Fringillaceous to Frolicsome
Fringillaceous
(Frin`gil*la"ceous) a. (Zoöl.) Fringilline.
Fringilline
(Frin*gil"line) a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
Fringy
(Frin"gy) a. Aborned with fringes. Shak.
Fripper
(Frip"per) n. [F. fripier, fr. friper to rumple, fumble, waste.] One who deals in frippery or in
old clothes. [Obs.] Bacon.
Fripperer
(Frip"per*er) n. A fripper. [Obs.] Johnson.
Frippery
(Frip"per*y) n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.]
1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Fond of gauze and French frippery.
Goldsmith.
The gauzy frippery of a French translation.
Sir W. Scott. 3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Frippery
(Frip"per*y) a. Trifling; contemptible.
Friseur'
(||Fri"seur') n. [F., fr. friser to curl, frizzle. See Frizzle.] A hairdresser.
Frisian
(Fri"sian) a. Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.
Frisian
(Fri"sian), n. A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See
Friesic, n.
Frisk
(Frisk) a. [OF. frieque, cf. OHG. frise lively, brisk, fresh, Dan. & Sw. frisk, Icel. friskr. See
Fresh, a.] Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Frisk
(Frisk), a. A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.
Frisk
(Frisk), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frisked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Frisking.] To leap, skip, dance, or gambol,
in fronc and gayety.
The frisking satyrs on the summits danced.
Addison. Friskal
(Frisk"al) n. A leap or caper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Frisker
(Frisker) n. One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled
person. Camden.
Frisket
(Fris"ket) n. [F. frisguette. Perh. so named from the velocity or frequency of its motion. See
Frisk a.] (Print.) The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
Friskful
(Frisk"ful) a. Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
Friskily'
(Frisk"i*ly') adv. In a frisky manner.
Friskiness
(Frisk"i*ness), n. State or quality of being frisky.
