| Ice |
n. |
Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. |
| Ice |
n. |
Concreted sugar. |
| Ice |
n. |
Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen. |
| Ice |
n. |
Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice. |
| Ice |
v. t. |
To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice. |
| Ice |
v. t. |
To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc. |
| Ice |
v. t. |
To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze. |
| Ice plant |
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A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. |
| Ice-built |
a. |
Composed of ice. |
| Ice-built |
a. |
Loaded with ice. |
| Iceberg |
n. |
A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean. |
| Icebird |
n. |
An Arctic sea bird, as the Arctic fulmar. |
| Icebound |
a. |
Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable of advancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringed with ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast. |
| Iced |
imp. & p. p. |
of Ice |
| Iced |
a. |
Covered with ice; chilled with ice; as, iced water. |
| Iced |
a. |
Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake. |
| Icefall |
n. |
A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall. |
| Iceland moss |
|
A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent. |
| Iceland spar |
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A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite. |
| Icelander |
n. |
A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland. |
| Icelandic |
a. |
Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders. |
| Icelandic |
n. |
The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken. |
| Iceman |
n. |
A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers. |
| Iceman |
n. |
One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice. |
| Icemen |
pl. |
of Iceman |
| Icequake |
n. |
The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice,
often due to contraction from extreme cold. |
