In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.
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A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his first year in a high school, college, or university.
The state of being a freshman.
Refreshment.
The state of being fresh.
to eat copiously and without restraint; to snack frequently.
To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
A narrow-bladed fine-toothed saw for cutting curved outlines.
A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
One who, or that which, frets.
Adorned with fretwork.
A strait, or arm of the sea.
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.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of the practise of psychoanalysis. Born 1856, died 1939.
of or pertaining to Sigmund Freud; as, Freudian theories.
The daughter of Nj/rd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
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
The quality of being friable; friableness.
Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
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.
A tuberous perennial (Arisarum vulgare) having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; -- found in the Mediterranean, Canaries, and Azores.
Like a friar; inexperienced.
A monastery; a convent of friars.
The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.
A trifler; a fribble.
Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.
The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.
Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entr/e, -- called also fricandel.
To dress like a fricassee.
Friction.
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.
A lewd woman; a harlot.
A bushel basket.
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.
Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.
Having no friction.
The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
To rub; to fray.
imp. p. p. of Fry.
A small cake fried in deep fat.
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Having friends;
Friendliness.
Destitute of friends; forsaken.
In a friendly manner.
The condition or quality of being friendly.
A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.
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.
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.
One who fries.
Same as Friesic, n.
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.
Friesic.
To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.
One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.
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.
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
The act of making cold. [Obs.]
Cooling.
To make cool.
The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
The quality of being frightful.
Free from fright; fearless.
Fear; terror.
Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
The cooling room of the Roman therm/, furnished with a cold bath.
The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth.
In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.
The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
Causing cold; producing or generating cold.
A shrub or small tree(Sophora secundiflora) having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans.
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold. A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal. A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals. A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
Furnished with a frill or frills.
Ornamental objects of no great value.
Having decorative ruffles or frills.
Flourishing; thriving; fresh; in good condition; vigorous.
The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vend/miaire.
To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
Furnished with a fringe.
Having no fringe.
Encircling like a fringe; bordering.
An annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles.
A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.
Fringilline.
A natural family of birds of the finch group having short conical bills adapted for eating seeds, including finches, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinches, siskins, canaries, cardinals, grosbeaks, crossbills, linnets, and buntings. This family at one time included the sparrows of the family Emberizinae, but has more recently been restricted in usage.
Pertaining to the family Fringillid/; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
Adorned with fringes.
One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
A fripper.
Trifling; contemptible.
a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
A hairdresser.
A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n.
To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
To search (a person) for concealed weapons or other objects, by patting the clothing to detect objects underneath; as, the police pulled the car over and frisked the occupants.
A leap or caper.
One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.
The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.
Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
In a frisky manner.
State or quality of being frisky.
The act or process of searching someone for concealed weapons.
Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay.
A kind of small ruffle.
To sell upon credit, as goods.
The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling.
To fritter; -- with away.
A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.
A forest; a woody place.
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