(1):
(v. i.) The act of freezing; - applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
(2):
(v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
(3):
(v. i.) Frozen dew; - called also hoarfrost or white frost.
(4):
(v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
(5):
(v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
(6):
(v. t.) To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
(7):
(v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.