[f. FREEZE v.] The action of the vb. FREEZE; lit. and fig. Also freeze-out: see FREEZE v. 7; freeze-up: see FREEZE v. 2.
c. 1440. York Myst., xiv. 72. Þe fellest frese þat euere I felyd.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 256/2.
| And now the Lord, the Lowne, the Sir, the Swaine, | |
| Against the freeze, of Freeze make winter suites. |
1866. Dickens, Lett., 6 Jan. (1880), II. 246. I am charmed to learn that you have had a freeze out of my ghost story.
1879. Lumberman’s Gaz., 19 Dec. Most of the saw mills … get as much of their stock into lumber before the freeze-up.
1882. The Garden, XXI. 18 March, 177/2. Here in Massachusetts the plants which flowered so beautifully the past summer did not ripen a single pod, being all killed by the severe frost of Oct. 5. This, of course, was an exceptional freeze.
1883. J. Hay, Bread-winners, 151. A request to be informed the next time they organized a freeze-out against him.
1891. K. Field, Washington, IV. 383/2. During a freeze there is no comfort in a southern house.
