hoar

n. Hoariness; antiquity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. hor, har, AS. hār; akin to Icel. hārr, and to OHG. hēr illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Heið brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. kētus light, torch. Cf. Hoary. ] 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. “Hoar waters.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gray or white with age; hoary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose beard with age is hoar. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Old trees with trunks all hoar. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Musty; moldy; stale. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hoard for those whom he did breed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarding. ] [ AS. hordian. ] To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See Hide to conceal. ] A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Hoarding, 2. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hoards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OF. hourd, hourt, barrier, palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, hürde; akin to E. hurdle. √16. See Hurdle. ] 1. (Arch.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]