frost
frost has 15 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.
Definitions
- v. i.. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
- v. i.. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
- v. i.. Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
- v. i.. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- v. t.. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
- v. t.. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
- v. t.. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
- n.. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
- n.. weather cold enough to cause freezing
- n.. the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- n.. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- v.. damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"