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frounce
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FROUNCEnoun
A word used by falconers for a distemper, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk’s bill. Skinner and Ainsworth.
To Frounceverb
To frizzle or curl the hair about the face. This word was at first probably used in contempt.
Etymology: from the noun.
Some frounce their curled hair in courtly guise,
Some prank their ruffs, and others timely dight
Their gay attire. Fairy Queen, b. i. cant. 4.Some warlike sign must be used; either a slovenly buskin, or an overstaring frounced head. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.
Thus, night, oft see me in thy pale career,
’Till civil suited morn appear;
Not trick’d and frounc’d as she was wont,
With the Attick boy to hunt. John Milton.
Webster Dictionary
Frounceverb
to gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair
Frounceverb
to form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown
Frouncenoun
a wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown
Frouncenoun
an affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill
Etymology: [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.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Frounce
frowns, v.t. to plait: to curl: to wrinkle up: to frown.—n. a plait or curl.—v.i. (obs.) to frown or wrinkle the brow. [O. Fr. froncier. See Flounce (2), of which it is an older form.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of frounce in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of frounce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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