| Old English | sp | English. |
| Ice | n | Water in frozen (solid) form. 2. physics, astronomy, a frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. 3. astronomy any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form. 4. frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar. 5. any substance having the appearance of ice. 6. (sl) one or more diamonds. 7. slang, drugs, crystal form of methamphetamine. 8. ice hockey the area where a game of ice hockey is played. 8. (sl) protection money. |
| Ice | vb | To cool with ice, as a beverage. 2. to become ice, to cover with ice, to freeze, cool, chill; refrigerate. 3.(slang) to murder. 4. cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc. 5. (ice hockey) to put out a team for a match. 6. (ice hockey) to shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing. |
| Ice | phr | "Break the Ice" - to make a passage for boats, ships etc. by breaking the frozen surface of the sea, lake, river. 2. (fig.) lessen shyness by initiating conversation. 3. take the initiative in starting the discussion; to make a beginning in some enterprise or undertaking; (to break new ground). 4. to prepare a way for others. 5. (modern usage) - to break through cold reserve or stillness. |
| Ice | phr | "Ice Out" - the annual thawing of ice on a body of water |
| Ice | phr | "Ice Over" - being covered with ice; freeze over. |
| Ice | phr | "Ice Up" - to form ice on the leading edges or on other exposed surfaces of airplanes when passing through moist air at low temperatures. 2. be covered with ice and be made, make unworkable or unsable because of this. |
| Ice | phr | "On Ice" - set aside or reserved for future action. 2. slang: in prison. |
| Ice | phr | "Put (Something) on Ice" - postpone. 2. to put something aside for the time. 3. keep out of the way until wanted. 4. to put in custody or prison. 5. of a venture: a sure thing; sure of achieving a victory, success; a certainty. |
| Ice | phr | "Tread on Thin Ice" - take an unnecessary risk. |
| Ice anchor | n | A pronged rod, bent atone end to enter a hole in the ice. |
| Ice-axe | n | An axe used by mountaineers for cutting steps in the ice, usually equipped with an ice butt. |
| Ice-bath | phr | A receptacle containing ice and water and sometimes salt that is used something's temperature, and to keep it cold. |
| Ice-beam | n | A stout piece of timber to fend off ice at the bow of a ship. |
| Ice-belt | n | The belt of ice fringing land in the Arctic and Antarctica regions. |
| Iceberg | n | A detached portion of a glacier floating in the sea. |
| Ice-bird | n | The little auk or sea dove. |
| Ice-blind | adj | Of a painful, temporary loss of vision due to over exposure to the Sun's ultraviolet rays. |
| Ice-blindness | n | The state or condition of being ice-blind |
| Ice-blink | n | A whitish light seen on the horizon due to reflection from a field of ice out of sight.????? |
| Ice-boat | n | A boat especially designed to be pulled over ice. |
| Ice-bolt | n | A sudden deadly chill. 2. a cold-piercing sensation. 3. an avalanche. |
| Ice-bone | n | The share bone, or another name of the pelvis or haunch |
| Ice-borne | adj | Borne by on on ice, as transported as a boulder during the glacial period. |
| Ice-breaker | n | A ship designed to break through ice, so that it, or other ships coming behind can navigate on frozen seas. 2. a slush ship. 3. a game, activity, humorous anecdote, designed to relax a group of people to help them get to know each other. |
| Ice-chest | n | A refrigerator. |
| Ice-claw | n | An appliance for lifting blocks of ice |
| Ice-climbing | n | The activity of ascending inclined ice-frmations. |
| Ice-cold | adj | As cold as ice, extremely or excessvely cold; freezing; icy-cold. |
| Iced | adj | Covered with ice, coated by means of ice. 2. covered with icing, as a cake. |
| Iced-up | phr | The formation of ice on the leading edges, or on other exposed surfaces of airplanes when passing through moist air at low temperatures. |
| Ice-diving | n | A form of undersea diving in which the diver enters the water through a hole cut in the ice. |
| Ice-dwarf | n | An astronomical object, such as Sedna, larger than the solid part of a comet and containing more ice than an asteroid. |
| Ice-fall | n | Cataract of ice, a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall. 2. the fall of ice or a glacier, from an ice-cliff or iceberg. |
| Ice-feathers | n | Feathery formations of ice due to winds in high, exposed regions. |
| Ice-ferns | n | The fern-like encrustations of ice or hoar frost found on window panes during winter. |
| Ice-field | n | A wide, flat expanse of ice; especially of marine ice in the polar regions. 2. a large mass of ice permanently covering an extensive area of land. 3. a very large flat expanse of ice floating in the sea; large ice floe. |
| Ice-fish | n | A semi-transparent Antarctic fish of the family Chaenichthyidae. |
| Ice-fishing | n | Fishing through holes cut in the ice. |
| Ice-float | n | A large mass of floating ice. |
| Ice-flow | n | An ice stream. |
| Ice-foot | n | Ice formed at the foot or base of cliffs or high land. 2. a belt or ledge of ice extending along the coast in the Arctic region (ice-belt). |
| Ice-fox | n | The arctic fox. |
| Ice-free | adj | Free from obstruction or delay from ice not frozen in winter. |
| Ice-ghost | n | The remains of ships and their crews imprisoned in the ice during decades. |
| Ice-green | adj | A very pale green color. |
| Ice-hill | n | A hill or mound of ice; an elevated glacier; an iceberg. 2. a slope covered with ice for ice-hilling or tobogganing. 3. a floating iceberg. |
| Ice-hilling | n | The past-time of tobogganing. |
| Ice-hook | n | A hook attached to a pole; used in the handling of large block of ice. |
| Ice-house | n | A structure, often underground, and with non-conducting walls, in which ice is stored for the year. |
| Ice-island | n | An insulated mass of floating ice; an island in an ice field; iceberg. |
| Iceland | n | The name of a large island lying on the border of the Arctic between Norway and Greenland. 2. a small country covered with ice; the realm of perpetual ice. |
| Icelander | n | A native or inhabitant of Iceland. |
| Icelandish | adj | The language of Iceland. |
| Iceless | adj | The lack or absence of ice. |
| Icelight | n | The light reflected off the surface of ice. |
| Ice-maiden | n | A cold or unresponsive woman. |
| Ice-making | n | An artificial formation of ice. |
| Icemaker | n | A device found in a freezer that is used to make ice. |
| Ice-man | n | A man who delivers ice or is engaged in the ice trade, or in the harvesting ice for storage or sale. 2. a man skilled in traversing ice, either in alpine or polar regions. 3. a man appointed to look after the ice at a skating rink. |
| Icemanship | n | Ice-craft or skill in dealing with ice in mountaineering. |
| Icemelt | n | The melting of a geographical mass of ice. |
| Ice-milk | n | A dessert that resembles ice-cream, but is made of milk rather than cream. |
| Ice-moon | phr | The first Full Moon of the year is named after howling wolves. In some cultures, it was known as Old Moon, Ice Moon, Snow Moon, and the Moon after Yule. ... The Wolf Moon on the night between 1 and 2 January 2018 is a Supermoon. See also Blood Moon, Old Moon, Hunger Moon, Cold Moon" |
| Ice-needle | n | A thin crystal of ice, so light that it floats suspended in the air. |
| Ice-plough | n | An instrument used for cutting grooves in the ice, for the purpose of removing large blocks which are stored for summer use. |
| Ice-quake | n | The convulsion which accompanies the break-up of an ice-field or ice-floe. |
| Ice-ram | n | A sharp-pointed projection fixed to the bow of a ship to make easier a passage through the ice. |
| Ice-rain | n | A rain that congeals quickly in a deposit of glaze. 2. falling pellets of ice; sleet. |
| Ice-sheet | n | A sheet or layer of ice covering an expanse tract of land; as e.g. during the ice-age. |
| Ice-shelf | n | A floating sheet of ice permanently attached to a land mass. |
| Ice-ship | n | On specially built to resist ice pressure. 2. an ice-breaker. |
| Iceshow | n | Entertainment performed on ice by skaters. |
| Icestorm | n | A storm of freezing rain that leaves a deposit of ice. |
| Ice-stream | n | A stream of ice-floes carried in a particular course; esp. that which sweeps around Cape farewell in Greenland. 2. a glacier valley. |
| Ice-swimmer | n | One who participates in ice swimming. |
| Ice-tongue | n | Any body of ice that projects from a glacier, iceberg or ice sheet. |
| Ice-up | n | Formation of ice in the carburetor or on the wings of an airoplane, etc. |
| Ice-water | n | Water from, or cooled by the addition of ice. |
| Ice-way | n | A linearr channel eroded through bedrock by the passage of glacial ice. |
| Ice-wedge | n | A vertical wedge of subterranean ice. |
| Ice-whale | n | The Greenland whale. |
| Ice-whiteness | n | Have an whiteness like that of ice. |
| Ice-wool | n | Lustrous yarn used in crochet work. |
| Ice-worm | n | Any of several of genus of worms that inhabit glacial ice. |
| I-cheose | vb | To chase |
| I-cherre | vb | To return, turn, chare |
| Icicle | adj | A diminutive; consider: "Shinicle" |
| Icily | adv | In an icy manner; ice-like. |
| Iciness | n | The sate or condition of being icy. |
| Icing | n | A covering of sugar on cakes. 2. formation of ice on parts of a airplane. |
| Ickle | adj | A hypercoristic form of "little", sometimes a childish use. 2. a small piece of ice; an icicle. |
| I-cunde | n | Nature, kind, inheritance, native-land, native. |
| I-cundeliche | adv | Naturally, inherently. |
| i-cusse | vb | To kiss mutually; i-kiss. |
| Icy | adj | Pertaining to ice; frigid; as cold as ice, full of ice. 2. marked by coldness of manner or aspect. 2. chilling. |
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