FRO 
FRO'NT'LESS,/; Not blufliing; wanting fliame ; void 
of diffidence.—Strike a bliifli through flattery. 
Pope. 
For vice, though Jrontkfs, and of harden’d face, 
Is daunted at the fight of awful grace. Dryden, 
FRONT'LET, j. [from frons, Lat ; fronteait, Fr.] A 
bandage worn upon the fore forehead.—Tliey (hal! be as 
frontlets heiwQcn lliine eyes. Dent. vi. 8.—To the forehead 
frontlets were applied, toreftrain and intercept the influx. 
IVifeman. 
FRON'TO (Marcus-Cornelius), an eminent Roman 
orator, who attained the I'.ighcfl rank in his profefiion in 
the age wherein he lived. He was luafter of rhetoric to 
Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, and was rewarded 
for his fervices with the honours of the confulate and a 
flatue. A. Gelli !s fpeaks of him as a perfon replete 
with erudition, and particuhrly fkilled in the delicacies 
of the Latin language. His reputation for eloquence was 
fo hitrh, that he is mentioned as one of the heads of a fefl 
among orators ; and Macrobius calls the kind in which he 
excelled the dry (Jiccum), whicli others more favourably 
charadlerife as the and weighty. No relics of his 
compofitions remain. He mufl; be dillinguiflied from Fron- 
to, the conful under Nerva. 
FRON'TON, y. In archite< 5 Iure ; a pediment, a little 
ornament over a door or window. 
FRON'TON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Garonne : five leagues nortn of Touloufe, and 
fix fouth-eaft of Caftle Sarafin. 
FRONT'ROOM, y. An apartment in the forepart of 
thehoufe.'—If your Ihop flands in an eminent flreet, the 
frontreoms are commonly more airy than the backrooms; 
and it will be inconvenient to make the frontroom fliallow. 
Moxon. 
FRONT'STALL, f. The fore part of a bridle. Bailey. 
FROO'GARDE, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of 
Drontheim : fixty miles fouth-fouth-eall of Drontheim. 
FROOME. See Frome. 
FRORE, adj, ^bevrozen, Dut. frozen.] Frozen. This 
word is not ufed fince the time of Milton. 
The parching air 
Burnsyrere, and cold performs Ih’ effedlof fire. Milton. 
FRORNE, adj. \_bevrozen, frozen, Dut.] Frozen ; con¬ 
gealed with cold. Objokte. 
O, my heart-blood is Well nigh frornel feele, 
And my-galage grown faft to my heele. -Spenfer, 
FRO'RY, adj. Frozen : 
Her up betwixt his rugged hands he rear’d, 
And with his frory lips full foftly kill. Spenfer. 
Covered with a froth refembling hoar frofl : 
She us’d with tender hand 
The foaming Heed with frory bit to fleer. Fairfax. 
FROSE, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and duchy of Magdeburg; ten miles fouth of 
Magdeburg. 
FROSSAS'CO, a town of Italy, in the principality of 
Piedmont : thirteen miles fouth-weft of Turin, and three 
north of Pignerola. 
FROSSAY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Painboeuf: one league and a half fouth-eaft of 
Painboeuf. 
FROST, y. [pjio]-?. Sax.] The lafl effedl of cold; 
the power or aef of congelation.—When the froji feifes 
upon wine, only the more waterifli parts are congealed ; 
there is a mighty fpirit which can retreat into itfelf, and 
within its own compafs lie fecure from the freezing im- 
preflion. -South. 
This is the ftate of man : to day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hopes, to morrow bloflbms. 
And bears his blufliing honours thick upon him } 
FRO 7(1 
The third day comes tsfrqjl, a killingyra/?, 
And when he thinks, good eafy man, full furely 
His greatnefs is a ripening, nips his root. 
And then he falls. Shaktfpeare. 
The appearance of plants and trees fparkling with conge*, 
lation of dew : 
Behold the groves that fliine with filver frof. 
Their beauty wither’d, and their verdure loft. Pope. 
The nature and eflfefts of frofl in difi’erent countries, are 
full of intereft and curious enquiry. In the more nortiiern 
parts of the world, even folid bodies are aft'edled by fiofl, 
though this is only or chiefly in confeqiience of the moif- 
ture they contain, which being frozen into ice, andfoe;;- 
panding as water is known to do when frozen, it bin ds 
and rends any thing in which it is contained, as plants, 
trees, flones, and large rocks. Some fluids expand by 
frofl, as water, which expands about rj-’^th part, for vvhich 
reafon ice floats in water; but others again contradf, as 
quickfilver, and hence frozen quickfilver finks in the fluid 
metal. See tlie article Freezing, p. 29. of this volume. 
Frofl, being derived from the atmofphere, naturally 
proceeds from the upper parts of bodies downwards, 
as the water and the earth ; fo, the longer a frofl is con¬ 
tinued, the thicker the ice becomes upon the water in 
ponds, and the deeper into the earth the ground is frozen. 
In about fixteen or feventeen days frofl, I\Ir. Boyle found 
it had penetrated fourteen inches into the ground. At 
Mofeow, in a hard feafon, the froft will penetrate two 
feet deep in the ground ; and captain James found it pe¬ 
netrated ten feet deep in Charlton ifland, and the water in 
the fame ifland was frozen to the depth of fix feet. Schef¬ 
fer afliires us, that in Sweden, the froft pierces two cubits 
or Swedifh ells into the earth, and turns what moifture is 
found there into a whitifli fubftance like ice ; and flanding 
waters to three ells, or more. The fame author alfo men¬ 
tions fudden cracks or rifts in the ice of the lakes of Swe¬ 
den, nine or ten fee; deep, and many leagues long; the 
rupture being made with a noife not lefs loud than if many 
guns were difeharged together. By fuch means however 
the fi;hes are furniflied with air; fo that they are rarely 
found dead. 
The natural hiflories of frofts furnifli very extraordina¬ 
ry effedls of them upon all kinds of fubflances. The trees 
are often fcoxched, and burnt up, as.with the mofl ex. 
ceflive heat ; and fplit or fhattered. In the great froft in 
1683, the trunks of oak, afli, walnut, &c. were fplit and 
cleft, fo that they might be feen through, and the cracks 
were often attended with dreadful noifes like the explo- 
fion of firearms. Piiilof. Tranf. No. 165. The dole of 
the year 1708, and the beginning of 1709, were remark¬ 
able, throughout the greatert part of Europe, for a fe- 
vere froft. Dr. Derham fays, it was the greatefl in de¬ 
gree, if not the mofl univerfal, in the memory of man ; 
extending through mofl parts of Europe, though fcarcely 
felt in Scotland or Ireland. 
In very cold countries, meat miay be preferved by the 
froft fix or feven months, and prove tender and good 5 
as was experienced by captain Middleton in Hudfon’s bay. 
In that climate the froll feems never out of the ground,, 
it having been found hard frozen in the two fummer' 
months. Brandy and fpirit of wine, fet out in the open 
air, freeze to folid ice in three or four hours. Lakes and 
flanding waters, not above ten or twelve feet deep, are 
frozen to the ground in winter, and all their fifli perifli. 
Fut in rivers, where the current of the tide is ftrong, the 
ice does not reach fo deep, and the fifli are preferved. 
In Ruflia, the natives avail themfelves of hard and fe- 
vere frofts in order to care their provifions hy freezing. As 
foon as the winter is lairly fet in, the farmers kill all but 
their breeding flock of cattle, pigs and poultry, and place 
it in the air to freeze. Fifli and game they alfo freeze in 
great abundance. This circuniftance is particularly fa¬ 
vourable to Ruflia, as by it they fave all the expence of 
winter feeding, and have cheaper and better carriage for 
