English

Adjective

frore ‎(comparative more frore, superlative most frore)

1. (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
   • 1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9:

     We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,

     Expiring in the frore and foggy air.

   • 1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13:

     For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16

     Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.

   • c. 1916,, Rupert Brooke, Song

     My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.

Translations

Verb

frore

1. (archaic, rare) simple past tense of freeze
   • c. 1834,, Mary Howitt, The Sea:

     And down below all fretted and frore, […]