Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: FRISK'FUL – FRIZ'ZLER
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FRISK'FUL, a.
Brisk; lively. Thomson.
FRISK'I-LY, adv.
Gayly; briskly.
FRISK'I-NESS, n.
Briskness and frequency of motion; gayety; liveliness; a dancing or leaping in frolick.
FRISK'ING, ppr.
Leaping; skipping; dancing about; moving with life and gayety.
FRISK'Y, a.
Gay; lively.
FRIT, n. [Fr. fritte; Sp. frita; It. fritto, fried, from L. frictus, frigo, Eng. to fry.]
In the manufacture of glass, the matter of which glass is made after it has been calcined or baked in a furnace. It is a composition of silex and metallic alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
FRITH, n. [L. fretum; Gr. πορθμος, from πειρω, to pass over, or πορευω, πορευομαι, to pass; properly, a passage, a narrow channel that is passable or passed.]
- A narrow passage of the sea; a strait. It is used for the opening of a river into the sea; as, the frith of Forth, or of Clyde.
- A kind of wear for catching fish. Carew.
FRITH, n. [W. frith or friz.]
- A forest; a woody place. Drayton.
- A small field taken out of a common. Wynne. [Not used in America.]
FRITH'Y, a.
Woody. [Not in use.] Skelton.
FRIT'IL-LA-RY, n. [L. fritillus, a dice-box.]
The popular name of the Crown Imperial, a plant, called in the Spanish Dictionary Checkered Lily. De Theis.
FRIT'I-NAN-CY, n. [L. fritinnio.]
A chirping, or creaking, as of a cricket. [Not used.] Brown.
FRIT'TER, n. [It. frittella; Sp. fritillas, plur.; from L. frictus, fried; Dan. fritte.]
- A small pancake; also, it small piece of meat fried.
- A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters. Hudibras.
FRIT'TER, v.t.
- To cut meat into small pieces to be fried.
- To break into small pieces or fragments. Break all their nerves, and fritter all their sense. Pope. To fritter away, is to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time.
FRIT'TER-ED, pp.
Cut or broken to pieces.
FRIT'TER-ING, ppr.
Cutting or breaking into small pieces.
FRI-VOL'I-TY, n. [See FRIVOLOUSNESS.]
FRIV'O-LOUS, a. [L. frivolus, from the root of frio, to break into small pieces, to crumble; Fr. frivole; Sp. and It. frivolo. We observe the same radical letters, Rb, Rv, in trivial, trifle, L. tero, trivi, to rub or wear out. Class Rb.]
Slight; trifling; trivial; of little weight, worth or importance; not worth notice; as, a frivolous argument; a frivolous objection or pretext. Swift.
FRIV'O-LOUS-LY, adv.
In a trifling manner.
FRIV'O-LOUS-NESS, n.
The quality of being trifling or of very little worth or importance; want of consequence.
FRIZ, v.t. [Sp. frisar; Fr. friser. See Frieze.]
- To curl; to crisp; to form into small curls with a crisping-pin.
- To form the nap of cloth into little hard burs, prominences or knobs.
FRIZ'ZED, pp.
Curled; formed into little burs on cloth.
FRIZ'ZING, ppr.
Curling; forming little hard burs on cloth.
FRIZ'ZLE, v.t.
To curl; to crisp; as hair. Gay.
FRIZ'ZLED, pp.
Curled; crisped.
FRIZ'ZLER, n.
One who makes short curls.