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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

... an army of cookie men; and after they were baked, she covered them with icing. She made their eyes out of cinnamon drops; also the ...

— A Hive of Busy Bees • Effie M. Williams

... be flavored with pistache or rose or have a geranium leaf baked in it, giving a delightful, indescribable flavor. An ordinary bread pudding becomes veritably a queen of puddings as, indeed, it is called, merely by having a layer of jam through its center and a simple icing spread over the top. Ordinary pea soup exhibits chameleon-like possibilities merely through the addition of a little celery-root, a dash of curry or the admixture of a few spoonfuls of minced spinach, and tomato soup has ...

— Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them • Cora Moore

... lilies and white roses—an inhabited continent, evidently, for there were three marvelous, gleaming buildings: one in the center and one at each end, white miracles wrought by some inspired craftsman in sculptural icing. They were models in miniature, and they represented the Sheridan Building, the Sheridan Apartments, and the Pump Works. Nearly all the guests recognized them without having to be told what they were, and pronounced ...

— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

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

— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... I'll wager, Blitum capitatum, and a fine thing it is. Mrs. Marsh, that keeps our boarding house, has a garden where it grows wild in among the peas. She wanted some colouring for the icing of a cake, and hadn't a bit of cochineal or anything of the kind in the house. She was telling me her trouble, for it was a holiday and the shops were shut, and she's always that friendly with me; when, says I, ...

— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

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