Definition of "frounce" [frounce]

• A canker in the mouth of a hawk. (noun)
• To curl. (verb)
• To crease, wrinkle, to frown. (verb)

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• "I say that the eyas should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher — ’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon.”"
• "7 Some frounce their curled hair in courtly guise; frounce > twist into folds, plait guise > manner"