From to Frosting
From
(From) prep. [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan.
frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E. forth. 202. Cf. Fro, Foremost.] 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.
Experience from the time past to the time present.
Bacon.
The song began from Jove.
Drpden.
From high Mæonia's rocky shores I came.
Addison.
If the wind blow any way from shore.
Shak. From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent with. "Anything so overdone is from
the purpose of playing." Shak. From, when joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity
for abbreviating the sentence. "There followed him great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond
Jordan." Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more
obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth from, out from — from being
virtually the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From
afar, under Afar, adv.
Sudden partings such as press
The life from out young hearts.
Byron. Fromward
(From"ward From"wards) prep. [AS. framweard about to depart. Cf. Froward] A way from; —
the contrary of toward. [Obs.]
Towards or fromwards the zenith.
Cheyne. Frond
(Frond) n. [L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage.] (Bot.) 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.
Frondation
(Fron*da"tion) n. [L. frondatio, from frons. See Frond.] The act of stripping, as trees, of
leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.
Fronde
(||Fronde) n. [F.] (F. Hist.) A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who
opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
Fronded
(Frond"ed) a. Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.
Frondent
(Fron"dent) a. [L. frondens, p. pr. of frondere to put forth leaves. See Frond.] Covered
with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]
Frondesce
(Fron*desce") v. i. [L. frondescere, inchoative fr. frondere. See Frondent.] To unfold
leaves, as plants.
Frondescence
(Fron*des"cence) n. (Bot.) (a) The time at which each species of plants unfolds its
leaves. (b) The act of bursting into leaf. Milne. Martyn.
