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Fraught

To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.

Fraulein

In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.

Fraunhofer lines

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.

fraxin

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.

Fraxinus

A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

fray

An angry quarrel; an affray; contest; combat; broil.

Fray

A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.

Fraying

The skin which a deer frays from his horns.

Frazzle

The act or result of frazzling; the condition or quality of being frazzled; the tag end; a frayed-out end.

Freak

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.

freaky

markedly unusual or abnormal; as, freaky weather.

Freck

To checker; to diversify.

Freckle

To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.

Freckly

Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.

Fred

Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.

Free

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.

free association

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.

Free base

The basic form of an organic amine which is capable of forming acid salts such as hydrochlorides.

free enterprise

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.

free-and-easy

unconstrained and informal; as, an informal free-and-easy manner. Opposite of stiff, starchy, formal.

free-associate

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.

free-burning

burning in a continuous manner; -- of an electric arc; as, heat transfer to the anode in free-burning arcs.

free-enterprise

Of or pertaining to the free enterprise system having private ownership of the means of production and competition between enterprises.

free-for-all

a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules.

Free-hand

Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; -- of drawing or sculpture; as, free-hand drawing. See under Drawing.

Free-handed

Open-handed; liberal; given or giving freely or liberally; as, a freehanded host.

free-lance

to work on a free-lance basis; to work as a freelancer.

Free-liver

One who gratifies his physical appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.

Free-living

Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites as a way of life.

free-living

Living independently of other organisms; not parasitic or commensal.

Free-love

The doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.

Free-lover

One who believes in or practices free-love.

Free-martin

An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male, which is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones.

Free-milling

Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.

Free-minded

Not perplexed; having a mind free from care.

free-range

permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot; -- of livestock and domestic poultry.

free-reed

a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture.

Free-soil

Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.

Free-spoken

Accustomed to speak without reserve; willing to speak out without subtlety.

Free-swimming

Swimming in the open sea; -- said of certain marine animals.

free-thinking

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.

Freebooter

One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.

Freebootery

The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.

Freebooting

Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.

Freeborn

Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

Freedman

A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

Freedom

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

freedwoman

a woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman.

Freehold

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.

Freelance

of or pertaining to a freelance{2}; as, a freelance photographer.

Freely

In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.

Freeman

One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.

Freemason

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.

Freemasonic

Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.

Freemasonry

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

Freeness

The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

Freer

One who frees, or sets free.

Freestone

Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.

freetail

A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.

freetailed bat

A small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions.

Freethinker

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.

Freetown

The capital city of Sierra Leone. Population (2000) = 1,300,000.

Freewheel

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.

freewheeler

Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly.

freewheeling

Acting heedless of consequences; acting without controls, external or internal; as, freewheeling foolishness.

freewill free-will

Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.

Freeze

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

freeze-dried

dried by freezing and applying a vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances.

Freeze-dry

to remove the moisture from (e.g. food) by first freezing and then subjecting to a high vacuum; -- used as a mild method for drying foods or chemicals while causing little decomposition, in contrast to heat-drying.

Freezer

One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

Freezing

Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

Fregata

The type genus of the Fregatidae.

Fregatidae

A natural family including the genus Fregata, of frigate birds.

Freieslebenite

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

Freight

To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

Freightage

The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.

Freighter

One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

Freiherr

In Germany and Austria, a baron.

Frejol Frijole Frijol

In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris.

Fremitus

Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.

French

The language spoken in France.

Frenchify

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.

Frenchism

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.

Frenchman

A native or one of the people of France.

Frenetic

Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic; frenzied.

Frenum

A cheek stripe of color.

frenum fraenum

A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fr/num of the tongue.

Frenzied

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.

Frenzy

To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness

Frequency

The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.

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