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.
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.
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.) 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".
Frostbird (n.) 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.) A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache.
Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).
Frosted (a.) Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
Frostfish (n.) 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.) The smelt.
Frostfish (n.) A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.
Frostily (adv.) In a frosty manner.
Frostiness (n.) State or quality of being frosty.
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.
Frostless (a.) Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.
Frostweed (n.) An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.
Frostwork (n.) The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.
Frostwort (n.) Same as Frostweed.
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.
Frosty (a.) Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
Frote (v. t.) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
Froterer (n.) One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes.
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.
Froth (n.) Light, unsubstantial matter.
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.
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.
Frothily (adv.) In a frothy manner.
Frothiness (n.) State or quality of being frothy.
Frothing (n.) Exaggerated declamation; rant.
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}].
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.
Frounce (v. i.) To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
Frounce (n.) A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
Frounce (n.) An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.
Frounceless (a.) Without frounces.
Frouzy (a.) Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.
Frow (n.) A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
Frow (n.) A dirty woman; a slattern.
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.
Froward (a.) Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
Frower (n.) A tool. See 2d Frow.
Frowey (a.) 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.