Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like ice; icy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy.

Etymologies

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From obsolete French glacieux, from Latin glaciēs ("ice").

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