Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Freezing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Freezing \Freez"ing\, a.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in
manner. -- {Frrez"ing*ly}, adv.
{Freezing machine}. See {Ice machine}, under {Ice}.
{Freezing mixture}, a mixture (of salt and snow or of
chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
{Freezing point}, that degree of a thermometer at which a
fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water,
whose freezing point is at 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg]
Centigrade.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze}; p. p. {Frozen}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre['o]san;
akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw.
frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L.
prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal,
pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a] ice, prush to spirt. ? 18.
Cf. {Frost}.]
1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid
to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be
hardened into ice or a like solid body.
Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's
thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.
2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer
loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood
freezes in the veins.
{To freeze up} (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor.
[Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
freezing
adj : extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm
freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North
Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar
weather" [syn: {arctic}, {frigid}, {gelid}, {glacial},
{icy}, {polar}]
n : the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to
a solid [syn: {freeze}]
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