frow

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

frow, n. [D. vrouw; akin to G. frau woman, wife, goth, fráuja master, lord, AS. freá.].

•  A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]
•  A dirty woman; a slattern.  Halliwell.  [1913 Webster]

frow, n. [Cf. Frower.].

 A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.  [1913 Webster]

frow, a. 

 Brittle.  Evelyn.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frow, n.
1 a Dutchwoman.
2 a housewife.

frow, var. of FROE.

ROGET THESAURUS

frow

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.