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Fring [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fire

Fringe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. frinj. [Latin frango, to break.]

2. An ornamental appendage to the borders of garments or furniture, consisting of loose threads.

3. The golden fringe ev'n set the ground on flame.

4. Something resembling fringe; an open broken border.

Fringe [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To adorn or border with fringe or a loose edging.

Fringe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.

2. Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.

3. One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.

4. The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.

Fringe [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.

Fringed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bordered with fringe.

Fringed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Furnished with a fringe.

Fringed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fringe

Fringeless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no fringe.

Fringemaker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who makes fringe.

Fringent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Encircling like a fringe; bordering.

Fringilla [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

Fringillaceous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fringilline.

Fringilline [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to the family Fringillidae; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.

Fringing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bordering with fringe.

Fringing [Present participle and verbal noun a] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fringe

Fringy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Adorned with fringes.

Fringy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Aborned with fringes.

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3 KJV and 5 BSB verses contain “Fring”

Numbers 15:38

Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel.

Numbers 15:39

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.

Deuteronomy 22:12

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

Job 26:14

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

Matthew 9:20

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.

Matthew 14:36

And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.

and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

Mark 6:56

And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

Luke 8:44

Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

She came up behind Jesus and touched the fringe of His cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.