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

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane.

Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.

The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

Free from froth.

imp. of Freeze.

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.

commands Like a full soldier. Shak. I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted. Ford.

, a complex acid, H2C2N2O2, isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc. -- Fulminic acid is made…

Free from fumes.

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to. Marvell. The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked. Maccaulay.

A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure. [Colloq. or Cant]

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

ies; in a bed sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.

.), an organic acid, very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, being found in the free state in galls, tea, etc., and produced artificially. It is a white, crystalline substance, C6H2(HO)3.CO2H, with an astringent taste, and is a strong reducing agent, as employed in photography. It is usually prepared from tan…

Trubute, tax. [Obs.] All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner. Fuller.

is of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the…