Word Meanings - FROUNCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead,

Related words: (words related to FROUNCE)

• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• FRIZZLER
  One who frizzles.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• TRICKING
  Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• ASSUMPTIVE
  Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. Assumptive arms , originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without
• TRICKTRACK
  An old game resembling backgammon.
• FROUNCE
  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. (more info) froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead,
• ASSUMABLY
  By way of assumption.
• TRICKINESS
  The quality of being tricky.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• TRICKSTER
  One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• SARGASSUM
  A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• STRICKLE
  An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core. (more info) 1. An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike. 2. An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.