Ice /(īs)/
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.
- Concreted sugar.
- Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
- Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
Phrases & Compounds
- Anchor ice
- ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
- Bay ice
- ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.
- Ground ice
- anchor ice.
- Ice age
- the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial.
- Ice anchor
- a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice.
- Ice blink
- a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight.
- Ice boat
- A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht.
- Ice box
- a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.
- Ice brook
- a brook or stream as cold as ice.
- Ice cream
- cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
- Ice field
- an extensive sheet of ice.
- Ice float
- a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.
- Ice foot
- shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt.
- Ice house
- a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
- Ice machine
- a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
- Ice master
- See Ice pilot (below).
- Ice pack
- an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
- Ice paper
- a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé.
- Ice petrel
- a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
- Ice pick
- a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.
- Ice pilot
- a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master.
- Ice pitcher
- a pitcher adapted for ice water.
- Ice plow
- a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
- ice sculpture
- bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge.
- Ice spar
- a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite.
- Ice tongs
- large iron nippers for handling ice.
- Ice water
- Water cooled by ice.
- Ice yacht
- See Ice boat (above).
- To break the ice
- See under Break.
- Water ice
- a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen.<-- also called Italian ice? -->
ice
v. t.
imp. & p. p. iced; p. pr. & vb. n. icing
- To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
- To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.; as, iced cupcakes with a pink icing look delicious.
- To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
- To kill. [slang]