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• A thick fog resembling smoke, arising in high latitudes from the surface of the sea when exposed to a temperature much below freezing-point. When the thermometer is down to zero, Fahr., the fog lies close on the water in eddying white wreaths. "The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity; it is the frost-smoke of Arctic winters."-Kane.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons