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Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4¡ C. b…

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  1. n. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
  2. n. Concreted sugar.
  3. n. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
  4. n. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
  5. v. t. To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
  6. v. t. To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.
  7. v. t. To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
  8. n. a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine
  9. n. water frozen in the solid state
  10. n. the frozen part of a body of water
  11. n. diamonds
  12. n. a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes