Frown (n.) Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
Frowningly (adv.) In a frowning manner.
Frowny (a.) Frowning; scowling.
Frowy (a.) Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter.
Frowzy (a.) Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.
Froze () imp. of Freeze.
Frozen (a.) Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.
Frozen (a.) Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.
Frozen (a.) Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.
Frozenness (n.) A state of being frozen.
Frubish (v. t.) To rub up: to furbish.
Fructed (a.) Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon.
Fructescence (n.) The maturing or ripening of fruit.
Fructiculose (a.) Fruitful; full of fruit.
Fructidor (n.) The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendemiaire.
Fructiferuos (a.) Bearing or producing fruit.
Fructification (n.) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
Fructification (n.) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
Fructification (n.) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
Fructify (v. i.) To bear fruit.
Fructified (imp. & p. p.) of Fructify
Fructifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fructify
Fructify (v. t.) To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
Fructose (n.) Fruit sugar; levulose.
Fructuaries (pl. ) of Fructuary
Fructuary (n.) One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
Fructuation (n.) Produce; fruit.
Fructuous (a.) Fruitful; productive; profitable.
Fructure (n.) Use; fruition; enjoyment.
Frue vanner () A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
Frugal (n.) Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time.
Frugal (n.) Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune.
Frugalities (pl. ) of Frugality
Frugality (n.) The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.
Frugality (n.) A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
Frugally (adv.) Thriftily; prudently.
Frugalness (n.) Quality of being frugal; frugality.
Frugiferous (a.) Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.
Frugivora (n. pl.) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.
Frugivorous (a.) Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
Fruit (v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
Fruit (v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
Fruit (v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
Fruit (v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
Fruit (v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
Fruit (v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
Fruit (v. i.) To bear fruit.
Fruitage (n.) Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
Fruitage (n.) Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
Fruiter (a.) A ship for carrying fruit.
Fruiterer (n.) One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
Fruiteress (n.) A woman who sells fruit.
Fruiteries (pl. ) of Fruitery
Fruitery (n.) Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
Fruitery (n.) A repository for fruit.
Fruitestere (n.) A fruiteress.
Fruitful (a.) Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
Fruiting (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
Fruiting (n.) The bearing of fruit.
Fruition (n.) Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
Fruitive (a.) Enjoying; possessing.
Fruitless (a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
Fruitless (a.) Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
Fruit'y (a.) Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful.
Frumentaceous (a.) Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.
Frumentarious (a.) Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
Frumentation (n.) A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
Frumenty (n.) Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
Frump (v. t.) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
Frump (n.) A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
Frump (n.) A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
Frumper (n.) A mocker.
Frumpish (a.) Cross-tempered; scornful.
Frumpish (a.) Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.
Frush (v. t.) To batter; to break in pieces.
Frush (a.) Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
Frush (n.) Noise; clatter; crash.
Frush (n.) The frog of a horse's foot.
Frush (n.) A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.
Frustrable (a.) Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
Frustraneous (a.) Vain; useless; unprofitable.
Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Frustrated (imp. & p. p.) of Frustrate
Frustrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frustrate
Frustrate (v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
Frustrate (v. t.) To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
Frustrately (adv.) In vain.
Frustration (n.) The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs
Frustrative (a.) Tending to defeat; fallacious.
Frustratory (a.) Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal.
Frustule (n.) The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
Frustulent (a.) Abounding in fragments.
Frusta (pl. ) of Frustum
Frustums (pl. ) of Frustum
Frustum (n.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.
Frustum (n.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column.
Frutage (n.) A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
Frutage (n.) A confection of fruit.
Frutescent (a.) Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.
Frutex (n.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.