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The material for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.

A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.

A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

Woody. [Obs.] Skelton.

A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.

A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.

A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.

The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]

Same as Afrit.

A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

To waste by little and little; to fritter away. [Obs.]

erberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit. Ure.

nthomyia ze) whose larva or maggot destroys seed corn after it has been planted. -- Corn fritter, a fritter having green Indian corn mixed through its batter. [U. S.] -- Corn laws, laws regulating trade in corn, especially those in force in Great Britain till 1846, prohibiting the importation of foreign grain for home…

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

See Afrit.

, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. Dana.

An arm of the sea; a frith.