frore

comparative more frore · superlative most frore

1. archaicExtremely cold; frozen.

   My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.

   c. 1916, Rupert Brooke, Song

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   We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade, Expiring in the frore and foggy air.

   1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9

   For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.

   1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13

   Till we conceive their heavens hoar, Those lights they raise but sparkles frore,

   1888, George Meredith, Meditation under Stars

   Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.

   1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16

1. archaicparticiplepastraresimple past and past participle of freeze

   And down below all fretted and frore, Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]

   c. 1834, Mary Howitt, The Sea