frounce (plural frounces)
A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
A plait or curl.
frounce (third-person singular simple present frounces, present participle frouncing, simple past and past participle frounced)
(rare, ambitransitive) To curl.
(rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.
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Source: Wiktionary
Frounce, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Frouncing.] Etym: [OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F. froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, L. frons forehead. See Front, and cf. Flounce part of a dress.]
Definition: 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.
Frounce, v. i.
Definition: To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.] The Commons frounced and stormed. Holland.
Frounce, n.
1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. Booth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 February 2025
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