Fromice +-en(“to become like”).
icen (third-person singular simple presenticens,present participleicening,simple past and past participleicened)
- (ambitransitive) To make or becomeiced oricy;frost(all senses)
1900,Annie Fellows Johnston,The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.:The Page Company,→OCLC, page262:Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I cancook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, andicened it with icin' an inch thick.
2015, Platte F. Clark,Good Ogre, page182:He felt theCodex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on theicening storm.
FromMiddle Englishisen,ysen, equivalent toice +-en(“made of”).
icen (notcomparable)
- Made of or consisting ofice.
1900, Charles Augustus Keeler,Idyls of El Dorado, page42:When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free
Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow,
I loved to wade across the windy lea
To see the lake far-paved withicen floe,[…]
1923, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent,Library of Southern Literature, page469:"Mother, what is this light o'er me?
It flashes pink from that far North Sea
Whoseicen walls are an opal bowl—
It would lead me safe to the ultimate Pole."
2011, Richard Donahue,The Sixth Coming, page171:As--- Visions of battered stone - - - sheathed in anicen shroud - - - - frozen in time and space - - - helplessly suspended beneath a trembling temple flame fearing for its life - - - danced in the Ice Maiden's eyes[…]
icen
- inflection ofizar:
- third-personpluralpresentsubjunctive
- third-personpluralimperative
icen m (pluralicniwen,Tifinagh spellingⵉⵛⴻⵏ)
- alternative form ofacniw
