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Word Meanings - FROST-BITTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

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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.
  • NIPPITATO
    Strong liquor. Beau. & Fl.
  • NIPPERKIN
    A small cup.
  • FROSTILY
    In a frosty manner.
  • FROST-BITTEN
    Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
  • 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.
  • NIPPER
    1. One who, or that which, nips. 2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. 3. A satirist. Ascham. 4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. The cunner. A European crab .
  • FROSTWORK
    The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
  • INJURE
    To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
  • 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.
  • WITHER-WRUNG
    Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
  • FROSTLESS
    Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
  • WITHERED
    Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
  • INJURIOUS
    1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health,
  • WITHERS
    The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr.
  • 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
  • NIPPLE
    The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap. 2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. Derham. 3. Any small projection or article in which there
  • FROSTBIRD
    The golden plover.
  • FREEZABLE
    Capable of being frozen.
  • WITHERNAM
    A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in
  • UNFREEZE
    To thaw.
  • SNIPPACK
    The common snipe.
  • SNIPPER
    One who snips.
  • SNIPPER-SNAPER
    A small, insignificant fellow.
  • ENFREEZE
    To freeze; to congeal. Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

 

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