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le 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.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

To frown down; to overbear by frowning. Shak.

Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.

Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. He smiles and he frowns in a breath. Dryden.

as, the brow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. To bend the brow, To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl.

To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. Shak.

Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling. [Obs.] Though his mind Be ne'er so curst, his tonque is kind. Crashaw.

Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. [Obs.] Shak.