Frounce
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fɹaʊns/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Frounce is a noun meaning A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
Meaning
A canker in the mouth of a hawk.
More Meanings
- A plait or curl.
- To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress.
- (rare, ambitransitive) To curl.
- (rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
Example Sentences
Under the day-long beating of the sun their brow is frounced out, […]
Beard untrimmed by barber's shears, Hair all frouncing 'bout his ears,
The hawke had no lyst To come to his fyst; She loked as she had the frounce; […]
He frounced his brow, and from his scornful eye Shot wrath indignant, and disdain and pride,
Word Forms
- frounces
- frouncing
- frounced
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clap, hawk, flaps, rictus, scree, quawk.
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