Fright (n.) To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.
Frightened (imp.) of Frighten
Frightening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frighten
Frighten (v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Frightful (a.) Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
Frightful (a.) Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
Frightfully (adv.) In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
Frightfulness (n.) The quality of being frightful.
Frightless (a.) Free from fright; fearless.
Frightment (n.) Fear; terror.
Frigid (a.) Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
Frigid (a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.
Frigid (a.) Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
Frigidaria (pl. ) of Frigidarium
Frigidarium (n.) The cooling room of the Roman thermae, furnished with a cold bath.
Prigidity (n.) The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.
Prigidity (n.) Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.
Prigidity (n.) Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age.
Frigidly (adv.) In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
Frigidness (n.) The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
Frigorific (a.) Alt. of Frigorifical
Frigorifical (a.) Causing cold; producing or generating cold.
Frilled (imp. & p. p.) of Frill
Frilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frill
Frill (v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
Frill (v. i.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
Frill (v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
Frill (v. i.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
Frill (v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
Frill (v. i.) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
Frill (v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
Frill (v. i.) A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Frilled (a.) Furnished with a frill or frills.
Frim (a.) Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous.
Frimaire (n.) The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire.
Fringe (n.) An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
Fringe (n.) Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
Fringe (n.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.
Fringe (n.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.
Fringed (imp. & p. p.) of Fringe
Fringing (p. pr. & vb. a.) of Fringe
Fringe (v. t.) To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
Fringed (a.) Furnished with a fringe.
Fringeless (a.) Having no fringe.
Fringent (a.) Encircling like a fringe; bordering.
Fringilla (a.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.
Fringillaceous (a.) Fringilline.
Fringilline (a.) Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
Fringy (a.) Aborned with fringes.
Fripper (n.) One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
Fripperer (n.) A fripper.
Frippery (n.) Coast-off clothes.
Frippery (n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Frippery (n.) A place where old clothes are sold.
Frippery (n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Frippery (a.) Trifling; contemptible.
Friseur' (n.) A hairdresser.
Frisian (a.) Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.
Frisian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.
Frisk (a.) Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
Frisk (a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
Frisked (imp. & p. p.) of Frisk
Frisking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frisk
Frisk (v. i.) To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
Friskal (n.) A leap or caper.
Frisker (n.) One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
Frisket (a.) The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
Friskful (a.) Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
Friskily' (adv.) In a frisky manner.
Friskiness (n.) State or quality of being frisky.
Frisky (a.) Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.
Frislet (n.) A kind of small ruffle.
Frist (v. t.) To sell upon credit, as goods.
Frisure (n.) The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.
Frit (v. t.) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
Frit (v. t.) The material for glaze of pottery.
Fritted (imp. & p. p.) of Frit
Fritting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frit
Frit (v. t.) To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Frit (v. t.) To fritter; -- with away.
Frith (n.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.
Frith (n.) A kind of weir for catching fish.
Frith (a.) A forest; a woody place.
Frith (a.) A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.
Frithy (a.) Woody.
Fritillaria (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.
Fritillary (n.) A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.
Fritillary (n.) One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.
Fritinancy (n.) A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket.
Fritter (v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
Fritter (v. t.) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
Frittered (imp. & p. p.) of Fritter
Frittering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fritter
Fritter (v. t.) To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
Fritter (v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.
Fritting (n.) The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.
Frivolism (n.) Frivolity.
Frivolities (pl. ) of Frivolity
Frivolity (n.) The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
Frivolous (a.) Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; as, a frivolous argument.