2. Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic]

The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.

Fairfax.

Frost (frst; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freÛsan

to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost.

√18. See Freeze, v. i.] 1. The act of freezing; -- applied

chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or

the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

Shak.

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