friz

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Frizzed p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzing ] [ Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head. Cf. Frieze kind of cloth. ] [ Written also frizz. ] 1. To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. [ 1913 Webster ]

With her hair frizzed short up to her ears. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) See 1st Frieze. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Firearms) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. frisette curl. ] A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Partly imitative, but cf. Fry. ] To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. & n. See Friz, v. t. & n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Frizzled p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzling ] [ Freq. of an imitative word frizz, in dial. use. ] 1. To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig. Hawthorne. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.

Drain and heat it [ shaved smoked beef ] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it. Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]