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FROG, / [prvoSS®, Sax..] A well-known amphibious 
animal; for tlie various fpecies and natural hiftory of 
whicli, fee the article Rana. —The hollow part of a 
horfe’s foot. 
FROG, artifcial, for horfes feet. See the article Far¬ 
riery, vol. vii. p. 262. 
FROG-BIT,/, in botany. 'See Htdrocharis. 
FR.OG-FISH,/. See Rana paradoxa. 
FROG-LAKE, alakeof North America. Lat. 53.15. 
N. Ion. gf. 50. W. Greenwich. 
FROG-POINT, a neck of land, in Weft Chefter coun- 
ty^ New York, on the coaft of Long-lfland Sound, nine 
miles from ffarlem Heights, in North America. 
FRO'GES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriG:' of 
Grenoble : three leagues north-nortli-weft of Grenoble. 
FROGO'Z A, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Entre Duero e Minho: one league and a half north of 
Barcelos. 
FROH'DURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Leipfic, fituated on the Wi- 
chra. I'he inhabitants have a manufafture of fluff and 
earthen-ware : five miles fouth-fouth.eaft of Borna. 
FRO'HENS-le-GRAND, a town of France, in the 
department of the Somme, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftriiT of Doulens ; two leagues north-weft of 
Doulens. 
FROHNS'DORF, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and circle of Thuringia : feven miles 
fouth-eaft of WeifTenfee. 
FROHNS'PURG, a town of Germany, in the arch- 
duchy of Auftria; one niile fouth of Hardegg. 
FRO'JAN, a town of Spain, in the province of Gali- 
■cia: twenty-two miles north-north-eaft of Orenfe. 
FROID'MONT (Libert), an ecclefiaftic of the bi- 
fhopric of Liege, born near Maeftricht, in 1587. He 
taught philofophy in the univerfity of Louvain, and in 
1633 was preferred to the deanery of St. Peter’s, in that 
city. Afterwards he was admitted to the degree of doc¬ 
tor of divinity, and, upon the nomination of the cele¬ 
brated Janfenius to the biftiopric of Ypres, was appointed 
his fucceifor in the chair of interpreter of the Sacred 
Scriptures in the univerfity. He was well vcrfed in the 
learned languages, particularly the Greek and Hebrew, 
and had alfo made confiderable progrefs in mathematical 
learning. He died in 1653, at fixty-fix years ot age. He 
was the author of, i. Dijfertatio de C'<meta Ami i6iS. 
2. Meteorologicofum Libri V. 3. Brevis Anatomia Hominis. 
4. Ouerimonia Jacobi Regis. 5. Chryfippus, Jive de libero Ar. 
bitrio, 1644. 6. In Aclus Apojlolorum Commentarii. 7. A 
Latin Commentary on the Epiltles of St. Paul, in two 
volumes, folio, 1670; &c. The work laft-mentioned is 
in a confiderable degree an abridgment of the Commen¬ 
tary of Eftius, and is held in high eftimation. 
FRO'JERED, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Weft Gothland ; feventy miles eaft of Uddevalla. 
'FROISE, J'. [from the French froiJfer.'\ A kind of 
food made by frying bacon inclofed in a pancake. 
FROIS'SART (John), a French hiftorian and poet, 
born at Valenciennes in 1337. He is aflerted to have 
commenced a writer of hiftory at the age of twenty; and 
it cannot be doubted that his poetical talent difplayed it- 
felf at leaf! as early. To divert his chagrin from an 
amorous difappointnient, he paid a vifit to England, 
where he was kindly received by his country-woman Phi¬ 
lippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III. He became fe. 
cretary to queen Philippa in 1361, and continued five 
years in her fervice. During that period he vifited Scot¬ 
land, and was' entertained for fome time by William earl 
of Douglas. He was in Gafcony in 1366 v/ith Edward 
the Black Prince ; and afterwards vifited feveral of the 
Italian courts. In 1369 he loft his patronefs Philippa ; 
and retiring to his own country, obtained the benefice of 
Leltines in the diocefe of Cambray. FroilTart, however, 
not beingof a difpofition to devote himfelf to the cloifter, 
entered into the fervice of the duke of Brabant, who was 
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alfo a poet. From the compofitions of his mafter, joined 
with fome of his own, he formed a kind of romance, en¬ 
titled Meliador, relating to love and chivalry. After 
the duke’s death, in 1384, he acquired the patronage of 
Guy earl of Blois. He then tfavelled to the brilliant 
court of Gafton earl of Foix, who received him with 
great cordiality, and liftened with intereft to the recital 
of I'.is poems. Here he met with much ufeful informa, 
tion from fome knights of Arragon and England in the 
retinue of the duke of Lancafter. After his travels in 
France and the Low-countries, he returned home, and 
finiflied the third book of his hiftory. He paid another 
vifit to England in 1395, and was introduced to the young 
king Richard II. to whom he prefented a fplendid copy 
of his Meliador, which was gracioufly received. Here 
he obtained frefh materials for his hiftory, befides other 
favours. He returned to his own country, and fixed his 
refidence at Chimay, where he polTefled the benefice of 
canon and treafurer of the collegiate church. The year 
of his death is uncertain ; but he muft have lived beyond 
1400, as his Chronicle extends to that date. 
Though FroifTart was the author of thirty thoufand 
verfes, his poetical charadler is funk into oblivion, and 
he is only known in the republic of letters as an hiftorian. 
In this capacity, as writing of his own times, and with all 
the artleftiiefs and minutencfs of narration belonging to 
his age, he is highly valued by thofe who ftudy ancient 
manners from original draughts. His Chronicle, divided 
into four books, comprehends the period from 1326 to 
1400. It relates the events which took place not only in 
France, but in Flanders, England, Scotland, and Ireland, 
with many details refpefting the papal courts of Rome 
and Avignon, and collateral particulars of the tranfadlions 
in the reft of Europe, and even in Turkey and Africa. 
The beft edition of his Chronicle is that of Lyons, four 
volumes, folio, 1559. A tranflation of the Chronicles of 
Froifl'art into Englifti, has been recently made by Thomas 
Johnes, efq. 
FROIS'SY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrifl of 
Breteuil; five miles fouth.fouth-weft of Breteuil. 
FRO'LIC, adj, \_vrolijck, Dut.] Gay; full of levity; 
full of pranks.—The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller. 
Whether, as fome fages fing. 
The frolic wind that breathes the fpring, 
Zephyr with Aurora playing, 
As he met her once a Maying ; 
There on beds of violets blue. 
And frefti-blown rofes wafti’d in dew, 
Fill’d her with thee a daughter fair. 
So buxom, blithe, and debonnair. Milton. 
FRO'LIC, /. A wild prartk ; a flight of whim and le¬ 
vity : 
He \vould be at his frolic once again, 
And his pretenfions to divinity. Rofcommon. 
While rain depends, the penfive cat gives o’er 
Her frolics, and purfues her tail no more. Swift. 
To FRO'LIC, v.n. To play wild pranks; to play 
tricks of levity and gaiety.—Manly fpirit and genius 
plays not tricks with words, nor /ro&s with the caprices 
of a frothy imagination. Glanville. 
Then to her new love let her go, 
And deck her in golden array ; 
Be fineft at every fine fhow. 
And J'rolic it all the long day. Roue. 
FRO'LICLY, Gaily; wildly. 
FRO'LICSOME, adj. Full of wild gaiety. 
FRO'LICSOMELY, adv. With wild gaiety. 
FRO'LICSOMENESS,/. Wildnefs of gaiety; pranks. 
FRO'LOIS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Cote-d’Or, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrifl 
of Semur: feven leagues north-weft of Dijon. 
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