1818. P. Egan, Boxiana, I., p. 221. Tyne put in right and left upon the Jew’s frontispiece two such severe blows, that Crabbe’s countenance underwent a trifling change. 1845. Buckstone, Green Bushes, i., 1. It’s a marcy my switch didn’t come in contract with your iligant frontispiece. 1860. Chambers’ Journal XIII., p. 368. His forehead is his frontispiece. 1864. A. Trollope, Sm. Ho. at Allington (1884), vol. ii., ch. V., p. 47. He said that he had had an accident—or rather, a row—and that he had come out of it with considerable damage to his frontispiece. 1891. Sporting Life, 28 Mar. It must be confessed that the ludicrous was attained when Griffiths subsequently appeared with a short black pipe in his distorted and battered frontispiece. Front-windows, subs. (common).—1. The eyes; also the face. 2. In sing. (venery).—The female pudendum. Cf., front-attic; and for synonyms, see Monosyllable. Frost, subs. (common).—A complete failure. Cf., Fr., un four noir. Also un temps noir = a blank interval; a prolonged silence (as when an actor’s memory fails him). 1885. Saturday Review, 15 Aug., p. 218. He is an absolute and perfect frost. 1885. Bell’s Life, 3 Jan., p. 3, col. 6. We regret we cannot write favorably concerning this matter, the affair being almost as big a frost athletically as it was financially. 1889. Star, 17 Jan. The pantomime was a dead frost. 2. (common).—A dearth of work; to have a frost = to be idle. Froudacious, Froudacity, adj. and subs. See quots. 1888. Colonies and India, 14 Nov. The word ‘Froudacity,’ invented by Mr. Darnell Davis in his able review of The Bow of Ulysses, recently published, has reached the height of popularity in the Australasian Colonies, where it has come into everyday use. In the Melbourne Assembly the other day an hon. member observed—speaking of some remarks made by a previous speaker—that he never heard such froudacious statements in his life. The colonial papers are beginning, also, to spell the word with a small ‘f,’ which is significant. 1889. Graphic, 16 Feb. By exposing some of Mr. Froude’s manifold errors (the most dangerous is that which assumes the sour Waikato clays to be rich because they grow fern) he justifies the Australian adjective Froudacious. Froust, subs. (Harrow School).—1. Extra sleep allowed on Sunday mornings and whole holidays. Fr., faire du lard. 2. (common).—A stink; stuffiness (in a room). Frousty, adj. (common).—Stinking. Frout, adj. (Winchester College).—Angry; vexed. Frow (or Froe, or Vroe), subs. (old).—A woman; a wife; a mistress. [From the Dutch.] 1607. Dekker, Westward Ho, Act V., Sc. 1. Eat with ’em as hungerly as soldiers; drink as if we were froes.