Chapter 43

Cross frog (Railroads), a frog adapted for tracks that cross at right angles. -- Frog cheese, a popular name for a large puffball. -- Frog eater, one who eats frogs; -- a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English. -- Frog fly. (Zoˆl.) See Frog hopper. -- Frog hopper (Zoˆl.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants. The larvÊ are inclosed in a frothy liquid called cuckoo spit or frog spit. -- Frog lily (Bot.), the yellow water lily (Nuphar). -- Frog spit (Zoˆl.), the frothy exudation of the frog hopper; -- called also frog spittle. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

Frog (?), v. t. To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4.

Frog"bit` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus- ranÊ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers. (b) An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.

Frog"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) See Angler, n., 2. (b) An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.

Frogged (?), a. Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4. Ld. Lytton.

Frog"gy (?), a. Abounding in frogs. Sherwood.

Frog"mouth` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family PodargidÊ); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.

Frog"s`-bit" (?), n. (Bot.) Frogbit.

Frog"shell` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.

Froise (?), n. [OE. froise cf. F. froisser to bruise, E. frush to bruise,] A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise. [Written also fraise.]

Frol"ic (frl"k), a. [D. vroolijk; akin to G. frˆlich, fr. froh, OHG. fr, Dan. fro, OS. frh, cf. Icel. frr swift; all perh. akin to Skr. pru to spring up.] Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

The frolic wind that breathes the spring.

Milton.

The gay, the frolic, and the loud.

Waller.

Frol"ic, n. 1. A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

He would be at his frolic once again.

Roscommon.

2. A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

Frol"ic, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frolicked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frolicking.] To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

Hither, come hither, and frolic and play.

Tennyson.

Frol"ic*ful (?), a. Frolicsome. [R.]

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.

Fron"dous (?), a. (Bot.) Frondose. [R.]

||Frons (?), n. [L., front.] (Anal.) The forehead; the part of the ||cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

Front (?), n. [F. frant forehead, L. frons, frontis; perh. akin to E. brow.] 1. The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue.

Pope.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front.

Shak.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

Prior.

2. The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front.

With smiling fronts encountering.

Shak.

The inhabitants showed a bold front.

Macaulay.

3. The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army.

Had he his hurts before? Ay, on the front.

Shak.

4. A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house.

5. The most conspicuous part.

The very head and front of my offending.

Shak.

6. That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.

Like any plain Miss Smith's, who wears s front.

Mrs. Browning.

7. The beginning. "Summer's front." Shak.

Bastioned front (Mil.), a curtain connerting two half bastions. -- Front door, the door in the front wall of a building, usually the principal entrance. -- Front of fortification, the works constructed upon any one side of a polygon. Farrow. -- Front of operations, all that part of the field of operations in front of the successive positions occupied by the army as it moves forward. Farrow. -- To come to the front, to attain prominence or leadership.

Front, a. Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view.

Front, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fronting.] 1. To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.

You four shall front them in the narrow lane.

Shak.

2. To appear before; to meet.

[Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor.

Tennyson.

3. To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street.

And then suddenly front the changed reality.

J. Morley.

4. To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church.

5. To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.

Yonder walls, that pertly front your town.

Shak.

Front, v. t. To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east.

Front"age (?), n. The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Fron"tal (?), a. [Cf. F. frontal.] Belonging to the front part; being in front; esp. (Anat.), Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.

Fron"tal, n. [F. frontal, fronteau, OF. Frontel, frontal, L. frontale an ornament for the forehead, frontlet. See Front.] 1. Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet; as: (a) An ornamental band for the hair. (b) (Mil.) The metal face guard of a soldier.

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2. (Arch.) A little pediment over a door or window.

3. (Eccl.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.

4. (Med.) A medicament or application for the forehead. [Obs.] Quincy.

5. (Anat.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.

Frontal hammer or helve, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a "tongue" immediately in front of the hammer head. Raymond.

{ Fron"tate (?), Fron'ta*ted (?), } a. Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.

Front"ed (?), a. Formed with a front; drawn up in line. "Fronted brigades." Milton.

Fron"tier (?), n. [F. frontiËre, LL. frontaria. See Front.] 1. That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.

2. (Fort.) An outwork. [Obs.]

Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets.

Shak.

Fron"tier, a. 1. Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.

2. Of or relating to a frontier. "Frontier experience." W. Irving.

Fron"tier, v. i. To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

Fron"tiered (?), p. a. Placed on the frontiers. [R.]

Fron"tiers*man (?), n.; pl. Frontiersmen (&?;). A man living on the frontier.

||Fron`ti*gnac" (?), Fron`ti`gnan" (&?;), n. [So called from ||Frontignan, a town in Southern France.] 1. A sweet muscadine wine ||made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

2. (Bot.) A grape of many varieties and colors.

Front"ing*ly (?), adv. In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.

Fron`tin*iac" (?), n. See Frontignac.

Fron"tis*piece (?), n. [F. frontispice, LL. frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It. frontispizio. See Front and Spy.] The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

Front"less (?), a. Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent. [Obs.] "Frontless vice." Dryden. "Frontless flattery." Pope.

Front"less*ly, adv. Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]

Front"let (?), n. [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of frontel, frontal. See Frontal, n.] 1. A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.

They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

Deut. vi. 8.

2. A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic]

What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.

Shak.

3. (Zoˆl.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

Fron"to- (?). [L. frons, frontis, the forehead.] (Anat.) A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

||Fron`ton" (?), n. [F., a pediment. See Front.] (Arch.) Same as ||Frontal, 2.

Frop"pish (?), a. [Cf. Frap, Frape.] Peevish; froward. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Frore (?), adv. [See Frorn.] Frostily. [Obs.]

The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.

Milton.

Frorn (?), p. a. [AS. froren, p. p. of freÛsun to freeze. See Freeze.] Frozen. [Obs.]

Well nigh frorn I feel.

Spenser.

Fro"ry (?), a. [AS. freÛrig. See Frorn.] 1. Frozen; stiff with cold. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. [Archaic]

The foaming steed with frory bit to steer.

Fairfax.

Frost (frst; 115), n. [OE. frost, forst, AS. forst, frost. fr. freÛsan to freeze; akin to D. varst, G., OHG., Icel., Dan., & Sw. frost. &radic;18. See Freeze, v. i.] 1. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

2. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

The third bay comes a frost, a killing frost.

Shak.

3. Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.

He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

Ps. cxlvii. 16.

4. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. [R.]

It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.

Sir W. Scott.

Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophorus. -- Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries. -- Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep the oil limpid on cold nights; -- used especially in lighthouses. Knight. -- Frost nail, a nail with a sharp head driven into a horse's shoe to keep him from slipping. -- Frost smoke, an appearance resembling smoke, caused by congelation of vapor in the atmosphere in time of severe cold.

The brig and the ice round her are covered by a strange black obscurity: it is the frost smoke of arctic winters.

Kane.

-- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.

Frost (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Frosting.] 1. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

2. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.

While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.

Wordsworth.

3. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

Frost"bird (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The golden plover.

Frost"bite (?), n. The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose. Kane. [1913 Webster]

Frost`bite", v. t. To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.

My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves.

Pepys.

Frost`-bit"ten (?), p. a. Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

Frost`-blite" (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Atriplex; orache. Gray. (b) The lamb's- quarters (Chenopodium album). Dr. Prior.

Frost"ed, a. Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.

Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work.

Knight.

Frost`fish" (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. (b) The smelt. [Local, U. S.] (c) A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish.

Frost"i*ly (?), adv. In a frosty manner.

Frost"i*ness, n. State or quality of being frosty.

Frost"ing, n. 1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.

Frost"less, a. Free from frost; as, a frostless winter.

Frost"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.

It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so called because, late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root; -- called also frostwort.

Frost`work" (?), n. The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone.

Frost`wort" (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Frostweed.

Frost"y (?), a. [Cf. AS. fyrstig.] 1. Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.

2. Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.

3. Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson.

4. Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head. Shak.

Frote (?), v. t. [F. frotter.] To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Fro"ter*er (?), n. One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes. [Obs.] Marston.

Froth (?), n. [OE. frothe, Icel. froa; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. freoan to froth.]

1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson.

It was a long speech, but all froth.

L'Estrange.

3. Light, unsubstantial matter. Tusser.

Froth insect (Zoˆl.), the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; -- called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. -- Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo.

Froth, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frothed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.. Frothing.] 1. To cause to foam.

2. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

He . . . froths treason at his mouth.

Dryden.

Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?

Tennyson.

3. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.

Froth, v. i. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths.

Froth"i*ly (?), adv. In a frothy manner.

Froth"i*ness, n. State or quality of being frothy.

Froth"ing, n. Exaggerated declamation; rant.

Froth"less, a. Free from froth.

Froth"y (?), a. [Compar. Frothier (?); superl. Frothiest.] 1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon.

3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.

Frounce (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frounced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frouncing (?).] [OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F. froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, L. frons forehead. See Front, and cf. Flounce part of a dress.] To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.

Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont.

Milton.

Frounce, v. i. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.]

The Commons frounced and stormed.

Holland.

Frounce, n. 1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.

Frounce"less, a. Without frounces. Rom. of R.

Frou"zy (?), a. [Prov. E. frouzy froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; cf. froust a musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and E. frounce, frowy.] Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

Frow (?), n. [D. vrouw; akin to G. frau woman, wife, goth, fr·uja master, lord, AS. fre·.] 1. A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. Beau. & Fl.

2. A dirty woman; a slattern. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Frow (?), n. [Cf. Frower.] A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

Frow (?), a. Brittle. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Fro"ward (?), a. [Fro + - ward. See Fro, and cf. Fromward.] Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.

A froward man soweth strife.

Prov. xvi. 28.

A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation.

Bacon.

Syn. -- Untoward; wayward; unyielding; ungovernable: refractory; obstinate; petulant; cross; peevish. See Perverse.

-- Fro"ward*ly, adv. -- Fro"ward*ness, n.

Frow"er (?), n. [Cf. frow a frower, and Prov. E, frommard.] A tool. See 2d Frow. Tusser.

Frow"ey (?), a. [See Frow, a.] (Carp.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

Frown (?), v. i. [imp. &, p. p. Frowned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frowning.] [OF. froignier, F. frogner, in se refrogner, se renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a wry face, dial. Sw. fryna to make a wry face,] 1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.

The frowning wrinkle of her brow.

Shak.

2. To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.

The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.

Shak.

Frown, v. t. To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.

Frown, n. 1. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.

His front yet threatens, and his frowns command.

Prior.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

H. Coleridge.

2. Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

Frown"ing*ly, adv. In a frowning manner.

Frown"y (?), a. Frowning; scowling. [Obs.]

Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder.

Sir F. Palgrave.

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

Frow"zy (?), a. [See Frouzy.] Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser.

The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes.

W. D. Howells.

Froze (?), imp. of Freeze.

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; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

3. Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.]

Be not ever frozen, coy.

T. Carew.

Fro"zen*ness, n. A state of being frozen.

Frub"ish (?), v. t. [See Furbish.] To rub up: to furbish. [Obs.] Beau. c& Et.