frumentation (from ent ash on)

[= It. fru ment azione, A frundle of lyme. Leverton Ch'wardens Accts., 1557 (Archæologia, XLI. 362). frush1t (frush), v . [ fru hen , fruschen , fru chen, crush, bruise, strike, intr. (also spelled frouschen, frochen) rush together, dash forward, frui er , froi er , crush, bruise; origin uncertain.] I. trans . To crush; bruise; break in pieces. I like thy armour well; I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all, But I'll be master of it. Shak ., T. and C., v. 6. To frush a chicken, to carve or break up a chicken. Nares, II. in trans. To rush; dash forward. Thei rennen to gidre a gret randoum, and the i fru chen to gidere fulle fiercely. Mandeville, Travels, p. 238. When this feer full freike fru het into batell. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 7731. frush1t (frush), n. [ME. fru he , frusche , frus- shen, v. t., frush: see the verb.] 1. An onset, attack, a ault, or collision. frumgildt, frumgyldt, n. [AS. frumgyld , fruma (in comp. frum- ), the first (= Icel. frum = Goth. fruma , the first, ult. the same as AS. form a , the first: see former1 ), + gild , gyld , pay- ment: see gild2 , geld2 .] In Anglo - Saxon law , the first payment made to the kindred of a per- son slain, toward the recompense of his murder. 2. The noise of collision. frump (frump), v. [E. dial. in all senses; ori- gin obscure. Cf. frumple .] I.t trans. 1. To be rude to; insult; snub; rebuke. To the Troiens thai turnyt & mekill tene wroght! The fru he was so felle, tho fuerse men betwene, Crakkyng of cristis, cru hyng of speir is. I pray you, read there; I am abus'd and frump'd , sir, By a great man, that may do ill by authority. Al the frushe and leanings of Greeke, of wrathful Achilles. Stan i hurst , Eneid, i. 39. frush1 (frush), a. [ frush1 , v. t.] Brittle; apt to break and splinter: said of wood. [Obsolete or provincial.] O wae betide the frush saugh wand!... It brake into my true love's hand. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , II. 153. Supposing the i were baith dead and gone, which, when we think of the frush green kail-stock nature of bairns, is no an impo ibility. Galt , The Entail, I. 59. the equiv. frog2 , frog1 . But perhaps a cor- ruption of OF. fourche , fourchette , as suggested The Kings, and the Aces, and all the best trumps Get into the hands of the other old frumps . Barham, In golds by Legends, I. 157. The old-fashioned frump , a very hard winter, had laid in great stores of snow with great raving winds. Elizabeth S. Sheppard , Charles Auchester. 4. A go ip. [Prov. Eng.] frumpert, n. [ frumperyt, n. [ frump , n., + -ery .] Reproach; abuse. Davies . Tyndarus attempting too ki a fayre la e with a long nose Would needs bee finish, with bitter frumperye taunting. Stan i hurst , Conceits, p. 145. extract from Florio, under def. 2.] 1. In far- riery, same as frog2 , 1. The Frush is the tenderest part of the hooue to war des the heele, called of the Italians Fettone; and because it is fashioned like a forked head, the French men call it Fur- chette, which word our Ferrers, either for not knowing rightly how to pronounce it, or else perhaps for easine e sake of pronunciation, do make it a mon as ill able, & pro- nounce it the Frush . IMG:content-1912.png:[blocks in formation] Every mode which the government invented seems to have been easily frustrated , either by the intrepidity of the parties themselves, or by that general understand- ing which enabled the people to play into one another's hands. I. D'Israeli, Curios, of Lit., IV. 387. O! be not proud, nor brag not of thy might, For mastering her that foil'd the god of fight! For Freedom's battle once begun,... Though baffled oft, is ever won. IMG:content-1913.png:[blocks in formation] These men fail as often as the rest in their projects, and are as usually frustrate of their hopes. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 192. There is a soft æra in every gentle mortal's life when such a story affords more pabulum than all the frusts and crusts, and rusts of antiquity, which travellers can cook up for it. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, v. 150. frusta, n. Latin plural of frustum . frustrable (frus'tra-bl), a. [ frust rabi lis , that will be disappointed, vain, frust rare , frustrate: see frustrate.] Capable of being frustrated or defeated. [Rare.] frustraneoust (frus-trā nē-us), a . [= Sp. frus- tráneo = Pg. It. frustraneo, frustra- frustrate (frus'trāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. frus- trated , ppr. frustrating . [L. frust ratus , pp. of frust rare , frustrari (> It. frust rare = Sp. Pg. frustrar = Pr . frustar , frustrar = F. frustrer ), in vain, without effect, earlier in error, in a state of deception, prop. fem. abl. of * frustrus for "frudtrus, fraud- ), deception, error: see fraud.] 1. To make of no avail; bring to nothing; prevent from taking effect or attaining fulfilment; de- feat; disappoint; balk: as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose. Such was the Faithfulne of the Archbishop of Roan, and other the Princes of the Realm to K. Richard, that they opposed Duke John, and frustrated all his Practices. Baker , Chronicles, p. 65. IMG:content-1914.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1915.png:[blocks in formation] Off fryed metes be ware, for they ar fumose in dede. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 148. One of these cocks of the mountain shall be fried , since gridiron is not. T. Winthrop, Canoe and Saddle, viii. 2. Figuratively, to vex; agitate. Whether she walks, or sits, or stands, or lies, Her wretched self still in her self she fries . frustulent (frus'tū-lent), a. [L. frustulentus , full of small pieces, frustum , a small piece: see frustum.] Abounding in fragments. [Rare.] 3t. To heat; parch; render torrid. [Rare.] frustulose (frus'tū-lōs), a . [LL. frustulum , a small piece: see frustule .] In bot . , consisting of small fragments or frustules. that whose ends are equal circles. In the figure the dot- ted line, c, indicates the part of the cone cut off to form the frustum, f . frutaget (fröʼtāj), n . See fruitage . frutescence (frö-tes'ens), n. [ t ) +-ce.] Shrubbine . [Rare.] frutescent (frö-tes'ent), a . [Short for * fruti- cescent , fruticescen (t-) s , ppr. of frutices cere , put forth shoots, sprout, become bushy, fru- tex ( frutic- ), a shrub, bush.] In bot . , having the appearance or habit of a shrub; shrubby, or becoming shrubby: as, a frutescent stem. frutex (frö'teks), n .; pl. frutices (-ti-sēz). [L., a shrub, a bush.] In bot . , a shrub; a plant having a woody, durable stem, but smaller than a tree. fruticalt (frö'ti-kal), a. [L. frutex ( frutic- ), a shrub.] Of the nature of a shrub; shrubby. These we shall divide into the greater and more cedu- ous, fruticant , and shrubby. Evelyn, Sylva, Int., § 3. frutices, n. Plural of frutex . Fruticicola (frö-ti-sik'ō-la), n. [NL., L. frutex ( frutic- ), a shrub, + colere , inhabit.] In Macgillivray's system of cla ification, a genus of saxicoline birds, differing little from Saxicola, and including such species as the whinchat and stonechat, called by him bush- chats. fruticose (frö'ti-kōs), a. [ fruticosus , shrubby, bushy, frutex (frutic-), a shrub, a bush.] 1. Pertaining to shrubs; shrubby: as, a fruticose stem.-2. In lichenology , having the thallus attached only by a narrow base, from which it ascends in a branching, shrub-like form. II. in trans. 1. To be subjected to heat in a pan containing fat over a fire; hence, to suffer a frying effect from great heat; simmer as if in bubbling fat. In his owene grece I made hym frye For anger, and for verray jelousie. My blandishments were fewel to that fire Wherein he fry'd . Drayton, Pierce Gaveston. Earth and seas in fire and flame shall fry . B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. As well might Men who in a Fever fry Mathematick Doubts debate. That [the Kettell] indeed he allowed equally to be dis- tributed, and that was halfe a pint of wheat, and as much barley boyled with water for a man a day, and this hav- ing fryed some 26. weekes in the ships hold, contained as many wormes as graines. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 154. Fairfax. Ye might have seene the frothy billowes fry Under the ship, as thorough them she went. IMG:content-1916.png:[blocks in formation] fu, foo (fö), n. [Chinese fu .] In China, a pre- fecture or department. It comprises several hien, and is in charge of an officer styled a chih - fu (which see). As a terminal syllable in Chinese place-names, the word may denote either a department or the chief city of a de- part ment: as, Chang-sha - fu , Fu-chow - foo . fu' (fö), a. A Scotch form of full1 . fuaget, n. See feuage . 2. To steal; pocket; get po e ion of. My letter fubb'd too, And no acce without I mend my manners? All my designs in limbo? frjo , fra = Sw. Dan. frö , seed, I seed. The F. fra i , formerly fray , fra ye , spawn- ing, spawn, young fish, means also wear, being milt (see fray2 ); it is thus quite unrelated to the E. word.] 11. Seed; offspring: especially with reference to human beings. Noe, to the, and to al thi fry My bly yng graunt I. That seaventy Exiles with vn-hallowed Frie Couer the face of all the World well-nigh. 2. A swarm, as of children or any small ani- mals, now specifically of little fishes; a num- ber of small or insignificant objects: often used in contempt. And them before the fry of children yong Their wanton sportes and childish mirth did play. Nichols, Lit. Anecdotes, IX. 339. Marryat , Snarleyyow, I. viii. Seated upon the widow's little fubsy sofa. fubst, n. See fub2 . Whose poisonous spawn In genders such a fry of speckled villainies. Beau , and Fl . , Coxcomb, i. 2. A great frie of young children. Kennett , MS. Lansdowne, 1033. ( Hall i well .) To sever. the good fish from the other fry. Milton . In particular-3. The young of the salmon or of trout at a certain stage of their develop- ment. Salmon ova are obtained from the rivers Doon, Stinchar, and Minnock, and the fry turned again into these rivers when about six weeks old. Encyc. Brit ., XXI. 226. Small fry, small or young creatures collectively, as young babies or children; persons or things of no importance. We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. H. Walpole , fry3 (fri), n.; pl. fries (frīz). [E. dial.; origin obscure.] 1. A kind of sieve. Mortimer . - 2 . A drain. Hall i well . fryer (fri'er), n. [ fry1 + er1.] 1. One who or that which fries. Hardly had the snoring of the snorers ceased, when the frying of the fryers began. T. Winthrop , Canoe and Saddle, vi. 2. A bird, a fish, or the like, intended or suit a- ble for frying. Compare roaster . Keen and quiet fire told upon the fryer , the first course of the feast. T. Winthrop, Canoe and Saddle, viii. fucaceous (fu-kā'shius), a. Pertaining to or having the characters of the Fucacea . fucate (fü'kāt), a. ored, disguised, pp. of fucare , paint, color, dye, rouge, fucus : see fucus .] Painted; disguised with paint; hence, disguised in any way; dis- sembling. For in vertue may be nothing fucate or counterfayte. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 4. fucated (fü'ka-ted), a . Same as fucate . fuchs (föks), n. [G., = E. for1 .] In German universities, a student of the first year; a fresh- man. Compare burnt fox , under burnt . Fuchsia (fu's hiä or fök'si-ä), n. [NL., named by Plumier (1703) in honor of the German bot- anist Leon hard Fuchs (1501-66). The name Fuchsia Fuchs = E. Fox, from the animal so called: see fox1.] 1. A genus of highly ornamental shrubs and small trees, of the order On a grace a. There are about 50 species, natives of the mountains of Mexico and of the Andes, with 2 species in New Zealand. They have opposite leaves, a colored tubular calyx with 4-parted limb, 4 petals on the throat of the tube, and a pulpy baccate fruit. The numerous varieties which are common in cultivation, with drooping flowers and a short calyx-tube, are believed to have originated for the most part from the Chilian species, F. macro stemma. Some other species are occasionally met with in greenhouses. 2. [l. c.] A plant of the genus Fuchsia.