From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hoar adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime]