frorn

• frorne (obsolete)

From Middle English froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frore and frozen.

Cognate with Dutch gevroren (“frozen”), German Low German froren (“frozen”), German gefroren (“frozen”).

frorn (not comparable)

1. (archaic, poetic) Frozen; intensely cold; frosty.
   • 1542, The Complaynt of Scotlande, page 197:

     But consyderyng we be so surely ascertayned of the lacke therof, and that our bloud is there frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande, there was neuer prynce more vyolently compelled to warre then we be, […]

   • 1575, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:

     My heart-blood is nigh well frorn I feel.

   • 1880, Sharp, Sword of Damocles:

     The lake..was soon ‘frorn’, as they say in Suffolk.

   • 1896, Munsey's Magazine, volume 14, page 376:

     On the frorn coast of Inishfree,
     And Lal's first bed the plunging sea.

   • 1902, William Norman Guthrie, The Old Hemlock and Other Symbols, page 18:

     […] in drifts,
     the frorn forest aches
     heaves
     grieves and uplifts
     its arms with cruel icicles weighted
     to the hated
     demons for ruth; […]

   • 1949, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volumes 74-75, page 82:

     Out of the frorn and falling sleep
     That such as we so long must keep, […]

   • 2013, Kate Worsley, She Rises, page 30:

     Old Joe grinned. 'You looks like a frorn little calf, girl. […] '

   • 2023, Mary Chamberlain, The Lie:

     She felt him shiver, his body tremble cold against hers. 'You're getting frorn,' she said. 'We best go indoors.'

• freeze
• frore
• frory
• frost

• “frorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.