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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.
A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress.
A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
Without frounces.
Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.
Brittle.
Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
A tool. See 2d Frow.
Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.
A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stern look; a scowl.
In a frowning manner.
Frowning; scowling.
Musty; rancid; as, frowy butter.
Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.
imp. of Freeze.
Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.
A state of being frozen.
To rub up: to furbish.
Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon.
The maturing or ripening of fruit.
Fruitful; full of fruit.
The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vend/miaire.
Bearing or producing fruit.
The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
Fruit sugar; levulose.
One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
Produce; fruit.
Fruitful; productive; profitable.
Use; fruition; enjoyment.
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.
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.
Thriftily; prudently.
Quality of being frugal; frugality.
Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.
The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.
Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals.
To bear fruit.
Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful.
Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
A ship for carrying fruit.
One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
A woman who sells fruit.
A fruiteress.
Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
The bearing of fruit.
Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
Enjoying; possessing.
Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.
Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.
Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
A mocker.
Cross-tempered; scornful.
The frog of a horse's foot.
Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
Vain; useless; unprofitable.
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.
In vain.
preventing realization or attainment of a desire; causing frustration.
The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs.
Tending to defeat; fallacious.
Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal.
The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
Abounding in fragments.
A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wisteria.
A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.
Full of shoots.
Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
Fruticose.
Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
A dish of anything fried.
Something or someone that fries.
The process denoted by the verb fry.
To send from one computer to another by means of the standard file transfer protocol (ftp); as, he ftp'd me the file yesterday.
A department in China comprising several hsein; also, the chief city of a department; -- often forming the last part of a name; as, Paoting-fu.
Same as Fumage.
Same as Feuar.
To put off by trickery; to cheat.
Cheating; deception.
A plump young person or child.
Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa.
An order coextensive with the family Fucaceae.
Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.
A student of the first year.
A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.
Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.
Eating fucus or other seaweeds.
to have sexual intercourse (with).
snarled or stalled in complete confusion.
a stupid foolish man.
a stupid person; -- disparaging and vulgar.
unpleasant; annoying; -- also used as an informal intensifier.
A plant, whether recent or fossil, which resembles a seaweed. See Fucoid, a.
Fucoid.
A paint; a dye; also, false show.
An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.
The tail of a hare, coney, etc.
See Fodder, a weight.
To drink to excess.
A drunkard.
A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.
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