Definition of Frosts

1. Verb. (third-person singular of frost) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frosts

1. frost [v] - See also: frost

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frosts

frostier
frostiest
frostily
frostiness
frostinesses
frosting
frostinglike
frostings
frostless
frostlike
frostline
frostlines
frostnip
frostnips
frostproof
frosts (current term)
frostweed
frostweeds
frostwork
frostworks
frostwort
frosty
froterer
froth
froth at the mouth
froth pack
frothed
frother
frothers

Literary usage of Frosts

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

1. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"The first of these South-east frosts which I noticed, and of which I kept a ... I have extracted from my register some particulars about all the frosts, ..."

2. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1903)
"frosts may be divided into general frosts, or such as act upon considerable territory, and local frosts, or those confined to comparatively small areas. ..."

3. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"LOCAL AND SEASONAL PECULIARITIES OF CLIMATE a) frosts' BY HARRY J. WILDER The controlling factor in grape production is not one of mean seasonal temperature ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"Comparison of the Effects of the frosts of 18GO-1 and of 1878-9. ... The present paper records the great difference in the eH'ects in the two frosts at ..."

5. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1891)
"... X. PROTECTION FROM WINDS AND frosts. THOUGH the climate of California renders unnecessary the protection against rigorous weather which fruit growers in ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"The accompanying illustration from a photograph taken six months after the discovery, and when a talus consequent upon the frosts of winter had accumulated ..."

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