hoar

Bernadette Benz waited for a day with hoar frost before taking her picture called Frosted Silver Birch which won the Trees, Woods and Forests category.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2023

After all, the Japanese poem style lends itself to spare reflections on nature, crystalline musings on blossoms, songbirds or hoar frost.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022

“There’s a potential avalanche layer, for sure,” Stimberis says, noting a layer created by freezing rain and another by surface hoar, or, in laymen’s terms, a gnarly frost.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 28, 2017

Here’s a Miniature Crystalline Forest of hoar frost, which forms when water vapor in the air condenses directly into ice.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2014

This time they came from the Bible, through which she made desultory progress: gainsay, ravening, hoar.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

After two hoars of tomblike silence, the missing plane, its radio and one engine dead, landed on an abandoned naval airstrip at Bunnell, Fla., blew two tires and came to a safe stop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Withering and Stapylton had arrived fully two hoars earlier than they were expected, and Miss Dinah was too deeply engaged in the household cares that were to do them honor to receive them.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

I think," said the vicar, "A read service quicker Than viols out-of-doors In these frosts and hoars.

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas