Definition of Frore

1. Adjective. Very cold. "Whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet"

Language type: Archaicism, Archaism
Similar to: Cold

Definition of Frore

1. adv. Frostily.

Definition of Frore

1. Adjective. (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen ¹

2. Verb. (rare) (simple past of freeze) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frore

1. frozen [adj] - See also: frozen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frore

frontrunners
frontrunning
fronts
frontside
frontslash
frontstall
frontward
frontwards
frontwise
frontwoman
frontwomen
froodite
froodites
froofy
froppish
frore (current term)
froren
frorn
frorne
frory
fros
frosh
froshed
froshes
froshing
frosk
frost
frost-blite
frost-bound
frost-weed

Literary usage of Frore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Odes and Other Poems by William Watson (1895)
"A NEW YEAR'S PRAYER IN the blanched night, when all the world lay frore, And the cold moon, the passionless, ..."

2. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"In Milton's lines, the piercing air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Paradise Lost, b. ii. we have a form from the Anglo-Saxon participle ..."

3. Cider: A Poem in Two Books by John Philips (1791)
"... frore, Beware th' inclement heavens; now let thy hearth Crackle with ... Burns frore, and cold performs the ..."

4. The Lyricks [of] Camoens: Sonnets, Canzons, Odes and Sextines. Englished by by Luís de Camões (1884)
"I. frore snow-wreaths fade away From the tall mountains, when their greens re-show Dark trees in Prime's array ; Now emerald ..."

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