FRIZING of cloth, a term, in the woollen manufactory, applied to the forming of the nap of a cloth, or stuff, into a number of little hard burrs or promi-
nences, covering almost the whole ground thereof.
Some cloths are only frized on the back side, as black cloths; others on the right side, as coloured and mixed cloths, rateens, bays, freezes, &c.
Frizing may be performed two ways; one with the hand, that is, by means of two workmen, who conduct a kind of plank that serves for a frizing instrument.
The other way is by a mill, worked either by water, or a horse, or sometimes by men. This latter is esteemed the better way of frizing, by reason the motion being uniform and regular, the little knobs of the frizing are formed more equally and regularly.
FROBISHER'S STRAITS, in west Greenland, lie a little to the northward of Cape Farewell: W. long. 48°, and N. lat. 63°.