hoar

"This bear came in the early hours of the morning, so it was really hoar frost and covered," she said.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2022

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

Hoist the hoar sun to welcome morning’s minions.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

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