Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Frost or cold weather personified.
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- proper noun A
personification ofwinter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a personification of frost or winter weather
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Examples
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I also grow a silver-leafed version of the common green-leaf brunnera called Jack Frost, which is particularly amazing-looking when its bright blue flowers are blooming, and a variety of spiderwort (Tradescantia) called Sweet Kate, whose own blue flowers stand out against its unusual bright yellow leaves instead of the typical green ones.
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He takes the name Jack Frost, and joins up with King Mob and their other members, Ragged Robin, Lord Fanny and Boy.
Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Silver-leafed brunnera 'Jack Frost' is peeping out behind.
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We have titles such as Jack Frost, but they are overshadowed by the several romance titles it seems.
Breaking News! 2009
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In our English nursery-lore the frost is personified as a mischievous boy, "Jack Frost," to whose pranks its vagaries are due.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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They spoke of cold as "Jack Frost," a real tangible foe, with whom they could combat and would master.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848
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Silver accents can be found on Japanese painted fern, heartleaf brunnera cultivars such as Jack Frost, and many lungwort cultivars.
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Dylan, producing himself under the name "Jack Frost," is surrounding himself with sweet choral voices and arrangements straight out of a 1960s middle-of-the-road or
NPR Topics: News 2009
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The Guardians, it seems, are well known to us: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and others.
Sendak's Party Animals Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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Numerous acid house survivors and hardcore veterans will be in attendance – Trevor Fung, Colin Dale, Kenny Ken, Jumpin' Jack Frost, and of course the inimitable Top Buzz – along with newer DJs such as Jackmaster and Slackk, whose sets typically join the dots between the old-school and the new.
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