Definition of Frost

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Definition of Frost

Frost

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.

To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

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Frost Quotations

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
Meriwether Lewis

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
Jeremy Rifkin

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Walter Pater

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
Howard Nemerov

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Howard Nemerov

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
Charles Eastman

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.
Alan Autry

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Anne Stevenson

Frost Translations

frost in Danish is frost
frost in Dutch is vorst
frost in German is Frost
frost in Italian is maturo, gelo
frost in Latin is gelu
frost in Norwegian is frost, rim
frost in Portuguese is geada
frost in Spanish is escarcha, cerco, helada

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