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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.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.

Like a colt; wanton; frisky. He was all coltish, full of ragery. Chaucer. -- Colt"ish*ly, adv. -- Colt"ish*ness, n.

To leap and frisk; to frolic. Shak.

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about. Then, 'tis time to dance off. Thackeray. More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a r…

To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. Shak. Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. Milton. Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. Macaulay.…

Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. [Colloq.]

To run about; to frisk; to whisk. [Obs.] He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions. Latimer.

To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.