Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [imac]s; aksin to D.
   ijs, G. eis, OHG. [imac]s, Icel. [imac]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis,
   and perh. to E. iron.]
   1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state
      by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent
      colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal.
      Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C.
      being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
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   Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice
         melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling
         properties to the large amount of heat required to melt
         it.
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   2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson.
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   3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and
      artificially frozen.
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   4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor
      ice.
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   Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and
      other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and
      is thus attached or anchored to the ground.

   Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in
      extensive fields which drift out to sea.

   Ground ice, anchor ice.

   Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under
      Glacial.

   Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a
      field of ice. --Kane.

   Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the
      horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not
      yet in sight.

   Ice boat.
      (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on
          ice by sails; an ice yacht.
      (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
          

   Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in
      which things are kept cool by means of ice; a
      refrigerator.

   Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic]
      --Shak.

   Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard,
      sweetened, flavored, and frozen.

   Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.

   Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to
      an ice field, but smaller.

   Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.

   Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
      

   Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice
      artificially, as by the production of a low temperature
      through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the
      rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.

   Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).

   Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.

   Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or
      reproducing; papier glac['e].

   Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of
      the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.

   Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small
      pieces.

   Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the
      course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called
      also ice master.

   Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.

   Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), n. [OE. plouh, plou, AS.
   pl[=o]h; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh,
   Icel. pl[=o]gr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug',
   Lith. plugas.]
   1. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or
      other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for
      bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil
      for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining
      plow.
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            Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. --Johnson.
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   3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.]
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            Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
                                                  --Tale of
                                                  Gamelyn.
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   4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
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   5. (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the
      edges of books.
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   6. (Astron.) Same as Charles's Wain.
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   Ice plow, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds,
      etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.]

   Mackerel plow. See under Mackerel.

   Plow alms, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the
      church. --Cowell.

   Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the
      draught is applied. See Beam, n., 9.

   Plow Monday, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of
      Christmas holidays.

   Plow staff.
      (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning
          the plowshare; a paddle staff.
      (b) A plow handle.

   Snow plow, a structure, usually [Lambda]-shaped, for
      removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or
      driven by a horse or a locomotive.
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