| frostbite | A cold injury that is accompanied by pallor, numbness and a loss of cold sensation. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| frosted | Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. "Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work." (Knight) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| frosted heart | Hyaloserositis involving the pericardium. Synonym: icing heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frosted liver | Hyaloserositis of the liver. Synonym: Curschmann's disease, icing liver, sugar-icing liver, zuckergussleber. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frostfish | <zoology> The tomcod; so called because it is abundant on the new England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish (Lepidotus) valued as a food fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| frostnip | A cold injury that is accompanied by pallor to the affected area. (27 Sep 1997) |
| frostweed | <botany> An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic. It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile, and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers which bear seed. It is so called because, late in autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at the root. Synonym: frostwort. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| frostwort | <botany> Same as Frostweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| froth | 1. The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; especially, a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement. 2. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. "It was a long speech, but all froth." (L'Estrange) 3. Light, unsubstantial matter. <zoology> Froth insect, the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly. Froth spit. See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. Origin: OE. Frothe, Icel. Frooa; akin to Dan. Fraade, Sw. Fradga, AS. Afreooan to froth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| frottage | 1. The rubbing movement in massage. 2. Production of sexual excitement by rubbing against someone. Origin: F. A rubbing (05 Mar 2000) |
| frotteur | One who gets sexual excitement through frottage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frow | 1. A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman. 2. A dirty woman; a slattern. Origin: D. Vrouw; akin to G. Frau woman, wife, goth, frauja master, lord, AS. Frea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| frozen | 1. Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook. "They warmed their frozen feet." (Dryden) 2. Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones. 3. Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. "Be not ever frozen, coy." (T. Carew) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| frozen pelvis | A condition in which the true pelvis is indurated throughout, especially by carcinoma. Synonym: hardened pelvis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frozen section | <technique> Part of biopsy material frozen immediately to enable pathological analysis in a few minutes on a microscope slide. (16 Dec 1997) |