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To FRI'GEFY, v.a. cold, and facio, Lat, to 
make.] To make cold. Not muck ufed. 
To FRT'GERATE, v. a. To make cold. Not ufed. 
FRI'GER ATOR Y, y.' \_ frigeratorium,'L3.x.'\ A place 
to make any thing cold ; a place to keep any thing cold. 
To FRIGHT, v.a. [ppigjjtan, Sax.] To terrify ; to 
diflnrb with fear ; to fliock with fear; to daunt; to dif- 
may. Tliis was in the old authors more frequently writ¬ 
ten affright, as it is always found in the fcripture.—The 
mind frights itfelf with any thing reflected on in grofs, 
and at a diftance: things thus olFered to the mind, carry 
the fliew of nothing but difficulty. Locke. 
Such a numerous hoft 
Fled not in (ilence fhrough the frighted deep, 
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout. Milton, 
FRIGHT,yi A fudden terror: 
You, if your goodnefs does not plead my caufe. 
May think I broke all hofpitable laws, 
To bear you from your palace-yard by might. 
And put your noble perfon in a fright. Dryderti 
The confequences oi fright are often fatal.—The gene¬ 
ral effects are a great contraction of all the fmall vellels, 
and a repulfion of the blood into the large and internal 
ones; hence t’le fuppreilion of perfpiration, the general 
oppreffion, trembling, and anguilh, from the heart and 
lungs being overcharged with blood, &c. After great 
frights, perfons rarely recover their ufual vivacity ; and 
epilepfies that are caufed by frights are rarely, if ever, 
cured. When a perfon is affeCted with terror, or fudden 
or great frights, the principal endeavours fltould be lo 
reftore the circulation to its due order, to promote per¬ 
fpiration, and to allay the agitation or commotion, in 
which the patient is obferved to be. The cuftom of 
giving cold water in thefe cafes is bad. Place the af¬ 
frighted perfon in a quiet fituation ; a little warm liquor, 
as camomile tea or luch like, flrould be'given him to 
drink ; the legs may be put into warm water, and there 
continue for fome time ; the legs Ihould be rubbed, and 
the camomile tea repeated every fix or eight minutes; 
when the fkin becomes warm, and there is a tendency to 
perfpiration, fleep may be promoted by a gentle opiate. 
See the article Fear, vol. vii. p. 281. 
To FRIGHT'EN, t/. (2. To terrify; to fliock with dread : 
The rugged bear’s, or fpotted lynx’s brood. 
Frighten the valleys and infefl: the wood. Prior. 
FRIGHT'FUL, atfj. Terrible ; dreadful; full of terror : 
Without aid you durft not undertake 
T\\\s frightful paflage o’er the Stygian lake. Dryden. 
FRIGHT'FULLY,fl 2 y. Dreadfully; horribly.—This 
will make a prodigious mafs of water, and looks fright¬ 
fully to the imagination ; ’tis luige and great. Burnet. — 
Diiagreeably ; not beautifuily. A woman's word: 
Then to her glafs ; and, Betty, pray. 
Don’t I look frightfully to-day ? Swift. 
FRIGHT'FULNESS, f. The power of imprefling 
terror. 
FRPGID,a(^'. \_frigidus, Lat.] Cold ; wantingwarmth. 
In this fenfe it is feldom ufed but in fcience.—In the 
torrid zone the heat would have been intolerable, and in 
the frigid zone the cold would have deftroyed both ani¬ 
mals and vegetables. Cheyne. —Wanting warmth of af- 
feClion. Impotent; without warmth of body. Dull; 
without fire of fancy : 
If juftice Philip’s coflive head, 
Some frigid rhyme di.iburfes, 
They ftiall like Perfian tales be read. 
And glad both babes and nurfes. Swift. 
FRIGIDA'RIUM, y; [Latin.] A place to cool any 
thing in; a cold bath. 
FRIGID ZO'NE, the fpace about either pole of the 
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earth to which the fun never rifes for one whole day at. 
leafl: in their winter. Thefe two zones extend to about 
twenty-three degrees and a half every way from the pole, 
as their centre. 
FRIG.I'DITY, yi [frigiditas, Lat.] Coldnefs; want 
of warmth. Dulnefs; want of intellectual fire.—Driv¬ 
ing at thefe as at the higheft elegancies, wdiich are but 
the frigidities of wit. Brown .—Of the tv.^o extremes, one 
would fooner pardon phrenzy than frigidity. Pope. —Want 
of corporeal warmth.—The boiling blood of youth hin¬ 
ders that ferenity which is necelfary to fevere intenfenefs ; 
and ihcfrigidity oi decrepit age is as much its enemy, by 
reafon of its dulling moifture. Glanville .-—Coldnefs of af. 
fedtion. 
FRI'GIDLY, adv. Coldly; dully; without affedtion. 
FRl'GIDNESS, y. Coldnefs; dulnefs; want of affec¬ 
tion. 
FRI'GIFY, v.a. \,frigus, cold, and facio, I.at. to 
make.] To make cold. Not muck ufed. 
FRIGILIA'NA, a town of Spain, in th.e kingdom of 
Grenada : thirteen miles eaft of Velez-Malaga. 
FRIGORI'FIC, adj. [frigorificus, ol-frigus Oi-ni facio, 
Lat.] Caufing cold. Some philofophers, as Galfendus, 
and other corpufcularians, denying cold to be a mere pri¬ 
vation or abfence of heat, contend that there adtual 
frigorific corpufcles or particles, as W'cll as fiery ones : 
whence proceed cold and heat. But later philofophers 
allow of no other frigorific particles befide thofe nitrous 
falts, &c. which float in the air in cold weather, and oc- 
cafion freezing. 
FRPKEN, a lake of Sweden, ia the province of War- 
meland : forty miles in length, but narrow. 
FRILL, f. An edging of fine linen on the bofom of a 
fliirt. 
7 b FRILL, v.a. {^frilleux, Fr.] To quake or fliiver 
with cold. Ufed of a hawk ; as, the hawkyivT/j-. 
FRIM, adj. [from jrjtemian. Sax. profcere.'] In good 
cafe. Ray's forth Country Words. —Though not to be met 
with in books, this is a common word with country-folks 
in general. Mafon's Suppl. 
FRINGE, yi \_friggio, lt.s.\. frange, Fr.] Ornamental 
appendages added to drefs or furniture. It is in conver- 
fation ufed of loofe and feparate threads.—Thofe offices 
and dignities were but the facitigs or fringes of his great- 
nefs. IVotlon. ' 
The go\dc.x\ fringe ev’n fet the ground on flame. 
And drew a precious trail. Dryden, 
To FRINGE, v.a. To adorn with fringes ; to decorate 
with ornamentar'appendages.—Either fide of the bank, 
fringed with moft beautiful trees, refilled the fqn’s darts. 
Sidney. 
Here, by the facred bramble ting’d. 
My petticoat is doublyyVzbff’ 2 . Swift. 
FRINGE-TREE, y. in botany. See Chionanthus. 
FRINGIL'LA, f. the Finches ; [from frigUlago, Lat. 
of feigns, cold ; becaufe thefe birds are many of them at¬ 
tached to the mountains, and can bear an extreme degree 
of cold.] In ornithology, a genus belonging to the order 
of pafferes, the charafters of which are: Bill conical, 
fliarp-pointed, ftraight. There are no lefs than a hundred 
and fixteen fpecies of tliis genus now known, named as 
follows: 
I. Fringilla Lapponica, the Lapland finch : head black; 
body black and grey mixed; eye-brows wliite; outer- 
mofl tail-feathers marked with a white wedged fpot ; 
throat and breafl black ; nape of the neck ferruginous ; 
belly, vent, and firft quill feathers on the outer edge, 
white. This fpecies is fix inches and a' half-long ; inha¬ 
bits Europe, Afia, and America; runs along th.e ground 
like a lark, and warbles like it on the wing. The female 
only differs from the male in being paler. At Hudfon’s Bay, 
where it is called iecumafiifh^ it differs fomewhat in fize, 
meafuring only five inches. The breaft is whitifli, with 
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