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Free from froth.

Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy.

A rustling, esp. the rustling of a woman's dress.

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.

Without frounces. Rom. of R.

Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

ing tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

d or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

A tool. See 2d Frow. Tusser.

Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

ispleasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. The frowning wrinkle of her brow. Shak.

In a frowning manner.

Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. "Frowy feed." Spenser

Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

imp. of Freeze.

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

A state of being frozen.

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

Face to face, or front to front; facing.