noun. A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing.

noun. A projection as of hair, feathers, bone, or cartilage, about the neck of an animal.

noun. A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film.

noun. Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury. synonym: luxury.

intransitive verb. To make into a ruffle or frill.

intransitive verb. To add a ruffle or frill to.

intransitive verb. To become wrinkled along the edge.

To shiver with cold, as a hawk or other bird.

noun. A shivering with cold, as a bird; the ruffling of a bird's feathers when shivering with cold.

To form into a frill; flute or plait: as, to frill a border in a dress.

To ornament with frills; as, to frill a child's garment.

To become frilled or ruffled.

noun. The shell of a kind of scallop.

noun. A narrow ornamental bordering made of a strip of textile material, of which one edge is gathered and the other left loose, as in a narrow flounce; a ruffle.

noun. Hence Anything resembling such a border.

noun. Specifically

noun. The projecting fringe of hair on the chest of some dogs, as the collie.

noun. Some fringing part or process of an animal, like a ruffle; a frilling: as, the genital frills of a hydrozoan.

noun. In hymenomycetous fungi, a superior annulus or ring; an annulus formed of tissue suspended from the apex of the stipe and free at other points, at first forming a membranous covering for the hymenium, but detached as the pileus expands; an armilla.

noun. In photography, the swelling and loosening of a gelatin film around the edges of a plate. See frill, verb

noun. An affectation of dress or of manner; an air: usually in the plural: as, he puts on too many frills.

transitive verb. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits.

intransitive verb. To shake or shiver as with cold.

intransitive verb. To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.

noun. A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.

noun. A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.

noun. A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.

noun. A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.

noun. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

noun. Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an additional function on a device or in a system not essential to the basic operation. -- Commonly used in the phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully functional but economical device or service.

noun. A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.

noun. A wrinkled edge to a film.

noun. A luxury.

verb. To make something into a frill.

verb. To become wrinkled.

noun. ornamental objects of no great value

noun. (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs

noun. an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal

noun. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

"Champagne tickles and you get a thrill and the frill is short lived, but a fine wine?"

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