Frill
[frɪl]
Definition
(noun.) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.
(noun.) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal.
(noun.) (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs.
Typed by Alice--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
(v. i.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
(v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
(v. i.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
(v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
(v. i.) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
(v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
(v. i.) A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
Checker: Wilbur
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ruffle, edging.
Edited by Lizzie
Definition
v.i. to ruffle as a hawk its feathers when shivering.—v.t. to furnish with a frill.—n. a ruffle: a ruffled or crimped edging of linen.—ns. Frilled′-liz′ard a lizard with an extraordinary frilled membrane attached to the hinder part of the head neck and chest and covering its shoulders; Frill′ing frilled edging.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- The screed, or frill of the cap, stood a quarter of a yard broad round the face of the wearer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His face had fallen in, and was unshorn; his frill and neckcloth hung limp under his bagging waistcoat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sedley shall be represented in buckskins, and holding one of the injured boots in one hand; by the other he shall have hold of my shirt-frill. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was dressed all in black, with boots as shiny as his eyes, a low white neckcloth, and a clean shirt with a frill to it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His shirt collars were higher; his face was redder; his shirt-frill flaunted gorgeously out of his variegated waistcoat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here Mr. Perker drew himself up with conscious dignity, and brushed some stray grains of snuff from his shirt frill. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She rises, but he, without moving hand from chair-back or from old-fashioned waistcoat and shirt-frill, shakes his head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled: Drive him fast to his tomb. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg's in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She gave these answers, with her attention apparently absorbed in folding and refolding the frilling on her nightgown. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I should so like to have all my cambric frilling double-hemmed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her fingers dropped from the frilling of her nightgown, and her fierce black eyes flashed at me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I said, in a tone of gentle intereSt. Her fingers went back to the frilling, and she turned her head sullenly away from me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Checker: Lucille