Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To fold or wrinkle.
- To curl or frizzle, as hair.
- To adorn with fringes, frills, or other ornaments of dress.
- To wrinkle the forehead; frown.
- n. A flounce, fold, plait, or frill, as of a garment; a wrinkle; a crease.
- n. A disease in hawks in which white spittle gathers about the bill.
- n. A disease in a horse's mouth in which a mass of pimples appears on the palate; the pimples themselves.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
- v. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
- n. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
- n. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.
Examples
“I say that the eyas should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher — ’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon.””
“7 Some frounce their curled hair in courtly guise; frounce > twist into folds, plait guise > manner”
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