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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To fold or wrinkle.
  2. To curl or frizzle, as hair.
  3. To adorn with fringes, frills, or other ornaments of dress.
  4. To wrinkle the forehead; frown.
  5. n. A flounce, fold, plait, or frill, as of a garment; a wrinkle; a crease.
  6. n. A disease in hawks in which white spittle gathers about the bill.
  7. n. A disease in a horse's mouth in which a mass of pimples appears on the palate; the pimples themselves.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
  2. v. to curl
  3. v. to crease, wrinkle

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
  2. v. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
  3. n. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
  4. 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.””

    The Abbot

  • “7 Some frounce their curled hair in courtly guise; frounce > twist into folds, plait guise > manner”

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

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