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  • English Word Frost Definition Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
  • English Word Frost Definition Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
  • English Word Frost Definition To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
  • English Word Frost Definition To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
  • English Word Frost Definition To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
  • English Word Frost-bitten Definition Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
  • English Word Frost-blite Definition A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache.
  • English Word Frost-blite Definition The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).
  • English Word Frostbird Definition The golden plover.
  • English Word Frostbite Definition The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.
  • English Word Frostbite Definition To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
  • English Word Frosted Definition Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
  • English Word Frostfish Definition The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
  • English Word Frostfish Definition The smelt.
  • English Word Frostfish Definition A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
  • English Word Frostily Definition In a frosty manner.
  • English Word Frostiness Definition State or quality of being frosty.
  • English Word Frosting Definition of Frost
  • English Word Frosting Definition A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
  • English Word Frosting Definition A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
  • English Word Frostless Definition Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
  • English Word Frostted Definition of Frost
  • English Word Frostweed Definition An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
  • English Word Frostwork Definition The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
  • English Word Frostwort Definition Same as Frostweed.
  • English Word Frosty Definition Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
  • English Word Frosty Definition Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
  • English Word Frosty Definition Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
  • English Word Frosty Definition Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
  • English Word Frote Definition To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.