Befrost

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To place frost upon; cover with frost transitive

    "[…] The faint wind of your favour, that but for a moment blew, with grief has part befrosted the small sedge of the eaves."

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"[…] The faint wind of your favour, that but for a moment blew, with grief has part befrosted the small sedge of the eaves."

Etymology

From be- (“on, upon, all over”) + frost.

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