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Icing

noun

The formation of frost or ice on a surface. Synonym: frost.

A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes. Synonyms: frosting, ice.

(ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal. Synonym: icing the puck.

Ice

verb

(past & past part. iced; pres. part. icing)

Decorate with frosting. Synonym: frost.

Cause to become ice or icy.

Put ice on or put on ice.

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"Icing" Quotes from Famous Books

... a great deal of solid talk and reflection over this matter of trying to find a figure that would describe the unique white of a Bermuda house, and we contrived to hit upon it at last. It is exactly the white of the icing of a cake, and has the same unemphasized and scarcely perceptible polish. The white of marble is modest ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... break away from northern Ellesmere Island; icebergs calved from glaciers in western Greenland and extreme northeastern Canada; permafrost in islands; virtually ice locked from October to June; ships subject to superstructure icing from October to May ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... the kitchen, so the shed was empty. On the floor stood an ice-cream freezer full of home-made ice-cream, and on a shelf rested several freshly baked cakes, all covered with chocolate icing, set out ...

— Dave Porter at Star Ranch - Or, The Cowboy's Secret • Edward Stratemeyer

... trackless ocean—no poetry in the magnificent sweep of suns and worlds through space—in the eccentric orbit of the faithful comet—faithful, for from the most distant errands he passes right by earth, and even Venus, lingers not a moment, but hastens back to his lord—is there no poetry in the icing over of the brook, (if you think not, read Lowell's Sir Launfel,) each icy crystal being an exact geometrical figure? When 'God geometrizes,' ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... at once with a round frosted cake that had a border of pink icing upon its glazed white top. And set within the circle of the border were seven ...

— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

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