Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
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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.
The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.
Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.
Free from fraud.
The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.
Using fraud; tricky; deceitful; dishonest.
In a fraudulent manner.
To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
Freight; loading; cargo.
Constituting the freight or cargo.
In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.
The lines of the spectrum; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.
A colorless crystalline substance (C16H18O10) found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus), and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It is structurally a derivative of a coumarin glucoside. It shows a delicate blue-green fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin and fraxoside.
A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
An angry quarrel; an affray; contest; combat; broil.
A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
The skin which a deer frays from his horns.
The act or result of frazzling; the condition or quality of being frazzled; the tag end; a frayed-out end.
to cause (a person) react with great distress or extreme emotion; -- often used in the phrase freak out.
Freakish.
Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
marked strangeness or abnormality.
markedly unusual or abnormal; as, freaky weather.
To checker; to diversify.
To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.
Marked with freckles; spotted.
The state of being freckled.
Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.
See Fridstol.
To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
The act or process of free-associating. It is a technique used in psychoanalysis and is supposed to allow the analyst access to the unconscious thoughts of the analysand. See free-associate.
The basic form of an organic amine which is capable of forming acid salts such as hydrochlorides.
To ingest the basic form of a narcotic drug, usually by injection.
an economic system having predominantly private ownership of the means of production, and relying chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices, and having a minimum of governmental interference in economic decisions; also, the political doctrine advocating such a system as the economic system of a country.
unconstrained and informal; as, an informal free-and-easy manner. Opposite of stiff, starchy, formal.
to express one's thoughts, ideas, impressions, etc. in an unplanned and unstructured way, allowing each thought or idea to prompt recollection of the next one. It is a process used in psychotherapy.
burning in a continuous manner; -- of an electric arc; as, heat transfer to the anode in free-burning arcs.
To make free.
Of or pertaining to the free enterprise system having private ownership of the means of production and competition between enterprises.
a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules.
Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; -- of drawing or sculpture; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.
Open-handed; liberal; given or giving freely or liberally; as, a freehanded host.
Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth. Opposite of stingy.
to work on a free-lance basis; to work as a freelancer.
a freelance{2}, n.
One who gratifies his physical appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.
Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites as a way of life.
Living independently of other organisms; not parasitic or commensal.
The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.
One who believes in or practices free-love.
An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male, which is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones.
Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.
permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot; -- of livestock and domestic poultry.
a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture.
Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.
Accustomed to speak without reserve; willing to speak out without subtlety.
Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.
inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon authority, especially about social and religious issues; exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.
Speaking without reserve.
One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.
Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.
Freebootery.
Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.
A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.
The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
See Fridstol.
a woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman.
An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.
The possessor of a freehold.
of or pertaining to a freelance{2}; as, a freelance photographer.
Frailty.
In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.
The institutions or the practices of freemasons.
The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.
One who frees, or sets free.
Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.
A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.
A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.
The capital city of Sierra Leone. Population (2000) = 1,300,000.
Of a freewheel cycle, to run on while the pedals are held still. Of a person, to ride a cycle of this manner; to coast in a vehicle having a freewheel. To ride a freewheel cycle.
Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly.
Acting heedless of consequences; acting without controls, external or internal; as, freewheeling foolishness.
Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.
Capable of being frozen.
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
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