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8 words match “GELID”

GELID a.
Cold; very cold; frozen. "Gelid founts." Thompson.
GELIDITY n.
The state of being gelid.
GELIDLY adv.
In a gelid manner; coldly.
GELIDNESS n.
The state of being gelid; gelidity.
ARRAY v.
ess of a splendid kind. Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen. Gen. xli. In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed. Trumbull.
COLD a.
Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis." Milton.
GELOSE n.
An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.
ICE n.
for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. -- Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. -- Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar…