ice island, iceisle

A vast body of floating ice. IMG:content-1433.png:[blocks in formation] bergs which escape from the North Polar regions in proximity to Europe drift partly to the westward and they rarely reach Britain, though Cowper has a poem "On the Ice-islands seen floating in the German Ocean, March 19, 1799." Many impinge upon the eastern shores of Iceland; escaping that island they are borne away in the direction of the eastern shores of America. They do not approach the equator nearer than about 40° N. and 36° to 39° S. When an iceberg reaches a coast and melts, perature as temporarily to deteriorate the climate of the adjacent land. They carry with them earth, it generates chilling fogs, and so reduces the tem ichneumon Içed, pa. par. & a. [ICE, ν.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Converted into or covered with ice; frozen; congealed. 2. Covered with concreted sugar; frosted. II. Bot .: Covered with glistening particles resembling icicles; as in Mesembryanthemum pis i forme. Içe-fiõe, s . [Eng. ice, and floe .] A sheet of ice; a small ice-field. "He reached Hudson's Bay, where his ship was frozen up among the icefloes." Taylor: Words and Places (1878), ch. ii.