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icen

icen verb: to make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses).

Verb

icen (third-person singular simple present icens, present participle icening, simple past and past participle icened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses)
    • Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I can cook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick.1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 262
    • He felt the Codex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on the icening storm.2015, Platte F. Clark, Good Ogre, page 182

Adjective

icen (not comparable)

  1. Made of or consisting of ice.
    • When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free
      Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow,
      I loved to wade across the windy lea
      To see the lake far-paved with icen floe, […]1900, Charles Augustus Keeler, Idyls of El Dorado, page 42
    • "Mother, what is this light o'er me?
      It flashes pink from that far North Sea
      Whose icen walls are an opal bowl—
      It would lead me safe to the ultimate Pole."1923, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent, Library of Southern Literature, page 469

Forms of icen

third-person singular presenticens
present participleicening
past participleicened
pasticened

Origin of icen

From ice + -en (“to become like”).

From Middle English isen, ysen, equivalent to ice + -en (“made of”).

Words that rhyme with icen

Questions about icen

What does icen mean?
Icen means to make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses).
What part of speech is icen?
Icen can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of icen?
The past tense of icen is icened.

Words near icen in the dictionary

  1. iceman
  2. icemanship
  3. icemelt
  4. icemelts
  5. icemen
  6. icen
  7. icened
  8. Icenhour
  9. Icenhours
  10. Icenhower
  11. Icenhowers

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