Definition of frost

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Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather..

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Cleave :: Cleave (v. i.) To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost..
Frostfish :: Frostfish (n.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
Frore :: Frore (adv.) Frostily.
Nip :: Nip (n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams..
Frosting :: Frosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fros.
Frostiness :: Frostiness (n.) State or quality of being frosty.
Icy :: Icy (superl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty..
Frostbite :: Frostbite (v. t.) To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost..
Frostbite :: Frostbite (n.) The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose..
Frost :: Frost (v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
Tomcod :: Tomcod (n.) A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish..
Conglaciation :: Conglaciation (n.) The act or process of changing into ice, or the state of being converted to ice; a freezing; congelation; also, a frost..
Frosting :: Frosting (n.) A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
Frame :: Frame (n.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.
Frosty :: Frosty (a.) Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty..
Nip :: Nip (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy..
Frost-bitten :: Frost-bitten (p. a.) Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing..
Frost :: Frost (v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather..
Unseasonable :: Unseasonable (a.) Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food..
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