Word Meanings - FRIABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray. cf. F. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRIABLE)

• Crimp
• Brittle
• friable
• crisp

Related words: (words related to FRIABLE)

• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• CRISPER
  One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
• CRIMPER
  One who, or that which, crimps; as: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
• CRIMPY
  Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.
• CRIMPAGE
  The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.
• BRITTLE STAR
  Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
• CRISPATURE
  The state of being crispate.
• CRIMPLE
  To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl. Wiseman.
• CRISPIN
  1. A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft. 2. A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
• CRISPATE; CRISPATED
  Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
• CRISPY
  1. Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks. 2. Crisp; brittle; as. a crispy pie crust.
• CRISP
  1. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair. 2. Curled with the ripple of the water. You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak. 3. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp
• FRIABLE
  pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray. cf. F. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.
• CRISPNESS
  The state or quality of being crisp.
• CRISPLY
  In a crisp manner.
• CRISPATION
  1. The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. Bacon. 2. A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O.
• BRITTLE
  Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious. Farewell, thou pretty, brittle piece Of fine-cut crystal. Cotton. Brittle silver ore, the mineral stephanite. (more info) breótan to break; akin to Icel. brytja, Sw. bryta, Dan. bryde.
• BRITTLENESS
  Aptness to break; fragility.
• CRIMP
  To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc. Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship
• SCRIMPINGLY
  In a scrimping manner.
• ENCRISPED
  Curled. Skelton.
• SCRIMPTION
  A small portion; a pittance; a little bit. Halliwell.
• SCRIMPING
  a. & n. from Scrimp, v. t. Scrimping bar, a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing. Knight.