frilling

Verb (1)

frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled)

1. (transitive) To make into a frill.
2. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
3. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
   • And I will be bold to ſay my two girls have had a pretty good education, and capacity, [...] they underſtand their needle, breadſtitch, croſs and change, and all manner of plain-work; they can pink, point, and frill; [...]1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “The Family Still Resolve to Hold Up Their Heads”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 107

Verb (2)

frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).
   • The Eagle Frilleth, or Scriketh
     The Hawk, as Falcon, Gawshawk, and all such Birds of Prey, cryeth, peepeth, or frilleth.1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, Chapter 13, “Of the Voices of Birds,” p. 310

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