- White as frost - White with age - White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. - Gray or white with age; hoary. - Musty; moldy; stale. - Hoariness; antiquity. - To become moldy or musty.
- Frost - Frozen dew - A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. - White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. - To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. - A step or round of a ladder; a rung. - Rhyme. See Rhyme.