Hoar vs Hor - What's the difference?
hoar | hor |
A white or greyish-white colour.
Hoariness; antiquity.
* Burke
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
* Spenser
(poetic) Hoarily bearded.
* 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
* Byron
(obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
(obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
As nouns the difference between hoar and hor
is that hoar is a white or greyish-white colour while hor is pot-hook or hor can be adultery, fornication or hor can be the lover of a married woman.As an adjective hoar
is of a white or greyish-white colour.As a verb hoar
is (obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.hoar
English
Noun
(en noun)- (BDCADC)
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Adjective
(-)- hoar waters
- 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.
- old trees with trunks all hoar
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Derived terms
* hoarfrost * hoary * hoaredSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
