frory

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  1. Frozen; frosty. Her up betwixt his rugged hands he reard, And with his frory lips full softly kist. Spenser, F. Q., III. viii. 35.
  2. Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost. She us'd with tender hand The foaming steed with frory bit to steare. Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, ii. 40.

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  1. Irreg. from frore + -y. Cf. Anglo-Saxon freórig, freezing, frozen, chilled, from freósan, freeze: see freeze.
 

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