What's the difference between frounce and roup?

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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Roup


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.
  • (n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.
  • (n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hungary re-rouped to great effect, Czibor moving inside to take Puskas' role, but when the team eventually reached the final, in Berne, Puskas insisted he should play.
  • (2) Patency of the vasa was confirmed by asogram in both g roups.
  • (3) The intensity of neuromusclar blockade of the forearm muscles after AH 8165 was similar in the two groups, and there was no significant difference in recovery rates; roup I patients were 80 per cent recovered in 36.6 min, group II patinets in 47.3 min.
  • (4) The type III polysaccharide of -roup B Streptococcus has been isolated and purified by a method that employs washing of intact cells at neutral pH.
  • (5) Salmonella poona (roup G) was isolated in 154 patients: 122 in stool cultures, 23 in blood cultures and 9 in meningitis; out of the latter, 6 were newborns under 2 months of age.
  • (6) A control roup of 153 Portuguese residents in Mozambique have also been phenotyped.

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