Definitions for: Frost


[n] American poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
[n] weather cold enough to cause freezing
[n] the formation of frost or ice on a surface
[n] ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
[v] decorate with frosting; "frost a cake"



Webster (1913) Definition: Frost, n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr.
fre['o]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel.,
Dan., & Sw. frost. [root]18. 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.
--Shak.

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

He scattereth the frost like ashes. --Ps. cxlvii.
16.

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. --Sir W.
Scott.

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. --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.


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.
--Wordsworth.

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

Synonyms: freeze, hoar, hoarfrost, ice, icing, rime, Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost

See Also: cold snap, cold spell, cold wave, cold weather, cover, freeze, freezing, ice, poet, water ice

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