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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRILL, n. [infra.] An edging of fine linen on the bosom of a shirt or other similar thing; a ruffle.
FRILL, v.i.
To shake; to quake; to shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
FIRM, a. Flourishing. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs
2: an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal [syn: frill, ruff]
3: a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim [syn: frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow]
4: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Date: 1574 to provide or decorate with a frill II. noun Etymology: perhaps from Dutch dialect (Brabant) frul ribbon bow, trifle Date: 1591 1. a. a gathered, pleated, or bias-cut fabric edging used on clothing b. a strip of paper curled at one end and rolled to be slipped over the bone end (as of a chop) in serving 2. a ruff of hair or feathers or a bony or cartilaginous projection about the neck of an animal 3. a. affectation, air — usually used in plural <an honest…man who had no frills,…no nonsense about him — W. A. White> b. something decorative or useful and desirable but not essential ; luxury • frilly adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a strip of material with one side gathered or pleated and the other left loose with a fluted appearance, used as an ornamental edging. b a similar paper ornament on a ham-knuckle, chop, etc. c a natural fringe of feathers, hair, etc., on an animal (esp. a bird) or a plant. 2 (in pl.) a unnecessary embellishments or accomplishments. b airs, affectation (put on frills). --v.tr. 1 decorate with a frill. 2 form into a frill. Phrases and idioms: frill (or frilled) lizard a large N. Australian lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii, with an erectile membrane round the neck. Derivatives: frilled adj. frillery n. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frill Frill, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Frilling.] [OF. friller, fr. L. frigidulus somewhat cold, dim. of frigidus cold; akin to F. frileux chilly.] 1. To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. --Johnson. 2. (Photog.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frill Frill, v. t. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frill Frill, n. [See Frill, v. i.]. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold. (b) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal. See Frilled lizard (below). (c) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals. (d) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells. 2. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(frills) 1. A frill is a long narrow strip of cloth or paper with many folds in it, which is attached to something as a decoration. ...net curtains with frills. N-COUNT 2. If you describe something as having no frills, you mean that it has no extra features, but is acceptable or good if you want something simple. This booklet restricts itself to facts without frills. N-COUNT: usu with brd-neg, usu pl [approval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Ruffle, edging, gathering, frilling. II. v. a. Put a frill on, edge with a frill, ruffle, decorate with frills or gathers. III. v. n. Shake, shiver, quake, thrill.

Moby Thesaurus

addition, adornment, amenity, beading, beauties, bedizenment, binding, bonus, bordering, bordure, bravery, chiffon, clinquant, colors, colors of rhetoric, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, decoration, dog-ear, double, double over, doubling, duplication, duplication of effort, duplicature, edging, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, enfold, expletive, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, festoons, figure, figure of speech, filigree, filling, fillip, fimbria, fimbriation, fine writing, finery, flection, flexure, floridity, floridness, flounce, flourish, floweriness, flowers of speech, flute, fold, fold over, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, fringe, frippery, froufrou, furbelow, fuss, gaiety, galloon, gather, gaudery, gewgaw, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, hem, infold, interfold, jazz, lagniappe, lap over, lapel, lappet, list, lushness, luxuriance, luxury, motif, needlessness, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, paste, payroll padding, pinchbeck, plait, plat, pleat, pleonasm, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, ply, premium, prolixity, purple patches, quill, redundance, redundancy, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, selvage, showiness, skirting, something extra, stuffing, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, trappings, trickery, trimming, trumpery, tuck, turn over, twill, twist, unnecessariness, valance, verbosity, welt, wrinkle