Fringe, frinj, s

an ornamental appendage to a border of cloth, consisting of loose threads; something resembling a fringe; an open broken border: pl. coloured Frog-shell, bands seen when abeam of light is transmitted FROG-SHELL ] through a slit [Opt.]: v.a. to border with fringe or a loose edging (Fr.frange). frinj'-les, a. having no fringe. frinj'-like, a, resembling fringe. frinj'-ma-ker, s. one who makes fringes. frinj' -tree, s. a small tree of the United States,having snow-white flowers which hang down like fringe. -lå, s. the finch family of birds (L.) frin-jil-la'-she-us, a. pertaining to the finches. frin'-je, a. adorned with fringes. frip frip -per, -per-er,s 8. 8. a dealer in frippery. frip'-pe-re, s. old clothes, also old furniture; trumpery; the place where old clothes are sold; trade in old clothes: a. trifling; contemptible (Fr. from friper, to rumple, to wear out). fre-zeur, s. a hair-dre er (Fr. friser, to curl). frisk, v.n. to dance, skip, caper about, or gambol in frolic and gaiety: a. lively; brisk: s. a frolic; a fit of want on gaiety (fresh). frisk'-er, s. one who frisks; an inconstant or unsettled person. s. the light frame by which a sheet of paper is confined to the tympan to be laid on the form for impre ion [Print.] (Fr.) frisk'-ful, a. brisk; lively. frisk'-e, a. jumping with gaiety; frolicsome; lively. Friskily, frisk'-e-le, ad. in a frisky manner. Friskine , frisk' -e-nes, s, the quality of being frisky. friz'-let, s. a small ruffle. free'-zur, s. crisping the hair. See Friseur. frít,s. the material of which gla is made after it has been calcined, or baked ina furnace, but before fusion: v.a. to expose to dull red heat for the purpose of expelling moisture, ., from materials for gla [Gla -making). (L. fri go, to roast.) frit, s. an insect destructive to barley. firth, s. an inlet of the sea at the mouth of a river; an estuary; a kind of weir for catching fish (Ice. fiörthr). frith, s. a forest; a woody place; a small field taken out of a common. frit'-e-la-re, s. a genus of bulbous flowering plants of the liliaceous tribe; several species of British butterflies, from their wings being coloured like the petals of the plant (L. fri till us, a dice-box). frit'-ter, s. a pancake of fried batter; a small piece ofmeat fried; a fragment: v.a. to cut meat into small pieces to be fried; to break into small pieces or fragments. To fritter away, to waste away by degrees ina frivolous manner (Fr.frire, from L. fri go, to fry). fre-vol -e-te, s. frivolousne ; levity friv'-o-lus a. of little weight, worth, or importance; trifling;, given to trifle; silly (L. frivol us, silly, empty). Frivolously, friv'-o-lus-le, ad. in a frivolous manner. Frivolousne , friv -o-lus-nes, s. the quality of being frivolous. Sv.a. to curl; crisp; to form the nap of friz,. cloth in to little hard burrs,prominences, or knobs: s. that which is curled (Fr. friser, to curl). friz '-zl, v.a. to curl; to crisp: s. a crisped lock of hair. Frizzling of cloth, the forming of the nap into a number of little hard burrs or prominences. friz'-ler, s. one who frizzles. fro, ad, from; away; back or backward (from). frok, s. a loose shirt-like garment, worn by men over their other clothes; akind ofgown, open behind, worn by females and children (Fr.froc, a frock worn bymonks). frok'-kote, s. a strait-bodied coat, of the same length before and behind, like a surtout, but shorter. frokt, a. clothed in a frock. frok'-les, a. destitute of a frock. frog, s. a common amphibious animal of the batrachian tribe, remarkable for its activity in swimming and leaping; a sort of tender horn that grows in the middle of the sole of horse's foot (A.S. frog a). frog, s. a cloak button, swelled in the middle; a small barrel-shaped silk ornament with ta els, used in the decoration of mantles, . frog'-bit, s. an aquatic plant, a hydro char is. frog'-eet-er, s. french man. frog'-er-e, s. a place swarming with frogs. frog'-fish, s. a genus of fishes, including the fishing-frog. frogd, a. decorated with braid on the breast. frog'-ge, a. abounding with frogs. frog-hop'-per, s.a small insect,which lives on plants,and is remarkable for its leaping. Its larvæ refound on leaves in a frothy liquid,called frog-spittle. frog'-shel, s. a species of shell of the genus canella, chiefly found in the tropical seas.