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CIDE DICTIONARY
frivolism | frivolity | frivolous | frivolously | frivolousness | friz | frize | frizel | frizette | frizz | frizzle

friz

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Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

frizv. t. [Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head. Cf. Frieze kind of cloth.].
  •  To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.  [1913 Webster]
    "With her hair frizzed short up to her ears."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.  [1913 Webster]
Frizzing machine. (a) (Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth. (b) (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards.
frizn. 
     That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.  [1913 Webster]
    "He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts."  [1913 Webster]

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