[See FRIZZLE v.1]
1. Frizzled hair; a short crisp curl.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 650. They curle and fold the haire of their head, making a hill in the midst like a hat, with frizzles round about.
1641. Milton, Animadv. (1851), 191. To rumple her laces, her frizzles, and her bobins.
a. 1845. Hood, Hymeneal Retrosp., I. vii. Though now they look only like frizzles of wool, By a bramble torn off from a sheep.
1875. Browning, Ned Bratts, 32. Some blue fly Which punctured a dewy scalp where the frizzles stuck awry.
transf. 1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVIII. xiii. Bald crown of the landscape, girt with a frizzle of firwoods all round.
† b. A frizzled wig. Obs.
1628. Bp. Hall, Righteous Mammon, Wks. 720. When his eyes should meet with a poudred frizle.
2. [f. the vb.] The state of being frizzled.
1850. Hawthorne, Scarlet L., Custom Ho. (1851), 39. A wig of majestic frizzle.
3. attrib. and Comb., as † frizzle-frize, -head; frizzle-headed, -topped adjs.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VIII. (1593), 208. The frizzle topped wench in coorse and sluttish geere.
1778. Miss Burney, Evelina, lxxxii. Pray what do you do with that frizle-frize top of your own?
1840. Lady C. M. C. Bury, Hist. Flirt (1841), I. iv. 106. Cannot you fancy him bowing his little frizzle head to a new and incomprehensible passion, and riding the long-tailed pony to meditate upon its effects?
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, I. ii. 19. As she looked round Durbeyfield was seen moving along the road in a chaise belonging to The Pure Drop, driven by a frizzle-headed brawny damsel, with her gown-sleeves rolled above her elbows.
