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froste

froste is the obsolete spelling of frost.

Meaning of frost

Noun

frost (countable and uncountable, plural frosts)

  1. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
  2. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
    • Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:40
  3. (figuratively) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
    • It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...
  4. (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
  5. A shade of white, like that of frost.
  6. (dated, slang) A disappointment; a cheat.

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Forms of froste

pluralfrostes

Questions about froste

What is froste the obsolete spelling of?
Froste is the obsolete spelling of frost.

Words near froste in the dictionary

  1. frostbows
  2. Frostburg
  3. frostburn
  4. frostburned
  5. frostburns
  6. froste
  7. frosted
  8. frosted heart
  9. frosted liver
  10. frosted ribbon loaf
  11. frosted ribbon loaves

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