Fronton
(||Fron`ton") n. [F., a pediment. See Front.] (Arch.) Same as Frontal, 2.
Froppish
(Frop"pish) a. [Cf. Frap, Frape.] Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.
Frore
(Frore) adv. [See Frorn.] Frostily. [Obs.]
The parching air
Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Milton. Frorn
(Frorn) p. a. [AS. froren, p. p. of freósun to freeze. See Freeze.] Frozen. [Obs.]
Well nigh frorn I feel.
Spenser. Frory
(Fro"ry) a. [AS. freórig. See Frorn.]
1. Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic]
The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.
Fairfax. Frost
(Frost) n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freósan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG.,
Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. &radic18. See Freeze, v. i.]
1. The act of freezing; — applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold
or freezing weather.
The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
Shak. 3. Frozen dew; — called also hoarfrost or white frost.
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Ps. cxlvii. 16. 4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.]
It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.
Sir W. Scott. Black frost,
cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation
of hoarfrost. — Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in
a vacuum; a cryophorus. — Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries. —
Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; —
used especially in lighthouses. Knight. — Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's
shoe to keep him from slipping. — Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation
of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.
The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black
obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic
winters.
Kane. —
Frost valve,
a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable
to freeze. — Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.
Frost
(Frost) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.]
1. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.