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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Frost \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 \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.
资料来源 : WordNet®
frost
n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects
outside) [syn: {hoar}, {hoarfrost}, {rime}]
2: weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: {freeze}]
3: the formation of frost or ice on a surface [syn: {icing}]
4: United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country
life in New England (1874-1963) [syn: {Robert Frost}, {Robert
Lee Frost}]
frost
v 1: decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: {ice}]
2: provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance;
"frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"
3: cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass"
4: damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers
and athey turned brown"