frize

[FRIEZE.] friz'-el, s . [FRIZZEL (2), 8.) The movable plate of steel placed vertically above the pan of a gunlock to receive the blow of the snap-hance; the form of flint-lock which superseded the wheel lock. fri-zět'te, s. [Eng. friz; -ette.] A pad of frizzled hair or silk worn by women under the real hair to stuff it out to the shape required by fashion; a small curl or friz of hair. "Moreover, she was not quite sure but that one of her frizettes was coming out."-Surtees: Ask Mamma, ch. xxiii. frizz, friz, v. t. [Fr. friser =to curl.] I. Ord. Lang.: To curl, to crisp; to form into small curls with a crisping-iron. "With your great wig so frizzed, and yet so beggarly." -Goldsmith: The Bee, No. 2. II. Technically : frizz frizz, friz, 8. [FRIZZ, V.] Anything frizzed or curled, as a wig; curled hair. "While a full wilderne of friz Became the lawyer's cunning phiz." Combe: Dr. Syntax, ii. 2. frizz-er, s. [Eng. frizz; -er.] One who or that which frizzes. [FRIZZING-MACHINE.] frizz'-Ing, pr. par., a. & s. [FRIZZ, v.] A. & B. As pr. par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Ord. Lang.: The act of curling or crisping. II. Technically : 1. Leather - manuf .: A proce to which chamois and wash-leather are subjected after the skins are unhaired, bated, scraped, fleshed, and raised. It consists in rubbing the skins with pumice-stone or a blunt knife till the appearance of the grain is entirely removed, the surface softened, and an even thickne obtained throughout. 2. Fabric : A peculiar finish given to certain kinds of cloth. [FRIZZING-MACHINE.] frizzing-machine, s. 1. Fabric : A machine on which the nap of wool. en cloth is formed into a number of little prominences or tufts. 2. Wood- work .: A bench with a circular cutter head slightly protruding above the working surface, and adapted to dre boards which are pa ed over it.