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(with hoar frost)

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  • hoar frost — A type of icing that occurs in clear air on a surface whose temperature falls below the frost point of the air in contact with it. The water vapor condenses into white crystalline coating of ice that is usually of a feathery nature. This type of… …   Aviation dictionary

  • Frost — is the solid deposition of water vapor from saturated air. It is formed when solid surfaces are cooled to below the dew point of the adjacent air. [cite web |url=http://www.weatherquestions.com/What causes frost.htm |title=What causes frost?… …   Wikipedia

  • Hoar — Hoar, a. [OE. hor, har, AS. h[=a]r; akin to Icel. h[=a]rr, and to OHG. h[=e]r illustrious, magnificent; cf. Icel. Hei[eth] brightness of the sky, Goth. hais torch, Skr. k[=e]tus light, torch. Cf. {Hoary}.] 1. White, or grayish white; as, hoar… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hoar — adj. & n. literary adj. 1 grey haired with age. 2 greyish white. 3 (of a thing) grey with age. n. 1 = hoar frost. 2 hoariness. Phrases and idioms: hoar frost frozen water vapour deposited in clear still weather on vegetation etc. Etymology: OE… …   Useful english dictionary

  • frost — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hard, heavy, killing (AmE), severe (BrE), sharp (BrE) ▪ white ▪ hoar …   Collocations dictionary

  • frost — I. n. 1. Rime, hoar frost, frozen dew, white frost. 2. Cold manner, reserve, frigidity, iciness, stiffness, want of cordiality, unsociability. II. v. a. 1. Ice, cover with frosting. 2. Whiten, sprinkle with white, sprinkle with gray hairs. 3.… …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • hoar — [hɔ:] archaic or literary adjective greyish white. ↘grey or grey haired with age. noun hoar frost. Origin OE hār, of Gmc origin …   English new terms dictionary

  • hoar — (adj.) O.E. har hoary, gray, venerable, old, the connecting notion being gray hair, from P.Gmc. *haira (Cf. O.N. harr gray haired, old, O.S., O.H.G. her distinguished, noble, glorious, Ger. hehr), from PIE *kei , source of color adjectives (see… …   Etymology dictionary

  • hoar — Synonyms and related words: Jack Frost, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, argent, argentine, black frost, canescent, chalky, cretaceous, elderly, fleecy white, frost, frost line, frost smoke, frosted,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • frost — noun 1) bushes covered with frost Syn: ice crystals, ice, rime, verglas; hoarfrost, ground frost, black frost; informal Jack Frost; archaic hoar 2) there was frost in his tone Syn: coldness, coolness, frostiness …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • hoar — [OE] Hoar now survives mainly in hoary, a disparaging term for ‘old’, and hoarfrost, literally ‘white frost’. Between them, they encapsulate the meaning of hoar – ‘greyishwhite haired with age’. But it is the colour that is historically primary,… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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