silver frost

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/41248

silver n A phenomenon appears frequently during winter, known by the appellation of silver frost. When a fine misty rain takes place, with the wind east, or north-east, (the frost not being sufficiently keen to congeal the rain until it falls,) the moment it rests on any substance, it adheres and freezes, incrusting every tree, shrub, or whatever else is exposed to the weather, with ice. The forest assumes, in consequence, the most magnificient splendour, and continues in this state until it thaws, or until the icy shell is shaken off by the winds. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit [Did he is-hear?] Used I and Sup Used I 2 Used I ~ fir/fox/hair (fox)/jar/thaw/ patch fox, GLITTER, PATCH FOX, [see 'silver thaw', 'glitter' etc.] Only part of the citation on card is in DNE.