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frore, † froren, † frorn(e, pa. pple. and ppl. a.|frɔə(r)|
[pa. pple. of freeze v. (q.v. for Forms).]
1. With distinctly participial sense: Frozen. Obs. exc. dial.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 97 Of waters froren, of yses wal, ðis middel werld it luket al. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 265 Þe water yfrore hys. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xcii. (1495) 840 Salamandra quenchyth the fyre that he towchyth as yse dooth and water frore. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. i. in Ashm. (1652) 19 Plenty of water that was therein froare. 1542Hen. VIII Declar. Scots 197 Our bloud is..frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande. 1880Sharp Sword of Damocles III. 74 The lake..was soon ‘frorn’, as they say in Suffolk.
absol.c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xc. (1869) 108, I hatte Peresce..the foollich, the founded, the froren.
2. Intensely cold, frosty, frost-like. Now only poet. in the form frore (after Milton's use).
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 130 b/1 After longe tyme saynt Julyen slepte aboute mydnyght..and it was frorn and moche colde. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 595 The parching Air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of Fire. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 74 Th' aged Year Inclines, and Boreas' Spirit blusters frore. 1764Churchill Gotham i. Poems II. 19 Frore January, Leader of the Year. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 121 Snow-fed streams now seen athwart frore vapours. 1829Southey in Anniversary 9 Epistle, Time upon my head Hath laid his frore and monitory hand. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 415 The Loves..lie, Frore as taken in a snow-storm. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid iv. 251 His beard is with icicles frore. |