Word Meanings - FROSTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to FROSTING)

• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• PUDDENING
  A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.
• 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.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• 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.
• 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.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• 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.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• NONMETAL
  Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.