FROST
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Frost (frŏst; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freósan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. √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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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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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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