frill2 (fril)

[A particular use of frill1, п., а border of this kind being likened to the ruffling of a bird's feathers when it shivers with cold: see frilll, n.] 1. A narrow ornamental bordering made of a strip of textile material, of which one edge is gathered and the other left loose, as in a narrow flounce; a ruffle. His frill and neckcloth hung limp under his bagging Thackeray, Vanity Fair, I. 284. waistcoat. Did he stand at the diamond door Of his house in a rainbow frill ? Tennyson, Maud, xxiv. Hence-2. Anything resembling such a bor der. How delicate thy gauzy frill ! How rich thy branching stem! E. Elliott , To the Bramble Flower. Specifically - (a) The projecting fringe of hair on the chest of some dogs, as the collie. The Pome rani an dog is employed as a sheep-dog, for which he is fitted by his peculiarly woolly coat and ample frill, rendering him to a great degree proof against wet and cold. Dogs of Great Britain and America, p. 132. (b) Some fringing part or proce of an animal. like a ruffle; a frilling: as, the genital frills of a hydrozoan. Encyc. Brit., XII. 553. (c) In hymenomycetous fungi, a superior annulus or ring; an annulus formed of ti ue suspended from the apex of the stipe and free at other points, at first forming a membranous covering for the hymenium, but detached as the pileus expands; an armilla. (d) In photog., the swelling and loosening of a gelatin film around the edges of a plate. See frill2, v. 3. An affectation of dre or of manner; an air: usually in the plural: as, he puts on too many frills. [Colloq., U. S.] Frill pattern, in ceram., a pattern made of separate small threads of slip laid side by side on the surface. See slip - decoration. frill2 (fril), v. [ His long mustachoes on his upper lip, like bristles, frill'd back to his neck. Knolles, Hist. Turks, p. 516. 2. To ornament with frills: as, to frill a child's garment. Frilled lizard. Same as frill -lizard. II. in trans. To become frilled or ruffled. Specifically, in photography, said of the gelatin film of a dry plate when in course of the development, from too high temperature of the water or other cause, it rises from the gla in ruffles, which may be sufficiently extended to destroy the picture, or even to cause the entire film to slip frill back (fril'bak), n . One of a particular from the plate. breed of domestic pigeons.