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<cs><col>Fringe tree</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a small tree (<spn>Chionanthus Virginica</spn>), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow-white flowers, with long pendulous petals.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fringe</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Fringe</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fringed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. a.</tt> <er>Fringing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.</def>

<blockquote>Precipices <b>fringed</b> with grass. <i> Bryant.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Fringing reef</col>. <cd>See <cref>Coral reefs</cref>, under <er>Coral</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fringed</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Fringed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Furnished with a fringe.</def>

<cs><col>Fringed lear</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fringeless</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Fringe"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no fringe.</def>

<h1>Fringent</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frin"gent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Encircling like a fringe; bordering.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "The fringent air."

<i>Emerson.</i>

<h1>Fringilla</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frin*gil"la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>fringilla</ets> a <ets>chaffinch</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Fringillaceous</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frin`gil*la"ceous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Fringilline.</def>

<h1>Fringilline</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frin*gil"line</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to the family <spn>Fringillid\'91</spn>; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.</def>

<h1>Fringy</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frin"gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Aborned with fringes.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Fripper</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frip"per</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fripier</ets>, fr. <ets>friper</ets> to rumple, fumble, waste.]</ety> <def>One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Fripperer</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frip"per*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A fripper.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>