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.