[syn: frost, ice]
2. provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance;
- Example: "frost the glass"
- Example: "she frosts her hair"
3. cover with frost;
- Example: "ice crystals frosted the glass"
4. damage by frost;
- Example: "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Frost \Frost\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frosted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Frosting.]
1. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
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2. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling
frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass; as, glass may
be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.
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While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.
--Wordsworth.
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3. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of
horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Frost \Frost\ (fr[o^]st; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst,
frost. fr. fre['o]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG.,
Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. [root]18. See Freeze, v. i.]
1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation
of water; congelation of fluids.
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2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions
congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or
freezing weather.
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The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
--Shak.
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3. Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
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He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. --Ps.
cxlvii. 16.
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4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of
character. [R.]
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It was of those moments of intense feeling when the
frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow
wreath. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and
cause it to turn black, without the formation of
hoarfrost.
Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument
illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a
cryophorus.
Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small,
acid berries.
Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand
lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used
especially in lighthouses. --Knight.
Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's
shoe to keep him from slipping.
Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by
congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe
cold.
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The brig and the ice round her are covered by a
strange black
obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.
--Kane.
Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe,
hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to
freeze.
Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
frost
n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects
outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime]
2: weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: freeze,
frost]
3: the formation of frost or ice on a surface [syn: frost,
icing]
4: United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country
life in New England (1874-1963) [syn: Frost, Robert
Frost, Robert Lee Frost]
v 1: decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: frost,
ice]
2: provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance;
"frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"
3: cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass"
4: damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers
and they turned brown"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "frost":
Jack Frost, benumb, besnow, bite, bitter weather, black frost,
blanch, bleach, bleak weather, bomb, bust, cap, chalk, chill,
chilliness, climax, cold snap, cold wave, cold weather, coldness,
consummate, coolness, crest, crown, culminate, cut,
depth of winter, disaffinity, dull thud, enmity, etiolate, fizzle,
flat failure, flop, floperoo, freeze, freezing weather, frost line,
frost over, frost smoke, frostbite, go through, grizzle, hail,
hard winter, head, hoar, hoarfrost, ice, ice over, ice up, iciness,
incompatibility, incompatibleness, inhospitality, inimicality,
killing frost, lemon, nip, numb, outtop, overarch, overtop, peak,
penetrate, personal conflict, pierce, raw weather, refrigerate,
rime, rime frost, sharp frost, silver, sleet, snap, snow, snow in,
snow under, strain, subzero weather, surmount, tension, tip, top,
top off, total loss, turkey, unamiability, uncordiality,
unfriendliness, ungeniality, unsociability, washout, white,
white frost, whiten, winter, wintry weather, wintry wind,
zero weather
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Frost
(Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., "ice"); Gen.
31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered "ice" in Job 6:16, 38:29; and
"crystal" in Ezek. 1:22. "At the present day frost is entirely
unknown in the lower portions of the valley of the Jordan, but
slight frosts are sometimes felt on the sea-coast and near
Lebanon." Throughout Western Asia cold frosty nights are
frequently succeeded by warm days.
"Hoar frost" (Heb. kephor, so called from its covering the
ground) is mentioned in Ex. 16:14; Job 38:29; Ps. 147:16.
In Ps. 78:47 the word rendered "frost" (R.V. marg., "great
hail-stones"), _hanamal_, occurs only there. It is rendered by
Gesenius, the Hebrew lexicographer, "ant," and so also by
others, but the usual interpretation derived from the ancient
versions may be maintained.
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Frost, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 648
Housing Units (2000): 250
Land area (2000): 1.131297 sq. miles (2.930045 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005027 sq. miles (0.013021 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.136324 sq. miles (2.943066 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27768
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.079218 N, 96.808544 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76641
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Frost, TX
Frost
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Frost, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 251
Housing Units (2000): 126
Land area (2000): 0.526569 sq. miles (1.363807 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.526569 sq. miles (1.363807 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22940
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 43.585305 N, 93.924737 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56033
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Frost, MN
Frost