| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.[Websters]
2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.[Websters]. | |
| Verb | 1. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.[Websters]
2. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.[Websters] 3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: frouncing, frounced, frounces, frouncer, frouncers, frouncingly and frouncedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FROUNCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1390. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FROUNCE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A distemper of hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the bill.. | 2: [Verb] To curl or frizzle the hair about the face. Not tricked and frounced as she was wont.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | [Noun] A canker in the mouth of a hawk. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
