To search (a person) for concealed weapons or other objects, by patting the clothing to detect objects underneath; as, the police pulled the car over and frisked the occupants.
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A leap or caper.
One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
In a frisky manner.
State or quality of being frisky.
The act or process of searching someone for concealed weapons.
Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.
A kind of small ruffle.
To sell upon credit, as goods.
The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.
To fritter; -- with away.
A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.
A forest; a woody place.
A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary.
Woody.
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.
A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.
A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket.
To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.
To become inoperable; of devices. See also on the fritz.
To act frivolously; to trifle.
Frivolity.
The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.
See 1st Frieze.
A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
One who frizzles.
Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.
From.
To clothe in a frock.
Clothed in a frock.
Destitute of a frock.
An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow.
Pertaining to, or derived from, Friedrich Froebel, or the kindergarten system of education, which he organized. One who teaches by, or advocates the use of, the kindergarten system.
To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4.
Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying; -- said of tobacco used for cigar wrappers.
A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ran/), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish heart-shaped leaves and small white flowers. An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.
See Angler, n., 2. An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.
Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4.
Abounding in frogs.
to march a person against his will by any method.
One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargid/); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
Frogbit.
One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise.
To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
Frolicsome.
Frolicsome.
In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.
Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the antithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
A way from; -- the contrary of toward.
Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
Furnished with fronds.
Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.
To unfold leaves, as plants.
The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves. The act of bursting into leaf.
A member of the Fronde.
Producing fronds.
A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.
Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves. Leafy.
Frondose.
The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.
a competitor thought to be most likely to win.
The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.
Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet An ornamental band for the hair. The metal face guard of a soldier.
any of the front seats in the House of Commons of Great Britain that are reserved for ministers or ex-ministers.
a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is a minister or an ex-minister.
Formed with a front; drawn up in line.
To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
Placed on the frontiers.
A man living on the frontier.
A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.
In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
See Frontignac.
The part which first meets the eye The principal front of a building. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.
Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.
Shamelessly; impudently.
A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.
Same as Frontal, 2.
Peevish; froward.
Frostily.
Frozen.
Frozen; stiff with cold.
a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university; a freshman.
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).
not accumulating frost; -- used especially of refrigerators with an automatic defrost cycle such that the freezer compartment remains free of ice without need for a manual defrosting.
The golden plover.
To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted donuts.
The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
of or pertaining to Robert Frost (definition 4).
In a frosty manner.
State or quality of being frosty.
A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
Same as Frostweed.
Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes.
To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
In a frothy manner.
State or quality of being frothy.
Exaggerated declamation; rant.
Free from froth.
Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
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