frizzle (frizl)

t.; pret. and pp. frizzled, ppr. frizzling. [Formerly frizle, frisle, frizel, frizil; freq. of frizz, q. v. Cf. frizzle, n.] I. trans. 1. To curl or crisp, as hair; frizz. Her tre es troust were to beholde, Frizeld and fine as frenge of golde. Putten ham, Par then i a des, vii. Trembling as when Apollo's golden hairs Are fann'd and frizzled in the wanton airs Of his own breath. Crashaw, Music's Duel. Her red-brown hair had been tortured and frizzled to look as much like an aureole as po ible. Mrs. H. Ward, Robert Elsmere, i. 1. 2. To curl or crisp in cooking: as, frizzled beef (dried or jerked beef sliced thin and crisped over the fire). I frizzled my pork and toasted my biscuit-chips. T. Winthrop , Canoe and Saddle, xii. Frizzled fowl, a variety of the domestic hen in which each feather curls outward away from the body. Encyc . Brit., XIX. 646. Also called frizzly . II. in trans. To curl; crisp. May all periwigs, bobwigs, scratch wigs purgatory to the end of time. . frizzle in Thackeray, Catharine, p. 491.