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To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. Pepys.

See 1st Frieze.

A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight.

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

See Friz, v. t. & n.

To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle. Gay. To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively.

One who frizzles.

Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.

To curl or friz, as the hair. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair. Clarke.

To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk. The hour for curling and craping the hair. Mad. D'Arblay.

Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks.

A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t.,

ving the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t.,

One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.

To gather into or adorn with plaits, 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.