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Meaning of FROUNCE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Frounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Frounced}; p. pr. & vb.
    n. {Frouncing}.] [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.]
    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.
    
  2. \Frounce\, v. i.
    To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to
    frown. [Obs.]
          The Commons frounced and stormed.        -- Holland.
    
  3. \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.
    
 
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