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[Eng. frock; -le .] Without a IMG:content-0169.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Sing .: The English name of the amphibious genus Rana, and particularly of the species Rana temp oraria , or Common Frog. The genus Rana is distinguished from its congeners by having the tongue and tympanum distinct, the skin smooth, and the toes without claws; they are, however, pointed, and the hinder feet are united almost to the tips by a membrane. The species are numerous; they are widely distributed over the globe, many inhabiting tropical regions. The common frog is too well known to require description. It is found at the genial period of the year, burying itself at the approach of winter, in the mud at the bottom of ponds, and reappearing early in spring. In the month of March it lays its eggs, which are envel oped in a gelatinous material, in water, where they 1. The steel used for striking fire by means of a float. Each female deposits from six hundred to IMG:content-0170.png:[blocks in formation] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act or proce of curling or crisping a curl, a frizzle. "Upo. meretricious paintings, fri slings , pouldrings, attyrings, and the like, many squander away their very choicest morning houres, more fit for study and deuotion than such vnchristian practices."-Prynne: 1 Histrio - Mas tiæ , vi. 1. friz-zlý, a. [Eng. frizzl (e); y.) Curled crisped; frizzed. *friz-züre, s. [Fr. frisure.) A dre ing curling. IMG:content-0171.png:[blocks in formation] "Grey-besprinkled hair of frizzy thickne ."-G. Eliot: Daniel Deronda, ch. xi. frō, *fra, *frae, prep. & adv. [Icel. frá =from; cogn. with Dan. fra; A. S.from.] [FROM.] *A. As prep.: From, away. "After that bataile Egbriht, thus herd I say, Seized Kent & Estsex, South sex & Surray. & alle the grete lond, fro Douer to Grymsby." Robert de Brunne , p. 15. B. As adv.: From, away, back, or backward; only in the phrase to and fro =forward and backward, hither and thither. "I was employed in pa ing to and fro About relieving of the sentinels."" Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I. , ii. 1. *fröar-ý, a. [FRORY.] Frozen, stiff, rigid. "The foaming steed with froary bit to steare." Fairfax : Godfrey of Boulogne , bk. ii., s. 40. frock, *frok, *frokke, *frog, *frogge, s . [O. Fr. froc, from Low Lat. frocus , floccus =a monk's frock, prob. from being made of wool.] [FLOCK, 8.] *1. An ecclesiastical dre worn by monks. [UNFROCK.] "Longe sleves down to the feet, lyche a monkes frokke ." -Maundeville , p. 153. twelve hundred eggs a year. By April they have greatly increased in size and are becoming hatched. The immature frogs which come forth are called tadpoles. They have tails, no legs, breathe by gills, and are aquatic. Six or eight weeks later the legs are fully developed, the tail is absorbed, and they quit the water, remaining, however, in its vicinity to the last. The common frog is found in most parts of this country, in Europe, in the north ern parts of Asia, and in the North of Africa. Rana esculent a is the Eatable frog, common on the European continent, R. pipiens is the Bull-frog of North America, and R. clamitans the Grunting or Argus Frog. 2. Pl . Frogs: The family Ranide, of which Rana is the type. They have a thick body, destitute of a tail; feet four, long, muscular, and adapted for leaping; the larva elongate, fish-like, tailed, and without legs; the gills four on each side. The family does not include the Tree Frogs, which are ranked as Hylidæ (q. v.). "Yield me an hostry mongst the croking frogs." Spenser: F. Q., V. x. 23. 2. Farr.: A kind of tender horny substance growing in the middle of a horse's foot, dividing into two branches, which run like a fork toward the heel. "The heel broad, the frog thin and small."-Southey: The Doctor , ch. cxliii. According to Prof. Skeat, the word in sense 2 is a corruption of fork ; if so, that sense should be referred to FROG (3) (q. v.). frog-cheese, s.