Froufrou Frou"frou` noun [ French, of imitative origin.] A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress.

Frounce Frounce intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Frounced ; present participle & verbal noun Frouncing .] [ Middle English frouncen , fronsen , to told, wrinkle, Old French froncier , French froncer , perhaps from an assumed Late Latin frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, Latin frons forehead. See Front , and confer Flounce part of a dress.] To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.

Not tricked and frounced , as she was wont.

Milton.

Frounce Frounce intransitive verb To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [ Obsolete]

The Commons frounced and stormed.

Holland.

Frounce Frounce noun 1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.

2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.

Frounceless Frounce"less adjective Without frounces. Rom. of R.

Frouzy Frou"zy adjective [ Prov. English frouzy froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; confer froust a musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and English frounce , frowy .] Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy . "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

Frow Frow noun [ Dutch vrouw ; akin to German frau woman, wife, goth, fráuja master, lord, Anglo-Saxon freá .] 1. A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. Beau. & Fl.

2. A dirty woman; a slattern. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Frow Frow noun [ Confer Frower .] A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

Frow Frow adjective Brittle. [ Obsolete] Evelyn.

Froward Fro"ward adjective [ Fro + - ward . See Fro , and confer Fromward .] Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.

A froward man soweth strife.

Prov. xvi. 28.

A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation.

Bacon.

Syn. -- Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory; obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See Perverse .

-- Fro"ward*ly , adverb -- Fro"ward*ness , noun

Frower Frow"er noun [ Confer frow a frower, and Prov. E, frommard .] A tool. See 2d Frow . Tusser.

Frowey Frow"ey adjective [ See Frow , adjective ] (Carp.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

Frown Frown intransitive verb [ imperfect &, past participle Frowned ; present participle & verbal noun Frowning .] [ Old French froignier , French frogner , in se refrogner , se renfrogner , to knit the brow, to frown; perhaps of Teutonic origin; confer Italian in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. Italian frignare to cringe the face, to make a wry face, dial. Swedish fryna to make a wry face,] 1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.

The frowning wrinkle of her brow.

Shak.

2. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.

The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.

Shak.

Frown Frown transitive verb To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.

Frown Frown noun 1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

Prior.

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.

H. Coleridge.

2. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

Frowningly Frown"ing·ly adverb In a frowning manner.

Frowny Frown"y adjective Frowning; scowling. [ Obsolete]

Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder.

Sir F. Palgrave.

Frowy Frow"y adjective [ Confer Frowzy , Frouzy .] Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. " Frowy feed." Spenser

Frowzy Frow"zy adjective [ See Frouzy .] Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy ." Spenser.

The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes.

W. D. Howells.

Froze Froze imperfect of Freeze .

Frozen Fro"zen adjective 1. Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.

They warmed their frozen feet.

Dryden.

2. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

3. Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [ R.]

Be not ever frozen , coy.

T. Carew.

Frozenness Fro"zen·ness noun A state of being frozen.

Frubish Frub"ish transitive verb [ See Furbish .] To rub up: to furbish. [ Obsolete] Beau. c& Et.

Fructed Fruc"ted adjective [ Latin fructus fruit. See Fruit .] (Her.) Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

Fructescence Fruc·tes"cence noun [ Latin fructus fruit.] (Botany) The maturing or ripening of fruit. [ R.] Martyn.

Fructiculose Fruc·tic"u·lose` adjective Fruitful; full of fruit.

Fructidor Fruc`ti`dor" noun [ French, from Latin fructus fruit.] The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire .

Fructiferuos Fruc·tif"er·uos adjective [ Latin fructifer ; fructus fruit + ferre to bear; confer French fructifère .] Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.

Fructification Fruc`ti·fi·ca"tion noun [ Latin fructificatio : confer French fructification .] 1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

The prevalent fructification of plants.

Sir T. Brown.

2. (Botany) (a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. (b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.

Fructify Fruc"ti·fy (frŭk"tĭ*fī) intransitive verb [ French fructifier , Latin fructificare ; fructus fruit + -ficare (only in comp.), akin to Latin facere to make. See Fruit , and Fact .] To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify ." Beveridge.

Fructify Fruc"ti·fy transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fructified ; present participle & verbal noun Fructifying .] To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

Fructose Fruc·tose" (frŭk*tōs" or frŭk"tōs) noun [ Latin fructus fruit.] (Chemistry) Fruit sugar; levulose. [ R.]

Fructuary Fruc"tu·a·ry (frŭk"tu*a*rȳ) noun ; plural Fructuaries (- rĭz). [ Latin fructuarius .] One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.

Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries .

Prynne.

Fructuation Fruc"tu·a`tion (-ā"shŭn) noun Produce; fruit. [ R.]

Fructuous Fruc"tu·ous adjective [ Latin fructuosus : cf, French fructueux .] Fruitful; productive; profitable. [ Obsolete]

Nothing fructuous or profitable.

Chaucer.

-- Fruc"tu*ous*ly , adverb -- Fruc"tu*ous*ness , noun [ Obsolete]

Fructure Fruc"ture noun [ Latin frui , past participle fructus , to enjoy. See Fruit , noun ] Use; fruition; enjoyment. [ Obsolete] Cotgrave.

Frue vanner Frue" van"ner [ Etymol. uncertain.] (Mining) A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

Frugal Fru"gal adjective [ Latin frugalis , from frugi , lit., for fruit ; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux , frugis , fruit, akin to English fruit : confer French frugal . See Fruit , noun ] 1. 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.

I oft admire
How Nature, wise and frugal , could commit
Such disproportions.

Milton.

2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune. " Frugal fare." Dryden.

Frugality Fru·gal"i·ty noun ; plural Frugalities . [ Latin frugalitas : confer French frugalité .] 1. 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 .

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have
limits.

Burke.

2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.

Syn. -- Economy; parsimony. See Economy .

Frugally Fru"gal·ly adverb Thriftily; prudently.

Frugalness Fru"gal·ness noun Quality of being frugal; frugality.

Frugiferous Fru·gif"er·ous adjective [ Latin frugifer ; frux , frugis , fruit + ferre to bear: confer French frugifere .] Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. Dr. H. More.

Frugivora Fru·giv"o·ra noun plural [ New Latin See Frugivorous .] (Zoology) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat , under Fruit .

Frugivorous Fru·giv"o·rous adjective [ Latin frux , frugis , fruit + vorare to devour.: confer French frugivore .] Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Pennant.

Fruit Fruit noun [ Middle English fruit , frut , French fruit , from Latin fructus enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui , past participle fructus , to enjoy; akin to English brook , transitive verb See Brook , transitive verb , and confer Fructify , Frugal .] 1. Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.

Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the
fruits thereof.

Ex. xxiii. 10.

2. (Hort.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.

3. (Botany) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

» Fruits are classified as fleshy , drupaceous , and dry . Fleshy fruits include berries, gourds, and melons, orangelike fruits and pomes; drupaceous fruits are stony within and fleshy without, as peaches, plums, and cherries; and dry fruits are further divided into achenes , follicles , legumes , capsules , nuts , and several other kinds.
[ 1913 Webster]

4. (Botany) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.

6. The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.

King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown.

Shak.

6. That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.

The fruit of rashness.

Shak.

What I obtained was the fruit of no bargain.

Burke.

They shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Is. iii 10.

The fruits of this education became visible.

Macaulay.

» Fruit is frequently used adjectively, signifying of , for , or pertaining to a fruit or fruits ; as, fruit bud; fruit frame; fruit jar; fruit knife; fruit loft; fruit show; fruit stall; fruit tree; etc.

Fruit bat (Zoology) , one of the Frugivora; -- called also fruit-eating bat . -- Fruit bud (Botany) , a bud that produces fruit; -- in most oplants the same as the power bud. Fruit dot (Botany) , a collection of fruit cases, as in ferns. See Sorus . -- Fruit fly (Zoology) , a small dipterous insect of the genus Drosophila , which lives in fruit, in the larval state. -- Fruit jar , a jar for holding preserved fruit, usually made of glass or earthenware. -- Fruit pigeon (Zoology) , one of numerous species of pigeons of the family Carpophagidæ , inhabiting India, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. They feed largely upon fruit. and are noted for their beautiful colors. -- Fruit sugar (Chemistry) , a kind of sugar occurring, naturally formed, in many ripe fruits, and in honey; levulose. The name is also, though rarely, applied to invert sugar , or to the natural mixture or dextrose and levulose resembling it, and found in fruits and honey. -- Fruit tree (Hort.) , a tree cultivated for its edible fruit. -- Fruit worm (Zoology) , one of numerous species of insect larvæ: which live in the interior of fruit. They are mostly small species of Lepidoptera and Diptera. -- Small fruits (Hort.) , currants, raspberries, strawberries, etc.

Fruit Fruit intransitive verb To bear fruit. Chesterfield.

Fruit'y Fruit'y adjective Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.

Fruitage Fruit"age noun [ French fruitage .] 1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear.

Milton.

2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.

Fruiter Fruit"er adjective A ship for carrying fruit.

Fruiterer Fruit"er·er noun [ Confer French fruitier .] One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.

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