freezing point (frezingpoint)

The temperature at which a liquid freezes; loosely, the temperature at which ice melts. The freez ing-point, in the strict sense, depends on many circum stances difficult to control, and many liquids, including water, can with care be cooled several degrees below their melting-points without freezing. The melting-point of ice (water), however, is relatively fixed and readily observed. Consequently, the melting-point is always substituted for the freezing-point in making thermometers, although it is generally called by the latter name. The freezing - point of water and the melting-point of ice, as Profe or Tyndall remarks, tonch each other as it J. Croll , Climate and Time, p. 557. were. goods or merchandise by by extension, in the United States and Canada, in general, the price paid for the transportation of goods or merchandise by land or by sea. Fuel is cheap, freights are extremely low, and these, to merchants and manufacturers. with many other advantages, offer unusual opportunities Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 718. 3. In a more general sense, the price paid for the use of a ship, including the transportation of pa engers. By freight, by the usual public conveyance or means of transport; as regular freight: op posed to by expre : as, shall it be sent by freight or by ex pre ? [U. S.] - Dead freight, fast freight, etc. See the adjectives.