frory
English
Etymology
From frore + -y. Compare Old English frēoriġ (“freezing, frozen, cold, chilly; blanched with fear, sad, mournful”).
Adjective
frory (comparative more frory, superlative most frory)
- (now rare) Frosty; frozen.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
- An aged sire with head all frory hore, / And sprinckled frost vpon his deawy beard […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:
- Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.
Anagrams
- Forry