Webster's Dictionary 1913

4024

Frown (3)

Frown, n. 1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stern look; a scowl.His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.Her very frowns ...

4025

Frowningly

Frown″ing‐ly, adv. In a frowning manner.

4026

Frowny

Frown″y (?), a. Frowning; scowling.Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

4027

Frowy

Frow″y (?), a. [Cf. Frowzy, Frouzy.] Musty; rancid; as, frowy butter. “Frowy feed.” Spenser

4028

Frowzy

Frow″zy (?), a. [See Frouzy.] Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. “With head all frowzy.” Spenser.The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

4029

Froze

Froze (?), imp. of Freeze.

4030

Frozen

Fro″zen (?), a. 1. Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.2. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; a...

4031

Frozenness

Fro″zen‐ness, n. A state of being frozen.

4032

Frubish

Frub″ish (?), v. t. [See Furbish.] To rub up: to furbish. Beau. & Fl.

4033

Fructed

Fruc″ted (?), a. [L. fructus fruit. See Fruit.] (Her.) Bearing fruit; — said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. Cussans.

4034

Fructescence

Fruc‐tes″cence (?), n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Bot.) The maturing or ripening of fruit. Martyn.

4035

Fructiculose

Fruc‐tic″u‐lose′ (?), a. Fruitful; full of fruit.

4036

Fructidor

‖Fruc′ti′dor″ (?), n. [F., fr. L. fructus fruit.] The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; — commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.

4037

Fructiferuos

‖Fruc‐tif″er‐uos (?), a. [L. fructifer; fructus fruit + ferre to bear; cf. F. fructifère.] Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.

4038

Fructification

‖Fruc′ti‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.] 1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecund...

4039

Fructify

Fruc″ti‐fy (frŭk″tĭ‐fī), v. i. [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + -ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.] To bear fruit. “Causeth...

4040

Fructify (2)

Fruc″ti‐fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Fructified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Fructifying.] To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

4041

Fructose

Fruc‐tose″ (frŭk‐tōs″ or frŭk″tōs), n. [L. fructus fruit.] (Chem.) Fruit sugar; levulose.

4042

Fructuary

Fruc″tu‐a‐ry (frŭk″tū̍‐ā̍‐ry̆), n.; pl.Fructuaries (–rĭz). [L. fructuarius.] One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything.Kings are not proprietors nor fructuarie...

4043

Fructuation

Fruc″tu‐a′tion (–ā″shŭn), n. Produce; fruit.

4044

Fructuous

Fruc″tu‐ous (?), a. [L. fructuosus: cf, F. fructueux.] Fruitful; productive; profitable.Nothing fructuous or profitable. Chaucer.— Fruc″tu‐ous‐ly, adv. — Fruc″tu‐ous‐ness, n.

4045

Fructure

Fruc″ture (?), n. [L. frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy. See Fruit, n.] Use; fruition; enjoyment. Cotgrave.

4046

Frue vanner

Frue″ van″ner (?). (Mining) A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

4047

Frugal

Fru″gal (?), a. [L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See...

4048

Frugality

Fru‐gal″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Frugalities (#). [L. frugalitas: cf. F. frugalité.] 1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which ...

4049

Frugally

Fru″gal‐ly (?), adv. Thriftily; prudently.

4050

Frugalness

Fru″gal‐ness, n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.