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elation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. Shak.

ag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

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

A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray.

The golden plover.

To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves. Pepys.

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.

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.

ed because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.

In a frosty manner.

State or quality of being frosty.

A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.

An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.

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

Same as Frostweed.

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

The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [Written also horefrost. See Hoar, a.] He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.