Frounce
- n. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk’s bill.
- v. i. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
- v. i. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
- n. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; — also, a frown.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.