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.
Frostbird
(Frost"bird) n. (Zoöl.) The golden plover.
Frostbite
(Frost"bite) n. The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or
nose. Kane.
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Frostbite
(Frost`bite"), v. t. To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves.
Pepys. Frost-bitten
(Frost`-bit"ten) p. a. Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
Frost-blite
(Frost`-blite") n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray. (b) The lamb's-
quarters Dr. Prior.
Frosted
(Frost"ed), a. 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. Frostfish
(Frost`fish") n. (Zoöl.) (a) The tomcod; — so called because it is abundant on the New England
coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. (b) The smelt. [Local, U. S.] (c)
A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
Frostily
(Frost"i*ly) adv. In a frosty manner.
Frostiness
(Frost"i*ness), n. State or quality of being frosty.
Frosting
(Frost"ing), n.
1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
