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Frog

noun

Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species. Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, salientian, toad, toad frog.

A person of French descent. Synonym: Gaul.

A decorative loop of braid or cord.

verb

Hunt frogs for food.

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"Frog" Quotes from Famous Books

... he unloosened, the process being attended by a disproportionate growth of the trader's cash receipts. Cautiously, at first he let out his wit, which was logy from long disuse, and as heavy on its feet as the Jumping Frog of Calaveras, but when they laughed at its labored leaps and sallies his confidence grew. With the regularity of a clock he planted cigars and ordered "a little more hard stuff," while his roving eye rejoiced in lachrymose profusion, its over-burden ...

— The Barrier • Rex Beach

... the sides of his tub with both hands. Wad, intending to jump, plunged into the deepest part of the river. Link made a snatch at the barrel, and, playing at leap-frog over it (very unwillingly), went headlong ...

— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge

... first visit he received from the leader of the minority. Anger, self interest, and the desire of revenge had induced him to adopt the same political principles: anger, self interest, and the desire of revenge induced him to endeavour after the same elevation of mind. Esop is dead, but his frog and his ox are still to ...

— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... teleological view is a mere form of human representation, a subjective principle. We may not say that a mechanical origin of living beings is impossible, but only that we are unable to understand it. If we knew how a blade of grass or a frog sprang from mechanical forces, we would also be in ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

... glad chirrup May furnish a stave; The ring of a rowel and stirrup, The wash of a wave; The chaunt of the marsh frog in rushes, That chimes through the pauses and hushes Of nightfall, the torrent that ...

— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens

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