Frout. Of animals: to take fright. 'My horse frouted and run away.'—S.W.
Frouten, Froughten. To frighten (S.).—N. & S.W.
'Lor, Miss, how you did froughten I!'—Greene Ferne Farm, ch. vii.
Frow. See Brow.
Frum, Froom. Of vegetables, grass, &c.: fresh and juicy (A.B.); strong-growing or rank. A.S. from, vigorous, strong.—N.W.
*Fry. (1) n. A brushwood drain (H.Wr.). See Frith (3).—N.W. (2) v. To make a brushwood drain (D.). Also Frea and Frith (D.).—N.W.
'1790. For 234 Lugg Hollow frying in Englands 2.18.6.'—Records of Chippenham, p. 248.
Fullmare. n. In my childhood I remember being told more than once by servants at Morden, near Swindon, N.W., that a colt which was playing about in a field near was 'a fullmare.' Could this possibly have been a survival of the old word 'Folymare, a young foal,' which is given by Halliwell and Wright as occurring in a fifteenth-century MS. at Jesus College, Oxford? I have never heard the word elsewhere.—G. E. D.
Fur. n. The calcareous sediment in a kettle, &c.—N. & S.W.