy or musty.

But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.