frigate-mackerel 
and palatines and a well-developed corselet. 
It occurs on both sides of the Atlantic. 
2381 
He ... lapsed into so long a pause again 
As half amazed, halt frighted, all his flock. 
Ttnnyton, Aylmer's Field. 
j--a ;->---o --- --- ^ 
vessel with a suare stern and two masts. 2f- 
[< L. as if frighted (M'ted), pa 
make cold < &tt&S 
frii/ere, be cold, + faccre, jm.factus, make.J A 
cooling or making cold. Bailey, 1731. 2. In her., same &aforcene. 
' 
frighti 
Carlyle, in Fronde. 
1 Frightened. 
Home, Douglass. 
. ., 
frigefactivet (frij-e-fak'tiv),. lAsfrigefact-ion frighten (fri'tn), v. t. [< fright + -en 1 (e).] To 
+ -ice.] Tending or serving to make cold; strike with fright ; terrify; scare; dismay. 
cooling. 
We will no longer delay to say something of this matter : 
namely, in what line, or, if you please, towards what part 
the frigefactive virtue of cold bodies does operate the 
furthest and most strongly. Boyle, Works, II. 524. 
frigeratet (frij'e-rat), v. t. [< L. frigeratus, pp. 
of frigerare, make cool, < frigus (frigor-), cold, 
coldness, coolness: see frigid.'] To cool; re- 
frigerate. Bailey, 1731. 
frigeratoryt (frijVra-to-ri), . [< frigerate + 
-on/.] A place to make or keep things cool 
in. Bailey, 1731. 
Even that [2,000 leagues] was a Voyage enough la fright- 
en us, considering our scanty Provisions. 
Dampier, Voyages, I. 280. 
The rugged Bears, or spotted Lynx's Brood, 
Frighten the Vallies, and infest the Wood. 
Prior, Solomon, i. 
The chilling tale 
Of midnight murder was a wonder heard 
With doubtful credit, told to frighten, babes. 
Cowper, Task, iv. 564. 
Frightened water, weak tea or coffee served on board 
ship. [Sailors' slang.]=Syn. To affright, dismay, daunt, 
appal, intimidate. See afraid. 
(frig), . [Icel. Frigg (gen. Friggjar), frightenable (fri'tn-a-bl), a. [< frighten 4- 
a goddess, = AS. *Frigu, found only in the -able.] Susceptible of being frightened. Cole- 
name of the sixth day (Frige do>g, E. Friday : ridge. [Rare.] 
see Friday), and as a common noun in gen. pi. frightful (frit'ful), a. [< UF. frightful, afraid; 
fi-iga, dat. pi. frigum, love; = OHG. Fria. A cf. AS. forhtfutt, jifr&id, timid: see fright, n., 
different name (and goddess) from Icel. Freyja, 
fern, associated with Fretjr : see Freya, frow 1 . 
The name Frigg is Latinized as Frigga or Friga.] 
In Norse myth., the wife of Odin and the queen 
of the gods. She is often confounded with Freya, a dis- 
tinct deity. Frigg was the goddess of love in its loftier 
and constant form. Also Frigga, Friga. 
Frigga, Friga (frig'a), n. [Latinized forms of 
Frigg.] Same as Frigg. 
friggling (frig'ling), a. [Ppr. of *friggle, freq. 
of frig, v.] Wriggling. 
How was the head of the beast cut oft at first in this 
nation ? It is harder for us to cut off the friggling tail 
of that hydra of Rome. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 173. 
fright (frit), n. [< ME. frigt, frygt (transposed 
from *fyrgt), < AS. fyrhtu, fyrhto = OS. forhta, 
forahia = OFries. fruchta = OD. vrucht, vrocht, 
vurcht, vorgJtt = MLG. vrochte, vruchte, vorchte, 
LG. frucht = OHG. forhta, forahta, forohta, 
MHG. vorhte, vorht, G. furcht (= Sw. fruTctan 
= Dan. frygt, perhaps borrowed) = Goth. 
faurhtei, fright. The associated verb, AS. 
fyrhtan, E. fright, etc., was prob. orig. strong, 
as shown by the adj. pp. AS. forht = OHG. 
forht = Goth, faurhts, timid, afraid : see fright, 
v. t. Not connected with fear 1 or wiih afraid.] 
and -ful.] 1. Full of occasion for fright; 
causing or apt to excite alarm or terror ; ter- 
rible; dreadful: as, a/K<//s#"Zchasm; a fright- 
ful tempest. 
Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 
One cannot conceive so frightful a state of a nation. A 
maritime country without a marine, and without com- 
merce, a continental country without a frontier, and for 
a thousand miles surrounded with powerful, warlike, and 
ambitious neighbours. Burke, Policy of the Allies. 
Like one that on a lonesome road 
Doth walk in fear and dread, . . . 
Because he knows afrightful fiend 
Doth close behind him tread. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, vi. 
2. Intolerable; shocking; hideous. [Hyper- 
bolic.] 
"Odious! in woollen! 'twould a saint provoke " 
(Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke) : . . . 
"One would not, sure, \tefrightfnl when one's dead." 
Pope, Moral Essays, i. 250. 
3f. Full of terror ; fearful ; alarmed. 
Their young boyes 
AnAfrightfull matrons making wofull noise, 
In heaps enhedg'd it. Vicars, tr. of Virgil (1632). 
= Syn. Dreadful, Fearful, etc. (pee awful); alarming, ter- 
.- rifle, horrible, shocking. 
1. Sudden and extreme fear; terror caused by frightfully (frit'ful-i), adv. 1. In a frightful 
the sudden appearance or prospect of danger. malm er; dreadfully; terribly. 
But though I have seen, and been beset by them [water- 
Then to her glass ; and, " Betty, pray, 
Don't I look frightfully to-day?" 
Swift, Lady's Journal. 
2. Intolerably; shockingly; hideously; exceed- 
ingly. [Hyperbolic.] 
They [the Lapps] me frightfully pious and commonplace. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 136. 
2. Anything which by its sudden occurrence frightfulness (frit'ful-nes), . The quality of 
or appearance may greatly startle and alarm; feeing frightful. 
spouts] often, yet the Fright was always the greatest part 
of the harm. Dampier, Voyages, I. 453. 
Gentle Lamia judged, and judged aright, 
That Lycius could not love in half a fright, 
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart 
More pleasantly by playing woman's part. 
Keats, Lamia, i. 
hence, by hyperbole, a person of a shocking, 
grotesque, or ridiculous appearance in either 
person or dress: as, she is a perfect fright. 
Likewise if I had thought I'd been 
Sic a great fright to thee, 
I'd brought Sir John o' Erskine park ; 
He's thretty feet and three. 
Lang Johnny Moir (Child's Ballads, IV. 278). 
Auld Reekie aye he keepit tight, 
An' trig and braw ; 
But now they'll busk her like a fright 
Willie's awa 1 ! Burns, To William Creech. 
Those few horses that remaine are sent forth for discov- 
ery ; they find nothing but monuments of frightfulnesse, 
pledges of security. Bp. Hall, Samaria's Famine Relieved. 
frightiheadt, n. [ME. frightiliea; < frighty + 
-head.] Fright; fear. 
Al he it listnede in frightihed. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2222. 
frightilyt (fri'ti-li), adv. [ME. *frighttty,frigti- 
like; < frighty + -ly%.] In fear; fearfully, 
lacob abraid, & seide frigtilike. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1617. 
Free 
ht (tTZ: f 8I [7kE C : frigiten;< AS. fyrh- frightless (frit'les), a [< fright + -less.] 
tan, tr., make afraid, forhtian, intr., be afraid, trom tn 8 nt - Lare.] 
= OS. forhtian, forahtian = OFries. fruchta = * 8 P eake a11 frightlesee. Marston, Sophonisba, iv. l. 
OD. vruchten, vurchten, vorchten = MLG. vroch- frightmentt (frit'ment), n. [< fright + -ment.] 
ten, vruchten, vorchten, LG. fruchten = OHG. Fright; terror; alarm. 
forahtan, furihtan, MHG. viirhten, G. furchten All these frightments are but idle dreams. 
(Sw. frukta = Dan. frygte, borrowed) = Goth. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, iv. 2. 
faurhtjan, fear; the tr. verb was prob. orig. frightyt, a- [ME. friffhty,frigti; < fright + -y 1 .] 
strong; cf. the adj. pp. AS. forht = OHG. forht Afraid. 
= Goth, faurhts, timid, afraid : see fright, n. 
Hence frighten, q. v.] To frighten ; affright ; 
terrify; scare. 
Which Name of Salisbury so frighted the French, think- 
ing be had been come to rescue them, that casting away 
tbuir Weapons they ran all away. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 181. 
The story soon is improved and spreads, that a mad dog 
had frighted a lady of distinction. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Ixix. 
Tho wurthen he frigti. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 667. 
frigid (frij'id), a. [= Sp. frigido = Pg. It. fri- 
gido, < L. frigidus, cold, chill, cool, <frigere, be 
cold; cf. frigus (frigor-), cold, coldness, cool- 
ness, = Gr. /yof (for *Fp<yof), cold, ptyovv, 
freeze. See frill 1 .] 1. Cold in temperature; 
wanting heat or warmth ; icy ; wintry : as, the 
frigid zone. 
frigot 
There is also a great difference betwixt the degrees in 
coldness in the air utfriiiid regions ami of England. 
limjte, Works, II. 509. 
The stone on which our colonial life was founded was 
fn'ai'i as an arctic boulder there was no molecular mo- 
tion to give out life and heat. 
Stediuan, Poets of America, p. 15. 
2. Cold in temperament or feeling; wanting 
warmth of affection or of zeal ; chilly in man- 
ner; impassive. 
Even his [William of Orange's] admirers generally ac- 
counted . . . [him] the most distant and frigid of men. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
Mrs. Fairfax ! I saw her in a black 'gown and widow s 
cap frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil : a model of elderly 
English respectability. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, x. 
3. Marked by or manifesting mental coldness ; 
coldly formal or precise ; lifeless; torpid; chill- 
ing: as, frigid devotions or services; frigid po- 
liteness or manners. 
Bleak level realm, where frigid styles abound, 
Where never yet a daring thought was found. 
Parnell, To Bolingbroke. 
Then, crush'd by rules, and weaken'd as refln'd, 
For years the pow'r of Tragedy declin'd ; 
From Bard to Hard the frigid caution crept, 
Till Declamation roar'd whilst Passion slept. 
Johnson, Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane (1747). 
The heroic rhymes of the Icelanders are crowded with 
frigid conceits. G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang.,xxv. 
4. Wanting generative heat or vigor ; impo- 
tent. Johnson. Frigid zones, in geog. , the two zones 
comprehended between the poles and the polar circles, 
which are 23 30 1 from the poles. 
frigidarium (frij-i-da'ri-um), n. ; pi. frigidaria 
(-a). [L., a cooling-room, neut. of frigidarius, 
of or for cooling, (.frigidus, cold, cool: see fri- 
gid. ] In ane. arch. , the cooling-apartment in 
a bath, in or adjoining which the cold bath was 
placed. 
frigidite (frij'id-It), n. [< Frigido (see def.) + 
-ite 2 .] A metallic mineral related to tetrahe- 
drite, but containing a small percentage of 
nickel, found in the mines of the Valle del 
Frigido, Liguria, Italy. 
frigidity (fri-jid'i-ti), n. [< F. frigidity = Pr. 
frigiditat = It. frigidita, < LL. frigidita(t-)s, 
cold, < frigidus, cold : see frigid. ] 1 . Coldness ; 
want of heat. 
Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 1. 
2. Coldnessof feeling, manner, or quality; want 
of ardor, animation, or vivacity in action or 
manifestation; chilliness; dullness. 
Having begun loftily in heavens universal! Alphabet, he 
fals downe to that wretched poorenesse and frigidity as 
to talke of Bridge street in heav'n and the Ostler oif heav'n. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
3. Want of natural heat and vigor of body ; im- 
potency. Bailey, 1731. 
frigidly (frij'id-li), adv. In a frigid man- 
ner; coldly; without warmth of feeling or 
manner. 
If in the Platonical Philosophy there are some things 
directing to it [a communion with God], yet they are but 
frigidly expressed. 
Bates, Harmony of the Divine Attributes, xvii. 
frigidness (frij'id-nes), n. The state of being 
frigid ; coldness ; want of ardor or fervor ; fri- 
gidity. 
frigiferous (fri-jif 'e-rus), a. [< L. frigus, cold, 
+ ferre = E. bearl.] Bearing or bringing cold : 
as, frigiferous winds. Evelyn. [Rare.] 
frigblito (frig-6-le'to), n. The Sophora secun- 
diflora, a small leguminous tree or shrub of 
western Texas and New Mexico. The wood is 
hard and heavy, and makes excellent fuel. 
frigoric (fri-gor'ik), a. [< L. frigus (frigor-), 
cold, + -ic.] Pertaining to or consisting in the 
application of cold. [Kare.] 
The conditions under which the frigoric service was to 
be introduced into the morgue. 
Set. Amer., N. S., LVI. 178. 
frigoriflc (frig-o-rif'ik), a. [= F.frigorifique, 
< LL. frigortficus, cooling, < frigus (frigor-), 
coolness, cold, + facere, make.] Causing cold ; 
producing or generating cold: as, frigorific mix- 
tures. See freezing-mixture. 
When the frigorificlc power was arrived at the height, 
I several times found, that water . . . would freeze in a 
quarter of a minute by a minute watch. 
Boyle, Works, III. 147. 
frigorifical (frig-o-rif'i-kal), a. [< frigorific + 
-al.] Same as frigorific. 
frigot 1 t, " An obsolete spelling of frigate. 
frigot 2 t, n. [Appar. a capricious use of the 
form frigot 1 , with sense taken from L. frigus, 
cold, frigidus, frigid. ] A person of cold or pas- 
sive temperament. 
