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bbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott.

Consisting of four; requiring four participants. [Scot. or Golf]

The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness. [Scot.] [The Whigs'] foziness can no longer be concealed. Blackwood's.

Spongy; soft; fat and puffy. [Scot.]

Fro. [Old Eng. & Scot.]

y passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

To rub. We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. Sir W. Scott.

ttings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. -- Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. -- Free cost,…

ng the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing. Your freebooting acquaintance. Sir W. Scott.

Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] Chaucer.

ople frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

New; original; additional. "Fear of fresh mistakes." Sir W. Scott. A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs. Landor.

The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.

gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

licsome 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.

idity of character. [R.] It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath. Sir W. Scott. Black frost, cold so intense as to freeze vegetation and cause it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument il…

The tail of a hare, coney, etc. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

he stamps the ground. Dryden. While her mother did fret, and her father did fume. Sir W. Scott. To tame away, to give way to excitement and displeasure; to storm; also, to pass off in fumes.

To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado. Sir W. Scott.

A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.