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Friz   Listen
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Friz" Quotes from Famous Books



... sleeping until the welcome sunset, when the town wakens: all the lanterns are lighted up; all the pipes begin to puff, and the narghiles to bubble; all the sour-milk-and-sherbet-men begin to yell out the excellence of their wares; all the frying-pans in the little dirty cookshops begin to friz, and the pots to send forth a steam: and through this dingy, ragged, bustling, beggarly, cheerful scene, we began now to march towards the Bow Street of Jaffa. We bustled through a crowded narrow archway which led to the cadi's police- office, entered the little room, atrociously ...
— Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo • William Makepeace Thackeray



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