Frog

frog, n. a genus of taille amphibians, with webbed feet, remarkable for its rapid swimming and leaping: a soft, horny substance in the middle of the sole of a horse's foot, forking towards the heel: a section of a rail or rails at a point where two lines cro , or of a switch from one line to another.— ns. Frog′-bit , a small aquatic plant, allied to the water-soldier, but with floating leaves; Frog′-eat′er , one who eats frogs, a French man; Frog′-fish , a name for various fishes, esp. the angler; Frog′gery , frogs collectively: a place where frogs abound.— adj. Frog′gy , having or abounding in frogs.— ns. Frog′-hop′per , Frog′-spit (see Froth-fly ); Frog′ling , a little frog.— Frog march , a method of carrying a refractory or drunken prisoner face downwards between four men, each holding a limb. [A.S. frogga , frox ; cog. with Ice. froskr ; Ger. frosch .]