haary

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adjective

Marked by the presence of haar (“coastal fog”); foggy.

Scrabble 11

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adjectivehaary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableMarked by the presence of haar (“coastal fog”); foggy.

    Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft / A haary mist and forms a ceaseleser shovs.

    1769, Jean-François de Saint-Lambert, Les saisons ; Oeuvres diverses, page 69, quoting Thompson
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    The night was dark, I had no knowledge of the coast, and the usual haary surf which prevails along this whole shore was rolling on the beach ...

    1831, Basil Hall, Fragments of Voyages and Travels: Including Anecdotes of a Naval Life : Chiefly for the Use of Young Persons, page 237

    Past yin o ' clock, and a dark, haary moarnin' : I recalled the bull voice of the watchman as he had called it on the night of our escape from the Castle — […] In the thickening envelope of sea fog I felt like a squirrel in a rotatory cage.

    1898, Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England, page 252

    Having now children of my own, though not so highly favoured, for they live in the "haary" regions of the East Coast, I thought I ought to be able to help them with their geography lessons by describing to them in detail the features of these […]

    1899, Scottish Mountaineering Club, Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, page 298

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