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Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.

A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection. Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. L'Estrange.

In a fond manner; affectionately; tenderly. My heart, untarveled, fondly turns to thee. Goldsmith.

Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles. My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee. Addison.

A disease affecting the feet of sheep.

The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.

racteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

To affect formality. [Obs.] ales.

[fragrans. -antis, p.pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness [R.] "Frenzying anguish." Southey.

tate of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler. Prefe…

Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc.

In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.

Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage. Johnson.

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

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. They warmed their frozen feet. Dryden.