Part 4607

<blockquote>It was of those moments of intense feeling when the <b>frost</b> of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Black frost</col>, <cd>cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost.</cd> -- <col>Frost bearer</col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophous.</cd> -- <col>Frost grape</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>an American grape, with very small, acid berries.</cd> -- <col>Frost lamp</col>, <cd>a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses.</cd> <i>Knight</i>. -- <col>Frost nail</col>, <cd>a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keen him from slipping.</cd> -- <col>Frost smoke</col>, <cd>an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.</cd>

<blockquote>The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the <b>frost</b> smoke of arctic winters. <i>Kane.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>Frost valve</col>, <cd>a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze.</cd> -- <col>Jack Frost</col>, <cd>a popular personification of frost.</cd></cs>

<h1>Frost</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Frostted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Frosting</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.</def>

<blockquote>While with a hoary light she <b>frosts</b> the ground. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.</def>

<h1>Frostbird</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost"bird</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The golden plover.</def>

<h1>Frostbite</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost"bite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.</def>

<i>Kane.</i>

<h1>Frostbite</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost`bite"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.</def>

<blockquote>My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to <b>frostbite</b> themselves. <i>Pepys.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Frost-bitten</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost`-bit"ten</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. a.</tt> <def>Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.</def>

<h1>Frost-blite</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost`-blite"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A plant of the genus <spn>Atriplex</spn>; orache.</def> <i>Gray</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The lamb's-quarters (<spn>Chenopodium album</spn>).</def>

<i>Dr. Prior.</i>

<h1>Frosted</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost"ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; <as>as, a <ex>frosted</ex> cake; <ex>frosted</ex> glass</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Frosted</b> work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. <i>Knight.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Frostfish</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frost`fish"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See <er>Tomcod</er>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The smelt</def>. <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (<spn>Lepidotus</spn>) valued as a food fish.</def>

<h1>Frostily</h1> <Xpage=599>