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A hairdresser.

Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic.

Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A leap or caper. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

Brisk; lively; frolicsome.

In a frisky manner.

State or quality of being frisky.

Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.

To sell upon credit, as goods. [R.] Crabb.

The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. Smollett.

A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).

One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness.

A gargle.

Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. "The garish sun." "A garish flag." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.

One versed in the Gemara, or adhering to its teachings.