Reverse Dictionary: ICE

ADJECTIVES
► CALM of ice: smooth, even → 1808 Sc.
► GLACIOUS resembling ice → 1646 obs.
► GUMMY of ice: rubbery, flexible → 1968 Amer. dial.
► ROTTEN of ice: melting; disintegrating; full of holes or pools of water → 1684
► RUNNING of ice: moving rapidly in water → 1804 US
► SCALY of ice: thin → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SCRATCHED slightly frozen, just covered with a film of ice → 1746 Eng. dial.
► SHELLY of ice: thin → 1896 Amer. dial.
► TICKLISH of ice: rubbery, flexible → 1900 Amer. dial.
► TICKLY of ice: rubbery, flexible → 1967 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► AGGELATION the process by which ice is formed as water freezes; congelation → 1650 obs.
► AGLU a breathing-hole in the ice, made by a seal → 1835 Can.
► ANCHOR-FROST ice formed far below the surface of the water in a running stream; ground ice → 19C Eng. dial.
► ANCHOR-ICE 1. ice which forms below the surface of a body of water and which can become attached to the bottom → 1815 Eng. & Amer. dial.
2. detached hunks of ice floating on a pond, lake, or river → 1907 Amer. dial.
► ANGEL’S LACE the pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window pane → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BANDADUDEUMS large pieces of broken ice in salt water → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BANDUDELUMS ► BENDUDELUMS 1. large pieces of broken ice in salt water → 1968 Amer. dial.
2. ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BAY-ICE ice thin enough to bend → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BELLY-BENDER a floating piece of ice, or weak ice, which bends under one → 1877 Amer. dial.
► BEND thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BEND-A-BOW thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1896 Amer. dial.
► BENDER thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1894 Amer. dial.
► BENDING ICE thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1950 Amer. dial.
► BEN DOUGHNUT ► BEND DOUGHNUT thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BENDY thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BENDY-BOW thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1950 Amer. dial.
► BENDY DOUGHNUT thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BENDY-GO thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BENDY ICE thin, flexible ice that will bend when you step on it but will bear one’s weight → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BENDY-LEATHER ice in a half-thawed condition, yet elastic and capable of bearing a weight → 1898 Eng. & Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BLINK a thin layer of ice → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BREAKUP the late spring melting of ice and snow → 1868 Amer. dial.
► BUM ICE ice refrozen after a thaw → 1973 Amer. dial.
► CALF an iceberg detached from a coast glacier; a fragment of ice detached from an iceberg or floe → 1818
► CAT ICE ► CAT’S ICE thin ice of a milky white appearance in shallow places, from under which the water has receded → 1884
► CHICKEN-FOOT ICE the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool → 1965 Amer. dial.
► COLDBOX an icebox → 1968 Amer. dial.
► CRACKERS AND BENDERS ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break; the game of running and sliding on thin ice → 1943 Amer. dial.
► CRACKLY ICE thin, flexible ice on water; ice that will bend but not break when stepped on → 1954 Amer. dial.
► CRACKY BENDERS ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break; the game of running and sliding on thin ice → 1943 Amer. dial.
► CRYOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of ice or frost → 1991 (Bk.)
► CRYSTAL ice → a1000 obs.
► FAIRY PICTURE a pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FAIRY TRACK a pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FAIRY WORK a pattern formed by ice on the inside of a window → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FEATHERS patterns formed by ice inside a window glass in winter → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FEATHERS AND FERNS patterns formed by ice inside a window glass in winter → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FLAKE a sheet of ice; a floe → 1555
► GAD a large mass of ice → 1825 Sc. obs.
► GAD OF ICE a large mass of ice → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GLADE smooth ice → 1828 Amer. dial.
► GLARE ► GLARE OF ICE an expanse of slick ice → 1854 Amer. dial.
► GOOR the broken ice and  half-melted snow of a thaw → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GREEN ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1965 Amer. dial.
► HARD WATER ice → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HICKORY BENDER an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water → 1889 Amer. dial.
► ICE-HILL a hill or mound of ice; an elevated glacier or hummock of ice; a slope covered with ice for sliding or tobogganing → 1694
► ICE-ISLAND a detached portion of a glacier carried out to sea; a huge floating mass of ice, often rising to a great height above the water; an extensive iceberg → 1777
► ICE-ISLE an ‘Ice-Island’ → 1808
► ICE-OUT the breaking and melting of ice on rivers and lakes in the spring → 1966 Amer. dial.
► IST ice → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► JACK FROST DESIGNS ► JACK FROST FINGERS ► JACK FROST MARKINGS ► JACK FROST PAINTINGS ► JACK FROST PICTURES ► JACK FROST WITH FAIRY PICTURES patterns formed by ice on windows in cold weather → 1950 Amer. dial.
► KANGAROO a children’s method of sliding on ice; the popular method was for a couple to sit on their hunkers and any of boys and girls to fall in behind, each one holding on to the one in front; this was called a ‘kangaroo’; when the ‘kangaroo’ overturned, its component parts were flung helter-skelter, a squirming mass of exuberant yelling humanity → 1926 Sc.
► KETTLE-DE-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural → 1871 Amer. dial.
► KIDDLEDEE-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural → 1831 Amer. dial.
► KIDDLY-BENDER ► KIDLEY-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural → 1855 Amer. dial.
► KIDNEY-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural → 1889 Amer. dial.
► KITTLY-BENDER an area of yielding or broken ice on a body of water; usually plural → 1831 Amer. dial.
► LAKE THUNDER the rumble made by the expansion and contraction of ice on a body of water → 1983 Amer. dial.
► LAND-TRASH broken ice near the shore → 1856
► LEATHERY ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1969 Amer. dial.
► LIMBER ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LIMBER BELLY ► LIMBER BELLY ICE ► LIMBER ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1954 Amer. dial.
► LIMBER BRIDGE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LIMBER JACK ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LIMBER JIM ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1950 Amer. dial.
► LIMBER LEAD n. ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1965 Amer. dial.
► MUSH melting snow or ice; slush → 1815
► PADDLE POP a block of ice → 1998 NZ rhyming sl.
► PAN a small ice floe → 1863
► PANCAKE-ICE floating ice in thin flat pieces, forming in the polar seas at the approach of winter → 1817
► POMPEY ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1911 Amer. dial.
► PORRIDGE ICE floating ice with a granular texture; thin or weak ice → 1820 Amer. dial.
► QUAR ICE water that has oozed through the ground through snow and frozen on the surface → 1955 Can.
► QUERN a large piece of ice → a1400 obs.
► RABBIT BREAD the ice that forms on the ground at the base of plants → 1960 Amer. dial.
► RABBIT ICE the ice formation found at the base of small woody stems early in the morning after a rain when the temperature has dropped to below freezing → 1953 Amer. dial.
► RAND a piece or mass of ice → 1633 obs.
► ROCKS cubed or crushed ice for use in a drink → 1946 sl., orig. US
► RUBBER ICE thin, flexible ice on water → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SCALE the first thin coating of ice on a body of water → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SCLOY ► SCLY a slide, a strip of ice for skating on → 1808 Sc.
► SCOR ► SCORE a slide made on the ice → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCORNSUM-GANGING slippery walking, as on ice → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCUM a thin layer of ice on a body of water → 1845 Amer. dial.
► SHADOW ICE ice that will bend when you step on it, but not break → 1970 Amer. dial.
► SHALE ► SHALE ICE the first thin ice that forms on the surface of a pond or pool → 1971 Amer. dial.
► SHEAL the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SHECK ice → 1867 Ireland (Bk.)
► SHELF ICE ice which forms a thick level layer on water but is attached to land → 1910
► SHELL ► SHELL ICE the first thin coating of ice on a body of water → 1960 Amer. dial.
► SHELLY ICE the first thin coating of ice on a body of water → 1896 Amer. dial.
► SHIELD the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SHIVE the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool → 1967 Amer. dial.
► SILVER THAW the term for ice falling in large flakes from the sails and rigging, consequent on a frost followed suddenly by a thaw → 1867
► SKETCH OF ICE a thin layer of ice → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SKIFF ► SKIFT a light fall of snow or rain; a thin layer of snow or frost on the ground, or of ice on water → 1808 Amer. dial.
► SKIM ► SKIM ICE a thin layer of ice → 1807 Amer. dial.
► SKIMMER the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKIMMY ICE a thin layer of ice → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SKIMP a thin coat of snow or ice → .1967 Amer. dial.
► SKIP ICE the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool → 1969 Amer. dial.
► SKITTER the first thin ice that forms over the surface of a pond or pool → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SLUSH ICE a thin layer of ice on a body of water → 1844 Amer. dial.
► SNARD LUMPS snow and ice clumps that build up under the fender of the car → 1987 Can. sl.
► TEETLEE-BENDERS ► TEETLEY-BENDOES an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1901 Amer. dial.
► TICKLISH the game of running or skating over broken or yielding ice → 1921 Amer. dial.
► TICKLISH-BENDER an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1894 Amer. dial.
► TICKLY-BENDERS thin ice which bends under one’s weight → 1853
► TIDDLEDEWINKS ► TIDDLEDYWINKS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1962 Amer. dial.
► TIDDLEDIES an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1887 Amer. dial.
► TIDDLIES an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1877 Amer. dial.
► TIDDLY an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1931 Amer. dial.
► TIDDLY-BENDER an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1878 Amer. dial.
► TIDDLYWINKS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1909 Amer. dial.
► TITTLY-BENDERS an area of yielding ice made naturally or deliberately on a body of water; the sport of running or skating over such ice → 1892 Amer. dial.
► VINCENT PRICE ice → 1990s rhyming sl.
► WAKE an open hole, or an unfrozen place in the ice → 1895 Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ICEMAN a man skilled in traversing ice, either in Alpine or polar regions → 1851
► ICE-MASTER one in charge of the ice of a public pond → 1880

PHRASES
► RUNNING BENDERS sliding on thin ice → 1943 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► LAPPER of water: to congeal, to turn to ice slowly, to freeze → 1789 Sc.
► POTTER to tread upon floating ice, or to leap from one to another piece of it floating; to walk upon loose spars floating upon water → 1791 Amer. dial.
► ROAR of cracking ice: to make a resounding noise, to reverberate → 1786 Sc.
► RUN TIDDLEDIES to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water → 1887 Amer. dial.
► RUN TIDDLEDY-BENDERS to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water → 1888 Amer. dial.
► RUN TIDDLIES to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water → 1877 Amer. dial.
► RUN TIDDLY to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water → 1915 Amer. dial.
► RUN TITTLY-BENDERS to run over ice after it has begun to break up on a sheet of water → 1892 Amer. dial.
► SCOR ► SCORE to slide or skate on the ice → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCUM OVER of a body of water: to become covered by a thin layer of ice → 1943 Amer. dial.