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horehound
English
Alternative forms
- hoarhound
Etymology
From Middle English horehoune, from Old English h?rh?ne, h?reh?ne.
Noun
horehound (countable and uncountable, plural horehounds)
- Any plant of the genus Marrubium.
- Any plant of the genus Ballota.
- A herb, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, traditionally used as a cough remedy and to make a type of hard candy.
Derived terms
- black horehound
- common horehound
- white horehound
Synonyms
- (plant of the genus Marrubium): marrubium
- (Marrubium vulgare): common horehound, white horehound
Translations
References
Middle English
Noun
horehound
- Alternative form of horehoune
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hoar
English
Etymology
From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English h?r (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?eh?- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian ?????? (séryj, “grey”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hô, IPA(key): /h??/
- (General American) enPR: hôr, IPA(key): /h??/ *
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: h?r, IPA(key): /ho(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ho?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: whore
Noun
hoar
- A white or greyish-white colour.
- Hoariness; antiquity.
Synonyms
- (hoariness): agedness, ancientness, oldhood; see also Thesaurus:oldness
Translations
Adjective
hoar (not comparable)
- Of a white or greyish-white colour.
- (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
- 1751, Thomas Warton, Newmarket, a Satire
- And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.
- And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
- 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.
- 1751, Thomas Warton, Newmarket, a Satire
- (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:
Derived terms
- hoarfrost
- hoary
- hoared
Related terms
- haar
- horehound
Verb
hoar (third-person singular simple present hoars, present participle hoaring, simple past and past participle hoared)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:
See also
- Appendix:Colors
Anagrams
- Haro, Hora, ROAH, haor, haro, hora, oh ar
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- Härre, haar, hoor, hàre
Etymology
From Old High German h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.
Noun
hoar n
- (Gressoney, anatomy) hair (the long hair on a person's head)
References
- “hoar” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Swedish
Noun
hoar
- indefinite plural of ho
Verb
hoar
- present tense of hoa.
Anagrams
- hora
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