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frosty, a.|ˈfrɒstɪ, -ɔː-|
[f. frost n. + -y1; OE. had the equivalent fyrstiᵹ; cf. Du. vorstig, OHG. frostag (MHG. vrostec, -ic, mod.Ger. frostig).]
1. Affected with or characterized by frost; reduced to a temperature at or below freezing-point; ice-cold.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xiv. [xix.] (1890) 217, & se winter wære grim & cald & fyrstig. c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 2 In the frosty contrey called Trace. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 79 Whanne a bodi breþiþ wiþ þe mouþ in frosty wedir..þou myȝt se þe breeþ. 1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 171 The sparrow in the frosty nyght, May shroude her in the eaues. 1626Bacon Sylva §231 In Frosty weather, Musick within doors soundeth better. 1710Swift Lett. (1767) III. 45 It has been fair two or three days, and is this day grown cold and frosty. 1765Akenside Pleas. Imag. ii. 339 The frosty moon Glittering on some smooth sea. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. v. 251 If the winter set in with clear frosty weather. 1864Tennyson Boadicea 75 The noise of frosty woodlands, when they shiver in January.
†b. Belonging to the winter-season. Obs.
c1381Chaucer Parl. Foules 364 The throstel old; the frosty feldefare.
2. transf. and fig. Cold as frost; chilling; without ardour or warmth of feeling, frigid.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 173 Thisbe, How kysseth she his frosty mouthe so colde? 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 36 She red and hot..He red for shame, but frosty in desire. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Dram. Pers., Asper..One whom no..frosty apprehension of danger, can make to be a parasite. 1605Tryall Chev. ii. iii. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 295 Her father..is frosty in my fervent suite. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle 83 Death still bore to me a frosty Sound. 1833Carlyle in Froude Carlyle (1882) II. xvi. 381 He [Jeffrey] now writes to Jane in the frostiest..manner. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 77 Fenced from the frosty gales of ill.
3. Covered with or consisting of hoar-frost.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 141 The frostye Grasse..fils their bellies full of water. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiv. xvi, The winters frosty gowne. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxxi. 424 The dormitory decked itself on the instant with a frosty forest of feathers [when the cold outside air was let in].
4. Having the appearance of being covered with frost.
a. Of the hair: Hoary, white.
14..Circumcision in Tundale's Vis. 85 Janus bifrons..With frosty berd. 1579E. K. in Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Feb. Embleme, So the old man checketh the rash-headed boy for despysing his gray and frostye heares. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. ix. 117 Where was old frostie father gray⁓beard (Saturne I meane)? 1794Burns John Anderson my Jo, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo.
b. Hence, Characteristic of old age.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. iii. 77 If my frostie signes and chaps of age..Cannot induce you to attend my words. 1863Hawthorne Our old Home 257 That dreary picture of Lear, an explosion of frosty fury.
c. spec. in Entom. Of a glistening white colour. Also frosty white.
1698J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XX. 396 The Sides are grey or frosty. 18..Packard (Cent.), When seen laterally the surface appears frosty white.
5. Comb.
a. adverbial, as † frosty cold;
b. parasynthetic, as frosty-natured, frosty-spirited, frosty-whiskered; frosty-face slang (see quot. 1785); also attrib.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xx. 67 Now thou art *frosty cold, now fyry hote.
1753A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 48 ⁋11 My Friend's Wife damned ugly in a Morning—A *frosty Face Devil. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Frosty face, one pitted with the small pox.
1618Dekker Owles Almanacke, Men are so *frosty natur'd.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 21 What a *Frosty-spirited rogue is this?
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 35 His old brandy-nosed, *frosty-whiskered trumpeter of a groom.
Hence ˈfrostily adv., ˈfrostiness. Also † ˈfrosty v., to make to look frosty, cover with ice.
1596Lodge Marg. Amer. C ij, But when againe her morrow-gathered Ice The morne displaies, and frostieth drouping leaues. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. lii, I rather thou should'st utterly Dispraise my work, than praise it frostily. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God I. vi. 118 The Pinching Cold and Frostiness of the Night! 1830E. B. Pusey Hist. Enquiry II. 239 The iciness of the state, the chillness of letters, the frostiness of the people. 1851Hawthorne Snow Image, etc. (1879) 31 The stars glimmering frostily. 1859Life E. Henderson vi. 392 Volumes chargeable with somewhat of frostiness. 1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 593/1 Her mother met them frostily. |