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Word Meanings - FROSTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.

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  • FROSTED
    Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
  • WINTER-BEATEN
    Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
  • WINTER'S BARK
    The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
  • WINTERWEED
    A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.
  • FROSTILY
    In a frosty manner.
  • FROST-BITTEN
    Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
  • FROSTING
    1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc. 2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
  • WINTERY
    Wintry.
  • FROSTWORK
    The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
  • FROSTFISH
    The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish valued as a food fish.
  • FROSTLESS
    Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
  • FROSTY
    1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night. 2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty. 3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson. 4. Appearing as if
  • FROSTBIRD
    The golden plover.
  • FROSTWEED
    An American species of rockrose , sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic. Note: It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so
  • FROSTWORT
    See FROSTWEED
  • WINTER-GROUND
    To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.
  • FROSTINESS
    State or quality of being frosty.
  • WINTER-PROUD
    Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.
  • FROSTBITE
    The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane.
  • WINTERKILL
    To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
  • TWINTER
    A domestic animal two winters old.
  • MIDWINTER
    The middle of winter. Dryden.
  • BEWINTER
    To make wintry.

 

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