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

A state of being frozen.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

clined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entirenes…

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. Milton.

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

Iced; frozen; artificially cooled; as, wine frappé. -- n.

Capable of being frozen.

Frozen. [Obs.] Well nigh frorn I feel. Spenser.

Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] Spenser.

Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost. He scattereth the frost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

Cold; very cold; frozen. "Gelid founts." Thompson.

The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic] Bacon. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.

Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena. Lyell.

An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.] Bottom glade. See under Bottom. -- Glade net, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades.

To pour down particles of ice, or frozen vapors.

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby. [U.S.]

hern; hence, very cold; fright, as, a hyperborean coast or atmosphere. The hyperborean or frozen sea. C. Butler (1633).

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.