Definition of Freze
Freeze, v. t. -- To freeze
out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold
treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's
room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.]
A railroad which had a London connection must not be
allowed to freeze out one that had no such
connection. A. T. Hadley.
It is sometimes a long time before a player who is
frozen out can get into a game again. R. F.
Foster.
Freeze (?), n. (Arch.) A
frieze. [Obs.]
Freeze, v. i. [imp.
Froze (?); p. p. Frozen (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE.
fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D.
vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel.
frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius
cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E.
prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina
hoarfrost, Skr. prushvā ice, prush to spirt. &?;
18. Cf. Frost.] 1. 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.
&fist; Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's
thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero.
2. 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.]
Freeze, v. t. 1.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a
solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
2. 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,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
Shak.
Freeze, n. The act of congealing,
or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
Freeze, v. t. -- To freeze
out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold
treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's
room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.]
A railroad which had a London connection must not be
allowed to freeze out one that had no such
connection. A. T. Hadley.
It is sometimes a long time before a player who is
frozen out can get into a game again. R. F.
Foster.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
FREEZE. A thin, small, hard cider, much used by vintners
and coopers in parting their wines, to lower the price of
them, and to advance their gain. A freezing vintner; a
vintner who balderdashes his wine.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- (intransitive) To be very cold (a temperature below 0 degrees celsius)
- (intransitive) To become hard due to low temperature (for liquids)
- (intransitive) To become motionless. (The squirrel froze when it saw the hawk overhead.)
- (transitive) to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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