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Webster 1913 Edition

Freeze

Freeze

(frēz)
,
Noun.
(Arch.)
A frieze.
[Obs.]

Freeze

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp.
Froze
(frōz)
;
p. p.
Frozen
(frō′z’n)
;
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. [GREEK] 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.
☞ 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

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare

Freeze

,
Noun.
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
[Colloq.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Freeze

FREEZE

,
Verb.
I.
pret. froze; pp. frozen, or froze. [Gr. had for its radical letters.]
1.
To be 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. Water freezes at the temperature of 32 degrees above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer. Mercury freezes at 40 degrees below zero.
2.
To be of that degree of cold at which water congeals.
3.
To chill; to stagnate, or to retire from the extreme vessels; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
4.
To be chilled; to shiver with cold.
5.
To die by means of cold. We say a man freezes to death.

FREEZE

, v.t.
1.
To congeal; to harden into ice; to change from a fluid to a solid form by cold or abstraction of heat. This weather will freeze the rivers and lakes.
2.
To kill by cold; but we often add the words to death. this air will freeze you, or freeze you to death.
3.
To chill; to give the sensation of cold and shivering. This horrid tale freezes my blood.

FREEZE

, in architecture. [See Frieze.]

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