The act of freezing; - applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
Frozen dew; - called also hoarfrost or white frost.
Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
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.
To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
Same as Due, or Duty.
