Frounce

Definition of Frounce

v. i.	1.	To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. [imp. & p. p. Frounced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Frouncing .] Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. - Milton.
	1.	To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. The Commons frounced and stormed. - Holland.
n.	1.	A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; - also, a frown.
	2.	An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.

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