pa. pple. and ppl. a. [pa. pple. of FREEZE v. (q.v. for Forms).]

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  1.  With distinctly participial sense: Frozen. Obs. exc. dial.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 97. Of waters froren, of yses wal, ðis middel werld it luket al.

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1297.  R. Glouc. (1724), 265. Þe water yfrore hys.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xcii. (1495), 840. Salamandra quenchyth the fyre that he towchyth as yse dooth and water frore.

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1477.  Norton, Ord. Alch., I. in Ashm. (1652), 19. Plenty of water that was therein froare.

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1542.  Hen. VIII., Declar. Scots, 197. Our bloud is … frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande.

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1880.  Sharp, Sword of Damocles, III. 74. The lake … was soon ‘frorn,’ as they say in Suffolk.

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  absol.  c. 1430.  Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. xc. (1869), 108. I hatte Peresce … the foollich, the founded, the froren.

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  2.  Intensely cold, frosty, frost-like. Now only poet. in the form frore (after Milton’s use).

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1483.  Caxton, Gold. Leg., 130 b/1. After longe tyme saynt Julyen slepte aboute mydnyght … and it was frorn and moche colde.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., II. 595. The parching Air Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect of Fire.

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1708.  J. Philips, Cyder, II. 74.

                        When th’ aged Year
Inclines, and Boreas’ Spirit blusters frore,
Beware th’ inclement Heav’ns.

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1764.  Churchill, Gotham, I. Poems, II. 19. Frore January, Leader of the Year.

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1821.  Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. 120.

        Oh, rock-enbosomed lawns, and snow-fed streams,
Now seen athwart frore vapours, deep below.

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1829.  Southey, in Anniversary, 9, Epistle. Time upon my head Hath laid his frore and monitory hand.

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1850.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, II. 415. The Loves … lie, Frore as taken in a snow-stonn.

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1887.  Bowen, Virg. Æneid, IV. 250.

        Snows everlasting mantle his shoulders; streams with a roar
Roll from his aged chin, and his beard is with icicles frore.

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