| 单词 | frost-covered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrost-covered a. In adjectives with the sense ‘covered, frozen, or adorned with frost’ as frost-beaded, frost-bound, frost-covered, etc. ΚΠ 1603 J. Florio in tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Your noblest Earles beneficence..hath so kindely bedewed my earth when it was sunburnt, so gently thawed it when it was frost-bound, as..I were more sencelesse then earth, if I returned not some fruite in good measure. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 182 For when her Troopes of wandring Cranes forsake Frost-firmed Strymon. 1660 A. Cooper Στρατολογια vii. 151 The Herefordians Warrants did direct Into the Country, unto this effect, To bring in men, their Frost-congealed Moats To break. 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 222 The Frost-concocted Glebe Draws in abundant vegetable Soul. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 155 Materials..frost-bound Firm as a rock. 1811 E. Lysaght Poems 1 The frost-fettered rivers no longer can flow. 1842 F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 122 The white frost-beaded grass. 1845 E. Cook Poems 2nd Ser. 151 I stood with delight by the frost-chequer'd pane. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 16 My thoughts recal the frost-tempered junks of this pachydermoid amphibion. 1896 Graphic 21 Mar. 343/1 I..heard men fall, the iron plates of their mail clashing on the frost-firmed ground. 1946 Cosmopolitan Oct. 110/2 Then these critics go home to a tar-paper shack with a frost-covered outhouse. 1963 Times 7 Feb. 14/7 The frost-hardened ledges [of cliffs]. 2010 Countryfile Feb. 43/2 There's something ethereal about Snowdonia in winter: the light, the frost-shrouded landscape. < as lemmas |
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