[frawst, frost] 
| 1. | a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water. |
| 2. | Also called hoarfrost. a covering of minute ice needles, formed from the atmosphere at night upon the ground and exposed objects when they have cooled by radiation below the dew point, and when the dew point is below the freezing point. |
| 3. | the act or process of freezing. |
| 4. | coldness of manner or temperament: We noticed a definite frost in his greeting. |
| 5. | Informal. a coolness between persons. |
| 6. | Informal. something that meets with lack of enthusiasm, as a theatrical performance or party; failure; flop. |
| 7. | a milk shake, frappe, or similar drink: a chocolate frost. |
| 8. | to cover with frost. |
| 9. | to give a frostlike surface to (glass, metal, etc.). |
| 10. | to ice (a cake, cookies, etc.). |
| 11. | to bleach selected strands of (a person's hair) in order to create highlights. |
| 12. | to kill or injure by frost: a freezing rain that badly frosted the tomato plants. |
| 13. | to make angry: I was frosted by his critical comment. |
| 14. | to become covered with frost or freeze (often fol. by up or over): The windshield has frosted over. |
| 15. | (of varnish, paint, etc.) to dry with a film resembling frost. |
| 16. | degree of frost, British. the degree of temperature Fahrenheit below the freezing point: 10 degrees of frost is equivalent to 22°F. |
[frawst, frost] | Robert (Lee), 1874–1963, U.S. poet. |
| frost (frôst, frŏst) n.
v. tr.
To become covered with or as if with frost. [Middle English, from Old English; see preus- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Frost (frôst, frŏst) American poet whose deceptively simple works, often set in rural New England, explore the relationships between individuals and between people and nature. His collections include A Boy's Will (1913) and In the Clearing (1962). He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. |
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frost (frôst)
n.
A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.
Frost
(Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., "ice"); Gen. 31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered "ice" in Job 6:16, 38:29; and "crystal" in Ezek. 1:22. "At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the lower portions of the valley of the Jordan, but slight frosts are sometimes felt on the sea-coast and near Lebanon." Throughout Western Asia cold frosty nights are frequently succeeded by warm days. "Hoar frost" (Heb. kephor, so called from its covering the ground) is mentioned in Ex. 16:14; Job 38:29; Ps. 147:16. In Ps. 78:47 the word rendered "frost" (R.V. marg., "great hail-stones"), _hanamal_, occurs only there. It is rendered by Gesenius, the Hebrew lexicographer, "ant," and so also by others, but the usual interpretation derived from the ancient versions may be maintained.
