FRI 
FRIGERATORY, among oils denotes a place 
“intended to keep things c cool in 
FRI HT, a fudden and violent — of fear. (See 
affion has been 
inftances been produced by frights. oy 
nee agues, out, and {ciatica, cure ed y this. means. 
It isa sient fe known cure for the econ; to put the 
patient ina fudden fright. 
R , Faioinbs, Lie is varioufly ufed.. A frigid 
of diétion ; wanting force, 
of ee re 
Time, which fee 
ception no 
of it ; this essay nee abfence, or at leaf great oe ty = 
enius. Of this there are numerous example mme 
upon with much humour, in the tof ies ; 
Dean Swift’s works; the init ances Paar: taken’ Hea 
in . 
hae a Blackmore. The 
LLEalil 
Y Writers of geniu 
error, which is too common, i unluckily lofing fight of the 
true point of the fublime. ‘This is alfo called Puffian, or 
Rani. Shakefpeare is not altogether unexceptionable in 
this refpect. Dryden and Lee, ‘in their tragedies, abound 
ith it. 
Fricip Zone, or Frozen Zone, in Geography. See Zonr. 
FRIGIDITY is alfo ufed in the fame fenfe with zm- 
potence 
FRIGIDUS, in eee Geography, a river of Italy, in 
Venetia, which rofe in . Alpes Carnice, ran towards the 
called Caltra, and difcharged. itfelf 
ntii. 
LIORA, in oo a town of Spain, i in Gre- 
nada; 13 miles E. of Velez 
RIGNANO, a aie of lel in the department of 
the Panaro; 15 miles Mod. 
_FRIGORIFIC, of “frigus, i and facie, I make, 
Phyfics, fomething that occafions cold. Some idioobeen 
par eae eee and other eel eae ies denying 
cold to be a mere privation, or abfen of heat, contend 
that Ane are aul frigorife copes, or particles, as 
well as fier ry whence proceed cold and heat; which 
ee. See alfo Cee FREEZING, and FREEZING 
Mixtures. 
FRIKEN,. in Geography, a lake of Sweden, in | Warme- 
land, 40 miles in length narrow. 
FRILL, in Falcone: when a hawk trembles or fhivers, 
they fay the frills. Dia. Rutt. 
_FRILLENDORF, in Geography, a town of Germany, 
in the county of Ziegenhayn ; five miles N.N.E. of Ziegen- 
hayn. — 
rR in Agriculture, a term employed to. denote any . 
IM, 
fart of ae which is full of juice. ie is often applied to 
in 
grafs and grain while young, and a tender ate of 
growt : 
ue EOF Masses, Periftomium,. in Botany,.a fimple 
or double.rew of feparate or conneéted teeth, | which bo: ng 
part en, t becomies: epic 
very fenfible: qSenee for: the. moft part ex ding by 
drought, to allow of the difcharge of the feeds. Sometimes : 
known not only to caufe, . 
FRI 
however the fringe is: expanded by moifture, and folds fo- 
ether in a dry ftate of the atmofphere. The outer fringe, 
_ is in many cafes sand only one, 1s of a much firmer 
; oured, than the inner. It con- 
fits ‘either r of 4, 8, nee teeth, which numbers. are as 
conftant and invariable i m v all cafes, as in any other inftance 
in natural baie and. far more fo than t 
differences vhich the 
owers and ae are dein ie 
fme plaited mem a 
toothed, jagged, or lier as a in. ne upper par 
times however the inner fringe confifts of feparate one tke 
the outer, yal much more delicate. All the arts in quef- 
tion are, in feveral inftances, sae brittle and fugacious, but 
in general be: are ey rable 
“This a the 
prefent we thal, defcribe the fir ucture of the fringe in each 
genus. 
Phafcum, Sphagnum, Gymnoftomum, and, dniangium, have 
no fringe at all, Inthe firft the lidis of one ala with the 
capfule, and only ruptured irregularly at in the 
three others the lid sea and falls off 
e fhall now firft enumerate ick genera as are ¢ furnithed 
with a fimple fringe. 
_Fringe of four teeth. ‘Thefe are ere, 
r. Dickfon firft 
Botany.—Plate Fri 
ringe of eight teeth. Coe ‘with. 
stale an a a Bryum albidum of Linnzus, an Indian 
pia 
- Splachnum. Fringe of 16° teeth dilated at the bafe, 
approaching each other in ae cylindrical, 
ftanding on a flefhy bafe, or apoph by Sim Fig. 
4. Enc calypta. Fringe of 16 linear es teeth, Veil 
ample, ae pe ed.— Fig. 
-§. Pterogonivm. Fringe of. 16 linear upright teeth. 
Captiule isis a ie fheath.— Fig. 5. 
of 16 equinitane teeth, dilated at 
6. Grimmia. inge o 
he bafe. Veil cylindsical.— —Hig. 6. 
9. Cong, = hes in Schrad. N. .Tou 
ale. 3424. e of 16 tapering teeth, spproach- 
“ éach pee in ae “and all cohering at the points. 
if 
Th is genus is founded. by Os Swartz on the Brym: tetra= 
gonum of Dickfon, (Grimmia congftoma ; Engl. Bo 1135. 
Fl. Brit. 1196); and another {pecies gathered by- en Men- 
zies in Staten- and. 
artramia 3 ut t e 
derable violence’ to. nature, in obliging us ito 0 pena thefa: 
two plants aaa si ila ‘ 
ringe of 16 flat, fomewhat inflexed 
roe seine he lf way down.—Fig. 
. aes is. ho natural difference. of- habit between this genius 
and. 
 g Teche lomum. Fringe of 32 linear ftraightith teeth, 
approaching 
