frill

frill has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. i.. To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
• v. i.. To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
• v. t.. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
• v. i.. A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
• v. i.. A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
• v. i.. A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
• v. i.. A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
• v. i.. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
• n.. ornamental objects of no great value
• n.. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
• n.. an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
• n.. (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs