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Pronunciation : Freeze
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A frieze. [Obs.]

(Arch.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Freeze
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre?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. prushva ice, prush
Definition : 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? above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40? 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.]

i. [imp. Froze; p. p. Frozen; p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Freeze
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. Shak.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Freeze
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913