winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla; wind-
chill factor.
[forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow
drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost,
hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U.S.], lolly [U.S.]; icicle,
thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe
berg; glacier; nevée, serac†; pruina†.
[cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen,
liquid helium.
[Sensation of cold] chilliness &c adj.; chill; shivering &c v.;
goose skin, horripilation†; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness,
frostbite.
V. be cold &c adj.; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder,
didder†, quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.
freeze &c (render cold) 385; horripilate†, make the skin crawl,
give one goose flesh.
Adj. cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid†; fresh, keen,
bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous†, cutting, nipping,
piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved &c (made cold) 385; chilled to
the bone, shivering &c v.; aguish, transi de froid [Fr.]; frostbitten,
frost-bound, frost-nipped.
cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold
as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool
as custard.
icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose†, wintry, brumal†,
hibernal†, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal†; hyperborean, hyperboreal†;
icebound; frozen out.
unwarmed†, unthawed†; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal†, isocheimenal†,
isocheimic†.
frozen, numb, frost-bitten.
Adv. coldly, bitterly &c adj.; pierre fendre [Fr.];