Part 4610

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; <as>as, a <ex>frothy</ex> speaker or harangue</as>.</def>

<i>Tillotson.</i>

<h1>Frounce</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frounce</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Frounced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Frouncing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>frouncen</ets>, <ets>fronsen</ets>, to told, wrinkle, OF. <ets>froncier</ets>, F. <ets>froncer</ets>, perh. fr. an assumed LL. <ets>frontiare</ets> to wrinkle the forehead, L. <ets>frons</ets> forehead. See <er>Front</er>, and cf. <er>Flounce</er> part of a dress.]</ety> <def>To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.</def>

<blockquote>Not tricked and <b>frounced</b>, as she was wont. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Frounce</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frounce</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The Commons <b>frounced</b> and stormed. <i> Holland.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Frounce</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frounce</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.</def>

<i>Booth.</i>

<h1>Frounceless</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frounce"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without frounces.</def>

<i>Rom. of R.</i>

<h1>Frouzy</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frou"zy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Prov. E. <ets>frouzy</ets> froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; cf. <ets>froust</ets> a musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and E. <ets>frounce</ets>, <ets>frowy</ets>.]</ety> <def>Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See <er>Frowzy</er>.</def> "Petticoats in <i>frouzy</i> heaps."

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Frow</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frow</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>vrouw</ets>; akin to G. <ets>frau</ets> woman, wife, goth, <ets>fr\'a0uja</ets> master, lord, AS. <ets>fre\'a0</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.</def>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A dirty woman; a slattern.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Frow</h1> <Xpage=599>

<hw>Frow</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Frower</er>.]</ety> <def>A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.</def>

<h1>Frow</h1> <Xpage=599>