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Right down below the ice-cold water lies fathoms deep, still and dark, and we cannot get the silly things there; but here in the ice is a nice little round hole.

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  1. noun Water frozen solid.
  2. noun A surface, layer, or mass of frozen water.
  3. noun Something resembling frozen water: ammonia ice.
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  • However, if the ice is allowed to melt for ANY REASON, the methane will escape into the atmosphere. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
  • When you get (12,331) people, the ice was a little softer. —  Sportsnet.ca - Sports News
  • Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, either up or down, since 1979, when satellite record-keeping began. —  TreeHugger
  • September sea ice is a very different thing to March sea ice. —  RealClimate
  • The thumbnail looks as if the ice is actually increasing 0. o on 04 / 07 / 2009, -0 / +1The thumbnail? —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
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  1. Middle English is, from Old English īs.

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  1. Now spelled with c as if of French origin (see -ce), but properly, as often in early modern English, with s, ise, from Middle English ise, is, ys, from Anglo-Saxon īs (= OFries. is = Dutch ijs = Middle Low German īs = Old High German Middle High German īs, German eis = Icelandic īss = Swedish is = Danish is = Gothic (Moesogothic) *eis (not recorded), ice. The form suggests a connection with iron, Anglo-Saxon īsen, īsern = Goth, eisarn; but evidence is lacking: see iron.
  2. = Middle Dutch ijsen, Dutch ijzen = Middle Low German isen, break ice, = Old High German īsēn, Middle High German īsen, German eisen, ice, freeze, = Icelandic īsa, freeze, = Danish ise = Swedish isa, ice; cf. Danish isne, chill, run cold; from the noun.
 

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