ppl. a. [f. FRIZZLE v.1 + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.: a. of hair. Also, of a wig, the head: Consisting of or covered with crisp curls. Of a fowl: see quot. 1885.
1567. Drant, Horace’s Art Poetrie, etc., C iij a. Mecænas, if I meete with the without my frisled top, Not notted fyne and fashion lyke.
1573. G. Harvey, Letter-bk. (Camden), 103. A gallant friseld pate.
1598. Barckley, Felic. Man, III. (1603), 272. Instead of your girdles, you shall have a halter; in place of your frizeled haire, a shaven head.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., ii. 58. The frizled and over-powdered Gallants of our times.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 250. Displumed geese, as likewise most part of the ducks were, the rest frizeled, which caused a laughter amongst us.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Poultry, Frisled Hens … may also be put into the Yard.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, Introduction, p. vi. He called it New Guinea, from the frizzled locks of the inhabitants.
1817. Lady Granville, Lett., June (1894), I. 101. The Duc de Richelieu is a fine, courteous-looking seigneur, with a grey frizzled head and eagle eyes.
1847. Ld. Lindsay, Chr. Art, I. 126. Cain is represented with frizzled hair.
1885. Tegetmeier, in Encycl. Brit., XIX. 645. Frizzled fowls are birds in which each feather curls outwards away from the body. They are common in India.
fig. 1577. Harrison, England, Pref. (1877), 111. I hope that this foule frizeled Treatise of mine will prooue a spur to others better learned.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., V. vii. 68.
| Clear-sighted FAITH, point out the Way; I will | |
| Neglect curl’d Phrases frizled Skill: | |
| Humble DEVOTION, lift Thou up my flagging Quill. |
b. of other objects.
1596. R. L[inche], Diella (1877), 66. All tapistred with Natures mossie greene, Wrought in a frizled guise.
1599. Thynne, Animadv. (1875), 33, note. Aurifrisium frisled cloth of gold, made & vsed in England both before & since the Conquest, worne booth by the Cleargie, and the Kings themselues.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 396. Those [citron tables] that are frisled with small spots standing thicke.
1613–16. W. Browne, Brit. Past. II. v. 158. The frizled coates which doe the mountaines hide.
1667. Milton, P. L., VII. 323. The … Bush with frizl’d hair implicit.
1746–7. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 101. The parsley, with her frizzled locks.
a. 1803. Beattie, Hares, 34. O’er their head The furze its frizzled covering spread.
1784–1815. Annals of Agric. Suff., V. 251 (E. D. S.), Frizled. ‘The straw [of the potatoes] being frizled (curled) as they call it here.’
