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frost | gree |

As a proper noun frost

is .

As a verb gree is

.

frost

English

(wikipedia frost)

Noun

  • A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 47.
    • It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month;
  • The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
  • (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.
  • (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.

    • Derived terms

    * black frost * degree of frost * frostbite * frostbitten * frostbound * frost-tender * frosty * hoar frost, hoarfrost * Jack Frost * permafrost * uremic frost

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To get covered with frost .
  • To coat something (e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
  • To anger or annoy.
    • I think the boss's decision frosted him, a bit.

    Derived terms

    * frosting

    Anagrams

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    gree

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Compare (degree), (grade).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) One of a flight of steps.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Chapter 5:
    • "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees , for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."
  • (label) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
    • He is a shepherd great in gree .
  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • *
  • *:And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge / and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste / and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose / but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak / and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye
  • A degree.

    • Etymology 2

    From (pre-reform) (etyl) , from Old (etyl) (gray).

    Noun

  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • * 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale :
    • And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.
  • * Fairfax
    • Accept in gree , my lord, the words I spoke.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night . vol. 1:
    • When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree , if the King permit me."

    Etymology 3

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To agree.
    • (Fuller)