Word Meanings - FROSTWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

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• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• DELICATE
  1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FANTASTICAL
  Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
• FREEZABLE
  Capable of being frozen.
• WINDOW
  The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening. 3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King. French window , a casement window in two folds,
• FANTASTICNESS
  Fantasticalness.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• WINDOWY
  Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. Donne.
• FANTASTICO
  A fantastic. Shak.
• DELICATELY
  In a delicate manner.
• WINDOWPANE
  See B
• UNFREEZE
  To thaw.
• INDELICATE
  Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse;
• DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
  A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.
• OVERMOISTURE
  Excess of moisture.
• ENFREEZE
  To freeze; to congeal. Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.