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Frogged (?), a. Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4. Ld. Lytton.

Frog"gy (?), a. Abounding in frogs. Sherwood.

Frog"mouth` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family PodargidÊ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

Frog"s`-bit" (?), n. (Bot.) Frogbit.

Frog"shell` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.

Froise (?), n. [OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E. frush to bruise,] A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise. [Written also fraise.]

Frol"ic (frl"k), a. [D. vroolijk; akin to G. frˆlich, fr. froh, OHG. fr, Dan. fro, OS. frh, cf. Icel. frr swift; all perh. akin to Skr. pru to spring up.] Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

The frolic wind that breathes the spring.

Milton.

The gay, the frolic, and the loud.

Waller.

Frol"ic, n. 1. A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

He would be at his frolic once again.

Roscommon.

2. A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

Frol"ic, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frolicked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frolicking.] To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

Hither, come hither, and frolic and play.

Tennyson.

Frol"ic*ful (?), a. Frolicsome. [R.]

Frol"ick*y (?), a. Frolicsome. [Obs.] Richardson.

Frol"ic*ly, adv. In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Frol"ic*some (?), a. Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.

Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors.

Sir W. Scott.

-- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.

From (frm), prep. [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. &?;202. Cf. Fro, Foremost.] Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the antithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.

Experience from the time past to the time present.

Bacon.