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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.

Frequent

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern.

Frequentation

The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.

Frequentative

Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. A frequentative verb.

Frequenter

One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.

Frequently

At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.

Fresco

To paint in fresco, as walls.

Fresh

To refresh; to freshen.

fresh-cut

recently cut; -- of flowers; as, a fresh-cut bouquet.

Fresh-water

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water which is not salty; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

Freshen

To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

Freshly

In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.

Freshman

A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.

fress

to eat copiously and without restraint; to snack frequently.

Fret

To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

Fretful

Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.

fretsaw

A narrow-bladed fine-toothed saw for cutting curved outlines.

Frett

A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.

Fretted

Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.

Fretten

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.

Fretter

One who, or that which, frets.

Fretum

A strait, or arm of the sea.

Fretwork

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, the founder of the practise of psychoanalysis. Born 1856, died 1939.

Freudian

of or pertaining to Sigmund Freud; as, Freudian theories.

Freya

The daughter of Nj/rd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.

Freyr Frey

The god of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity, presiding over rain, sunshine, and all the fruits of the earth, dispensing wealth among men; son of Njorth (Njord) and brother of Freya; originally of the Vanir; later with the Aesir. He was especially worshipped in the temple at Upsala in Sweden

Friabiiity

The quality of being friable; friableness.

Friable

Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.

Friar

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

friar's-cowls friar's-cowl

A tuberous perennial (Arisarum vulgare) having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; -- found in the Mediterranean, Canaries, and Azores.

Friarly

Like a friar; inexperienced.

Friary

A monastery; a convent of friars.

Friation

The act of breaking up or pulverizing.

Fribble

To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.

Fribbling

Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.

Friborgh Friborg

The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.

Fricace

Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.

Fricando Fricandeau

A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entr/e, -- called also fricandel.

Fricative

Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc. A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.

Friction

The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

Frictional

Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.

Friday

The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.

Friend

To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.

Friendly

A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.

friendly fire

Weapons fire{9}, such as artillery or aerial bombardment, from one's own forces; -- used mostly when troops do damage or cause casualties among their own forces; as, the tank was hit by friendly fire.

Friendship

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.

Friesic

The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.

Frieze

To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.

Friezed

Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.

Friezer

One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.

Frigate

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.

Frigate-built

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

Frigatoon

A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.

Frigga Frigg

The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

Fright

To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.

Frighten

To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

Frightful

Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.

Frightfully

In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.

Frigid

Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

Frigidarium

The cooling room of the Roman therm/, furnished with a cold bath.

Frigidity

The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.

Frigidly

In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

Frigidness

The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.

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