Definitions
Thin ice crystals or a freezing deposit on cold surfaces.
Word origin
From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
Used in a sentence
“Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”
“It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month;”
“It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Icy coating on grass”5 letters
02“Icy coating”5 letters
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