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gelicide (JEL-i-seyed) - n., (obs.) a frost.
So no, not killing by or the killing of ice -- though the common usage example sentences involve killing, along the lines of "Unfortunately, the flowers were killed too soon by an early gelicide." This is pretty much a dead word: the only usage examples in the OED are from a thirty-year span in the 17th century, and for the rest, it pretty much only shows up in dictionaries and on sites promoting the existence of lost words. However, that doesn't prevent artists from illustrating it.
---L.
So no, not killing by or the killing of ice -- though the common usage example sentences involve killing, along the lines of "Unfortunately, the flowers were killed too soon by an early gelicide." This is pretty much a dead word: the only usage examples in the OED are from a thirty-year span in the 17th century, and for the rest, it pretty much only shows up in dictionaries and on sites promoting the existence of lost words. However, that doesn't prevent artists from illustrating it.
---L.
