In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
FREEZING
freeze, freezing
(noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
freezing (comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing)
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
Synonyms
• (literally): frosty, frigorific
• (very cold): ice-cold, icy
Noun
freezing (countable and uncountable, plural freezings)
(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
Synonyms
• frost
Verb
freezing
present participle of freeze
Source: Wiktionary
Freez"ing, a.
Definition: Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
– Frrez"ing*ly, adv. Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice.
– Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
– Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32º Fahr., and at 0º Centigrade.
FREEZE
Freeze, n. (Arch.)
Definition: A frieze. [Obs.]
Freeze, v. i. [imp. Froze; p. p. Frozen; p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] Etym: [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushva ice, prush to spirt. Frost.]
1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
Note: Water freezes at 32º above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40º below zero.
2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]
Freeze, v. t.
1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. Shak.
Freeze, n.
Definition: The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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