frumenty 
L. frumentatus, pp. of ./>/;<, provide grain 
or corn), < L. frumentum, grain, corn: see //- 
incitt.~\ 1. A dish made of hulled wheat boiled 
in milk and seasoned, especially used in Eng- 
land and in some of the southern United States 
at Christmas. 
Her grace would have you eat no more \Voolaauk pies, 
Nor Dagger frumenty. B. Jonson, Alchemist, v. 2. 
After we had thus dryed our selues, she brought v* into 
an Inner roome, where she set on the bord standing a 
long the house somewhat like/ruwn(ie, sodden venison, 
and rested fish. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 84. 
And we are going to have real frumenty and yule cakes. 
J. 11. Kiting, The Peace Egg. 
2. Wheat mashed for brewing. 
The wheat is crushed and mixed with water. This/nt- 
menty is allowed to ferment. 
fnunetaryt, 
Thausing, Beer (trans. ), p. 197. 
A corrupt form of frumenty. 
The fifth hook is of pease-porridge ; under which we in- 
cluded frumetary, water gruel, &c. 
W. King, Art of Cookery, ix. 
frumgildt, -frumgyldt, [AS. frunigyld, < 
frnma (in comp. Jrum-), the first (= Icel. frum 
= Goth, fruma, the first, ult. the game as AS. 
forma, the first : see former^), + ijilil, yyld, pay- 
ment: see gild?, gelffi.] In Anglo-Saxon law, 
the first payment made to the kindred of a per- 
son slain, toward the recompense of his murder. 
frump (frump), v. [E. dial, in all senses; ori- 
gin obscure. Ci.frumpte.] I.f trans. 1. To be 
rude to; insult; snub; rebuke. 
I pray yon, read there; I am ahus'd &ni\ frump d, sir, 
By a great man, that may do ill liy authority. 
Fletcher ami Kuwlfii, Maid in the -Mill, iii. 2. 
2. To fabricate or patch up (a tale). 
II. intrans. 1. To be rude. 2. To go about 
gossiping. 3. To complain without cause. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Bug.] 
frump (frump), . [See the verb.] If. A taunt; 
a jeer ; a flout ; a snub. 
The Greeks call it Micterisraus,we may terme it a fleer- 
ing fi-umpe, as he that said to one whose wordes he be- 
leued not, no doubt Sir of that. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 159. 
If [a man] be cleanly, they [women] term him proud, 
if mean in apparel, a sloven ; if tall, a lungis, if short, a 
dwarf; if bold, blunt, if shamefaced, a coward; insomuch 
that they have neither mean in their frumps nor mea- 
sure in their folly. Lyly, Euphues and his England. 
2f. A lie. 
- To tell one a leae, to give & frump. 
Hollyband's Treasurie, 1593. (Halliwell.) 
3. A dowdy woman or girl, particularly when 
also cross or ill-tempered ; a hag. 
The Kings, and the Aces, and all the best trumps 
Get into the hands of the other old frumps. 
Barnaul, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 157. 
The old-fashioned frump, a very hard winter, had laid 
in great stores of snow with great raving winds. 
Elizabeth S. Sheppard, Charles Auchester. 
4. A gossip. [Prov. Eng.] 
frumpert, n. [(.frump, v. t., + -er 1 .] A mock- 
er. Cotgrave. 
frumperyt.M. [<frump,n., + -ery.~] Reproat-h; 
abuse. Danes. 
Tyndarus attempting too kiss a fayre lasse with a long nose 
Would needs bee finish, with bitter frumperye taunting. 
Stanihurtt, Conceits, p. 145. 
He hath of men mocks, frumperies, and baatonadoes. 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, i. 40. 
frumpish (frum'pish), a, [< frump, n., 3, + 
-is* 1 .] 1. Cross-tempered; cross-grained; scorn- 
ful. 
Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish and jealous. 
Foote, The Author, ii. 1. 
She sits down so, quite/rumpiA, and won't read her les- 
son to me. J. BaiUie. 
2. Old-fashioned, as applied to dress ; dowdy. 
Also frumpy. 
frumpishness (frum'pish-ues), . The state or 
quality of being frumpish. 
frumplet, v. t. [< ME. frumplen, wrinkle (cf. D. 
frommelen, wrinkle), appar. freq. of frump, v. 
Cf. crumple, rumple.] To wrinkle; crumple; 
ruffle; disorder. 
Frumplyd, rugatus, rugulatus. Prompt. I'arv., p. 181. 
frumplet (frum'pl), TO. [ME. frumpylle: seethe 
verb.] A wrinkle. 
Fniinpylle, ruga, rugula. Prompt. Parv., p. 181. 
frumpy (frum'pi), a. [< frump + -y 1 .] 1. Same 
as frumpish, 1. 
I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a wo- 
man, agood many years. Dickens, David Copperfleld, xliv. 
2. Same as frumpish, 2. 
I'll take my chance with the well-dressed ones always ; 
I don't believe the frumpy [women] are the most sensible. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 94. 
frundlet, . A measure equal to two pecks. 
Davws. 
2396 
\ framlle of lyme. 
/.- ' /'ton Ch'wardenx Accts., 1557 (Arclucnlo^hi. X LI. 3t>2). 
frushH (frush), i'. [< ME. fruxttlH-ii.fruxi-litiii, 
friissehen, crush, bruise, strike, intr. (also 
spelled frouschen, frochen) rush together, dash 
forward, < OF.fruisser,froisser, crush, bruise; 
origin uncertain.] I. trans. To cmsh ; bruise; 
break in pieces. 
Ther was many a grete growen spere/ru*A/ a-sonder, 
and many a gome to the grounde glode in a stounde. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 594. 
I like thy armour well ; 
I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all, 
But I'll be master of it. Shak., T. and I'., v. 6. 
To frush a chicken, to carve or break up a chicken. 
yares. 
II. intrans. To rush; dash forward. 
Thei rennen to gidre a gret randoum, and theifrusschen 
to gidere fulle fiercely. Mandeville, Travels, p. 238. 
When this feerfull freike/rsAe< into batcll. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 7731. 
frushH (frush), n. [ME. frusshe,frusche, < frus- 
slten, v. t., frush: see the verb.] 1. An onset, 
attack, assault, or collision. 
To the Troiens thai turnyt & mekill tene wroght ! 
The frusshe was so felle, tho fuerse men betwene, 
Crakkyng of cristis, crusshyng of speirls. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5851. 
2. The noise of collision. 
frustule 
Horrible uproar mail frush 
Of rocks that meet in battle. Southey. 
3. Fragments; debris. 
Al thefrushesmA leanings of Greeke, of wrathful Achilles. 
Stanihurst, MneiA, i. 39. 
frush 1 (frush), a. [</ra**l, v. t.~\ Brittle; apt 
to break and splinter : said of wood. [Obsolete 
or provincial.] 
O wae betide the frush saugh wand ! . . . 
It brake into my true love's hand. 
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, II. 153. 
Supposing the! were baith dead and gone, which, when 
we think of the frush green kail-stock nature of bairns, is 
no an impossibility. Gait, The Entail, I. 59. 
frush 2 t (frush), n. [Appar. anotherformof/roA, 
a frog, in imitation of frush in other senses; so 
the equiv. frog 2 , < frog 1 . But perhaps a cor- 
ruption of OF. fourche, fourchette, as suggested 
in the extract from Topsell, below. Cf. also the 
extract from Florio, under def. 2.] 1. ID far- 
riery, same as/ro</ 2 , 1. 
The Frush is the tenderest part of the hooue towardes 
the heele, called of the Italians Fettone ; and because it is 
fashioned like a forked head, the French men call it Km 
chette, which word our Ferrers, either for not knowing 
rightly how to pronounce it, or else perhaps foreasinesse 
sake of pronunciation, do make it a monasillable, & pro- 
nounce it the Frush. 
Topsell, Hist. Foure-footed Beasts (ed. 1808), p. 416. 
2. A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter 
from the frog of a horse's foot ; thrush. 
Forchetta [It.], a disease in a horse called the running 
Frush. Florio. 
frust (frust), . [< L. frustum : see frustum.'] 
A section or part; a frustum. [Rare.] 
There is a soft ajra in every gentle mortal's life when 
such a story affords more pabulum than all the/rt and 
crusts, and rusts of antiquity, which travellers can cook 
up for it. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, v. 150. 
frusta, n. Latin plural of frustum. 
frustrable (frus'tra-bl), a. [< IJLi.frustrabilix, 
that will be disappointed, vain, < L. frustrare, 
frustrate : see frustrate.'} Capable of being 
frustrated or defeated. [Rare.] 
frustraneoust (frus-tra'ne-ns), a. [= Sp. frus- 
trdneo = Pg. It. frustraneo, < L. as if *frustra- 
neus, (.frustra, in vain: see frustrate.'] Vain; 
useless; unprofitable. 
Where the Kings judgement may dissent to the destruc- 
tion, as it may happ'n, both of himself and the Kingdom, 
there advice, and no furder, is a most insufficient and 
fntstraneous meanes to be provided by Law, in cases of 
so high concernment. Milton, Eikonoklastes, vi. 
frustrate (frus'trat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. frus- 
trated, ppr. frustrating. [< L. frustratus, pp. 
of frustrare, frustrari (> It. frustrare = Sp. Pg. 
frustrar = Pr. frustar, , frustrar = Y.frustrer), 
deceive, disappoint, trick, frustrate, < fnistra, 
in vain, without effect, earlier in error, in a 
state of deception, prop. fern. abl. of "frustrus 
for *frudtrus, < OL. frus (frud-), L. fraus 
(fraud-), deception, error: seefraud.'] 1. To 
make of no avail; bring to nothing; prevent 
from taking effect or attaining fulfilment ; de- 
feat; disappoint; balk: as, to frustrate & plan, 
design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or 
purpose. 
Such was the Faithfulness of the Archbishop of Roan, 
and other the Princes of the Realm to K. Richard, that 
they opposed Duke John, and frustrated all his Practices. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 65. 
Thou hast discover d thf ptoteftndJHutFatod tilt; hopes 
of all the wicked in the Land. 
Milton, On Def. of Ilumb. Itemoust. 
2. To make null; nullify; render of no effect: 
as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed. 
Now thou hast avenged 
Supplanted Adam, . . . 
And frustrated the conquest fraudulent. 
Milton, P. R., iv. 609. 
3. To defeat the desire or purpose of; cause 
to be balked or disappointed ; thwart. 
There were divers that put in for it, ... but 1 found 
means to frustrate them all. Uowell, Letters, I. v. 23. 
The English returned without doing any thing to tin 1 
Surpose, being frustrated of their opportunity by their 
eceit. A'. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. Ib6. 
I endeavoured to take the advantage of every disap- 
pointment, to improve their good sense in proportion as 
they were frustrated in ambition. Goldsmith, Vicar, xiii. 
= Syn. Frustrate, Foil, Thwart, Bafle, Balk, are strong 
words, expressing the complete defeat of any plan or en- 
deavor. Frustrate, to make vain, cause to be in vain, bring 
to naught. Foil, to stop, render useless. (Foil is not 
thought to lie derived from the use of a foil in fencing, 
but is associated with it in many minds, and in meaning 
corresponds with the turning aside of a sword by the ad- 
dress of a fencer.) Thwart, literally, to stop by a bar or 
barrier, cross effectively, defeat. Baffle, to check at all 
points or completely and promptly, so that one is at a loss 
what to do. Balk, to stop in a course, make unable to pro- 
ceed in a given direction. Perhaps baffle expresses most 
of confusion of mind or bewilderment, and balk most of an- 
noyance or vexation. 
Every mode which the government invented seems to 
have been easily frustrated, either by the intrepidity of 
the parties themselves, or by that general understand- 
ing which enabled the people to play Into one another s 
hands. /. D'lfraeli, Curios, of Lit., IV. 387. 
O ! be not proud, nor brag not of thy might, 
For mastering her thSLtfoil'd the god of fight ! 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 114. 
He hath . . . thwarted my bargains. 
Shak., M. of V..iii. 1. 
For Freedom's battle once begun, . . . 
Though baffled oft, is ever won. 
Byron, Giaour, 1. 123. 
I would not brook my fear 
Of the other; with a worm I balked his fame. 
Tennyson, Fair Women. 
frustrate (frus'trat), a. [< L. frustratus, pp.: 
see the verb.] 1. Vain; ineffectual; useless; 
unprofitable ; null ; void ; of no effect. 
Their baptism was in all respects as frustrate as their 
crism [confirmation]. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 66. 
The sea mocks 
Our frustrate search on land. 
Shak., Tempest, iii. 3. 
The swain in vain his frustrate labour yields, 
And famish'd dies amidst his ripen'd fields. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 55. 
2. Defeated. 
And now that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of 
his purpose. Judith xi. 11. 
These men fail as often as the rest in their projects, and 
are as usually frustrate of their hopes. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 192. 
frustratelyt (frus'trat-li), adv. In vain. 
Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, 
Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately. 
Vicars, tr. of Virgil (1632). 
frustration (frus-tra'shon), n. [< L. frustra- 
tio(n-), < frustrare, frustrari, frustrate: see 
frustrate.] 1. The act of frustrating; disap- 
pointment ; defeat. 
At length they received some leters from y c adventur- 
ers, ... by which they heard of their furder crosses and 
frustrations. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 138. 
He breaks off the whole session, and dismisses them and 
their grievances with scorn and frustration. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes. 
2. Specifically, in astral., the cutting off or pre- 
venting, by one aspect, of anything shown by 
another. 
frustrative (frus'tra-tiv), a. [< frustrate + 
-ive.] Tending to frustrate or defeat; disap- 
pointing; thwarting. 
frustratoryt (frus'tra-to-ri), a. [= F. frustra- 
tnirc = Pr. frustratori = Sp. Pg. It. frustratorio, 
< LL. frustratorius, deceptive, deceitful, <frus- 
trator, a deceiver, delayer, < L. frustrare, frus- 
trari, deceive, frustrate : see frustrate.'] Mak- 
ing void or of no effect ; that renders null. 
Hartolus restrains this to &frustratory appeal. 
Aijlife, Parergon. 
frustret, v. t. [< OF. frustrer, F. frustrer, < L. 
frustrare, frustrate : see frustrate.'] To frus- 
trate. 
Haue these that yet doo craul 
Vpon all fowre, and cannot stand at all, 
Withstood your fury, and repulst your powrs, 
Frnstred your rams, flered your flying towrs? 
.'iiUvKter, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
frustule (frus'tul), . [< liL.frustulum, a small 
piece, little bit, dim. of L. frustum : see frus- 
