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- English Word Frogmouth Definition One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus (family Podargidae); -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
- English Word Frogs-bit Definition Frogbit.
- English Word Frogshell Definition One of numerous species of marine gastropod shells, belonging to Ranella and allied genera.
- English Word Froise Definition A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise.
- English Word Frolic Definition Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
- English Word Frolic Definition A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
- English Word Frolic Definition A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
- English Word Frolic Definition To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
- English Word Frolicful Definition Frolicsome.
- English Word Frolicked Definition of Frolic
- English Word Frolicking Definition of Frolic
- English Word Frolicky Definition Frolicsome.
- English Word Frolicly Definition In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.
- English Word Frolicsome Definition Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
- English Word From Definition 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 aritithesis 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.
- English Word Fromward Definition Alt. of Fromwards
- English Word Fromwards Definition A way from; -- the contrary of toward.
- English Word Fron'tated Definition Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.
- English Word Frond Definition 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.
- English Word Frondation Definition The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
- English Word Fronde Definition A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.
- English Word Fronded Definition Furnished with fronds.
- English Word Frondent Definition Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.
- English Word Frondesce Definition To unfold leaves, as plants.
- English Word Frondescence Definition The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.
- English Word Frondescence Definition The act of bursting into leaf.
- English Word Frondeur Definition A member of the Fronde.
- English Word Frondiferous Definition Producing fronds.
- English Word Frondlet Definition A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.
- English Word Frondose Definition Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.