frore
Adjective

frore

  1. (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
    • 1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9:
      We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,
      Expiring in the frore and foggy air.
    • 1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13:
      For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16
      Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.
    • circa 1916, Rupert Brooke, Song
      My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.
Translations Verb
  1. (archaic, rare) simple past tense of freeze
    • circa 1834, Mary Howitt, The Sea:
      And down below all fretted and frore, […]



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