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noun
Friz  n.  (pl. frizzes)  (Written also frizz)  That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. "He (Dr. Johnson), who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts."


verb
Friz  v. t.  (past & past part. frizzed; pres. part. frizzing)  (Written also frizz)  
1.
To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. "With her hair frizzed short up to her ears."
2.
To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
3.
(Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
Frizzing machine.
(a)
(Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth.
(b)
(Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards.





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"Friz" Quotes from Famous Books



... room Where they sot!— Fight 'twixt Mike an' Dock McGriff— 'Pears to me jes' like as if I'd a dremp' the whole blame thing— Allus ha'nts me roun' the gizzard When they're nightmares on the wing, An' a feller's blood's jes' friz! Seed the row from a to izzard— 'Cause I wuz a-standin' as clost to 'em ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley
... he, I'm sure, with such a fine family of his own! Don't look at me in that way, young man; I won't take it—that I won't! I declare my blood friz to see you!" ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... bright still, and it had not thinned. Over her brows it parted richly, with no fuzz or crimp; but a sweet natural wreathing look that made her face young. Mrs. Ledwith had done hers over slate-pencils till she had burned it off; and now tied on a friz, that came low down, for fashion's sake, and left visible only a little bunch of puckers between her eyebrows and the crowsfeet at the corners. The back of her head was weighted down by an immense excrescence in a bag. Behind her ears were bare places. Mrs. Ledwith began to look old-young. ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney


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