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Hoarfrost   Listen
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Hoarfrost  n.  (Written also horefrost)  The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. See Hoar, a. "He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes."






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"Hoarfrost" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the 23d of February, 1800, sleeping nature dreamed of spring; a brilliant, almost joyous sun made the grass in the ditches on either side of the road sparkle with those deceptive pearls of the hoarfrost which vanish at a touch, and rejoice the heart of a tiller of the earth when he sees them glittering at the points of his wheat as it pushes bravely up through the soil. All the windows of the diligence were lowered, to give entrance to this earliest smile of the Divine, ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere



Words linked to "Hoarfrost" :   rime, frost, ice, hoar, water ice



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