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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



... 'Bout as hot As the ole Gran'-Jury room Where they sot!— Fight 'twixt Mike an' Dock McGriff— 'Pears to me jes' like as if I'd a dremp' the whole blame thing— Allus ha'nts me roun' the gizzard When they're nightmares on the wing, An' a feller's blood's jes' friz! Seed the row from a to izzard— 'Cause I wuz a-standin' as clost to 'em As me ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley



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