icen

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Definition of icen

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

(ambitransitive)To make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses)

“Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I can cook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick.”
“He felt the Codex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on the icening storm.”

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verb

(ambitransitive)To make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses)

“Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I can cook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick.”
“He felt the Codex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on the icening storm.”

adj

(not-comparable)Made of or consisting of ice.

“When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow, I loved to wade across the windy lea To see the lake far-paved with icen floe, […]”
“"Mother, what is this light o'er me? It flashes pink from that far North Sea Whose icen walls are an opal bowl— It would lead me safe to the ultimate Pole."”
“As--- Visions of battered stone - - - sheathed in an icen shroud - - - - frozen in time and space - - - helplessly suspended beneath a trembling temple flame fearing for its life - - - danced in the Ice Maiden's eyes […]”

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From ice + -en (“to become like”).

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