Ice

Ice - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• (n.) Concreted sugar.
  
  
• (n.) Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
  
  
• (n.) Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
  
  
• (v. t.) To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
  
  
• (v. t.) To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.
  
  
• (v. t.) To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
  
  
• plant () 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.