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cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

To thaw. [Obs.]

as, an old appalled wight. [Obs.] Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.

To turn to ice; to freeze. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

y a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32º Fahr.

Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv. Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. -- Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. -- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze;…

cottish people melts like a snow wreath. Sir W. Scott. Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophous. -- Frost grape (Bot.), an Ameri…

imp. of Freeze.

To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

he bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses. Sir I. Newton. A deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred To rage. Savile.

To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

A kind of freezer for ices.