(v. i.) The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the
congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
(v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions
congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
(v. i.) Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
(v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of
character.
(v. t.) To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
(v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling
frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
(v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of
horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
