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getables. Cheyne. 2. Wanting warmth of affecton. 3. Impotent without warmth of body. Dul; without fire of fancy.

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Some frigid rhymes disburses,

They fhall like Perfian tales be read, And glad both babes and nurses. (1) FRIGID ZONE. See ZONE.

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(1.) * FRIGIDITY. n. f. [frigiditas, Lat.] Coldness: want of warmth. 2. Dullness; want of intellectual fire.-Driving at thefe as at the heft elegancies, which are but the frigidities of wit. Brown.-Of the two extremes, one would Doner pardon phrenzy than frigidity. Pope. 3. Want of corporeal warmth.-The boiling blood, of youth hinders that ferenity which is neceffary to Leveintenseness; and the frigidity of decrepit age as much its enemy, by reafon of its dulling Doiture, Glanville. 4. Coldness of affection. (1) FRIGIDITY. See IMPOTENCE. •FRIGIDLY. adv. [from frigidly.] Coldly; Cally without affection.

FRIGIDNESS. n. f. [from frigid.] Coldness; dulnefs; want of affection.

FRIGIDO, a river of Italy, which runs through te ci-devant duchy of Modena, and falls into the Gulf of Genoa, near Massa,

FRIGILIANA, a town of Spain, in Granada, 1 miles E. of Velez Malaga.

FRIGNANO, a territory of the ci-devant Bachy of Modena, comprehending Acquaria, Tranano, Gaia, Ronca, Seftola, and fome other other small towns.

(1.)* FRIGORIFICK. adj. [frigorificus, frigus, and facio, Lat.] Caufing cold. A word ufed in ence. Frigorifick atoms or particles mean thofe atrous falts which float in the air in cold weather, ad occasion freezing. Quincy.

(1.) FRIGORIFIC PARTICLES, in phyfiology, frail particles of matter, which, according to Gaffendus and others, being actually and effentially cold and penetrating other bodies, produce in them that quality which we call cold. See COLD. FRIKEN, a lake of Sweden in the province of Warmeland, 40 miles long but narrow.

FRILAZIN, a clafs or rank of people among the Anglo Saxons, confifting of thofe who had been flaves, but had obtained their liberty, either by purchafe or otherwise. Though thefe were reality free men, they were not confidered as of the fame rank and dignity with thofe who had been born free, but were ftill in a more dependent condition, either on their former mafters or on fome new patrons. This cuftom the AngloSaxons feem to have derived from their ancestors in Germany, among whom thofe who had been made free did not differ much in point of dignity or importance from those who continued in fervitude. This diftinction, between thofe who have been born free and those who enjoy freedom by dekent from a long race of freemen, ftill prevails ia many parts of Germany; and particularly in the original feats of the Anglo-Saxons. Many of the inhabitants of towns and cities in England, in that period, feem to have been of this clafs of ten, who were in a kind of middle state between flaves and freemen. VOL. X. PART I.

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*To FRINGE. v. a. [from the noun.] To adorn with fringes; to decorate with ornamental appendages.-Either fide of the bank fringed with moft beautiful trees, refifted the fun's darts. Sidney.

'Here, by the facred bramble ting'd, My petticoat is doubly fringed. Swift FRINGILLA, in ornithology, a genus belonging to the order of pafferes. The bill is conical, ftraight, and sharp-pointed. See Plate CLVIII. There are no lefs than 108 fpecies comprehend ed under this genus, diftinguished principally by varieties in their colour. The following are the most noted:

I. FRINGILLA AMANDAVA, the AMADUVADE, BIRD, is about the fize of a wren. The colour of the bill is of a dull red; all the upper parts are brown, with a mixture of red; the under the fame, but paler, the middle of the belly darkest; all the feathers of the upper wing coverts, breast, and fides, have a fpot of white at the tip; the quills are of a grey brown; the tail is black; and the legs are of a pale yellowish white. It inhabits Bengal, Java, Malacca, and other parts of Afia j and feeds on millet.

2. FRINGILLA CELEBS, the CHAFFINCH, has black limbs, and the wings white on both fides, the 3 firft feathers of the tail are without fpots, but the 2 chief ones are obliquely fpotted. It has its name from its delighting in chaff. This fpecies entertains us agreeably with its fong very early in the year, but towards the end of fummer affumes a chirping note; both fexes continue with us the whole year. In Sweden, the females quit that country in September, migrate in flocks into Holland, leaving their mates behind; and return in fpring. In Hampshire Mr White has observed fomething of this kind; vaft flocks of females with fcarcely any males among them. Their neft is almoft as elegantly conftructed as that of the golds finch, (N° 5.) and of much the fame materials only the infide has the addition of some large feathers. They lay 4 or seggs of a dull white colour, tinged and fpotted with deep purple. They are caught in plenty in flight time; but their nefts are rarely found, though they build in hedges and trees of all forts. They make their nefts of mofs and wool, or any thing they can gather up; and have young ones thrice a year. They are feldom bred from the neft, being not apt to learn another bird's fong, nor to whistle; fo that if is best to leave the old ones to bring them up. The Effex finches are generally allowed to be the beft, both for length and variety of fong, ending with feveral

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very pretty notes. They are hardy, and will live almost upon any feeds. They are feidom fubiect to difcafe, but become very loufy if not fprinkled with wine two or three times a month.

4. FRINGILLA CANARIA, the CANARY BIRD, hath a whitish body and bill, with the prime fea. thers of the wings and tail greenith. See CANARY, $2-6 It was originally peculiar to thofe ifles to which it owes its name. See CANARY, 9. Though the ancients celebrate the ifie of CANARIA for its multitude of birds, they have not mentioned ary in particular. It is probable, then, that our fpecies was not introduced into Europe til! after the fecond difcovery of thefe ifles, in 1402 Belon, who wrote in 1555. is flient in refpect to thefe birds: Gefner is the firft who mentions them; and A'drovand speaks of them as rarities, obferving that they were very dear, on account of the difficulty attending the bringing them from fo diftant a country, and that they were purchafed by people of rank alone. They are till found on the fame fpot to which we were firft indebted for the production of thefe charming fongfters; but they are now become fo numerous in our own country, that we are under no neceflity of crofling the ocean for them. The canary bird will prove fertile with the lifkin (N° 12.) and goidfinch (N° 5); but in this cafe the produce, for the most part, proves fterile: the pairs fucceed beft when the hen is the Canary, and the cock of the oppofite fpecies. She will alfo prove prolific with the linnet, yellow-hammer, chaffinch, and even the houfe fparrow; but the male Canary bird will not affimilate with the female of any of thefe fpecies; the hen must be always of the Canary fpeies, and the young generally prove males. * Canaries are faid by fome to live 15 years; by o

thers 18.

4. FRINGILLA CANNABINA, the GREATER REDPOLE, is rather lefs than the common linnet, and has a blood-coloured spot on the forehead, and the breaft of the male is tinged with a fine rofe colour. It is a common fraud in the bird flops in London, when a male bird is diftinguished from the female by a red breaft, as in this fpecies, to paint the feathers, fo that the deceit is not easily difcovered. Thefe birds are frequent on our coafts; and are often taken in flight time near London. They are familiar, and cheerful in five minutes after they are caught.

. FRINGILLA CARDUFLIS, the GOLDFINCH with the quill feathers red forwards, and the outermoft without any fpots; the two outermoft are white in the middle, as the reft are at the point. The young bird before it mouits is grey on the head; and hence its termed by the bird catchers a grey pate. There is a variety of this fpecies, called by the London bird-catchers a cheverel, from the manner in which it concludes its jerk. It is diftinguished from the common fort by a white freak, or by two, sometimes three, white fpots under the throat. Their note is very fweet, and they are much efteemed on that account, as well as for their great docility. Towards winter, they affemble in flocks; and feed on various feeds, particularly thofe of the th tie. They are fond of orchards, and often build in apple or pear trees.

Their nefts are very elegantly formed of fine mai liverworts, and bents, on the outfide; lined fit with wool and hair, and then with the geflin cotton of the fallow The ben lays 5 white marked with deep purple spots on the upper end and has two broods in the year. When kepti cages, they are commonly fed much on hemp feed, which they eat freely, but which is laid make them grow black, and lofe both their r and yellow. Goldfinches often attain the age 20 years. They abound throughout Europe; an are alfo met with in Afia and Africa, but is com monly.

6. FRINGILLA DOMESTICA, the SPARROW, Fi the prime feathers of the wings and tail brows the body variegated with grey and black, and fingle white freak on the wings. Thefe birds a proverbially falacious, and have 3 broods in t year. They are every where common about et houfes, where they build in every place they find admittance; under the roof, corner of : brick-work, or in holes of the wall. They m a flovenly left; generally a little hay ill put to ther, but lined well with feathers; where they 5 or 6 eggs of a reddith white colour fpotted v brown. They fometimes build in trees, in wh cafe they take more pains with the neft: and ten expel the martins from theirs, to fave t trouble of conftructing one of their own. Sp rows, from frequenting only habitations and pr adjacent, may be faid to be chiefly fed from ht man indufiry; for in fpite of every precaut they will partake with the pigeons, poultry, & in the food thrown out to them, grain of all kid being moft agreeable to their tafte, though th will eat refufe from the kitchen of moft kid They are familiar but crafty, and do not fo e: come into a fare as many others. In autu they often collect into flocks, and rooft in nbers on the neighbouring trees, when they may! thot by dozens, or caught in great numbers night by a bat fowling net. The flesh is account ed tolerable by many. The fparrow has no for only a chirp or two frequently repeated. 1 fpecies is found every where throughout Europe and is alfo met with in Egypt, Senegal, Syria, other parts of Africa and Alia.

7. FRINGILLA LINARIA, the LESSER RED-POL! is about half the fize of the greater red-pole; : N. 4.) and has a rich fpot of purplish red on: forehead: the breaft is of the fame colour, t lefs bright. The female is lefs lively in colu has no red on the breaft; and the spot on 1 forebead is of a faffron hue. This fpecies is con mon in England; and lays 4 or 5 eggs of a bi green, thickly fprinkled near the blunt end wit fmali reddifh fpots. Mr Pennant meutions ar i ftance of this bird being fo tenacious of her ref as to suffer herself to be taken off by the hist and when releafed the would not forfake it. T fpecies is known about London by the name the fione red pole. Whole flocks of them, ed with the fifkin, (fee N. 12.) frequent pl where alders glow, for the fake of picking ⠀ catkins: they generally bang like the titnes with the back downwards; and in this ftate fo intent on their work, that they may be crtan

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