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▪ I. freezing, vbl. n.|ˈfriːzɪŋ|
[f. freeze v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. freeze; also, freezing in, freezing out, etc.: see freeze v. 5 b, 7. at freezing = at freezing-point (see 2).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xlvi. (1495) 889 Greys is made faste and harde by fresyng and by colde. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 29 b, To sowe it..of October, that it may take deepe roote before the freezing and colde in Winter. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xcvii, What freezings haue I felt. 1665Hooke Microgr. 91 If you..expose it to a very sharp freezing. 1803T. Beddoes Hygëia x. 34 The weather was at freezing. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxxi. 420 Now awaits the freezing-in of her winter cradle. 1891E. B. Howell in Advance (Chicago) 25 June, The law permits the unjust ‘freezing out’ of the small capitalist.
2. attrib. and Comb., as freezing chamber; also, freezing-mixture, a mixture of two or more substances, e.g. salt and snow, which, while remaining liquid, is cold enough to freeze some other liquid within its influence; freezing-point, the point on the thermometer marking the temperature at which a liquid, esp. water, freezes; freezing process (see quot. 1967); freezing works Austral. and N.Z., an establishment in which animals are killed and the carcasses prepared and frozen for export.
1889E. Wakefield N.Z. after 50 Yrs. vi. 130 The sheep..are skilfully slaughtered..and trucked down to the hulk, the whole interior of which is a *freezing chamber. 1896Daily News 28 May 6/3 Delahaeff's body lies in the freezing chamber at the Morgue.
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. (1723) 236 A strong *freezing Mixture. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 155 The air may also be drawn through tubes cooled by a freezing mixture.
1747Phil. Trans. XLIV. ii. 613, 17 degrees above 0 or *freezing Point. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxv. 190 The temperature of the air was 20° Fahr. below the freezing point.
1889Science XIV. 142/1 The Pœtsch *freezing process in mining operations. A brief description of the freezing process devised by Herman Pœtsch for sinking shafts in quicksands and other difficult ground was given. 1905T. C. Futers Mech. Engin. Collieries I. 73 (caption) Freezing process of shaft sinking. 1967Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ix. 9 Freezing process, a method of consolidating water-bearing strata, to prepare it for shaft sinking, in which a freezing agent (usually brine) is circulated through suitably disposed boreholes drilled into the strata around the site of the shaft.
1889E. Wakefield N.Z. after 50 Yrs. vi. 130 The solution of all their difficulties..was found to lie in having *freezing works on shore, near the place of shipment. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxxv. 464 For the shipment of the Queensland supply, freezing works are in process of construction in Brisbane, Rockhampton, and Townsville. 1906E. W. Elkington Adrift in N.Z. v. 72 Cattle and sheep in their thousands..eventually find their way, via the freezing works, to our own dinner-tables. 1963N. Hilliard Piece of Land 28 Within smelling distance of the freezing works and the stock⁓yards.
▪ II. freezing, ppl. a.|ˈfriːzɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That freezes, in senses of the vb. Freq. of drizzle, fog, rain, etc.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. iii. 39. c 1625 Milton Death of a fair Infant 16 Through middle empire of the freezing air. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 738 By Strymon's freezing Streams he sate alone. 1709Addison Tatler No. 100 ⁋1 A freezing Night. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 10 In a freezing cold, clay contracts more than any other earth. 1797Encycl. Brit. VII. 460 Freezing Rain, or Raining Ice, a very uncommon kind of shower. 1940S. Petterssen Weather Analysis & Forecasting i. 40 In the United States weather reports, rain and/or drizzle that produce glazed frost are reported as ‘freezing rain’. 1958Polar Record May 92 Freezing drizzle, drizzle, the drops of which freeze on impact with the ground or with objects on the earth's surface or with aircraft in flight. 1963Meteorol. Gloss. (Met. Office) (ed. 4) Freezing drizzle, fog, rain, supercooled water drops of drizzle (or fog or rain) which freeze on impact with the ground (in aviation with an aircraft) to form glazed frost or, in the case of the smaller droplets which comprise fog, rime. 1968G. R. Rumney Climatol. v. 76/1 An ice storm, or freezing rain, occurs when liquid drops of rain, having a temperature slightly below freezing, fall upon solid surfaces of the earth..whose temperature is well below freezing.
2. fig.; esp. of manners: Chilling.
1813H. & J. Smith Horace in Lond. 95 Oh grant that he may never spread Its freezing influence to my heart. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies iii. (1875) 27 Her sudden burst of enthusiasm met with but a freezing reception. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxxiv, A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 538 Many..had been repelled by his freezing looks. 1886W. Hooper Sk. Acad. Life 16 To regulate all things with freezing accuracy and precision.
Hence ˈfreezingly adv., in a freezing manner.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1806 Thoght me brenneth and freesyngly keelith. 1798W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 226, I wrote to him very freezingly. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre iv. (1873) 31 Her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine. |