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Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive. Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors. Sir W. Scott. -- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.

anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an…

A way from; -- the contrary of toward. [Obs.] Towards or fromwards the zenith. Cheyne.

on or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

To unfold leaves, as plants.

The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.

A member of the Fronde.

Producing fronds.

A very small frond, or distinct portion of a compound frond.

Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

Frondose. [R.]

The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

rt of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face. Bless'd with his father's front, his mother's tongue. Pope. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. Shak. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. Prior.

The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

Belonging to the front part; being in front; esp. (Anat.),

Growing broader and broader, as a leaf; truncate.