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Fringe"less, a. Having no fringe.

Frin"gent (?), a. Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [R.] "The fringent air." Emerson.

||Frin*gil"la (?), a. [NL., fr. L. fringilla a chaffinch.] (Zoˆl.) A ||genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly ||included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to ||certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

Frin`gil*la"ceous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Fringilline.

Frin*gil"line (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the family FringillidÊ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.

Frin"gy (?), a. Aborned with fringes. Shak.

Frip"per (?), n. [F. fripier, fr. friper to rumple, fumble, waste.] One who deals in frippery or in old clothes. [Obs.] Bacon.

Frip"per*er (?), n. A fripper. [Obs.] Johnson.

Frip"per*y (?), n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.] 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

Fond of gauze and French frippery.

Goldsmith.

The gauzy frippery of a French translation.

Sir W. Scott.

3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.

4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.

Frip"per*y (?), a. Trifling; contemptible.

||Fri"seur' (?), n. [F., fr. friser to curl, frizzle. See Frizzle.] A ||hairdresser.

Fri"sian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.

Fri"sian, n. A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.

Frisk (?), a. [OF. frieque, cf. OHG. frise lively, brisk, fresh, Dan. & Sw. frisk, Icel. friskr. See Fresh, a.] Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Frisk, a. A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

Frisk, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frisked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frisking.] To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.

The frisking satyrs on the summits danced.

Addison.

Frisk"al (?), n. A leap or caper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Frisker (?), n. One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

Fris"ket (?), n. [F. frisguette. Perh. so named from the velocity or frequency of its motion. See Frisk a.] (Print.) The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.