a ballroom dance for couples in quadruple time, combining short and long and fast and slow steps in fixed sequences.

To dance the foxtrot.

Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily; cunning.

Faith; allegiance; fealty.

A lobby in a theater; a greenroom.

See Foison.

The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.

Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.

Brother; -- a title of a monk or friar; as, Fra Angelo.

To scold; to nag.

Crabbed; peevish.

An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.

Rotten from being too ripe; overripe.

To break; to violate.

Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary.

To separate by means of, or to subject to, fractional distillation or crystallization; to fractionate; -- frequently used with out; as, to fraction out a certain grade of oil from pretroleum.

Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.

Fractional.

To separate (a mixture of chemical substances) into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

the act or process of separating a mixture into portions of different composition, as in distillation or fractional crystallization.

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture.

To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

A fr/num.

To assault, especially to kill or wound, with a fragmentation grenade.

a genus of plants comprising the strawberry plants.

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

A fragmentary rock.

In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.

The quality or property of being in fragments, or broken pieces; incompleteness; want of continuity.

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire.

the act or process of separating something into small pieces or fine particles.

A type of hand grenade designed to burst into multiple fragments upon detonation of the explosive charge; the fragments fly away at high velocity, killing or wounding persons nearby. Contrasted to concussion grenade. The common type of fragmentation grenade used by the American military was sometimes jocosely referred to as a pineapple from its reticulated surface appearance, resembling that of the fruit.

Broken into fragments.

A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenb/ttel.

A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

Same as Fraught.

Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.

Weakly; infirmly.

Frailty.

The condition or quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

Freshness; coolness.

To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

Fortified with a fraise.

A freckle.

Capable of being framed.

The yaws. See Yaws.

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.

mood; mental attitude; mental disposition; same as frame{6}.

an arbitrary set of spatial coordinates used to describe the position or motion of objects. The coordinates may be fixed or moving; as, a rotating frame of reference.

A conspiracy or plot for a malicious or evil purpose; an act that incriminates a person on false evidence.

provided with a frame; as, there were framed snapshots of family and friends on her desk. Opposite of unframed.

One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.

of, pertaining to, or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene, when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three. If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three, the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order ("frame") to be correctly translated into protein; in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism. Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene.

The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

Peevish; cross; vexatious; quarrelsome.

A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. In 1913 it was equivalent to about nineteen cents American, or ten pence British, and is divided into 100 centimes.

a sharpshooter (in the French army).

To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to.

Release; deliverance; freedom.

Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish.

Francis Bacon. A celebrated English philosopher, jurist, and statesman, son of Sir Nicholas Bacon. Born at York House, London, Jan. 22, 1561: died at Highgate, April 9, 1626, created Baron Verulam July 12, 1618, and Viscount St. Albans Jan. 27, 1621: commonly, but incorrectly, called Lord Bacon. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, April, 1573, to March, 1575, and at Gray's Inn 1575; became attached to the embassy of Sir Amias Paulet in France in 1576; was admitted to the bar in 1582; entered Parliament in 1584; was knighted in 1603; became solicitor-general in 1607, and attorney-general in 1613; was made a privy councilor in 1616, lord keeper in 1617, and lord chancellor in 1618; and was tried in 1621 for bribery, condemned, fined, and removed from office. A notable incident of his career was his connection with the Earl of Essex, which began in July, 1591, remained an intimate friendship until the fall of Essex (1600-01), and ended in Bacon's active efforts to secure the conviction of the earl for treason. (See Essex.) His great fame rests upon his services as a reformer of the methods of scientific investigation; and though his relation to the progress of knowledge has been exaggerated and misunderstood, his reputation as one of the chief founders of modern inductive science is well grounded. His chief works are the "Advancement of Learning," published in English as "The Two Books of Francis Bacon of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human," in 1605; the "Novum organum sive indicia vera de interpretatione naturae," published in Latin, 1620, as a "second part" of the (incomplete) "Instauratio magna"; the "De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum," published in Latin in 1623; "Historia Ventorum" (1622), "Historia Vitae et Mortis" (1623), "Historia Densi et Rari" (posthumously, 1658), "Sylva Sylvarum" (posthumously, 1627), "New Atlantis," "Essays" (1597, 1612, 1625), "De Sapientia Veterum" (1609), "Apothegms New and Old," "History of Henry VII." (1622). Works edited by Ellis, Spedding, and Heath (7 vols. 1857); Life by Spedding (7 vols. 1861, 2 vols. 1878). See Shakspere.

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.

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.

A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire.

An admirer of France and everything French.

a person who hates or fears France, French culture, or the French people.

Able to communicate in the French language; -- used especially of those whose native language is French.

Causing fracture; breaking.

The state or quality of being frangible.

Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken.

A perfume of jasmine; frangipani.

A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin.

Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn.

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.

A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.

To send by public conveyance free of expense.

The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.

A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.

Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.

An English freeholder, or substantial householder.

Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.

A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

In a frank manner; freely.

The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

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. The tithing itself.

Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.

To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.

A crowd, a rabble.

A blusterer; a rowdy.

Iced; frozen; artificially cooled; as, wine frapp/. A frapp/ mixture or beverage, as a water ice, variously flavored, frozen soft, and served in glasses; also, a milk shake.

A lashing binding a thing tightly or binding things together.

A genus of North American herbs: columbo; it includes some species sometimes placed in the genus Swertia.

a social club for male college undergraduates; a shortened form of fraternity.

a house used by a chapter of a fraternity at a college.

A monk; also, a frater house.

a genus of sea birds, one of the genera of puffins.

Of, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.

To fraternize; to hold fellowship.

Fraternization.

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.

To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.

One who fraternizes.

A frater house. See under Frater.

A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin.

The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.