Meanings (ES + gloss)
escarcha
Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
And moonlight splendour of intensest rime, / With which frost paints the pines in winter time.
The night had been heavy and lowering: but towards the morning it had changed to a slight frost: and the ground and the trees were now covered with rime.
escarcha
Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
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