frosting

a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.

a dull or lusterless finish, as on metal or glass.

a process of highlighting the hair by bleaching selected strands.

a material used for decorative work, as signs, displays, etc., made from coarse flakes of powdered glass.

a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.

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.

the act or process of freezing.

coldness of manner or temperament: We noticed a definite frost in his greeting.

Informal. a coolness between persons.

to cover with frost.

to give a frostlike surface to (glass, metal, etc.).

to ice (a cake, cookies, etc.).

to bleach selected strands of (a person's hair) in order to create highlights.

to kill or injure by frost: a freezing rain that badly frosted the tomato plants.

to become covered with frost or freeze (often followed by up or over): The windshield has frosted over.

(of varnish, paint, etc.) to dry with a film resembling frost.