noun
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the icy crystals that form directly on a freezing surface as moist air contacts it; frost; rime; hoarfrost.
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a dewdrop (usu. formed usu. during the night on lawns, etc.).
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the glassy, brittle, crystalline form of water made solid by cold; frozen water; ice.
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a whitish, translucent, crystalline, pleasant-odoured terpene ketone, C10H16O, obtained from the camphor tree, used chiefly in the manufacture of celluloid and in medicine as a counter-irritant for infections and in the treatment of pain and itching.