Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 68
Frown (n.) Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
Frown (n.) A facial expression of dislike or displeasure [syn: frown, scowl].
Frown (v.) Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval [syn: frown, glower, lour, lower].
Frowningly (adv.) In a frowning manner.
Frowningly (adv.) With a frown; while frowning; "he looked at her frowningly".
Frowny (a.) Frowning; scowling. [Obs.]
Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. -- Sir F. Palgrave.
Frowy (a.) 發霉的；有霉味的；陳腐的；過時的 Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. "Frowy feed." -- Spenser
Frowzy (a.) Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." -- Spenser.
The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. -- W. D. Howells.
Frowzy (a.) Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance" [syn: frowsy, frowzy, slovenly].
Froze () imp. of Freeze.
Frozen (a.) 冰凍的；結冰的；極冷的；冷淡的；無情的 Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.
They warmed their frozen feet. -- Dryden.
Frozen (a.) Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.
Frozen (a.) Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.]
Be not ever frozen, coy. -- T. Carew.
Frozen (a.) Turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook" [ant: {unfrozen}].
Frozen (a.) Absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" [syn: {frozen(p)}, {rooted(p)}, {stock-still}].
Frozen (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}].
Frozen (a.) Not thawed.
Frozen (a.) (Used of foods) Preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" [syn: {flash-frozen}, {quick-frozen}, {frozen}].
Frozen (a.) Not convertible to cash; "frozen assets".
Frozen (a.) Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" [syn: {fixed}, {frozen}].
Frozenness (n.) A state of being frozen.
Frubish (v. t.) To rub up: to furbish. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Fructed (a.) Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. -- Cussans.
Fructescence (n.) (Bot.) The maturing or ripening of fruit. [R.] -- Martyn.
Fructiculose (a.) Fruitful; full of fruit.
Fructidor (n.) The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendemiaire.
Fructidor (n.) Twelfth month of the Revolutionary calendar (August and September); the month of fruit.
Fructiferuos (a.) Bearing or producing fruit. -- Boyle.
Fructification (n.) 結果實；果實 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.
Fructification (n.) (Bot.) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
Fructification (n.) (Bot.) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
Fructification (n.) The bearing of fruit.
Fructification (n.) Organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses).
Fructify (v. i.) 結果實；有成果 To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." -- Beveridge.
Fructified (imp. & p. p.) of Fructify
Fructifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fructify
Fructify (v. t.) 使結果實；使有成果；使肥沃 To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
Fructify (v.) Become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified".
Fructify (v.) Make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified".
Fructify (v.) Bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify" [syn: fructify, set].
Fructose (n.) (Chem.) Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]
Compare: Levulose
Levulose (n.) (Chem.) 【化】果糖，左旋糖 A sirupy variety of sugar, rarely obtained crystallized, occurring widely in honey, ripe fruits, etc., and hence called also fruit sugar; also called fructose. Chemical formula: C6H12O6. It is called levulose, because it rotates the plane of polarization of light to the left, in contrast to dextrose, the other product of the hydrolysis of sucrose. [Written also laevulose.]
Note: It is obtained, together with an equal quantity of dextrose, by the inversion of ordinary cane or beet sugar, and hence, as being an ingredient of invert sugar, is often so called. It is fermentable, nearly as sweet as cane sugar, and is metameric with dextrose. Cf. Dextrose.
Levulose (n.) A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits [syn: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose, laevulose].
Fructose (n.) A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits [syn: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose, laevulose].
Fructuaries (n. pl. ) of Fructuary
Fructuary (n.) One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.
Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries. -- Prynne.
Fructuation (n.) Produce; fruit. [R.]
Fructuous (a.) Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.]
Nothing fructuous or profitable. -- Chaucer. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Fructure (n.) Use; fruition; enjoyment. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Frue vanner () (Mining) A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.
Frugal (a.) 節儉的，樸素的 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.
Frugal (a.) Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune. "Frugal fare." -- Dryden.
Frugal (a.) Avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting].
Frugal (a.) 節儉的；樸素的；（食物）簡單的，廉價的 Careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) cheap or small in amount.
// A frugal lifestyle.
// A frugal meal of bread and soup.
Frugalities (n. pl. ) of Frugality
Frugality (n.) 節約；樸素；節儉 [U] 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.
Frugality (n.) A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
Syn: Economy; parsimony. See Economy.
Frugality (n.) Prudence in avoiding waste [syn: frugality, frugalness].
Frugally (adv.) Thriftily; prudently.
Frugally (adv.) In a frugal manner; "in villages, the new pipeline marks the end of water as a precious liquid, to be dispensed frugally, weighed out drop by drop".
Frugalness (n.) Quality of being frugal; frugality.
Frugalness (n.) Prudence in avoiding waste [syn: frugality, frugalness].
Frugiferous (a.) Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. -- Dr. H. More.
Frugivora (n. pl.) (Zool.) The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.
Frugivorous (a.) Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. -- Pennant.
Fruit (n.) 水果 [C] [U]；果實，果類 [U]；植物的果實 [C]；成果，產物 [C]；收入；報酬 [P1]；【俚】【貶】男性同性戀者 [C] 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.
Fruit (n.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
Fruit (n.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
Fruit (n.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
Fruit (n.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
Fruit (n.) 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.
Fruit (v. i.) 結果實 To bear fruit.
Fruit (v. t.) 使結果實 Cause to bear fruit.
Fruit (n.) (Person) [ C ] (Slang) 男同性戀者（很多人認爲該詞具冒犯意）A gay man. Many people consider this word offensive.
Fruitage (n.) Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
Fruitage (n.) Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
Fruiter (a.) A ship for carrying fruit.
Fruiterer (n.) One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
Fruiteress (n.) A woman who sells fruit.
Fruiteries (n. pl. ) of Fruitery
Fruitery (n.) Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage.
Fruitery (n.) A repository for fruit.
Fruitestere (n.) A fruiteress.
Fruitful (a.) Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.
Fruiting (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.
Fruiting (n.) The bearing of fruit.
Fruition (n.) 結果實；成就；實現；享受；完成 Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
Fruitive (a.) Enjoying; possessing.
Fruitless (a.) 不結果的；無效果的；無益的 Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. -- Shak.
Fruitless (a.) Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy.
They in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours. -- Milton.
Syn: Useless; barren; unprofitable; abortive; ineffectual; vain; idle; profitless. See {Useless}. -- {Fruit"less*ly}, adv. -- {Fruit"lness*ness}, n.
Fruitless (a.) Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: {bootless}, {fruitless}, {futile}, {sleeveless}, {vain}].
Fruitlessly (adv.) 徒勞地；無收益地In an unproductive manner [syn: {unproductively}, {fruitlessly}, {unprofitably}] [ant: {fruitfully}, {productively}, {profitably}].
Fruitlessness (n.) 不結果；無效果，無益 A lack of creative imagination.
Fruitlessness (n.) The quality of yielding nothing of value [syn: {fruitlessness}, {aridity}, {barrenness}] [ant: {fecundity}, {fruitfulness}].
Fruity (a.) 水果的，有水果香味的，圓潤的 Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful.
Frumentaceous (a.) 穀物的；穀類製的 Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.
Frumentarious (a.) Of or pertaining to wheat or grain.
Frumentation (n.) A largess of grain bestowed upon the people, to quiet them when uneasy.
Frumenty (n.) Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
Frump (v. t.) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
Frump (n.) A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
Frump (n.) A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
Frumper (n.) A mocker.
Frumpish (a.) Cross-tempered; scornful.
Frumpish (a.) Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.
Frush (v. t.) To batter; to break in pieces.
Frush (a.) Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
Frush (n.) Noise; clatter; crash.
Frush (n.) The frog of a horse's foot.
Frush (n.) A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; -- also caled thrush.
Frustrable (a.) Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
Frustraneous (a.) Vain; useless; unprofitable.
Frustrate (a.) 受挫的；失望的；無益的，無效的 Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." -- Shak.
Frustrated (imp. & p. p.) of Frustrate
Frustrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frustrate
Frustrate (v. t.) 挫敗；阻撓；使感到灰心；使無效 To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose.
Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and frustrate thine ? -- Milton.
Frustrate (v. t.) To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat.
Frustrate (v.) Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: {thwart}, {queer}, {spoil}, {scotch}, {foil}, {cross}, {frustrate}, {baffle}, {bilk}].
Frustrate (v.) Treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: {torment}, {rag}, {bedevil}, {crucify}, {dun}, {frustrate}].
Frustrate (v.) [ T ] (Discourage) 使灰心；使氣餒 To make someone feel annoyed or less confident because they cannot achieve what they want.
// It frustrates me that I'm not able to put any of my ideas into practice.
Frustrate (v.) [ T ] (Prevent) 阻撓；阻止；挫敗 To prevent the plans or efforts of someone or something from being achieved.
// The continuing civil war is frustrating the efforts of relief agencies.
Frustrated (a.) 挫敗的；失意的；洩氣的；Frustrate的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" [syn: {defeated}, {disappointed}, {discomfited}, {foiled}, {frustrated}, {thwarted}].
Frustrated (a.) (C1) 灰心；氣餒 Feeling annoyed or less confident because you cannot achieve what you want.
// Are you feeling frustrated in your present job?
Frustrated (a.) [ Before noun ] 失意的；不成功的 Used to say that a person who has not succeeded in a particular type of job.
// Frustrated writers often end up in publishing.
Frustrated (a.) [ Before noun ] 情感受挫的 A frustrated emotion is one that you are not able to express.
// Her frustrated love for him.
Frustrated (a.) [ Before noun ] 性需求沒有得到滿足的 Unhappy because you are not having as much sex as you want.
Frustrately (adv.) In vain.
Frustration (n.) [U] [C] 挫折，失敗，挫敗 The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs.
Frustration (n.) The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals [syn: {frustration}, {defeat}].
Frustration (n.) An act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: {frustration}, {thwarting}, {foiling}].
Frustration (n.) A feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration".
Frustrative (a.) Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.]
Frustrative (a.) Preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: {frustrating}, {frustrative}, {thwarting}].
Frustratory (a.) Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal.
Frustule (n.) The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.
Frustulent (a.) Abounding in fragments.
Frusta (n. pl. ) of Frustum
Frustums (n. pl. ) of Frustum
Frustum (n.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.
Frustum (n.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column.
Frutage (n.) A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit.
Frutage (n.) A confection of fruit.
Frutescent (a.) Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of Wistaria.
Frutex (n.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.