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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  frill \frill\ (fr[i^]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {frilled}
     (fr[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {frilling}.] [OF. friller, fr. L.
     frigidulus somewhat cold, dim. of frigidus cold; akin to F.
     frileux chilly.]
     1. To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
        --Johnson.


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     2. (Photog.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frill \Frill\, v. t.
     To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back.
     in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frill \Frill\, n. [See {Frill}, v. i.]. (Zool.)
     (a) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
     (b) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or
         of feathers, around the neck of an animal. See {Frilled
         lizard} (below).
     (c) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of
         animals.
     (d) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
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     2. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at
        the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow
        flounce.
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     3. Hence: Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an
        additional function on a device or in a system not
        essential to the basic operation. -- Commonly used in the
        phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully
        functional but economical device or service; as, an
        economical no-frills airline.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frill
       n : a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
           [syn: {flounce}, {ruffle}, {furbelow}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  144 Moby Thesaurus words for "frill":
     addition, adornment, amenity, beading, beauties, bedizenment,
     binding, bonus, bordering, bordure, bravery, chiffon, clinquant,
     colors, colors of rhetoric, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp,
     decoration, dog-ear, double, double over, doubling, duplication,
     duplication of effort, duplicature, edging, elegant variation,
     embellishment, embroidery, enfold, expletive, extra,
     extra added attraction, extra dash, extravagance, fat,
     featherbedding, festoons, figure, figure of speech, filigree,
     filling, fillip, fimbria, fimbriation, fine writing, finery,
     flection, flexure, floridity, floridness, flounce, flourish,
     floweriness, flowers of speech, flute, fold, fold over, folderol,
     foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows,
     fringe, frippery, froufrou, furbelow, fuss, gaiety, galloon,
     gather, gaudery, gewgaw, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, hem, infold,
     interfold, jazz, lagniappe, lap over, lapel, lappet, list,
     lushness, luxuriance, luxury, motif, needlessness, ornament,
     ornamentation, ostentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, paste,
     payroll padding, pinchbeck, plait, plat, pleat, pleonasm, plica,
     plicate, plication, plicature, ply, premium, prolixity,
     purple patches, quill, redundance, redundancy, ruche, ruching,
     ruff, ruffle, selvage, showiness, skirting, something extra,
     stuffing, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology,
     tinsel, trappings, trickery, trimming, trumpery, tuck, turn over,
     twill, twist, unnecessariness, valance, verbosity, welt, wrinkle
  
  

















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