Vocabulary : Frory to Frostfish
Frory : Frozen; stiff with cold. ;; Covered with a froth like hoarfrost.Frost : The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids. ;; The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather. ;; Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost. ;; Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. ;; To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants. ;; To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass. ;; To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
Frost signal : A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.
Frostbird : The golden plover.
Frostbite : The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. ;; To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
