(n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.
(v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.
(v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
Example Sentences:
(1) This early hyperphagy had later consequences for the feeding behaviour of adult males, which looked for food and consumed it more intensively in a new environment and also hoarded it.
(2) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(3) The consequences of 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the mesolimbic dopamine system on hoarding behavior were investigated in the rat.
(4) That would mean reform of a property tax system that manages to stimulate demand, encourage land hoarding and be regressive all at the same time.
(5) Worse still for Modi are indications the policy has not unearthed the hoards of “black money” he promised.
(6) Then the intersect of regression line of food hoarded during meal time vs. body weight with the X-axis was measured.
(7) The results fail to support the object value hypothesis of hoarding.
(8) A ten-day baseline indicated consistently elevated urine sugar levels and that the patient frequently violated his prescribed low sugar diet by stealing, trading and hoarding high sugar foods.
(9) Its hoarding proclaims: "An unashamedly ultra-modern masterpiece emerges alongside the most celebrated of cathedrals."
(10) UK householders are estimated to be hoarding at least £1bn worth of electrical and electronic equipment in their homes which are no longer used but which still hold significant value, with the UK market value for trading pre-owned equipment potentially worth up to £3bn.
(11) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
(12) For now, just let me say that while old progressives instinctively hoard power to the nation state, the new progressive approach is intrinsically internationalist on issues such as Europe, migration, trade and foreign aid.
(13) It is concluded that 1) the main response of the rat to starvation is food hoarding rather than ingestion and 2) the estimation of the body weight set point from hoarding is not affected by the costs of food procurement.
(14) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.
(15) The most recent figures released by the Reserve Bank of India show that about 12.6tn rupees have been deposited since the rupee recall was announced, far more than the Modi government had predicted, indicating that it may have underestimated the amount of untaxed wealth being hoarded by citizens.
(16) Looking up we saw a large tabby on top of a wooden hoarding which was covering a building site in Vauxhall.
(17) Ronald Lewis finds it hard to believe it is 10 years since the water came, even though the newspaper clippings he hoarded in a scrapbook and pinned to a wall are yellowed now by age.
(18) The "object value" hypothesis suggests rats hoard objects that they perceive as valuable as related to some state or need.
(19) The results indicated that the regression of hoarding behavior on body weight was virtually identical at estrus and diestrus (same slope), but the critical level of body weight for the onset of hoarding behavior was 31.2 g lower at estrus than at diestrus.
(20) Unlike the banks, consumers, especially the hardest pressed ones, would spend rather than hoard.
Hoary
Definition:
(a.) White or whitish.
(a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
(a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
(a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.
(a.) Of a pale silvery gray.
(a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven species were represented among the specimens found to be rabid; there were 32 big brown bats, three hoary bats, three silver-haired bats, two little brown bats, one eastern pipistrelle, one Keen myotis and one red bat.
(2) One thing they will have to dispense with is the hoary old ritual of each party leader insisting that an unequivocal victory for him is both the essential outcome of an election and the only possible one.
(3) The prime minister's intervention today, in which he disinterred the hoary old chestnut of householders using "reasonable force" to defend their property, signals the beginning of a return of a more traditional Tory law and order agenda.
(4) We may like the fantasy of our food being produced by a chaotic patchwork of tiny farms run by women in dirndls and hoary old men with mutton chops – and a bit of that is good for the diversity of the culture – but when you crunch low-intensity yield against CO2 emissions, it’s not the most sustainable option.
(5) In the end, writing about what you know – that hoary and potentially limiting, even stultifying piece of advice – might be best seen as applying to the type of story you're thinking of writing rather than to the details of what happens within it and perhaps, with that in mind, a better precept might be to write about what you love, rather than what you have a degree of contempt for but will deign to lower yourself to, just to show the rest of us how it's done.
(6) Instead of ideological hoeing at Brook Farm, Hawthorne wanders, both in pen and person, through the old orchard, planted by a clergyman in his old age "when the neighbours laughed at the hoary-headed man for planting trees from which he could have no prospect of gathering fruit...
(7) The really sad thing about the Roberts affair is that we’ve ended up having yet another hoary old row about What Women Want, when hiding underneath it all along was a much more interesting conversation about what people do.
(8) She may well be right about that, but as the opening episode of the programme's 12th series was aired on Sunday night, the hoary adage about no publicity being bad publicity found itself, for the MP at least, being tested as never before.
(9) Following the "Trojan horse" affair, Michael Gove insisted that British schools teach "British values" without specifying what they might be: cue hoary gags about queuing, tea, diffidence and embarrassment.
(10) The tirade included the hoary cliche that when I get registration, she'll consider me worthy of avoiding.
(11) Evidence of this hoary wisdom appeared to come with this week's publication of the British Social Attitudes survey .
(12) The higher prevalences found among the non-colonial species (hoary, red and silver-haired bats) were consistent with similar studies.
(13) Prevalences for the species with sample sizes adequate for statistical analysis were, from high to low: hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus), 11%; red bat (L. borealis), 5%; silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans), 4%; little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), 4%; big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), 3%; Keen's bat (Myotis keenii), 2%; and evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis), 2%.
(14) The first biographical sentence of the NFT's notes contains only one slight error, but this hoary chestnut has already misled several generations of Anglo-American viewers: "Born illegitimately in Copenhagen in 1889 to a poor and abused mother who died painfully two years later, Dreyer endured an arid childhood within a strict Lutheran adoptive family."
(15) World heritage forests are burning ; 1,000-year-old trees and the hoary peat beneath are reduced to char.
(16) Annual prevalence reported in silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) and hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) was variable in all three provinces.
(17) ROCK AND ROLL The two discuss their relation with the hoary beast... Morrissey: To me, "rock and roll" aren't really nasty words.
(18) In this speech recommending more "engagements", whether painful or ecstatic for those loosing the hi-tech weapons, we also witnessed that old standby "no-fly zone", which actually means "flying-and-bombing zone", and the hoary old self-satisfied reference to our having "change[d] the regimes" in Afghanistan and Iraq, as though Blair and his chums had merely been shuffling around tiny figurines on the Game of Thrones opening credits map .
(19) Some see in the talk of social mobility a possible revival of hoary old arguments about grammar schools that Cameron thought he’d killed off.
(20) Within individual species, significant differences between age groups were found only for hoary and red bats; in two species, juveniles had higher prevalences.