What's the difference between frounce and rounce?

Frounce


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair.
  • (v. i.) To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown.
  • (n.) A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown.
  • (n.) An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill.

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Rounce


Definition:

  • (n.) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.

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