Word Meanings - FROSTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.

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• 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.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• WINTER'S BARK
  The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• WINTERWEED
  A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.
• FROST-BITTEN
  Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
• FROSTILY
  In a frosty manner.
• 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.
• WINTERY
  Wintry.
• FROSTWORK
  The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
• FROSTFISH
  The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish valued as a food fish.
• FROSTLESS
  Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
• FROSTY
  1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night. 2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty. 3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson. 4. Appearing as if
• FROSTBIRD
  The golden plover.
• FROSTWEED
  An American species of rockrose , sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic. Note: It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so
• FROSTWORT
  See FROSTWEED
• WINTER-GROUND
  To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.
• FROSTINESS
  State or quality of being frosty.
• WINTER-PROUD
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.
• FROSTBITE
  The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane.
• WINTERKILL
  To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
• TWINTER
  A domestic animal two winters old.
• MIDWINTER
  The middle of winter. Dryden.
• BEWINTER
  To make wintry.