ice-blink

’ats,blink n. a peculiar whitening of the sky, low down near the horizon, seen rn the Arctic regions on ap- o 132 DICTIONARY OF AVIATION pro aching an icezfloe, and caused by the reflection of light by the ice. ice-cloud ‘ars,kzavud n. 4. any one of the cla of clouds or cloudlike bedies comprizing the cirrus clouds and cirroznebulae, whose component partrcles are minute ice-crystals; a cirrus; a cirroz nebula: distinguisht from water-cloud. 2. a low cloud composed of icezparticles or of water glebules colder than ice which, upon contact with solid bedies, adhere as frostwork; a frost-cloud; a rime-cloud.