FROSTED

frosted

(adjective) (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost; “frosted glass”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

frosted (comparative more frosted, superlative most frosted)

Covered in frost; frosty.

Appearing to be covered in frost.

Damaged by frost.

(slang) Extremely intoxicated.

Synonyms

• (covered in frost): frosty, frostbound, rimed

• (appearing to be covered in frost)

• (damaged by frost): frostbitten

• (extremely intoxicated): See drunk

Noun

frosted (plural frosteds)

A kind of milkshake made with ice cream.

Anagrams

• defrost

Source: Wiktionary


Frost"ed, a.

Definition: Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.

FROST

Frost, n. Etym: [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freósan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. *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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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