frolic 
2. A scene of gaiety and mirth, as in dancing 
or play; a merrymaking. 
Before you go to SIM, I intend to wait mi .you, anil give 
you a />->/>>. llincell, Letters, I. vi. 21. 
3f. A plaything or an ornament. 
Apples weiv ilrdiratnl unto her (Venus], and her image 
commonly niiiilu with such fruit as frolick in her hand. 
Fuller, i'isgah Sight, IV. vii. 40. 
= Syn. (lamliiil, usciipMdi'. 
frolic (frol'ik), v. i. ; pret. and pp. frolicked, 
ppr. frolicking. [< frolic, n.} To play merry 
pranks ; engage in acts of levity, mirth, and 
gaiety. 
If death were nigh, he would not frolic thus. 
Marlowe, Faustus, v. 11. 
And many a ^ainbul frol/cfc'd o'er the ground ; 
And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. 
GoMsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 21. 
Hither, come hither and/ri^'c and play. 
Tennyson, The Sea-Fairies. 
We found a crowd of persons frolicking around the 
fountain, in the light of a number of torches on poles 
planted in the ground. 
E. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 258. 
frolicful (frol'ik-ful), a. [< frolic, n., + -ful.~\ 
Frolicsome. Craiy. [Rare.] 
frolicky (frol'ik-i), a. l<frolic(k) + -yi.] Mer- 
ry; frolicsome. 
There is nothing striking in any of these characters ; 
yet may we, at a pinch, make a good frolicky half-day 
with them. Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, V. 348. 
froliclyt (frol'ik-li), adv. [< frolic, a., + -fy2.] 
In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gai- 
ety; gaily; merrily; sportively. 
I do blush to see 
These beggars' brats to chat sofrolicly. 
Greene, Alphonsus, iv. 
Two as noble swains 
As ever kept on the Elysian plains, 
First by their signs attention having won, 
Thus they the revels frolicly begun. 
Drayton, Muses' Elysium, iii. 
I was set upon, 
I and my men, as we were singing frolicly. 
Fletcher (and Massingerl), Lover's Progress, li. 1. 
frolicness (frol'ik-nes), . Gaiety ; frolicsome- 
ness. [Rare.] 
Mirth, jol\ity,frolickntss of youth, as you call them. 
Goodwin, Works, V. 199. 
frolicsome (frol'ik-sum), a. [Formerly also 
frolicksome, -som; < frolic + -some.] Full of 
gaiety and mirth ; given to pranks ; sportive. 
Now, as fame does report, a young duke keeps court, 
One that pleases his fancy with frolickyome sport. 
The Frolicsome Duke (Percy's Reliques, p. 136). 
Besides what Ruin we sold by the Gallon or Ferkin, we 
sold it made Into Punch, wherewith they grew Frolick- 
iom. Dumpier, Voyages, II. ii. 18. 
The bleating sheep and frolickttome calves sported about 
the verdant ridge, where now the Broadway loungers take 
their morning stroll. Iniiuj, Knickerbocker, p. 160. 
She was . . . not more lovely than full of glee : all light 
aud smiles, and frolicksome as the young fawn. 
Poe, Tales, I. 368. 
= Svn. Gay, frisky, lively, playful, coltish. 
frolicsomely (frol'ik-sum-li), adv. In a frolic- 
some manner; with wild gaiety. Johnson. 
frolicsomeness (frol'ik-sum-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being frolicsome ; gaiety ; wild pranks. 
Bailey. 
from (from, from), prep, and adv. [< WE. from, 
fram, < AS. from, fram = OS. fram = OHGr. 
/raw, MHG. warn, prep, forth from, adv. forth, 
= Icel. fram, adv., forward, frd, prep, from, 
adv. fro, = Sw.fram, adv., forth, forward, fr&n, 
prep., from, = Dan. frem, adv., forth, onward, 
on, fra, prep., from, = Goth, fram, prep, from, 
adv. further, forward, compar./ra?m's, further; 
prob. ult. allied to fore 1 , forth*, for, for- 1 , etc. 
Cf . L. perendie, the day after, Or. irepav, beyond, 
Skt. para, distant, h'igh. See fro, a shorter 
(Scand.) form of from. Connected with AS. 
fram, from, forward, bold, strenuous, strong, 
fremian, fremman, promote, accomplish: see 
frame, frim.~\ I. prep. 1. Out of the limits, lo- 
cality, or presence of, or connection with : ex- 
pressing departure or point of departure, sepa- 
ration, discrimination, removal, or distance in 
space, time, condition, etc. (a) As regards space : 
as, to emigrate from Germany ; the town is five miles from 
the sea; to separate the sheep from the goats. 
The chatfe is take from the corne. 
Gower, Couf. Amant., Prol. 
Then cull they the bad from the good. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 98. 
The santon rushed/rom the royal presence, and descend- 
inn into the city, hurried through its streets and squares 
with frantic gesticulations. Irving, Granada, p. 23. 
[Sometimes used absolutely, in the sense of distant, ab- 
sent, or coining from : as, a visitor from the city. 
They hane also certaine Altar stones they call Pawcor- 
ances, but these stand from their Temples. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 140. 
23S7 
When I am from him, I am dead till I lie with him. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 6. 
Wretched when from thee, vex'd when nigh, 
I with thec, ur without thee, die. 
Prior, Lady's Looking-Glass.] 
(6) As regards time, or succession in a series or in logi- 
cal connection : noting the point of departure or reckon- 
ing: as, he was studious from his childhood; from that 
time onward. 
To my protection from this hour I take you. 
Fletcher, Wife for a Month, i. 1. 
We are thieves from our cradles, and will die so. 
Beau, and PL, Thierry and Theodoret, v. 1. 
I have determin'd to lay up as the best treasure, and 
solace of a good old age, if God voutsafe it me, the honest 
liberty of free speech from my youth. 
Milton, Church-Government, ii., Pref. 
Some few, whose lamp shone brighter, have been led 
From cause to cause, to Nature's secret head. 
Dryden, Religio Laici, 1. 13. 
God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul 
Must rise/row individual to the whole. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 361. 
From that disastrous hour, religion wore a new aspect 
in this unhappy country. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 7. 
(c) As regards idea, aim, or purpose : as, such a result was 
tar from my intention ; this is aside from our object. 
Anything so overdone is from [that is, aside, apart, or 
away from] the purpose of playing. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 
Ensenore a Saluage, father to Pemissapan, the best 
friend we had after the death of Granganimeo, when I was 
in those Discoueries, could not prevaile any thing with 
the King from destroying vs. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 90. 
We have reformed from them, not against them. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, 1. 3. 
(d) As regards state, condition, or effect : as, I am far from 
believing it; he is far from rich (that is, from being rich); 
he is a long w 'ay from being an atheist. 
For heavenly minds from such distempers foul 
Are ever clear. Milton, P. L., iv. 118. 
Now I am come 
From having found their walks, to find their home. 
Donne, To the Countess of Salisbury. 
Their minds at leisure from the cares of this life, and 
their bodies adorned with the best attire they can bestow 
on them. Steele, Taller, No. 211. 
What the Austrian pride had driven him [the King of 
Sardinia] to, the Spanish pride drove him from. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 10. 
So far, therefore, from shocking his [the Jew's] preju- 
dices by violent alterations of form, . . . the error of the 
early Christians would lie the other way. 
De Quincey, Essenes, Hi. 
(e) As regards direction : away from. 
The next question ... is, whether it be a thing allow- 
able or no that the minister should say service in the 
chancel, or turn his face at any time/rom the people. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 30. 
Why speak'st thou from me [with averted face]? thy 
pleas'd eyes send forth 
Beams brighter than the star that ushers day. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, 1. 1. 
(/) As regards point of view : out of ; off. 
He that endures for what his conscience knows 
Not to be ill, doth from a patience high 
Look only on the cause whereto he owes 
Those sufferings, not on his misery. 
Daniel, To Henry Wriothesly. 
God/ram the mount of Sinai . . . will himself, 
In thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets' sound, 
Ordain them laws. Milton, P. L., xii. 227. 
The Moors fought valiantly in their streets, from their 
windows, and/rom the tops of their houses. 
Irving, Granada, p. 35. 
2. Out of : expressing derivation, withdrawal, 
or abstraction, (a) As regards source or origin : as, 
light emanates from the sun ; the Greek alphabet was 
derived from the Phenician ; illustrations drawn from 
nature. 
So from the root 
Springs lighter the green stalk ; from thence the leaves 
More aery. Hilton, P. L., v. 479. 
You are good, but/rom a nobler cause ; 
From your own knowledge, not /row nature's laws. 
Dryden. 
It must appear that you receive law/rom, and not give 
it to, your company, to make you agreeable. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 386. 
From labour health, from health contentment springs. 
Beattie, Minstrel, i. 
Is there any doubt that the orders of the Church of Eng- 
land are generally derived from the Church of Rome? 
Macaulay, Gladstone on Church and State. 
(6) As regards occupation, relation, or situation : as, to re- 
tire from office or from bus\pess; to return from a jour- 
ney ; to withdraw from society. 
He is of late much retired from court ; and is less fre- 
quent to his princely exercises. Shak., W. T., iv. 1. 
I'll not over the threshold till my lord return from the 
wars. Shak., Cor., i. 3. 
Six frozen winters spent, 
Return with welcome home from banishment. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid. 
Fresh from war's alarms, 
My Hercules, my Roman Antony, 
My mailed Bacchus leapt into my arms. 
Tennyson, Fair Women. 
fromward 
(c) As regards a principal receptacle or place of t 
it: :i.s, to draw money from the bunk ; coal is i 
mines. 
A thousand favours from a maund she drew 
Of amber, crystal, ami of beaded j<-t. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 36. 
The blades were of Damascus, bearing texts from the 
Koran, or martial and amorous mottoes. 
Irving, Granada, p. 6. 
(d) As regards a whole or mass of which a part is taken or 
considered. () As regards state or condition: as, to start 
from sleep ; to go from bad to worse. 
The whole region, from a naked and desolate prospect, 
began now to look like a second Paradise. 
Addison, Hilpah and Shalum. 
Starting from sleep, the soldiers were intercepted and 
cut down as they rushed from their quarters. 
Irving, Granada, p. 21. 
3. Out of the charge, custody, or possession of: 
as, his office or the seal was taken from him. 
If you will needs take it, I cannot with modesty give it 
from you. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
There were also a great number of such as were locked 
up from their estates, and others who concealed their 
titles. Steele, Tatler, No. 127. 
4. In consequence of; on account or by rea- 
son of ; on the strength or by aid of ; as a re- 
sult of; through: as, to act from a sense of 
duty, or from necessity ; the conclusion from 
these facts is evident; to argue from false 
premises; from what I hear, I think he is 
guilty. 
For what I now do is not out of spleen, 
As he pretends, but/rom remorse of conscience. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iii. 3. 
By this means the beneficent spirit works in a man from 
the convictions of reason, not/rowi the impulses of passion. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 346. 
Several tents, a quantity of provisions, and a few pieces 
of artillery were left upon the spot, from the want of 
horses and mules to carry them off. Irving, Granada, p. 72. 
This very rare British plant, which ... is remarkable 
from producing seeds without the aid of insects. 
Darwin, Fertil. of Orchids by Insects, p. 27. 
We inserted the vowel . . . not from ignorance or from 
carelessness, but advisedly and in conformity with the 
practice of several respectable writers. 
Macaulay, Sadler's Ref. Refuted. 
[From is much used before local adverbs or prepositions 
used elliptically as nouns : as, from above, from below, 
from beneath, from behind, from beyond, from far off, 
etc., such phrases being used as unitary adverbs or prepo- 
sitions, as in 'from beyond Jordan,' 'from out of the bow- 
els of the earth.' From forth, from off, from out, etc., are 
usually transpositions: as, "from forth (forth from) his 
bridal bower " (Pope, Odyssey); warned fromoff (off from) 
the land. 
Sudden partings, such as press 
The life/rom out young hearts. 
. Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 24. 
From hence, from thence, from whence are pleonastic, 
'from' being implied in the adverb ; but they have long 
been in good use. 
In this Contree is the Cytee of Araym, where Abra- 
hames Fadree duelled, and from wheng Abraham depart- 
ed, be Commaudement of the Auugelle. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 43. 
And he went up/rom thence unto Beth-el. 2 Kl. li. 23. 
Within the gentle closure of my breast, 
From whence at pleasure thou mayest come and part. 
Shak., Sonnets, xlviii. 
from hence your memory death cannot take. 
Shak., Sonnets, Ixxxi.] 
From this out, henceforth ; from this time forward : as, 
he has decided to give up smoking from this out. [Col- 
loq. ] To break from, to break off from. See break. 
II. t adv. Forth; out; fro. 
fromwardt (from'ward), a. [< ME. fromward, 
frommard, framward, adj., adv., and prep., but 
found as adj. only in the form vrommard (An- 
cren Riwle), averse, < AS. fromweard, a., about 
to depart (opposed to toweard, about to come, 
future, toward), < from, fram, from, + -weard, 
-ward. Cf . froward, a doublet.] Turned away ; 
averse. 
fromwardt (from'ward), adv. and prep. [I. adv. 
< ME. fromward, forth, < AS.fromiceardes, away 
from, in a direction from, adv. gen. of from- 
weard, a. : see fromward, a. II. prep. < ME. 
fromward, frommard, framward, prep., away 
from ; from the adv.] I. adv. Forth ; forward. 
Fro thens/romward, thei ben alle obeyssant to him. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 197. 
II. prep. From; away from: opposed to to- 
ward. 
The wind wende forth riht framward than strande into 
thissen londe. Layamon, I. 401. 
As cheerfully going towards, as Pyrocles went frowardly 
fromward his death, he was delivered to the king. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
The Lark, which ever flies fromward her nest, when she 
sees anybody eyes her. Cotgrave. 
The horizontal needle is continually varying towards 
east and west ; and so the dipping or inclining needle is 
varying up and down, towards orfromwardi the zenith. 
Cheyne. 
