Ice drop
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water or the like, on a stick, of a size to be one serving; a popsicle. Philippines
"Envorcing regulations regarding approval of applications for license to operate ice drop factories and sale of ice drops"
- 2 The small vesicles, filled with fluid, occurring on the stems and leaves of certain plants of the family Aizoaceae. dated, obsolete
"The cuticle of a plum, and of some other fruits, has a kind of powder upon it; and the cuticle of the ice-plant has on it a number of little clear spots, which look like ice-drops."
- 3 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice, drop.; a drop of ice.
"But then, as it were on a ſudden, the face of nature is changed; for though a little before, water thrown up in the air would deſcend in ice drops, and any metal graſped faſt in one's hand would ſtick to the ſkin and make it bliſter,"
Synonyms
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More examples"Envorcing regulations regarding approval of applications for license to operate ice drop factories and sale of ice drops"
Etymology
From ice + drop.