Freeze

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Frieze.

II. Freeze ·noun The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

III. Freeze ·vt To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to Chill.

IV. Freeze ·vt To Congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

V. Freeze ·vi To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

VI. Freeze ·vi To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.