1. To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.
The fools that are fribbling round about you.
Thackeray. 2. To totter. [Obs.]
Fribbler
(Frib"bler) n. A trifler; a fribble.
Fribbling
(Frib"bling) a. Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.
Friborg
(Fri"borg , Fri"borgh) n. [AS. friðborh, lit., peace pledge; frið peace + borh, borg, pledge, akin to
E. borrow. The first part of the word was confused with free, the last part, with borough.] (Old Eng.
Law) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written
also friburgh and fribourg.] Burril.
Fricace
(Fric"ace) n. [See Fricassee.]
1. Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce. [Obs.] King.
2. An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.
Fricandeau
(||Fri`can`deau" ||Fric`an*do") n. [F. fricandeau; cf. Sp. fricandó.] A ragout or fricassee of
veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, - - called also fricandel. A. J. Cooley.
Fricassee
(Fric"as*see`) n. [F. fricassée, fr. fricasser to fry, fricassee; cf. LL. fricare, perh. for frictare,
fricare, frictum, to rub. Cf. Fry, Friction.] A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals
cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
Fricassee
(Fric"as*see`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fricasseed ; p. pr. &. vb. n. Fricasseeing.] To dress
like a fricassee.
Frication
(Fri*ca"tion) n. [L. fricatio, fr. fricare, fricatum, to rub. ] Friction. [Obs.] Bacon.
Fricative
(Fric"a*tive) a. [See Frication.] (Phon.) Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath,
intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through
a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable
of being continued or prolonged; — said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc. — n. A
fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 197-206, etc.
Fricatrice
(Fric"a*trice) n. [Cf. L. frictrix, fr. fricare to rub.] A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Frickle
(Fric"kle) n. A bushel basket. [Obs.]
Friction
(Fric"tion) n. [L. frictio, fr. fricare, frictum,to rub: cf. F. friction. See Fray to rub, arid cf. Dentifrice.]
1. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing
the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.
2. (Mech.) The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be
resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.
3. A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or
retard progress.
Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich a body is lying makes with a horizontal
plane,when the hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane. This angle varies for different bodies, and for
planes of different materials. — Anti-friction wheels (Mach.), wheels turning freely on small pivots,
