Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at
the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored
to the ground. -- Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
extensive fields which drift out to sea. -- Ground ice, anchor ice. --
Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial. -- Ice
anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane.
-- Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon,
caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. -- Ice
boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by
sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel
through ice. -- Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which
things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a
brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream [for iced
cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. --
Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet
of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. -- Ice foot,
shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. Kane. -- Ice house, a
close-covered pit or building for storing ice. -- Ice machine
(Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production
of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or
the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice
pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting
ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater
(Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
-- Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. --
Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is
obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master. -- Ice
pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water. -- Ice plow, a large tool for
grooving and cutting ice. -- Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the
wind or waves; sludge. -- Ice spar (Min.), a variety of feldspar, the
crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite. -- Ice tongs,
large iron nippers for handling ice. -- Ice water. (a) Water cooled by
ice. (b) Water formed by the melting of ice. -- Ice yacht. See Ice boat
(above). -- To break the ice. See under Break. -- Water ice, a
confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
Ice (s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iced (st); p. pr. & vb. n. Icing ("sng).]
1. To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling
ice.
2. To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of
egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.