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.
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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.
dried by freezing and applying a vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological substances.
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.
One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.
Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
The type genus of the Fregatidae.
A natural family including the genus Fregata, of frigate birds.
A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.
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.
The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.
One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
Destitute of freight.
In Germany and Austria, a baron.
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.
Frailty.
Strange; foreign.
Becoming murmurous, roaring.
Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.
A stranger.
The language spoken in France.
Strips of potatoes, usually cut with a rectangular cross-section, cooked by immersing in hot fat or oil.
to cook by immersing in hot fat.
able to communicate in French.
To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language.
A native or one of the people of France.
Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic; frenzied.
Frenetic; frantic; frenzied.
A cheek stripe of color.
A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fr/num of the tongue.
Frantic.
Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.
To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness
having passions unrestrained by reason.
A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
To visit often; to resort to often or habitually; as, to frequent a tavern.
Accessible.
The practice or habit of frequenting.
The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort.
Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. A frequentative verb.
One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.
The quality of being frequent.
A friar.
A cool walk; shady place.
To paint in fresco, as walls.
To refresh; to freshen.
recently cut; -- of flowers; as, a fresh-cut bouquet.
Unpracticed.
Of, pertaining to, or living in, water which is not salty; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
a first-year undergraduate.
A stream of fresh water.
In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.
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.
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