Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. 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.
2. A kind of wear for catching fish. Carew.

FRITH, n. [W. frith or friz.]

1. A forest; a woody place. Drayton.
2. 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.]

1. A small pancake; also, it small piece of meat fried.
2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters. Hudibras.

FRIT'TER, v.t.

1. To cut meat into small pieces to be fried.
2. 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.]

1. To curl; to crisp; to form into small curls with a crisping-pin.
2. 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.