Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 67
Fron'tated (a.) Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
Fronted (a.) Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." -- Milton.
Frontier (n.) [C] 國境，邊境；邊疆 [（+between/ with）]；【美】（靠近未開發地帶的）邊遠地區 [the S] That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
Frontier (n.) (Fort.) An outwork. [Obs.]
Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. -- Shak.
Frontier (a.) Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
Frontier (a.) Of or relating to a frontier. "Frontier experience." -- W. Irving.
Frontier (v. i.) To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Temple.
Frontier (n.) A wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day."
Frontier (n.) An international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary.
Frontier (n.) An undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science."
Frontiered (p. a.) Placed on the frontiers. [R.]
Frontiersmen (n. pl. ) of Frontiersman.
Frontiersman (n.) A man living on the frontier. Frontignac
Frontignac (n.) Alt. of Frontignan.
Frontignan (n.) A sweet muscadine
wine made in Frontignan (
Frontignan (n.) (Bot.) A grape of many varieties and colors.
Frontingly (adv.) In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.
Frontiniac (n.) See Frontignac.
Frontispiece (n.) The part which first meets the eye; as:
Frontispiece (n.) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.]
Frontispiece (n.) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.
Frontless (a.) Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. [Obs.] "Frontless vice." -- Dryden. "Frontless flattery." -- Pope.
Frontlessly (adv.) Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]
Frontlet (n.) A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.
They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. -- Deut. vi. 8.
Frontlet (n.) A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic]
What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown. -- Shak.
Frontlet (n.) (Zool.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.
Front line (n.) (Also Frontline) (usually The front line) 最前線；戰線；火線 The military line or part of an army that is closest to the enemy.
[As modifier] ‘The front-line troops.’
Front line (n.) The most important or influential position in a debate or movement.
‘It is doctors who are on the front line of the euthanasia debate.’
Fronto- () (Anat.) A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.
Fronton (n.) (Arch.) Same as Frontal, 2.
Fronton, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 599
Housing Units (2000): 218
Land area (2000): 4.305608 sq. miles (11.151472 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.305608 sq. miles (11.151472 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27744
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 26.413677 N, 99.082187 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fronton, TX
Fronton
Froppish (a.) Peevish; froward. [Obs.] -- Clarendon.
Frore (adv.) Frostily. [Obs.]
The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. -- Milton.
Frore (a.) Very cold; "whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet."
Frorn (p. a.) Frozen. [Obs.]
Well nigh frorn I feel. -- Spenser.
Frory (a.) Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Frory (a.) Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic]
The foaming steed with frory bit to steer. -- Fairfax.
Frostted (imp. & p. p.) of Frost.
Frosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frost.
Frost (v. t.) To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
Frost (v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass ; as, glass may be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.
While with a hoary light she frosts the ground. -- Wordsworth.
Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
Frost (n.) The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
Frost (n.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost. -- Shak.
Frost (n.) Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. -- Ps. cxlvii. 16.
Frost (n.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.]
It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath. -- Sir W. Scott.
Black frost, Cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost.
Frost bearer (Physics), A philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophorus.
Frost grape (Bot.), An American grape, with very small, acid berries.
Frost lamp, A lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses. -- Knight.
Frost nail, A nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keep him from slipping.
Frost smoke, An appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.
The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters. -- Kane.
Frost valve, A valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze.
Jack Frost, A popular personification of frost.
Frost (n.) Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime].
Frost (n.) Weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: freeze, frost].
Frost (n.) The formation of frost or ice on a surface [syn: frost, icing].
Frost (n.) United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963) [syn: Frost, Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost].
Frost (v.) Decorate with frosting; "frost a cake" [syn: frost, ice].
Frost (v.) Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance; "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair."
Frost (v.) Cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass."
Frost (v.) Damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown."
Frost, () (Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., "ice"); Gen. 31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered "ice" in Job 6:16, 38:29; and "crystal" in Ezek. 1:22. "At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the lower portions of the valley of the Jordan, but slight frosts are sometimes felt on the sea-coast and near Lebanon." Throughout Western Asia cold frosty nights are frequently succeeded by warm days.
"Hoar frost" (Heb. kephor, so called from its covering the ground) is mentioned in Ex. 16:14; Job 38:29; Ps. 147:16.
In Ps. 78:47 the word rendered "frost" (R.V. marg., "great hail-stones"), _hanamal_, occurs only there. It is rendered by Gesenius, the Hebrew lexicographer, "ant," and so also by others, but the usual interpretation derived from the ancient versions may be maintained.
Frost, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 648
Housing Units (2000): 250
Land area (2000): 1.131297 sq. miles (2.930045 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005027 sq. miles (0.013021 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.136324 sq. miles (2.943066 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27768
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.079218 N, 96.808544 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76641
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Frost, TX
Frost
Frost, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 251
Housing Units (2000): 126
Land area (2000): 0.526569 sq. miles (1.363807 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.526569 sq. miles (1.363807 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22940
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 43.585305 N, 93.924737 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56033
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Frost, MN
Frost
Frostbird (n.) (Zool.) The golden plover.
Frostbite (n.) [U] 凍傷，凍瘡；霜凍災害 The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.
Frostbite (v. t.) 使凍傷，使生凍瘡；使受霜害 To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves. -- Pepys.
Frostbite (n.) Destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene [syn: {frostbite}, {cryopathy}].
Frostbite (n.) [Mass noun] Injury to body tissues caused by exposure to extreme cold, typically affecting the nose, fingers, or toes and often resulting in gangrene.
‘When they rescued him he was suffering from frostbite.’
Frost-bitten (p. a.) Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.
Frost-blite (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. -- Gray.
Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters ({Chenopodium album). -- Dr. Prior.
Frosted (a.) Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted donuts.
Frosted (a.) Provided with a surface finish which is matte or with a very fine grain, reminiscent of the surface texture of frost; as, frosted glass. Opposed to polished or burnished.
Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. -- Knight.
Frosted (a.) (Of glass) Having a roughened coating resembling frost; "frosted glass."
Frostfish (n.) (Zool.) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod.
Frostfish (n.) (Zool.) The smelt. [Local, U. S.]
Frostfish (n.) A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish ({Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
Compare: Scabbard
Scabbard (n.) The case in which the blade of a sword, dagger, etc., is kept; a sheath.
Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade. -- Fairfax.
Scabbard fish (Zool.), A long, compressed, silver-colored taenioid fish ({Lepidopus argyreus syn. Lepidopus caudatus), found on the European coasts, and more abundantly about New Zealand, where it is called frostfish and considered an excellent food fish.
Compare: Tomcod
Tomcod (n.) (Zool.) (a) A small edible American fish ({Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish.
Tomcod (n.) (Zool.) (b) The kingfish. See Kingfish (a) .
Tomcod (n.) (Zool.) (c) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c) .
Cutlass fish, cutlassfish (n.) (Zool.) A peculiar, long, thin, marine fish ({Trichiurus lepturus) of the southern United States and West Indies, having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp daggerlike teeth; -- called also frostfish, saber fish, silver eel, and, improperly, swordfish; also, several related members of the genus Trichiurus. It is closely related to snake mackerel.
Syn: frost fish, frostfish, hairtail.
Frostily (adv.) In a frosty manner.
Frostily (adv.) Without warmth or enthusiasm; "`Come in if you have to,' he said frostily" [syn: frostily, frigidly].
Frostiness (n.) State or quality of being frosty.
Frostiness (n.) Coldness as evidenced by frost.
Frostiness (n.) A silvery-white color [syn: frostiness, hoariness].
Frosting (n.) A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
Frosting (n.) A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
Frosting (n.) The lightened color on part of an object, as of hair, produced by treatment with bleach or other chemicals; as only part of the object is thus treated, the final color of the object is two-toned; also, the process of producing such a two-toned effect.
Frosting (n.) A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes [syn: frosting, icing, ice].
Frostless (a.) Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
Frostless (a.) Same as frost-free.
Frostweed (n.) (Bot.) An American species of rockrose ({Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
Note: It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so called because, late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root; -- called also frostwort.
Frostweed (n.) Perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts [syn: frostweed, frost-weed, frostwort, Helianthemum canadense, Crocanthemum canadense].
Frostweed (n.) Tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States [syn: Virginia crownbeard, frostweed, frost-weed, Verbesina virginica].
Frostwork (n.) The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
Frostwort (n.) (Bot.) Same as Frostweed.
Frostwort (n.) Perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts [syn: frostweed, frost-weed, frostwort, Helianthemum canadense, Crocanthemum canadense].
Frosty (a.) Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
Frosty (a.) Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
Frosty (a.) Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. -- Johnson.
Frosty (a.) Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. -- Shak.
Frosty (a.) Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry].
Frosty (a.) Covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"-Wm.Faulkner [syn: frosty, rimed, rimy].
Frosty (a.) Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy].
Frote (v. t.) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Froterer (n.) One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Frothed (imp. & p. p.) of Froth.
Frothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Froth.
Froth (v. t.) To cause to foam.
Froth (v. t.) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
He . . . froths treason at his mouth. -- Dryden.
Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more? -- Tennyson.
Froth (v. t.) To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
Froth (v. i.) To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.
Froth (n.) The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
Froth (n.) Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. -- Johnson.
It was a long speech, but all froth. -- L'Estrange.
Froth (n.) Light, unsubstantial matter. -- Tusser.
Froth insect (Zool.), The cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.
Froth (n.) A mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam" [syn: foam, froth].
Froth (v.) Become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles].
Froth (v.) Make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed" [syn: froth, spume, suds].
Froth (v.) Exude or expel foam; "the angry man was frothing at the mouth."
Frothily (adv.) In a frothy manner.
Frothily (adv.) In a frothy manner; "the champagne poured frothily into the glasses."
Frothiness (n.) State or quality of being frothy.
Frothiness (n.) The property of giving off bubbles [syn: bubbliness, effervescence, frothiness].
Frothing (n.) Exaggerated declamation; rant.
Frothing (a.) Producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease; "the rabid animal's frothing mouth" [syn: foaming, foamy, frothing].
Frothless (a.) Free from froth.
Frothy (a.) 泡沫的；泡沫般的；淺薄的；不重要的 Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.
Frothy (a.) Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. -- Bacon.
Frothy (a.) Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. -- Tillotson.
Frothy (a.) Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: {bubbling}, {bubbly}, {foaming}, {foamy}, {frothy}, {effervescing}, {spumy}].
Frothy (a.) Marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: {bubbling}, {effervescent}, {frothy}, {scintillating}, {sparkly}].
Frounce (v. i.) To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.]
The Commons frounced and stormed. -- Holland.
Frounce (n.) A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Frounce (n.) An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. -- Booth.
Frounced (imp. & p. p.) of Frounce.
Frouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frounce.
Frounce (v. i.) 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.
Frounceless (a.) Without frounces. -- Rom. of R.
Frouzy (a.) Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." -- Swift.
Frow (n.) A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. -- Beau. & Fl.
Frow (n.) A dirty woman; a slattern. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
Frow (a.) Brittle. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Froward (a.) 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, adv. -- Fro"ward*ness, n.
Froward (a.) Habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition [syn: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful, wilful].
Frower (n.) A tool. See 2d Frow. -- Tusser.
Frowey (a.) (Carp.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.
Frowned (imp. &, p. p.) of Frown.
Frowning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frown.
Frown (v. i.) 皺眉；表示不滿 [（+at/ on/ upon）] 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.
Frown (v. i.) 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 (v. t.) 用皺眉蹙額對……表示不滿；用皺眉蹙額表示（不滿等） To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
Frown (n.) 皺眉，蹙額；不悅之色 [C] 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.