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Ice cream   /aɪs krim/   Listen
noun
Ice  n.  
1.
Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4° C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. Note: Water freezes at 32° F. or 0° Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it.
2.
Concreted sugar.
3.
Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
4.
Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.
Ground ice, anchor ice.
Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial.
Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice.
Ice blink, a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight.
Ice boat.
(a)
A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht.
(b)
A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.
Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. (Poetic)
Ice cream, cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.
Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.
Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt.
Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).
Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé.
Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.
Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; called also ice master.
Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.
Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
Ice sludge, bay ice broken small by the wind or waves; sludge.
Ice spar (Min.), a variety of feldspar, the crystals of which are very clear like ice; rhyacolite.
Ice tongs, large iron nippers for handling ice.
Ice water.
(a)
Water cooled by ice.
(b)
Water formed by the melting of ice.
Ice yacht. See Ice boat (above).
To break the ice. See under Break.
Water ice, a confection consisting of water sweetened, flavored (usually with a fruit syrup), and frozen.





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"Ice cream" Quotes from Famous Books



... rich, oily foods, pastry, strong coffee, and other indigestible viands, which, in themselves, often excite an attack of indigestion. Possibly it was partaken of between meals, or late at night, with ice cream and other confections, or it was swallowed without sufficient mastication. Certainly, it is not marvelous that stomach and bowel disorders do result under such circumstances. The innocent fruit, like many other good things, being found in "bad company," is blamed accordingly. An excess of any ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
... such unimaginable viands! There were piles of sandwiches, each one half a bite for a fairly hungry man. There was jellied game, and caviar, and a pate of something strange and spicy. Nothing was what one would have expected—there were eggs inside of baked potatoes, and ice cream in some sort of crispy cake. The crackers looked like cakes, and the cakes like crackers, and the cheese was green and discouraging. But a bowl of strawberries and cream held out a rich promise at the ...
— Samuel the Seeker • Upton Sinclair
... at her as innocently as ever. "Oh, you mean these samples? Why, they were good; I'll take all of them. And a big slab of roast beef, and brown gravy, and mashed potatoes. And how about some ice cream?" ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper
... loose brick discovered one day just under the window on the outside wall—had proved a boon to Annabel and Ruth. By the least bit of digging from the inside a passage had been made, large enough to accommodate a bottle of milk, a pint of ice cream or any other delicacy that required cold storage. It had been necessary to cut the wall paper, and the plastering, of course,—a daring thing to do, but the girls had felt no ...
— Blue Bonnet in Boston - or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's • Caroline E. Jacobs
... and then perceived his mistake. "He thought he knew me. Well, he knows me as well as anyone in the world knows me. I don't know myself. I know my appetites, as the French say. They want that dirty ice cream, that they do know for certain," she thought, looking at two boys stopping an ice cream seller, who took a barrel off his head and began wiping his perspiring face with a towel. "We all want what is sweet and nice. If not sweetmeats, then a dirty ice. And Kitty's the same—if ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy


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