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Answer for the clue "With an icy coat ", 4 letters:
rimy

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Word definitions for rimy in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Coated in rime.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: frosty , rimed ] [also: rimiest , rimier ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rimy \Rim"y\, a. Abounding with rime; frosty.

Usage examples of rimy.

Lower, and the trees were distressed by the down-draught and even the stiff, rimy ferns began buckling, attempting and imitating movement they might have possessed before death.

A thin clear flood of wintry sunshine warmed the stark trees and rimy turf of Farntock.

The boys, with the agile energy of their kind, had leaped out to scamper about on the rimy buffalo-grass, dull gray, dried and withered, yet full of nutriment for the little droves of horned cattle already browsing placidly along the slopes where but a few years before the Sioux and Cheyenne chased great herds of bison.

She went down and ate her breakfast before a long window that showed a glittering, rimy world and in the foreground a plump, strutting robin.

The yard outside the house was rimy with hoarfrost, and the new sun shone upon it harshly.

And here along this street which he had built, these little houses, warped yet strong and hardy, seemed to burrow down solidly like moles for warmth into the ugly stony earth on which they were built and to cower and huddle doggedly below the immense and terrible desolation of the northern sky, with its rimy sun-hazed lights, its fierce and cruel rags and stripes of wintry red, its raw and savage harshness.

They had extinguished all but one of the floodlights, leaving the sitechurch, tarpaulin and rimy mudin grim chiaroscuro.