Word Meanings - FROSTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.

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• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• FROSTED
  Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INTRODUCTOR
  An introducer.
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• FROSTILY
  In a frosty manner.
• FROST-BITTEN
  Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• FROSTING
  1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc. 2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.