Crossword clues for hoarfrost
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frost \Frost\ (fr[o^]st; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. fre['o]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. [root]18. See Freeze, v. i.]
The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
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The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
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Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
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Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.]
It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.
--Sir W. Scott.Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost.
Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophorus.
Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries.
Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses.
--Knight.Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keep him from slipping.
Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.
The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.
--Kane.Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze.
Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist.
WordNet
Usage examples of "hoarfrost".
Every morning the ground was coated with a thick cover of hoarfrost, and the windows bore delicate, fernlike traceries of frost on the inside.
Blue fire danced from the ferrules, as cold as the hoarfrost that coats twigs in winter.
As they moved, starlight glittered, pure as hoarfrost, from every plane and flute and scallop of their fantastic armors, from every point and edge of their weapons.
Gardens laced with white-ice hoarfrost, fairy-silver grass, and black treetrunks beneath hammered-metal branches, flowerbeds pruned back and dormant beneath their coats of mulch-straw.
Many of these platforms still held hoarfrosted tables, overturned chairs, bulbous couches, and freestanding tapestries.
Every morning the hoarfrosted grass blades looked like standing armies of glittering steel bayonets.
Closer by, snags of walls and pits that had been foundations broke the gray of hoarfrosted grass and brush.
Freshly broken twigs, sap frozen around the break, hoofprints stamped in hoarfrost, and broken ice over melt ponds kept catching his eye.
During the night, fog had frozen on the fallen leaves and spiky turf, riming the world in sparkling hoarfrost.