The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . (ist),/;. «. 1. Covered with ice; convert-ed into iee; frozen.— 2. Cooled with ice; verycold: as, iVerftea; iced vciiie.—3. Covered withconcreted sugar; frosted: as, ico? cake.—4. lahot., covered with jiartides like icicles. ice-drift (isdrift), n. Masses of loose or float-ing ice. The strait alreadv filled with icr-drifl. Moiley, Initcd Kclberlaiuls, III. 657. ice-drops (isMrojis), n. pi. In Out., transparentprncisscs resembling icicles. ice-elevator (isere
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . (ist),/;. «. 1. Covered with ice; convert-ed into iee; frozen.— 2. Cooled with ice; verycold: as, iVerftea; iced vciiie.—3. Covered withconcreted sugar; frosted: as, ico? cake.—4. lahot., covered with jiartides like icicles. ice-drift (isdrift), n. Masses of loose or float-ing ice. The strait alreadv filled with icr-drifl. Moiley, Initcd Kclberlaiuls, III. 657. ice-drops (isMrojis), n. pi. In Out., transparentprncisscs resembling icicles. ice-elevator (isere-va-tor), «. A hoisting-a]i]iarutus for lifting blocks of iee from thewater to the ice-hmise. The moiit ccimmon fomi isan inclined plane exteinling fnnn under the water to thetoji gallery of the ice-lmuse. On the incline travel twoeiullehs chains, with bars joining them at intervals. Cakesof ice floated up to the foot of the elevator arc caught by ice-elevator these bars and dragged up the incline. Arrangementsare also made for divertins the ice to any level of thehouse. Another form, sometimes called an m-screw, con-. Ice-elevator. sists of an inclined plane in the form of a spiral. In thewell of the spiral is an upright shaft having radial anus;as the shaft revolves these engage the blocks of ice, andpush them up the spiral incline to the (ises-kap), • Au apparatus con-sistiug of poles and Iopes for rescuing personswho have Ijroken through the ice. A number of sledge-chairs and an ice-escape were con-veyed to the place of amusement. Illas, London News, Jan. 9,1864. ice-fall (isfal), n. 1. The dislodgmeut andfall of masses from a glacier, or from a floatingioeherg. And then the ice-fall with its ringing, rumbling, crash-ing roar, and the heavy, explosionlike voice of the finalplunge, followed by the wild, frantic dashing of the York Independtnt, April 22, 1862. 2. A glacier. [Poetical.] Ye ice-falls f ye that from the mountains browAdo
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