Part 4601

<blockquote>He would be at his <b>frolic</b> once again. <i>Roscommon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.</def>

<h1>Frolic</h1> <Xpage=598>

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

<blockquote>Hither, come hither, and <b>frolic</b> and play. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Frolicful</h1> <Xpage=598>

<hw>Frol"ic*ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Frolicsome.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Frolicky</h1> <Xpage=598>

<hw>Frol"ick*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Frolicsome.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Richardson.</i>

<h1>Frolicly</h1> <Xpage=598>

<hw>Frol"ic*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Frolicsome</h1> <Xpage=598>

<hw>Frol"ic*some</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.</def>

<blockquote>Old England, who takes a <b>frolicsome</b> brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Frol"ic*some*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Frol"ic*some*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>From</h1> <Xpage=598>

<hw>From</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>prep.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>fram</ets>, <ets>from</ets>; akin to OS. <ets>fram</ets> out, OHG. & Icel. <ets>fram</ets> forward, Sw. <ets>fram</ets>, Dan. <ets>frem</ets>, Goth. <ets>fram</ets> from, prob. akin to E. <ets>forth</ets>. <?/202. Cf. <er>Fro</er>, <er>Foremost</er>.]</ety> <def>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 aritithesis and correlative of <i>to</i>; <as>as, it, is one hundred miles <ex>from</ex> Boston to Springfield; he took his sword <ex>from</ex> his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool <ex>from</ex> the fine; men have all sprung <ex>from</ex> Adam, and often go <ex>from</ex> good to bad, and <ex>from</ex> bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle <ex>from</ex> which it proceeds; men judge of facts <ex>from</ex> personal knowledge, or <ex>from</ex> testimony.</as></def>

<blockquote>Experience <b>from</b> the time past to the time present. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The song began <b>from</b> Jove. <i>Drpden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>From</b> high M\'91onia's rocky shores I came. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>If the wind blow any way <b>from</b> shore. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>From</i> sometimes denotes <i>away from</i>, <i>remote from</i>, <i>inconsistent with</i>. "Anything so overdone is <i>from</i> the purpose of playing." <i>Shak</i>. <i>From</i>, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for abbreviating the sentence. "There followed him great multitudes of people . . . <i>from</i> [the land] <i>beyond</i> Jordan." <i>Math. iv. 25</i>. In certain constructions, as <i>from forth</i>, <i>from out</i>, etc., the ordinary and more obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly <i>forth from</i>, <i>out from</i> -- <i>from</i> being virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See <cref>From off</cref>, under <er>Off</er>, <tt>adv.</tt>, and <cref>From afar</cref>, under <er>Afar</er>, <tt>adv.</tt></note>

<blockquote>Sudden partings such as press The life <b>from out</b> young hearts. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fromward, Fromwards</h1> <Xpage=598>

<hw><hw>From"ward</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>From"wards</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>prep.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>framweard</ets> about to depart. Cf. <er>Froward</er>]</ety> <def>A way from; -- the contrary of toward.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Towards or <b>fromwards</b> the zenith. <i>Cheyne.</i></blockquote>