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gelée
, gel
, givre
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Frost
- (v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
- (v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- (v. i.) Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
- (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
- (v. t.) To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
- (v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
- (v. i.) The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
Synonyms:
Freeze, Hoar, Hoarfrost, Ice, Icing, Rime,
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• Frost signal
- () A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.
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• Frosted
- (a.) Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
Synonyms:
Frosty, Rimed, Rimy,
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