Frol"ick*y (?), a. Frolicsome. [Obs.] Richardson.
Frol"ic*ly, adv. In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. [Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.
Frol"ic*some (?), a. Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks;
sportive.
Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or
three years, for the benefit of her doctors.
Sir W. Scott.
-- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.
From (frm), prep. [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. & Icel.
fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from, prob. akin to E.
forth. &?;202. Cf. Fro, Foremost.] Out of the neighborhood of;
lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of;
by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of
action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation,
absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with,
and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state,
etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently,
the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; --
the antithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from
Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds
from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all
sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse;
the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds;
men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
Experience from the time past to the time present.
Bacon.
The song began from Jove.
Drpden.
From high MÊonia's rocky shores I came.
Addison.
If the wind blow any way from shore.
Shak.
From sometimes denotes away from, remote from, inconsistent with.
"Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." Shak. From, when
joined with another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity for
abbreviating the sentence. "There followed him great multitudes of
people . . . from [the land] beyond Jordan." Math. iv. 25. In certain
constructions, as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more
obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more distinctly forth
from, out from -- from being virtually the governing preposition, and
the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar,
under Afar, adv.
Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts.
Byron.
{ From"ward (?), From"wards (?), } prep. [AS. framweard about to
depart. Cf. Froward] A way from; -- the contrary of toward. [Obs.]
Towards or fromwards the zenith.
Cheyne.
Frond (?), n. [L. frons, frondis, a leafy branch, foliage.] (Bot.) The
organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and
leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or
of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.
Fron*da"tion (?), n. [L. frondatio, from frons. See Frond.] The act of
stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.
||Fronde (?), n. [F.] (F. Hist.) A political party in France, during
||the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war
||upon the court party.
Frond"ed (?), a. Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.
Fron"dent (?), a. [L. frondens, p. pr. of frondere to put forth leaves.
See Frond.] Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]
Fron*desce" (?), v. i. [L. frondescere, inchoative fr. frondere. See
Frondent.] To unfold leaves, as plants.
Fron*des"cence (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The time at which each species of
plants unfolds its leaves. (b) The act of bursting into leaf. Milne.
Martyn.
||Fron"deur` (?), n. [F.] (F. Hist.) A member of the Fronde.
Fron*dif"er*ous (?), a. [L. frondifer frons a leafy branch + ferre to
bear: cf. F. frondifere.] Producing fronds.
Frond"let (?), n. (Bot.) A very small frond, or distinct portion of a
compound frond.
Fron*dose" (?), a. [L. frondosus leafy.] (Bot.) (a) Frond bearing;
resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem
and leaves. (b) Leafy. Gray.