From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ice cream
n 1: frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
[syn: {ice cream}, {icecream}]
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