icen
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aɪsən
Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]icen (third-person singular simple present icens, present participle icening, simple past and past participle icened)
- (transitive, intransitive) 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.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English isen, ysen, equivalent to ice + -en.
Adjective
[edit]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 […]
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]icen
- inflection of izar:
Tarifit
[edit]Noun
[edit]icen m (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵛⴻⵏ, plural icniwen)
- Alternative form of acniw
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