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black frost

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black frost [¦blak ′frȯst]
(hydrology)
A dry freeze with respect to its effects upon vegetation, that is, the internal freezing of vegetation unaccompanied by the protective formation of hoarfrost. Also known as hard frost.
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In the morning he looked out on the black frost that seemed to press cruelly on every blade of grass, while the half-icy red pool shivered under the bitter wind; but towards evening the snow began to fall, and curtained from him even that dreary outlook, shutting him close up with his narrow grief.
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On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb.
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Early in December came a black frost, and navigation on the canal was suspended.
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