Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Jack crosstree}. (Naut.) See 10, b, above.
{Jack curlew} (Zo["o]l.), the whimbrel.
{Jack frame}. (Cotton Spinning) See 4
(g), above.
{Jack Frost}, frost personified as a mischievous person.
{Jack hare}, a male hare. --Cowper.
{Jack lamp}, a lamp for still hunting and camp use. See def.
4
(n.), above.
{Jack plane}, a joiner's plane used for coarse work.
{Jack post}, one of the posts which support the crank shaft
of a deep-well-boring apparatus.
{Jack pot} (Poker Playing), the name given to the stakes,
contributions to which are made by each player
successively, till such a hand is turned as shall take the
``pot,'' which is the sum total of all the bets.
Frost \Frost\, n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr.
fre['o]san to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel.,
Dan., & Sw. frost. [root]18. See {Freeze}, v. i.]
1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation
of water; congelation of fluids.
2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions
congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or
freezing weather.
The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.
--Shak.
3. Frozen dew; -- called also {hoarfrost} or {white frost}.
He scattereth the frost like ashes. --Ps. cxlvii.
16.
4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of
character. [R.]
It was of those moments of intense feeling when the
frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow
wreath. --Sir W.
Scott.
{Black frost}, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and
cause it to turn black, without the formation of
hoarfrost.
{Frost bearer} (Physics), a philosophical instrument
illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a
cryophous.
{Frost grape} (Bot.), an American grape, with very small,
acid berries.
{Frost lamp}, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand
lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used
especially in lighthouses. --Knight.
{Frost nail}, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's
shoe to keen him from slipping.
{Frost smoke}, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by
congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe
cold.
The brig and the ice round her are covered by a
strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of
arctic winters. --Kane.
{Frost valve}, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe,
hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to
freeze.
{Jack Frost}, a popular personification of frost.
Source : WordNet®
Jack Frost
n : a personification of frost or winter weather