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frost

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1. frost - Noun

2. frost - Verb

3. Frost - Proper noun

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. Louisa May Alcott

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. Paul Muldoon

Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear. Arthur Hugh Clough

The frost drives the pig home. Finnish Proverb

Life? That is a candle in the wind; frost upon a roof; the twitching of the fish in a pan. Japanese Proverb

Frost on the mutt, water on the bed. Portuguese Proverb

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