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eS denominated Furlawk, f peak a dialect refembling 
that of the ancient French language, differing widely from 
ie Italian or German idiom: they are confidere ry as the 
moft hot-headed, indolent, and wild inhabitants of Italy. 
‘Fhe whole province is divided into the diocefes of Udina and 
Concordia, and contained, in the heed 1795, 365,512 perfons, 
and boroughs, a fore) 
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d f Auftria ; bat after. 
reeably . the peace of Prefburg, it was taken 
from Au ria and annexed to the new kingdom of Italy. 
Fritii, or Citta di Friult, a town Wa Italy, ina country 
of the oe name above-defcribed ; the fee of a ee the 
f{uffraga It is ftuated at the of the 
mounting, ak a Friuli om Carnio la, on th 
ver Naifonne, and i fecond ae tal of the province. 
a the river which rifes near the town is a bridge, with 
twoa arches, 220 feet in length, and 75 feet high. ‘The town 
is well built, and are a collegiate church, with a chapter; 
ree mona Bled 62 mealies and 4000 inhabitants. N. 
lat.- 46° 10'. FE. long. 31° 
E, or Farezs, i in “tech itedure, a part of the entab- 
ne of eslemnns, more ufually written and pronounced 
. Frize, or J; Freene, in Commerce, a kind of ars - 
or ftuff, for winter wear, being frized, or kna one 
fide; ace in all probability, it dense its ae 
Of frizes, fome are c others not croffed: the for- 
mer are chiefly of Englith manufadture, the latter of Irith. 
FRIZING of Cloth, a term in the Woollen pele ait 
applied to the ie of the knap of a cloth, or ftuff, into 
a numbe ean mg or prominences, eae almof& 
e e ean 
‘cloths are aly Sized on the back fide, as black 
elot ee 3 oles on the right fide, as coloured and mixed 
cloths, » ratteehs, bays, frizes » &C. 
rformed. tw ways; one with the 
hand, of two aca, _ conduct ‘a kind 
of plank, sak ne as a frizing inftru 
The other way is by a mill, worked "either by water, or 
a horie ; or fometimes by men e latter is eeu the 
ee. of frizing, becau fe the motion being u = 
and eae rs = little knobs of the frizing are formed m 
: equably and regularly. 
The aa of this ufeful machine is as follows: 
hree principal ts are, ii frizer, or ‘a se the 
frizing cable ; and the drawer, or beam, firft are 
vo equal planks, or boas Sy cach oot ten feet ies and 
fifteen saa broad; differing only in this, that the frizing- 
table is lined or meee with a kind of coarfe woollen ihuff, 
with a kind of cement compofed of glue, gum Arabic, and 
yellow fand, with a little aqua vite, or urine. eam 
or drawer, th ius called becaufe it draws the ftuff from be- 
tween the frize and frizing-table, i isa ni roller, befet all 
over with little, fine, fhort points or ends of wire, like thofe 
ef cards ufed in carding of wool. 
‘The aifpobtion and ufe of the machine are thus: the table 
ftands immovea and bears or fuftains the clot ae o be 
frized, ‘which i is id _- hie fide uppermoft on w 
knap is to be r the ang is placed the fri: en at 
facha diftance aes it as as om for the ftuff to be 
paffed between them ; fo that ag oe having a very flow, 
femi-circular pera meeting the long hairs or knap of the 
eloth, twifts and r aa little knobs or burrs, while, 
at the fame time, the eae which. is continually ee 
Strahan and Prefton, . 
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draws ‘away a fut from under the frizer, and winds ft 
over its own poj 
All that the eoree to do while the machine ig 
Rong, is to el the ftuff on the table as faft as the drawer: 
takes it from = to time, ta take off the fluff 
fr — ae pees of ee a 
as already eee that the frizi ing-table ie 
zt with tuft of thet, fiff, bis age knap ; 3 the ufe wheree 
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workmen to imitate, as near as is can, eh their Be 
inftrument, the flow, equable, and circular motion of this 
machine. It needs only be added, that their frizer is but 
about two feet long: and one broad ; and that to form the 
nap more eafily, they ones the furface of the {tuff 
lightly with water, mingled with whites of eggs, or honey. 
FROBEN, Jony, i in : Bingraphy, an, eminent printer, wag 
born at Hammelburg in Fran He enjoyed the ad- 
vantages of a liberal eaceaen, aa acquired confiderable 
reputation at Bafil. As‘the bufinefs of a printer was at that 
period connected with the coe of letters, Fr oben was 
induced os ee it, and to 
where he n 
its dignity one uzility by a ferupulous choice in the authors 
ae he printed. He never fuffered improper. writings ta 
ue from his — but devoted it to the fervice of found 
and prabe learning. reputation o 
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intimately conneGted with Froben, and always teftified for 
him the higheft efteem and affeGtion. From Froben’s prefs 
iffued the woe of — in nine volumes folio; and. alfo 
thofe of St. Jerom 
reéted and revi feds 
of Froben’s editions. 
fathers, but was prevented by his death, which: happened in 
1527. He was fincerely lamented by Erafmus, who wrote, 
on the occa ee a reek and Latin epita ee erome. Fro» 
ben, fon of and his fucceffor in the printing-office, in, 
conjunétion with Nicholas Epifcopius, ee into effet ca 
‘i ‘ign of printing the Greek fathers. At the houfe of 
Jerome Froben Frafmus died, after an ‘eminently ufeful life. 
A catalogue of all the works printe at the Frobenian prefs 
was publithed in 
1564. ore 
Oye Etherial Spire, See /ETHER and 
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"FROBERGER, i Jacos, in Biography, organift 
. a emperor ’ erdinand ITI., who in his youth had been 
t to Rome to ftudy under the celebrated Frefcobaldi, 
was regarded about the — of the = ee oe the 
rea i paar eee er on the organ in Germ 
uch 
aes for his abilities by Kircher, ho has ies a. 
fantafia of his compofition in his “ Mufurgia,” upon the 
exachord ut, re, mi, fa, fol, la, accommodated to the organ. 
hae is roa leh were Somer in his life time ; but, 
ording alther, his piece 
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He 14, mo es ant of his na # appeared, for the 
firth a moe on We Ma a . 
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