v. t. To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF, fringe, F. frange, prob. fr. L. fimbria fiber, thread, fringe, cf. fibra fiber, E. fiber, fimbriate. ]
The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Precipices fringed with grass. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fringing reef.
a. Furnished with a fringe. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fringed lear (Bot.),
a. Having no fringe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [ R. ] “The fringent air.” Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles.
. A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of snow-white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
‖a. [ NL., fr. L. fringilla a chaffinch. ] (Zool.) A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Fringilline. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A natural family of birds of the finch group having short conical bills adapted for eating seeds, including finches, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinches, siskins, canaries, cardinals, grosbeaks, crossbills, linnets, and buntings. This family at one time included the sparrows of the family
a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the family
a. Adorned with fringes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
If the first that did the edict infringe,
Had answered for his deed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
n.
The punishing of this infringement is proper to that
jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the members of a political or social group espousing extreme, fanatical, or seemingly irrational views. [ PJC ]
n. The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray;
a. [ L. refringens, p. pr. of refringere. See Refract. ] Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting;
n. A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. [ 1913 Webster ]
Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That may not be infringed;
. The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]