icen

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪsən

Etymology 1

From ice +‎ -en.

Verb

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)
   • 1919, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's House Party, 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

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

Adjective

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

• Ince, NICE, Nice, Niec, cien, cine, cine-, nice

Spanish

Verb

icen

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

Tarifit

Noun

icen m (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵛⴻⵏ, plural icniwen)

1. Alternative form of acniw