Frounce

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  • n. A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
  • v. To curl.
  • v. To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
  • verb-intransitive. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
  • n. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
  • n. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fold or wrinkle.
  • To curl or frizzle, as hair.
  • To adorn with fringes, frills, or other ornaments of dress.
  • To wrinkle the forehead; frown.
  • n. A flounce, fold, plait, or frill, as of a garment; a wrinkle; a crease.
  • n. A disease in hawks in which white spittle gathers about the bill.
  • n. A disease in a horse's mouth in which a mass of pimples appears on the palate; the pimples themselves.
    • Word Usage
    "I say that the eyas should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher — ’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon.”"
    Form
    frounced    frouncing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    frown    flounce    cure   
     
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