Word Meanings - FROSTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
Related words: (words related to FROSTLESS)
- 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.