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frozen, ppl. a.|ˈfrəʊz(ə)n|
Forms: see the verb.
[pa. pple. of freeze v.]
1. a. Congealed by extreme cold; subjected or exposed to extreme cold; spec. of food: preserved by refrigeration to below freezing point.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxxv. 5 Þe south blawand frosyn strandis lesis & rennys. a1400–50Alexander 3063 Sir Dary..fande it [the burne] frosyn hym byfore. 1555Eden Decades Contents, The nauigation by the frosen sea. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 587 Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 3 Warmth adds Spirits to our frozen Limbs. 1833N. Arnott Physics (ed. 5) II. i. 90 A piece of frozen mercury..thrown into a little water at 32°. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 224 In Canada..frozen meat is a common article of commerce. 1891, etc. [see chilled ppl. a. 2 b]. 1893Times (weekly ed.) 2 Feb. 89/3 Allowance must be made in the North-West [of Canada] for a proportion of frozen wheat. 1933Discovery Apr. 127 The authors described some new experiments designed to retain the full flavour and colour of frozen fruit. 1950Archit. Rev. CVIII. 142/3 A ‘Kelvinator’ dual freeze unit— i.e., for ordinary refrigeration and frozen food storage. 1957Daily Mail 5 Sept. 9/4 Frozen-food producers came to the rescue with frozen fried fish and now the latest, frozen chips. 1967Listener 20 Apr. 533/3 The same frozen scampi and vegetables.
b. fig. and of immaterial things. Of facts, truth (U.S.) = hard, solid. the frozen limit (colloq.): the hard and fast limit; the ne plus ultra of what is objectionable or unendurable; see limit n.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 367 Is that olde acquaintance..frozen..in you? 1641Milton Ch. Govt. vi. (1851) 125 But farre worse then any frozen captivity is the bondage of Prelates. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 99 Verse fires the frozen Veins. 1760T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. 146 They hoped to see..christian charity, then frozen, wax warm. 1814Byron Corsair i. xv, The tender blue of that large loving eye Grew frozen with its gaze on vacancy. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 62 This frozen sisterhood of the allegoric family. 1867M. Arnold Sonn., West London, The rich she had let pass with frozen stare. 1884Boston (Mass.) Herald 25 Sept., ‘Frozen Facts’ is a purely American expression. Ibid. 22 Oct. 2/2 We were simply stating the frozen truth. 1917W. H. L. Watson Adv. Despatch Rider x. 216, I don't mind their machine-guns, but their Minnenwerfer are the frozen limit! 1920‘Sapper’ Bull-Dog Drummond i. §1, Only his eyes redeemed his face from being what is known in the vernacular as the Frozen Limit.
c. Billiards. Used to designate a ball at rest in close contact with another ball or a cushion.
1904S. A. Mussabini Mannock's Billiards II. 275 When the object is frozen to the side cushion. Ibid. 287 Here we have the red ball ‘frozen’ or ‘tight up’ against an end cushion. Ibid. 293 A ball ‘frozen’ on a cushion. 1961J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 188 When object balls are frozen they remain in play as they are.
d. Of credits, assets, etc.: impossible to liquidate or realize at maturity or some other given time. Also fig. (Opp. liquid a. 6; cf. freeze v. 5 e.)
1922Daily Mail 16 Dec. 9 Germany has an immense quantity of ‘frozen credits’ locked up in this country. 1923Ibid. 9 Jan. 7 A large part of British assets..were temporarily ‘frozen’. 1929Encycl. Brit. IX. 876/2 Frozen credit, credit (generally bank-loans) which has been extended but which the creditors find it impossible or highly inexpedient to collect at maturity or at any given time... In such a case the bank will often renew or extend the loan, and this credit is said to be frozen, a term signifying the opposite of ‘liquid’ as applied to credit, capital or assets. 1930Times 24 Mar. 23/5 The opportunity to accomplish this liquidation of over $10,000,000 of frozen assets. 1937Wodehouse Ld. Emsworth & Others iv. 158 Angus McTavish was the sort of man who, just by going about looking like a frozen asset, takes all the edge and zip out of a girl's game. 1959Daily Tel. 2 May 6/2 Property sequestrated or, to use the current jargon, ‘frozen’.
2. frozen-out: cut off or excluded by frost. frozen-up: closed or stopped by frost.
1885G. Allen Babylon iii, On the stray chance of catching a frozen-out racoon. 1890Daily News 31 Dec. 3/2 ‘All froze-out poor working men who've got no work to do-o-o’..The carrying of water to frozen-up householders has become almost a..recognised industry. In many of the suburbs there has been..a mellifluous sing-song telling of frozen-up pipes. 1893Ibid. 23 Feb. 7/4 The frozen-up German seed is still delayed.
3. Comb., as frozen-faced, frozen-hearted adjs.
1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 26 They are not men, but cold statues, and such as the frozen hearted Venetians. 1921S. Adams Success vii. 212 Old frozen-faced Willis Enderby. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) II. iii. ix. 150 His frozen-faced terror. 1964Daily Tel. 6 Jan. 1/2 Even the most frozen-faced Cardinals in Vatican City were taken by surprise in viewing..the overpowering..enthusiasm the Pope encountered.
Hence ˈfrozenly adv., in a frozen manner; with a cold look or action; (U.S.) stubbornly; ˈfrozenness, frozen condition.
1653Gauden Hieraspistes 486 For however people have now and then a warm fit of giving..they soon returne to that frozenness, which is hardly dissolved by any mans warmest breathings. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Towering, The Signs of which are, they look frozenly on their Sides. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xv. 151 He..looked frozenly at the prisoner, rebuking him [etc.]. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 150, I..began to hack frozenly at a log.
▸ frozen yogurt n. a type of frozen dessert made with yogurt, usually regarded as a low-fat alternative to ice cream.
1969N.Y. Times 3 June 73/5 *Frozen yogurt on a stick. 1994Bon Appétit July 48/1 Using frozen yogurt for the sundaes instead of a premium ice cream reduces the fat in each serving by one-third. |