1. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
   "The trees were covered in a delicate layer of frost on the cold winter morning";
   - hoar, hoarfrost, rime
    
2. The formation of frost or ice on a surface
   "The frost on the windscreen made it difficult to see";
   - icing, frosting [N. Amer]
    
3. Weather cold enough to cause freezing
   "A heavy frost covered the grass in the morning";
   - freeze

1. [N. Amer] (cooking) decorate with frosting
   "frost a cake";
   - ice
    
2. Cover with frost
   "ice crystals frosted the glass"
    
3. Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
   "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair"
    
4. Damage by frost
   "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"

1. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
   - Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost

Derived forms: frosts, frosting, frosted

Type of: cold weather, cover, damage, freeze, freezing, ice, poet, water ice

Encyclopedia: Frost, Ohio