v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Affronting. ] [ OF. afronter, F. affronter, to confront, LL. affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See Front. ] 1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he, as 't were by accident, may here
Affront Ophelia. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility. [ 1913 Webster ]

How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To insult; abuse; outrage; wound; illtreat; slight; defy; offend; provoke; pique; nettle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. affront, fr. affronter. ] 1. An encounter either friendly or hostile. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded
On hostile ground, none daring my affront. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult. [ 1913 Webster ]

Offering an affront to our understanding. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An offense to one's self-respect; shame. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Affront, Insult, Outrage. An affront is a designed mark of disrespect, usually in the presence of others. An insult is a personal attack either by words or actions, designed to humiliate or degrade. An outrage is an act of extreme and violent insult or abuse. An affront piques and mortifies; an insult irritates and provokes; an outrage wounds and injures. Captious persons construe every innocent freedom into an affront. When people are in a state of animosity, they seek opportunities of offering each other insults. Intoxication or violent passion impels men to the commission of outrages. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. affronté, p. p. ] (Her.) Face to face, or front to front; facing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Shamelessly. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who receives an affront. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who affronts, or insults to the face. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an affronting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality that gives an affront or offense. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an American whose ancestors were born in Africa.
Syn. -- African-American, African. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture.
Syn. -- African-American. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples. Afro-Asian population [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to S and SE Africa: yellowwood2; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus.
Syn. -- genus Afrocarpus [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + front. ] In front; face to face. -- prep. In front of. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an African fowl genus; both sexes are brightly colored.
Syn. -- Congo peafowl, Afropavo congensis [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a wig that gives the appearance of an afro hairdo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the line along which opposing armies face each other.
Syn. -- front, front line. [ WordNet 1.5 #here ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + front. ] Having two fronts. “Bifronted Janus.” Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chanfrein. ] (Anc. Armor) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. [ Written also champfrain and chamfrain. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Confronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Confronting. ] [ F. confronter; L. con- + frons the forehead or front. See Front. ] 1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. [ 1913 Webster ]

We four, indeed, confronted were with four
In Russian habit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was impossible at once to confront the might of France and to trample on the liberties of England. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. confrontatio. ] Act of confronting. H. Swinburne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ F., p. p. confronter. ] (Her.) Same as Affronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who confronts. [ 1913 Webster ]

A confronter in authority. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of confronting; the state of being face to face. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of confronting; the state of being face to face. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divest of the frock, i. e. to deprive (a priest, minister, etc.) of official ecclesiastical authority; -- of church officials.
Syn. -- unfrock. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. i. 1. To become free of frost or ice; as, it took four hours for the refrigerator to defrost.
Syn. -- deice. [ PJC ]

2. To thaw; -- used especially of items removed from a freezer, such as frozen foods. [ PJC ]

v. t. To remove the frost or ice from; as, to defrost the car window; to defrost a refrigerator.
Syn. -- deice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A device that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane).
Syn. -- deicer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To unfrock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give assurance to. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Effronteries [ F. effronterie, fr. effronté shameless, fr. L. effrons, -ontis, putting forth the forehead, i. e., barefaced, shameless; ex + frons the forehead. See Front. ] Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft.

Syn. -- Impudence; sauciness. See Impudence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. effronté. ] Marked by impudence. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Impudently. [ Obs. ] R. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [ Obs. ] Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Eruca + -form. ] (Zoöl.) Having the form of a caterpillar; -- said of insect larvæ.

adj. preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; -- used of foods.
Syn. -- quick-frozen, frozen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Foremost part or place. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam. xi. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the forefront for all time, the masters of those who know. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. fra, fro, adv. & prep., Icel. frā, akin to Dan. fra from, E. from. See From. ] From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. From. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. froc a monk's cowl, coat, garment, LL. frocus, froccus, flocus, floccus, fr. L. floccus a flock of wool; hence orig., a flocky cloth or garment; cf. L. flaccus flabby, E. flaccid. ] 1. A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frock coat, a body coat for men, usually double-breasted, the skirts not being in one piece with the body, but sewed on so as to be somewhat full. --
Smock frock. See in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To clothe in a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clothed in a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Frow. ] A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [ Obs. ] “Raging frantic froes.” Draylon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Frow the tool ] An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or derived from, Friedrich Froebel, or the kindergarten system of education, which he organized. -- n. One who teaches by, or advocates the use of, the kindergarten system. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. froggu, frocga a frog (in sensel); akin to D. vorsch, OHG. frosk, G. frosch, Icel. froskr, fraukr, Sw. & Dan. frö. ] 1. (Zool.) An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The edible frog of Europe (Rana esculenta) is extensively used as food; the American bullfrog (R. Catesbiana) is remarkable for its great size and loud voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Perh. akin to E. fork, cf. frush frog of a horse. ] (Anat.) The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Railroads) A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. fraco of wool or silk, L. floccus, E. frock. ] An oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cross frog (Railroads), a frog adapted for tracks that cross at right angles. --
Frog cheese, a popular name for a large puffball. --
Frog eater, one who eats frogs; -- a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English. --
Frog fly. (Zool.) See Frog hopper. --
Frog hopper (Zool.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living on plants. The larvæ are inclosed in a frothy liquid called cuckoo spit or frog spit. --
Frog lily (Bot.), the yellow water lily (Nuphar). --
Frog spit (Zool.), the frothy exudation of the frog hopper; -- called also frog spittle. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. [ 1913 Webster ]