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Word Meanings - FROSTWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

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  • FANTASTIC
    1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
  • FANTASTICALITY
    Fantastically.
  • DELICATE
    1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
  • SOMETIMES
    1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • MOISTURE
    1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
  • FANTASTICLY
    Fantastically.
  • MOISTURELESS
    Without moisture.
  • FANTASTICISM
    The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
  • OFTENNESS
    Frequency. Hooker.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • FANTASTICAL
    Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
  • FREEZABLE
    Capable of being frozen.
  • WINDOW
    The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King. French window , a casement window in two folds,
  • FANTASTICNESS
    Fantasticalness.
  • OFTEN
    Frequently; many times; not seldom.
  • WINDOWY
    Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Donne.
  • FANTASTICO
    A fantastic. Shak.
  • DELICATELY
    In a delicate manner.
  • WINDOWPANE
    See B
  • UNFREEZE
    To thaw.
  • DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
    A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
  • INDELICATE
    Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse;
  • OVERMOISTURE
    Excess of moisture.
  • ENFREEZE
    To freeze; to congeal. Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

 

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