a. Also froarie, -y. [f. FRORE ppl. a. + -Y1. Cf. OE. fréoriȝ.]

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  1.  Frozen; frosty; extremely cold.

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a. 1555.  Abp. Parker, Ps. cxxi. 368. The moone by night shall serue thy turne: Her frory hornes shall thee not fray.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. viii. 35. Her up betwixt his rugged hands he reard, And with his frory lips full softly kist.

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1691.  Dryden, Arthur, III. 31. There the pale Pole Star in the North of Heav’n Sits high and on the frory Winter broods.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, II. 271. Her son within a vale retired afar, Sequestered by the frory flood, she saw.

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  † 2.  Covered with foam or froth. Obs.

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, II. xl. While … yong, she vs’d with tender hand The foming steed with froarie hit to steare.

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