icen

present singular third person icens · participle present icening · participle past icened · past icened

1. ambitransitiveTo make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses)

   He felt the Codex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on the icening storm.

   2015, Platte F. Clark, Good Ogre, page 182

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   Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I can cook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick.

   1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 262

1. not comparableMade of or consisting of ice.

   "Mother, what is this light o'er me? It flashes pink from that far North Sea Whose icen walls are an opal bowl— It would lead me safe to the ultimate Pole."

   1923, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent, Library of Southern Literature, page 469

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   When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow, I loved to wade across the windy lea To see the lake far-paved with icen floe, […]

   1900, Charles Augustus Keeler, Idyls of El Dorado, page 42

   As--- Visions of battered stone - - - sheathed in an icen shroud - - - - frozen in time and space - - - helplessly suspended beneath a trembling temple flame fearing for its life - - - danced in the Ice Maiden's eyes […]

   2011, Richard Donahue, The Sixth Coming, page 171