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.

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.

a term or factor inserted into a calculation to compensate for anticipated errors, or to arbitrarily make the result conform to some desired conclusion.

Of or pertaining to Terra del Fuego. A native of Terra del Fuego.

To feed with fuel.

One who, or that which, supplies fuel.

A code; a charter; a grant of privileges. A custom having the force of law. A declaration by a magistrate. A place where justice is administered. The jurisdiction of a tribunal.

To puff.

Light; puffy.

A fugue.

Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.

Fugacity.

The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits.

Banishment.

in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue. A composition resembling a fugue.

An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh.

a short, condensed fugue.

One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

In a fugitive manner.

The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.

To maneuver; to move hither and thither.

A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing.

A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.

A musician who composes or performs fugues.

The language of the Fulani people, a member of the Niger-Congo family of languages.

A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Muslims. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah and Fulani are also used adjectively; as, Fulah or Fulani empire, tribes, language.

Same as Fulahs.

Capable of being propped up.