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.
• 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.
• 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,
• 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.