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Frory vs Frore - What's the difference?

frory | frore |

As an adjective frory

is frosty; frozen.

As a verb frore is

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frory

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Frosty; frozen.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.viii:
    • An aged sire with head all frory hore, / And sprinckled frost vpon his deawy beard [...].
  • Covered with a froth resembling hoar frost.

    • frore

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
  • * 1818 , (Percy Shelley), The Revolt of Islam , canto 9:
    • We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,
    Expiring in the frore and foggy air.
  • * 1883 , Religion in Europe, historically considered , page 13:
    • For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.
  • * 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad) , XLVI, lines 15-16
    • Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore .
  • * , (Rupert Brooke), Song
    • My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic, rare) (freeze)
  • * , (Mary Howitt), The Sea :
    • And down below all fretted and frore ,