Ice

īs, n. water congealed by freezing: concreted sugar, a frozen confection of sweetened cream or the juice of various fruits.— v.t. to cover with ice: to freeze: to cover with concreted sugar:— pr.p. ic′ing; pa.p. iced.— ns. Ice′-age ( geol. ), the glacial epoch, its records included in the Pleistocene system, the chief relics morainic materials, boulder-clay or till, believed to have been formed under glacial ice; Ice′-an′chor , an anchor with one arm for securing a ve el to an ice-floe; Ice′-bird , the little auk or sea-dove; Ice′blink , the peculiar appearance in the air reflected from distant ma es of ice; Ice′boat , a boat used for forcing a pa age through or being dragged over ice.— adj. Ice′-bound , bound, surrounded, or fixed in with ice.— ns. Ice′-brook , a frozen brook; Ice′-cream , Iced′-cream , cream sweetened or flavoured, and artificially frozen.— adj. Iced , covered with ice: encrusted with sugar.— n. Ice′-fall , a glacier.— n.pl. Ice′-feath′ers , peculiar feather-like forms a umed by ice at the summits of mountains.— ns. Ice′-fern , the fern-like encrustation which is found on windows during frost; Ice′field , a large field or sheet of ice; Ice′float , Ice′floe , a large ma of floating ice; Ice′foot , a belt of ice forming round the shores in Arctic regions—also Ice′-belt , Ice′-ledge , Ice′-wall ; Ice′house , a house for preserving ice; Ice′-ī′sland , an island of floating ice; Ice′man , a man skilled in travelling upon ice: a dealer in ice: a man in attendance at any frozen pond where skating, ., are going on; Ice′pack , drifting ice packed together; Ice′-pail , a pail filled with ice for cooling bottles of wine; Ice′-plant , a plant whose leaves glisten in the sun as if covered with ice; Ice′-plough , an instrument for cutting grooves in ice to facilitate its removal; Ice′-saw , a large saw for cutting through ice to free ships, .; Ice′-spar , a variety of feldspar remarkable for its transparent ice-like crystals; Ice′-wa′ter , water from melted ice: iced water.— adv. Ic′ily .— ns. Ic′ine ; Ic′ing , a covering of ice or concreted sugar.— adjs. Ic′y , composed of, abounding in, or like ice: frosty: cold: chilling: without warmth of affection; Ic′y-pearled ( Milt. ), studded with pearls or spangles of ice.— Break the ice (see Break ). [A.S. is ; Ger. eis , Ice., Dan. is .]