ice

n. [ OE. is, iis, AS. īs; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. īs, Icel. īss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron. ] 1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Water freezes at 32° F. or 0° Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Concreted sugar. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground. --
Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea. --
Ground ice, anchor ice. --
Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial. --
Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. Kane. --
Ice blink [ Dan. iisblink ], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight. --
Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. --
Ice box or
Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. --
Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [ Poetic ] Shak. --
Ice cream [ for iced cream ], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. --
Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. --
Ice float,
Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. --
Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. Kane. --
Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice. --
Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid. --
Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). --
Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. --
Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. --
Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. --
Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. --
Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master. --
Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water. --
Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice. --
Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge. --
Ice spar (Min.), a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite. --
Ice tongs, large iron nippers for handling ice. --
Ice water. (a) Water cooled by ice. (b) Water formed by the melting of ice. --
Ice yacht. See Ice boat (above). --
To break the ice. See under Break. --
Water ice, a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen. [ 1913 Webster ]