frouzy, frowsy

[Etym. doubtful, per haps from frow (1).] 1. Musty, rank, fetid. 2. Dirty, slovenly. 3. Dim, cloudy, not clean. frow (1), s. [Dut. vrow; Ger.frau a woman, a wife.] A dirty, slovenly woman; a slattern. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, 1936 frow (2), froe, s. [Etym. doubtful; perhaps connected with frow, a. (q. v.)] Coopering : A cleaving tool for riving staves, shingles, or clapboards from the balk, billet, or juggle. It has a sharp edge, wedge-shaped blade, and a handle set in the plane of the blade, but at right angles to its length. It is driven by a mallet. *frow, a . [FROUGH.) Brittle; easily broken or cleft. frō-ward, *fra-ward, a. & adv. [The Northern form of from ward (q. v.).] A. As adjective : 1. Not willing to yield or comply with what is asked or required; perverse; peevish; refractory; ungovernable; difficult to manage; morose. "Ru ell had always been froward , arrogant, and mutinous."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng , ch. xix. 2. Unpropitious, adverse. "To th' importunity Of froward fortune shall be forced to yeeld." Spenser: F. Q., III. iii. 31. *B. As adv.: Away from. "At even cam a fug elf light froward Arabie to hem rigt." Genesis and Exodus , 3,321. frō-ward-ly, adv . [Eng. froward ; -ly .] In a froward, perverse, morose, or petulant manner. "I nid me and was wroth, and he went frowardly in the way of his heart." -Isaiah lvii. 17.