Frounce /(?)/

Frounce

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Frounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Frouncing

  1. To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
    Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont.

Frounce

v. i.
  1. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.]
    The Commons frounced and stormed.

Frounce

n.
  1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [Obs.]
  2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.