Frost: Definition and part of speech

Frost

  1. v. i. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
  2. v. i. The act of freezing; — applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
  3. v. i. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
  4. v. i. Frozen dew; — called also hoarfrost or white frost.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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