01 a. Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
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Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
Phrases & compounds
Freezing mixture —
a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
Freezing point —
that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32° Fahr., and at 0° Centigrade.