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noun

thaw n. The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.

verb

thaw v. t. To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.

thaw v. i. (past & past part. thawed; pres. part. thawing)

To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.

To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

Fig.: To grow gentle or genial. Compare cold (4), a. and hard (6), a.

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Etymology of 'Thaw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... seem always a kind of nightmare to me. I am going to take my writing-desk and go down to Florida to F——'s plantation, where we have now a home, and abide there until the heroic agony of betweenity, the freeze and thaw of winter, is over, and then I doubt not I can write my three hours a day. Meanwhile, I have a pretty good pile of manuscript.... The letters I have got about blossoming roses and loungers in linen coats, while we have been frozen and snowed up, have made my very soul long to be away. Cold ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

... cooking the potato, is to promote the expansion and separation of its cells; in other words, to render it mealy. Young potatoes are always waxy, and consequently less wholesome than ripe ones. Potatoes which have been frozen and allowed to thaw quickly are much sweeter and more watery, because in thawing the starch changes into sugar. Frozen potatoes should be thawed in cold water and cooked at once, or kept ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... the first fine afternoon to walk over to Brail. It was more than three miles by the road, but she was a famous walker. The lanes were still impassable on account of the thaw; February had set in with unusual mildness: the snow had melted, the little lake at Woodcote was no longer a sheet of blue ice, and Eiderdown and Snowflake were dabbling joyously with their yellow bills in the water and their soft plumes ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... so beautiful and illegant, though his own was in such brutheen.* Even his barn to wrack; and he was obliged to thrash his oats in the open air when ther would be a frost, and he used to lose one-third of it; and if there came a thaw, 'twould ...

— The Ned M'Keown Stories - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... and I indulged in the luxury of a long, comprehending gaze into the depths of each other's eyes. Katrina returned, and we all talked at once; for five minutes reminiscences and confidences flowed with the freedom of a mountain stream after a thaw. ...

— Many Kingdoms • Elizabeth Jordan

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