FROUNCE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.] The Commons frounced and stormed. Holland.

3.
n.

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

4.
n.

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


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