FROUNCED
Verb
frounced
simple past tense and past participle of frounce
Anagrams
• unforced
Source: Wiktionary
FROUNCE
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