Frill, v. t. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn
back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
Frill, n. [See Frill, v. i.]. (Zoˆl.) (a) A ruffing of a bird's
feathers from cold. (b) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of
hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal. See Frilled lizard
(below). (c) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of
animals. (d) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
2. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other,
usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Frilled (?), a. Furnished with a frill or frills.
Frilled lizard (Zoˆl.), a large Australian lizard (Chlamydosaurus
Kingii) about three feet long, which has a large, erectile frill on
each side of the neck.
Frim (?), a. [Cf. AS. freme good, bold, and E. frame.] Flourishing;
thriving; fresh; in good case; vigorous. [Obs.] "Frim pastures."
Drayton.
||Fri"maire` (?), n. [F., fr. frimas hoarfrost.] The third month of the
||French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended
||December 20., See VendÈmiaire.
Fringe (?), n. [OF, fringe, F. frange, prob. fr. L. fimbria fiber,
thread, fringe, cf. fibra fiber, E. fiber, fimbriate.] 1. An ornamental
appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of
the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more
commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting
ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of
wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
2. Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects
along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance.
Jer. Taylor.
3. (Opt.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the
interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference
fringe.
4. (Bot.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most
mosses. See Peristome.
Fringe tree (Bot.), a small tree (Chionanthus Virginica), growing in
the Southern United States, and having snow-white flowers, with long
pendulous petals.
Fringe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fringed (?); p. pr. & vb. a. Fringing.] To
adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
Precipices fringed with grass.
Bryant.
Fringing reef. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
Fringed (?), a. Furnished with a fringe.
Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
Fringe"less, a. Having no fringe.
Frin"gent (?), a. Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [R.] "The
fringent air." Emerson.
||Frin*gil"la (?), a. [NL., fr. L. fringilla a chaffinch.] (Zoˆl.) A
||genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly
||included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to
||certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.
Frin`gil*la"ceous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Fringilline.
Frin*gil"line (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the family FringillidÊ;
characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
Frin"gy (?), a. Aborned with fringes. Shak.
Frip"per (?), n. [F. fripier, fr. friper to rumple, fumble, waste.] One
who deals in frippery or in old clothes. [Obs.] Bacon.
Frip"per*er (?), n. A fripper. [Obs.] Johnson.
Frip"per*y (?), n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.] 1. Coast-off
clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected
elegance.
Fond of gauze and French frippery.
Goldsmith.
The gauzy frippery of a French translation.
Sir W. Scott.