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What does hoarfrost mean?

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Noun
  1. Dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist.
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And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.
This is possibly due to the sublimation of the hoarfrost and subsequent increase in low level moisture after sunrise.
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
There was not a breath of wind, but every twig and branch bristled with spiky hoarfrost.
To-day, however, they all lent their stalks to support the hoarfrost, to double and quadruple its total mass.
Then in a moment all the trees were covered with hoarfrost, so that they looked like white coral.

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