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FREEZE, v.i. pret. froze; pp. frozen, or froze. [Gr. had for its radical letters.]
FREEZE, v.t.
FREEZE, in architecture. [See Frieze.]
A
frieze.
[Obs.] 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.
* Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero. 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.] To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a
solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
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, The act of congealing,
or the state of being congealed.
[Colloq.] In
Germany and Austria, a baron.
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