Verb. (American).—1. To long for intensely; e.g., ‘to freeze to go
back,’ said of the home-sick; ‘to freeze for meat.’
1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West (1887), p. 129. Threats of
vengeance on every Redskin they met were loud and deep; and the
wild war songs round their nightly camp-fires, and grotesque
scalp-dances, borrowed from the Indians, proved to the initiated
that they were, one and all, half-froze for hair.