hoarfrost

• “I did have to look it up, not sure myself, but the explanation was simple really, frozen dew, but the word hoarfrost sounds much more mystical.”

  Hoarfrost Or Frozen Dew « Fairegarden

• “The Artemisia reef, what a fun thing…I love the word hoarfrost, too.”

  Cold Artistry Or Here Comes The Sun « Fairegarden

• “Having a hoarfrost is my absolute favorite thing about winter.”

  Hoarfrost Or Frozen Dew « Fairegarden

• “With the rarity of dew, that of hoarfrost which is nothing but frozen dew, may be associated; nor does hoarfrost often occur, because in Khorassan it rains in the winter too freely, particularly in all such places whose elevation is not sufficient to cause the formation of snow, and hence where other circumstances are favourable for hoarfrosts, _they are too much watered_ as it were, and seldom occur.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “In that year, Dr Joseph Wright printed the fifth volume of the _English Dialect Dictionary_, showing that in the dialects of Scotland, Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire, the word for "hoarfrost" is not _rime_, but _rind_, with a derived adjective”

  English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day

• “Are those miniature street lamps beside hoarfrost coated trees?”

  Guy glues stuff to head, calls it art. Tyler likey.

• “This morning I woke up to fog filling the air and hoarfrost on the bare trees; looking at this beautiful site, I took a deep breath and a found a large smile upon my face.”

  Beautiful Day | Northern Belle

• “Yet all sorts of hoarfrost may still come this way.”

  From "Snowdrops" by Robert Walser

• “A few days last week we had some freezing fog early in the morning, which leads to hoarfrost.”

  Creative Every Day, Part 7 « Looking for Roots

• “The hoarfrost on the cars and the asphalt street, the century-old, dormant trees, are all as still as the night.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

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