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Water ice

Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

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Crystal 76% connected

The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces…

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Ice 76% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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Frost 76% connected

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

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Hailstone 76% connected

A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.

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Hoar 76% connected

White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

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Hoarfrost 76% connected

The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost.

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Icicle 76% connected

A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.

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Rime 76% connected

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

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Glacier 70% connected

An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over…

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Water 70% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Ice 92% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sorbet 92% connected

A kind of beverage; sherbet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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