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Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
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hoarfrost
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, hore-forst ; see hoar + frost (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost , hoar , rime ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I open my eyes to a world clothed in the exquisite lace of hoarfrost .
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.