icen - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- Rhymes: -aɪsən
icen (third-person singular simple present icens, present participle icening, simple past and past participle icened)
- (ambitransitive) To make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses)
1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 262:
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.
2015, Platte F. Clark, Good Ogre, page 182:
He felt the Codex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on the icening storm.
From Middle English isen, ysen, equivalent to ice + -en.
icen (not comparable)
- Made of or consisting of ice.
1900, Charles Augustus Keeler, Idyls of El Dorado, page 42:
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, […]
1923, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent, Library of Southern Literature, page 469:
"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."
2011, Richard Donahue, The Sixth Coming, page 171:
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 […]
icen
- inflection of izar:
icen m (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵛⴻⵏ, plural icniwen)
- Alternative form of acniw