Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FROUNCE, v.t. [Sp. fruncir, to plait or gather the edge of cloth into plaits, to frizzle, to wrinkle; Fr. froncer, to gather, to knit, to contract; Arm. fronçza. See Frown.]

To curl or frizzle the hair about the face. Not tricked and flounced as she was wont. Milton.

FROUN'CED, pp.

Curled; frizzled.

FROUNCE'LESS, a.

Having no plait or wrinkle. Chaucer.

FROUN'CING, ppr.

Curling; crisping.

FROU'ZY, a.

Fetid; musty; rank; dim; cloudy. Swift.

FROW, n. [G. frau; D. vrouw; Dan. frue.]

A woman. [Not used.] Beaum.

FRO'WARD, a. [Sax. framweard; fram or fra and weard, L. versus, turned or looking from.]

Perverse, that is, turning from with aversion or reluctance; not willing to yield or comply with what is required; unyielding; ungovernable; refractory; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. They are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. Deut. xxxii.

FRO'WARD-LY, adv.

Perversely; in a peevish manner.

FROWARD-NESS, a.

Perverseness; reluctance to yield or comply; disobedience; peevishness. South.

FROW'ER, n.

A sharp edged tool to cleave laths. Tusser.

FROWN, n.

1. A wrinkled look, particularly expressing dislike; a sour, severe or stern look, expressive of displeasure. His front yet threatens and his frowns command. Prior.
2. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of providence; the frowns of fortune.

FROWN, v.i. [Fr. refrogner, properly to knit the brows. Frogner, the primitive word, is not used. It is allied perhaps to frounce, from the root Rn.]

1. To express displeasure by contracting the brow, and looking grim or surly; to look stern; followed by on or at; as, to frown on a profligate man, or to frown at his vices. Heroes in animated marble frown. Pope.
2. To manifest displeasure in any manner. When providence frowns on our labors, let us be humble and submissive.
3. To lower; to look threatening.

FROWN, v.t.

To repel by expressing displeasure; to rebuke. Frown the impudent fellow into silence.

FROWN'ING, ppr.

Knitting the brow in anger or displeasure; expressing displeasure by a surly, stern or angry look; lowering; threatening.

FROWN'ING-LY, adv.

Sternly; with n look of displeasure.

FROW'Y, a. [The same as frouzy; perhaps a contracted word.]

Musty; rancid; rank; as, frowy butter.

FRO'ZEN, a.

Subject to frost, or to long and severe frost.

FRO'ZEN, pp. [of freeze.]

1. Congealed by cold.
2. Cold; frosty; chill; as, the frozen climates of the north.
3. Chill or cold in affection. Sidney
4. Void of natural heat or vigor. Pope.

FRO'ZEN-NESS, n.

A state of being frozen. Gauden.

F-R-S, n. [F. R. S.]

Fellow of the Royal Society.

FRUB'ISH, v. [for Furbish, is not used.]

FRUCT'ED, a. [L. fructus, fruit.]

In heraldry, bearing fruit.

FRUC-TES'CENCE, n. [from L. fructus, fruit. See Fruit.]

In botany, the precise time when the fruit of a plant arrives at maturity, and its seeds are dispersed; the fruiting season. Milne. Martyn. Encyc.

FRUC-TIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. fructus, fruit, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing or producing fruit.

FRUC-TI-FI-CA'TION, n. [See Fructify.]

1. The act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
2. In botany, the temporary part of a plant appropriated to generation, terminating the old vegetable and beginning the new. It consists of seven parts, the calyx or empalement, the corol or petals, the stamens, and the pistil, which belong to the flower, the pericarp and seed, which pertain to the fruit, and the receptacle or base, on which the other parts are seated. The receptacle belongs both to the flower and fruit. Linnæus. Milne.