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[Etym. doubtful.] A flying shower of sleet or snow. ( Scotch.) frog (1), v. t. (FROG (2), 8.] To fasten or ornament with a frog. "City clerks in frogged coats."-Lytton. frog (2), v. i. [FROG (5), s.] To snow or sleet at intervals. ( Scotch.) frog-bit, s . (A translation of Lat. Morsus ranæ as the name of the best-known species (see def.). Why so called is uncertain.] Bot.: The genus Hydro char is (q. v.), and specially H. mors us ranæ , or European frogbit. It has orbicular, reniform leaves, and flowers in July and August. American frog bit : Bot.: The genus Linnobium. *frog-er-ỹ, s. [Eng.frog; -ery.] A place where frogs abound. frog-fish, s. [Eng. frog, and fish.] Ichthyology: IMG:content-0172.png:[blocks in formation] "To have his froghood called in question." pine, pit, sire, sir, Smart: The Duellist. marine; gō, pot, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0174.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0175.png:[blocks in formation] "The me engers from our sister and the king." Shakesp.: Lear , ii. 2. "The most high Eternal Father, from his secret cloud Amidst, in thunder uttered thus his voice." Milton: P. L., x. 32. 4. Out of; noting abstraction or withdrawal. "Clari a drew, with tempting grace, A two-edged weapon from the shining case." And took him trembling from his sovereign's side" Dryden: Virgil's Æneid, vi. 536. "It has peace, and much secures the mind From all attacks of evil, proving still A faithful barrier." Cowper: Task , iii. 680. "Thus the hard and stubborn race of man From animated rock and flint began." among, from beneath, from beyond, from behind. from far , from high, from hence, from thence, from whence (in these last three the from is superfluous), from off , from out of, from under, from where, from without , from within . From time to time: At intervals, now and then. The following are now obsolete: "The king with angry threatenings from out a window commanded his guard and the rest of his soldiers to hasten their death."- Sidney : Arcadia. *from-shapen, a. Mi hapen. "From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor descent: Acætes is my name." "I was further fro my loue Than erthe is from the heauen aboue." 11. Away or separated from; not near; without. "To die by thee were but to die in jest: From thee to die, were torture more than death." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . II . , iii. 2. the ground. 12. Up; noting ascent from; as, He leaped from 13. Followed by to : noting succe ion or progres- sion. "I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care." "I cannot truckle to a fool of state, Nor take a favor from the man I hate." *15. Contrary to; not in accord with. "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing; whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature."-Shakesp.: Hamlet, 16. Noting change. "Transformed from a fair damysele into likene of a deo to put forth leaves, to be green.] To unfold And high disdain, from sense of injured merit, That with the mightiest raised me to contend." Milton: P. L. , i. 98. 3. After; noting derivation or source. "I lay the deep foundations of a wall, And Enos, named from me, the city call." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid, iii. 28. 4. Noting the source or origin. "Go, from the creatures thy instructions take." Pope : E ay on Man , iii. 172. 5. Noting progre ion from premises to inferences. *B. As adv.: Away. leaves, as plants; to come into leaf. fron-děsç'-ençe, s. IMG:content-0176.png:[blocks in formation]