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Show FR BR What defp'tate madman then would venture o'e Of filver wings he took a (hining pait Fringe Fairfax with gold Here, by the {acred bramble ting'd My petticoat is doubly fring'd Swift 7. /. [from frippicr, French. YrUprERER One who deals in old things vampe peria up French; frip [ fripperie 2. Fri'rrerY Italian. 1. The place where old cloaths are fold 2. Old cloaths; caft drefles; tattered rags ape that woul be thought our chief Whofe works are ev'n the fiippery of wit From brocage is become fo bold a thief As we the robb'd leave rage and pity it Ben Sfonfon The fighting-place now feamens rage fupply And all the tackling is a frippery Donne Ragfair is a place near the Tower of London where old cloaths and fripper are fold Pope 1, To leap to fkip Put water into a glafs, and wet your finger, an draw it round about the lip of the glafs, prefling i fomewhat hard; and after drawing it fome few time about, it will make the water f¥i/k and fprinkle u in a fine dew Bacon's Natural Hiflory "The fith fell a fzifking in the net L'Effrange Whether every one hath experimented this troublefome intrufion of fome fri/king ideas, which thu importune the underftanding, and hinder it from be ing better employed I know not Locke 2. 'To dance in frolick or gaiety We are as twin'd lambs what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence; we knew no The do€trine of ill-doing Shakefp. Winter's Tale About them frifking play' All beafts of th' earth ~ Milton's Paradife Lof A wanton heifer frifked up and down in a meadow, at eafe and pleafure L E firange Watch the quick motions of the frifkin tail Then ferve their fury with the rufhing male. Dryd So Bacchus through the conquer'd Indies rode And beafts in gambols f7i/k'd before their honeft god Dryden {Oft to the mountains airy tops advanc'd "The frifking fatyrs on the fummits danc'd. Addif Thofe merry blades That fri/k it under Pindus' fhades Prior Peg faints at the found of an organ, and yet wil dance and f7i/k at the noife of a bagpipe Sly hunters thus in Borneo's ifle Arbuthn "To catch a monkey by a wile The mimick animal amufe "They place before him gloves and fhoes Which when the brute put All his agility is gone [ fritillaire, French. both, to and fio, there was fcarce a native Spaniar Carew ftopt from ifluing out again Frurv'viary . f Miller A plant Fri'riNaNcy. 7 f. [from fritinnio, Latin. The {cream of an infe@, as the cricket o cicada The note ot fritinancy thereof is far more fhril than that of the locuft, and its life fhort Brown's Vulgar Errours FRI'TTER. #. /. [ friture, French. 1. A {mall piece cut to be fried Maids, fritters and pancakes ynow fee ye make Let Slut have one pancake for company fake. Zz/fer 2. A fragment; a fmall piece Senfe and putter! have I lived to ftand in th taunt of one that makes fritrers of Englith Shakefp. Merry Wives of Windfor If you ftrike a folid body that is brittle, as glaf or fugar, it breaketh rot only where the immediat forc is fritters bu breaket the motion all abou upo an fhiver the prefiure, fearchin wher and breakin int it findet the bod Bacon's Natural Hiftory weakeft The ancient errant knight Won all their ladies heartsin fights And cut whole giants into fritters Hudibras To put them into amorous twitters Ainfworth 3. A cheefecake; a wig 7o Fr1'TTER. @, a. [from the noun. 1. To cut meat into fmall pieces to b fried 2. To break into {mall particles or fragments Joy to great chaos! let divifion reign My racks and tortures foon fhall drive them hence Break all their nerves and fiizzer 21l their fenfe Dunciad How prologues into prefaces decay And thefe to notes are fritter'd quite away Pope trifling of n FRIVOLOUS. adj. [ frivelus, Latin; fiiFrench. Slight ceremonies of the church of Rome and prefum fuch bad as it pleafeth themfelves to diflike A frolick ¥ri'skER. 7. £ [from fii/k. A wanto Thef Now I will wear this, and now I will wear that Now I will wear I cannot tell what All new fafhions be pleafant to me Now 1 am a frifker, all men on me look I do but fet cock on the hoop Camden Fri'skiness /[ [from fijk.] Gaiety; livelinefs. A low word ¥ri'sk Y. adj. [ frifgue, French; from frifk. Gay; airy. A low word ¥rit. . £ [among chymifts. Afhes o falt baked or fried together with fand Dia ¥rita. n [ [ fretum, Latin. 1, A ftrait of the fea where the water be Hooker little damage can come to th Spenfer She tam'd the brinde one not conftant or fettled al feem very frivolous and fruitlefs; for, b the breach of them commonwealth lionefs And fpotted mountain pard; but fet at nough Milton The fiivolous bolt of Cupid Thofe things which now feem friwolous and flight Will be of ferious confequence to you When they have made you ence ridiculous Rofeommon All the impeachments in Greece and Rome agree in a notion of being concerned, in point of honour to condemn whatever perfon they impeached, how ever frizolous the articles,or however weak the proofs Savift I will not defend any miftake, and do not thin myfelf obliged to anfwer every frivolous objetion Arbuthnot Frr'vorousNess #» / [ from frivolous Want of importance; triflingnefs Fri'vorousLy. adv [ from fiivolous. Triflingly; without weight To Fr1'zLE. w.a. [frifer, Fr.] To cu in fhort curls like nap of frieze all that favoured the Carthaginians : fo betwixt them Spenfer left As when a heap of gather'd thotns is caft Now to, now fro before th' autumnal blaft Together clung, it rolls around the field 2. It is a contraltion of fiom ufed Pope no no They turn round like grindleftones Which they dig out fio' the delves For their bairns bread, wives and felves, Ben Fonfor It is fiivolous to fay we ought not to ufe ba Swift The Carthaginians having fpoiled all Spain, roote entering, upon their coming back with the ebb, ar moment ¥Frisk /. [from the verb. a fit of wanton gaiety ing confined is rough where the fit in oppofition to the word 70; 2 and fio backward and forward, 70 and from out all that were affeCted to the Romans; and the Romans, having recovered that country, did cut of it a bun wole aukward on In vain to f7ifk or climb he tries The huntfmen feize the grinning prize ‘What fhoul an eye hook or cod wit i havin an the land to low water mark fro Gay FRO. adv. [of pna, Saxon. 1. Backward; regreflively. It is only ufe not whethe I kno this fenfe be now retained of net Ko hair implicit 1 doff*d my fhoe, and fivea Therein I fpy*d this yellow frizled hait Thomfon kin And buth, with frizle Hakeswill Batavian fleet Defraud us of the glittering finny fwarm That heave our friths, and crowd upon our {hores 2. Th? humble fhru They frizled and curled their hair with hot irons Dyyd, Virg all ways that didfry/e i' th? fun And bleat the one at the other The frithy, or haul his cables from the {hore The Wear is a frith, reaching through the Ofe We know what belongs to a_firippery. - Shake/p Lurana is a _frippery of bankrupts, who fly thiHove/ ther from Druina to play their after-game Poor poe FR Frock. 7. /. [ froc, French. 1. A drefs; a coat That monfter, cuftom, is angel yet in this That to the ufe of altions fair and good He likewife gives a frock or livery Shakefpeare's Hamlet That aptly is put on Chalybean temper'd fteel, and frock of mai Milton's Agoniftes Adamantean proof 2, A kind of clofe coat for men 1 flrip my body of my fhepherd's frock 3. Akind of gown for children Frog, 7. /. [Fnogga, Saxon. 1. animal wit {mal four feet Drydern livin both by land and water, and placed b naturalifts among mixed animals, as partaking of beaftand fith; famous in Homer' 'There is likewife a fmall gree Poem frog that perche on trees, faid to b venomous Poor Tom, that eats the fwimming frog, th Shakefpeare's King Lear toad, the todpole Aufter is drawn with a pot or urn, pouring fort Peachant water, with which fhall defcend frogs 2. 'The hollow part of a horfe's-hoof Fro'e1T. 7 /. [frog and &iz.] An herb Ainfavorth Fro'crisH. #. /i [ frogand f/6.] A kind o Ainfaorih fit Fro'coraAss. # f. [fiog and graf.] kind of herb FRrO'GLETTUCE. 7 /o [ frog and Jesiuce.] plant Froise. 7. /. [from the French frojfer, a the pancake is cripfed or crimpled in frying.] A kind of food made by fryin bacon inclofed in a pancake FRO'LICK adj [wrolijck, Dutch. full of levity ; full of pranks W Gay fairies, that do ru By the triple Hecate's team From the prefence of the fun Following darknefs like a dream Now are frolick Shake[peare Whether, as fome fages fing The frolick wind that breathes the Spring Zephyr with Aurora playing As he met her once a Maying There on beds of violets blue And frefh-blown rofes wafh'd in dew Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair Milton So buxom, blithe, and debonnair Who ripe, and frofick of his full-grown age Roving the Celtick and Iberian fields At laft betakes him to this ominous wood Miltor The gay, the frolick, and the loud. ~ Paller FRO'LICK. 7 /. [from the adjeftive.] wild prank; a flight of whim and km}). |