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"_Et je fais scavoir a tous lecteurs de ce Livret que les chases que je dis avoir vues et sues sont enregistres icy, afin que vous pouviez les regarder selon vostre ban sens, s'il vous plaist. _"

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  1. adjective Containing or covered with ice: an icy road.
  2. adjective Bitterly cold; freezing: an icy day. See Synonyms at cold.
  3. adjective Resembling ice: icy fingers.

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  • "The water is icy, and the noise deafening. —  The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
  • Belinda had been perverse, unkind, icy--had, in fact, thrown him over. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914
  • It must remain among the icy islands of the Arctic Sea until winter be considerably advanced, or until the sea is so frozen as to allow it to get back to the shores of the continent The "Woodland caribou" is a larger variety--a Woodland doe being about as big as a Barren Ground buck--although the horns of the latter species are larger and more branching than those of the former. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
  • The tops of the icy islets were pure white, and the sides of the higher ones of a delicate blue colour, which gave to the scene a transparent lightness that rendered it pre-eminently fairy-like It far surpasses anything I ever conceived," ejaculated Singleton after a long silence. —  The World of Ice
  • The wind sighed and moaned over the icy waste; but, excepting for this dreary and depressing sound, there was absolute silence, the silence of a dead world The ice bore at first the same appearance as all the other ice which they had hitherto encountered, but by the time that they had advanced a distance of thirty miles into the frozen desert they became conscious of a change. —  The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
 

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  1. from Middle English *isy, from Anglo-Saxon īsig (= Dutch ijzig, German eisig = Swedish isig); from īs, ice, + -ig, English -y.
 

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