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Definition of Frost over
1. Verb. Become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window. "When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frost Over
Literary usage of Frost over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the [1st]-56th Annual Reunion by Oregon Pioneer Association, Indian War Veterans of the North Pacific Coast (1915)
"frost over night; warm and pleasant; chopped AM; cut roads PM; John and Royal
... Heavy frost over night; foggy in the AM; warm and pleasant during the day; ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1892)
"... which froze and destroyed many fields of buckwheat and corn in the central
and northwest counties and caused frost over nearly the entire tobacco belt. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"There is, no doubt, some danger of an early frost over the whole of this country.
In 1883 great damage was done all over the north-west bya severe frost on ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"Time not only kills and buries human bodies, but scatters, I find, a hoar-frost
over the once fresh, and invigorating, ..."
5. British Farmer's Magazine (1849)
"... these may also be obtained, pretty fine and early, by sowing some seed in a
vacant small box, to be covered with its light when there is frost, over ..."
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