"frost" Definition

Definitions for the word "frost" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. v. i.
The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. i.
The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 a frozen dew or vapour. B consistent temperature below freezing point. 2 cold dispiriting atmosphere. v. 1 (usu. Foll. By over, up) become covered with frost. 2 a cover with or as with frost. B injure (a plant etc.) With frost. 3 make (glass) non-transparent by roughening its surface. [old english: related to *freeze]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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