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Icing   /ˈaɪsɪŋ/   Listen
Icing

noun
1.
The formation of frost or ice on a surface.  Synonym: frost.
2.
A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes.  Synonyms: frosting, ice.
3.
(ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal.  Synonym: icing the puck.



Ice

verb
(past & past part. iced; pres. part. icing)
1.
Decorate with frosting.  Synonym: frost.
2.
Cause to become ice or icy.
3.
Put ice on or put on ice.



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"Icing" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon a white paper in the basket, with a little space all around. It was a rather small loaf with a plain icing. But round the sides of it were trailed long sprays of ivy geranium, making a beautiful bordering. The centre was crowned with a white camellia in its perfection. From the tip edge of each outer petal depended a drop ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner

... an usher came an antique silver casket filled with white heather. And as for the bride-cake, it is one of Salemina's gifts, chosen as much in a spirit of fun as affection. It is surely appropriate for this American wedding transplanted to Scottish soil, and what should it be but a model, in fairy icing, of Sir Walter's beautiful monument in Princes Street! Of course Francesca is full of nonsensical quips about it, and says that the Edinburgh jail would have been just as fine architecturally (it is, in truth, a building beautiful enough to tempt an aesthete to crime), and a ...
— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... round buns and place in a well-greased baking pan and let rise for thirty minutes. Make a hole in the centre of each bun with a small wooden stick and wash the buns with egg and milk. Bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes. Cool, and then fill the centre with jelly, and ice with water icing. ...
— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... have it all alone this time, if I make the cake," went on Mab. Nearly always she and Hal shared this pleasure—that of scraping out, with a knife or spoon, the chocolate or sugar icing dish from which Mother Blake took the sweet stuff for the top and inside the layers of the cake. ...
— Daddy Takes Us to the Garden - The Daddy Series for Little Folks • Howard R. Garis

... were enough to make everyone smile—they consisted of pink lemonade and ginger cookies with features marked on them in white icing. The most conspicuous feature was ...
— Entertaining Made Easy • Emily Rose Burt


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