icen

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From ice +‎ -en.

Verb

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icen (third-person singular simple present icens, present participle icening, simple past and past participle icened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become iced or icy; frost (all senses)
    • 1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, →OCLC, page 262:
      Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessin', but I can cook yet, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick.
    • 2015, Platte F. Clark, Good Ogre, page 182:
      He felt the Codex roll from his fingers as his other hand joined in on the icening storm.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English isen, ysen, equivalent to ice +‎ -en.

Adjective

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icen (not comparable)

  1. Made of or consisting of ice.
    • 1900, Charles Augustus Keeler, Idyls of El Dorado, page 42:
      When winter's cutting gales swept fierce and free
      Down th'wide upland plains of pilëd snow,
      I loved to wade across the windy lea
      To see the lake far-paved with icen floe, []
    • 1923, Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent, Library of Southern Literature, page 469:
      "Mother, what is this light o'er me?
      It flashes pink from that far North Sea
      Whose icen walls are an opal bowl—
      It would lead me safe to the ultimate Pole."
    • 2011, Richard Donahue, The Sixth Coming, page 171:
      As--- Visions of battered stone - - - sheathed in an icen shroud - - - - frozen in time and space - - - helplessly suspended beneath a trembling temple flame fearing for its life - - - danced in the Ice Maiden's eyes []

Anagrams

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Spanish

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Verb

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icen

  1. inflection of izar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Tarifit

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Noun

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icen m (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵛⴻⵏ, plural icniwen)

  1. Alternative form of acniw