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FROSTBOW n.
A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.
FROSTED 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 n. 3 definitions
because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
FROSTILY adv.
In a frosty manner.
FROSTINESS n.
State or quality of being frosty.
FROSTING n. 2 definitions
A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
FROSTLESS a.
Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
FROSTWEED n.
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
FROSTWORK n.
The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
FROSTWORT n.
Same as Frostweed.
FROSTY a. 4 definitions
Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
FURTHERMOST a.
Most remote; furthest.
GASTROSTEGE n.
One of the large scales on the belly of a serpent.
GASTROSTOMY n.
The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.
GATEPOST n. 2 definitions
A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging or hinging post.
GEOGNOST n.
One versed in geognosy; a geologist. [R.]
GEOGNOSTIC; GEOGNOSTICAL a.
Of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological. [R.]
GEOSTATIC a.
Relating to the pressure exerted by earth or similar substance. Geostatic arch, an arch having a form adapted to sustain pressure similar to that exerted by earth. Rankine.
GHOST n. 6 definitions
The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser.
GHOST DANCE n.
he unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reuni…
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