‘The inflamed or gangrenous condition of the skin and adjacent parts produced by exposure to severe cold. The milder forms constitute chilblain; the severe form, or gangrene, may be either dry or moist, usually the latter’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1885).
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 57. Inflammation accompanying the state which is usually denominated frost-bite.
1823. Scoresby, Jrnl. Whale Fishery, 44. Some of the sailors suffered considerably from partial frost-bites.
1876. A. Arnold, Persia in 1876, in Contemporary Review, XXVIII. June, 42. One does not look for frostbite in Ispahan, the city of melons, or to find, for long weeks together, frozen snow in all the narrow ways of Shiraz, the place where the warm lays of Hafiz were composed, in latitude more than twenty degrees south of London.
