Ice

Definition of Ice

Pronunciation: īs

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.

Concreted sugar.

Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.

Anchor ice
ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground.

Bay ice
ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.

Ground ice
anchor ice.

Ice age
(Geol.) the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial.

Ice anchor
(Naut.) a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice.

Ice blink
a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. - Kane.

Ice boat
a -	A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht.
b -	A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.

Ice box
a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.

Ice brook
a brook or stream as cold as ice.

Ice cream
cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. - Shak.

Ice field
an extensive sheet of ice.

Ice float
a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.

Ice foot
shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt.

Ice house
a close-covered pit or building for storing ice. - Kane.

Ice machine
(Physics) a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

Ice master
See Ice pilot (below).

Ice pack
an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.

Ice paper
a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé.

Ice petrel
(Zool.) a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.

Ice pick
a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.

Ice pilot
a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; - called also ice master.

Ice pitcher
a pitcher adapted for ice water.

Ice plow
a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.

ice sculpture
bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge.

Ice spar
(Min.) a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite.

Ice tongs
large iron nippers for handling ice.

Ice water
a -	Water cooled by ice.
b -	Water formed by the melting of ice.

Ice yacht
See Ice boat (above).

To break the ice
See under Break.

Water ice
a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen.<- also called Italian ice? ->

v. t.

To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.

[imp. & p. p. Iced (īst); p. pr. & vb. n. Icing (ī"sĭng).]

To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.

To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

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