Frailness (n.) Frailty.
Frailties (pl. ) of Frailty
Frailty (a.) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.
Frailty (a.) A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Fraischeur (a.) Freshness; coolness.
Fraise (n.) A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
Fraise (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
Fraise (n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
Fraise (v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
Fraised (a.) Fortified with a fraise.
Fraken (n.) A freckle.
Framable (a.) Capable of being framed.
Frambaesia (n.) The yaws. See Yaws.
Framed (imp. & p. p.) of Frame
Framing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frame
Frame (v. t.) To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.
Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.
Frame (v. t.) To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform.
Frame (v. t.) To cause; to bring about; to produce.
Frame (v. t.) To support.
Frame (v. t.) To provide with a frame, as a picture.
Frame (v. i.) To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech.
Frame (v. i.) To proceed; to go.
Frame (n.) Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure.
Frame (n.) The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person.
Frame (n.) A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched
Frame (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
Frame (n.) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings.
Frame (n.) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.
Frame (n.) A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc.
Frame (n.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost.
Frame (n.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor.
Frame (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc.
Frame (n.) Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government.
Frame (n.) Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame.
Frame (n.) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
Framer (n.) One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
Framework (n.) The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
Framework (n.) Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
Framing (n.) The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.
Framing (n.) A framework, or a sy/ of frames.
Frampel (a.) Alt. of Frampoid
Frampoid (a.) Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.
Franc (a.) A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes.
Franchise (a.) Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
Franchise (a.) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote.
Franchise (a.) The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
Franchise (a.) Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility.
Franchised (imp. & p. p.) of Franchise
Franchising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Franchise
Franchise (v. t.) To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.
Franchisement (n.) Release; deliverance; freedom.
Francic (a.) Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.
Franciscan (a.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
Franciscan (n.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.
Francolin (n.) A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia.
Francolite (n.) A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.
Frangent (a.) Causing fracture; breaking.
Frangibility (n.) The state or quality of being frangible.
Frangible (a.) Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.
Frangipane (n.) A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.
Frangipane (n.) A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.
Frangipani (n.) Alt. of Frangipanni
Frangipanni (n.) A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.
Frangulic (a.) Alt. of Frangulinic
Frangulinic (a.) Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn.
Frangulin (n.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin.
Franion (n.) A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.
Frank (n.) A pigsty.
Frank (v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
Frank (n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note.
Frank (n.) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
Frank (n.) Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
Frank (n.) Liberal; generous; profuse.
Frank (n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
Franked (imp. & p. p.) of Frank
Franking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frank
Frank (v. t.) To send by public conveyance free of expense.
Frank (v. t.) To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
Frank (a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.
Frank (a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
Frank (a.) A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
Frank (a.) A French coin. See Franc.
Frankalmoigne (a.) A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms.
Frank-chase (n.) The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.
Frank-fee (n.) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
Frankfort black () A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
Frankincense (n.) A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
Franking (n.) A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.
Frankish (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
Frank-law (n.) The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights.
Franklin (a.) An English freeholder, or substantial householder.
Franklinic (a.) Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
Franklinite (n.) A kind of mineral of the spinel group.
Franklin stove () A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
Frankly (adv.) In a frank manner; freely.
Frank-marriage (n.) A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.
Frankness (n.) The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.
Frankpledge (n.) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
Frankpledge (n.) The tithing itself.