Coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight.
1He giveth snow like wool; he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes.
2He whose head winters have whitened has bad enough of hoar frost.
3On Singleton's black oilskin coat the dried salt glistened like hoar frost.
4On Tuesday morning farmers woke up to a crisp minus seven hoar frost.
5It was frozen solid and covered with a thin coat of hoar frost.
6The sun had just set as we took to flight; the hoar frost fell.
7The winter morning dawns with grey skies and the hoar frost on the fields.
8The cow got nourishment by licking the hoar frost and salt from the ice.
9It was bitterly cold, and a freezing hoar frost came down from the sky.
10Their horses were covered with sweat, and the sweat grew white with hoar frost.
11It will rain within twenty-four hours of a hoar frost.
12He awoke with a solid layer of iced hoar frost over his thickening beard.
13Some of them, particularly the fruit stands, looked as though composed of hoar frost.
14Another cold night, thermometer 26°, with a slight hoar frost.
15It was a morning fine and clear, with the hoar frost yet upon the ground.
16Do you know the difference between air and ground frost, or hoar frost and rime?
Translations for hoar frost