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icicle

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icicle [ī‚sik·əl]
(hydrology)
Ice shaped like a narrow cone, hanging point downward from a roof, fence, or other sheltered or heated source from which water flows and freezes in below-freezing air.
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Then a tiny icicle detached itself from the roof, and dropped into the woman's mouth, who swallowed it with a smile, and said, 'Perhaps I shall give birth to a snow child now
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
On the rock floor there was in these cases what looked, Sir Henry said, exactly like a broken column in an old Grecian temple, whilst high above, depending from the roof, the point of a huge icicle could be dimly seen.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
Missis walked in,' she said, 'as chill as an icicle, and as high as a princess.
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