Definition of "frost" []

• A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing. (noun)
• A temperature low enough to cause freezing. (noun)
• The process of freezing. (noun)
• A cold or icy manner. (noun)
• To cover with frost. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "[95] On the 21st of December, 1564, began a frost referred to by Fleming, in his Index to _Holinshed_, as the "_frost called the great frost_," which lasted till the 3rd of January, 1565."
• "I ask myself what sort of an agent is that which we call frost?"
• "Dr. Carter writes, "While the term frost is used frequently as part of such names, these ice formations are not a product of frost."