Hoar [adjective]

In this high realm floating water is probably in the frozen state, answering to the form of dew, which we call hoar frost.

Mists or hoar frosts on the tenth of March betokens (sic) a plentiful year, but not without some diseases.

It was a most perfect autumn morning, without a cloud in the sky and with the ground underfoot white with hoar-frost.

The cold hoar frost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church.

If the hoar frost of the morning melt on the wool, be sure there is an unnatural heat somewhere.

Adding to their spectral appearance were the long, withered grass-tufts and karoo bushes, white as if coated with hoar frost.

So did some old fences smothered in green creepers, the long sprays and trails of which were as neatly covered as with hoar-frost.

There was the gossip of the town in which he lived as biting as the hoar frost, revamped and magnified to his hurt.

Hoar frosts are frequent, and become more severe the further you advance into the interior.

Her boots being thinner than those of the young men, the hoar had damped her feet and made them cold.