frost

[Frost]

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874 1963)

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The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

Noun
United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

Noun
weather cold enough to cause freezing

Noun
the formation of frost or ice on a surface

Noun
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

Verb
damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and athey turned brown"

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Verb
cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass"

Verb
provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance; "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"

Verb
decorate with frosting; "frost a cake"

v. i.
The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

v. i.
The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

v. i.
Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

v. i.
Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

v. t.
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

v. t.
To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.

v. t.
To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

Frost

Frost , n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. fre'a2san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. 'fb18. See Freeze, v. i.] 1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids. 2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

3. Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

He scattereth the frost like ashes.

4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.]

It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.

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 cryophous. -- 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 keen him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.

The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.

-- 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.

Frost

Frost , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frostted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.] 1. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants. 2. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.

While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.

3. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

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Usage Examples

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.