froths pit

[Eng. froth, and spit.] The same as CUCKOO-SPIT (q. v.). froth-stick, froath-stick, s. [Eng. froth, and stick.] A stick for whipping up milk, or making up a syllabub. "My bairn has tocher of her awn- A shode-shool of a holin club, A froathstick, a can, a creel, a knock." Country Wedding , in Watson's Coll ., iii. 47. froth'-, *froath-y, a. [ Eng.froth; -y.] I. Literally: 1. Of the nature of froth; consisting of froth. "Behold a frothy substance rise: Be cautious, or your bottle flies." 2. Full of or covered with froth or foam. Swift. IMG:content-0190.png:[blocks in formation] B. In trans.: To form wrinkles on the brow: hence, to frown, to show displeasure. "On the other side, the Commons frounced and stormed in these and such like tearmes."-P. Holland: Livius, p. 621. *frounçe, *fronce, s. [FROUNCE, v .] I. Ord . Lang .: A wrinkle, a plait, a fold, a flounce. "These words said she, and with the lappe of her garment, yplited in a frounce, she dried mine eyen that weren ful of the wawes of my wepings." -Chaucer : Boecius , bk. i. II. Technically : 1. Hawk .: A disease in hawks, in which a dirty white foam gathers about the mouth and palate. "The hawke had no lyst To come to his fyst, She loked as she had the fronce." Skelton: Ware the Hawke. 2. Farr .: A disease in horses, in which a ma of pimples appears on the palate; the pimples them selves. *froung-ing, subst . [English frounc(e); -ing.] Frounces, plaits, flounces. "With dre ing, braiding, frouncing , flowering, All your jewels on me pouring." Drayton: Muses' Elysium, Nymph. 2. frounçe-le , a. [Eng. frounce; -le .] Free from wrinkles.