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A frieze.

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  1. n. A frieze.
  2. v. i. 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.
  3. v. i. 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.
  4. v. t. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
  5. v. t. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
  6. n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
  7. n. the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
  8. n. weather cold enough to cause freezing
  9. n. an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
  10. n. fixing (of prices or wages etc.) at a particular level
  11. v. stop moving or become immobilized
  12. v. change to ice