(frôst, frost) noun
1. Minute crystals of ice formed directly from atmospheric water vapor; frozen dew; hoarfrost.
2. Freezing weather; the degree of frost is the number of degrees below the freezing point.
3. The formation of ice; frozen moisture within a porous substance.
4. Coldness and austerity of manner.
5. Slang A failure.
—v.t.
1. To cover with frost.
2. To damage or kill by frost.
3. To apply frosting to. [OE]
—frost′less adjective
FROST PATTERNS
a. Spongiform. b. Filicoid. c. Stellate.

(frôst, frost), Robert Lee,
1875–1963, U. S. poet and essayist.