pple. and ppl. a. rare. = FROST-BITTEN.
1749. F. Smith, Voy. Disc. N.-W. Pass., II. 13. The Gale continuing, the Weather was so sharp as several of the People were Frost-bit.
1851. D. Jerrold, St. Giles, i. 7. There’s some poor devil outside that ’s frost-bit and going to die, and wants a hot bed, and a dose of brandy, and all that, to bring the life into him again; and he won’t have it.
fig. 1813. Byron, Age Bronze, x. A Calmuck beauty with a Cossack wit, And generous Spirit, when ’t is not frost-bit.
