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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;…

Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel. [Obs.] Spenser. From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton.

r paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air. Dryden. Now the village windows blaze, Burnished by the setting sun. Cunningham. Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars.

). Centigrade thermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between that and the point indicating the boiling state of water divided into one hundred degrees. It is called also the Celsius thermometer, from Anders Celsius, the originator of this sc…

logy of the United States Weather Bureau, an unusual fall in temperature, to or below the freezing point, exceeding 16º in twenty-four hours or 20º in thirty-six hours, independent of the diurnal range.

To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.

pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.

The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost. Bacon.

, which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury.

An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consist of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only 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 Fa…

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

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.

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.

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

Act of freezing.

ium hygrate on phosphorus. It may be obtained from its water solution, by exaporation and freezing, as a white crystalline substance. It is a powerful reducing agent.