Fraud – Frolicksomeness

Fraud

FRAUD, noun [Latin fraus.]

Deceit; deception; trick; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; a stratagem intended to obtain some undue advantage; an attempt to gain or the obtaining of an advantage over another by imposition or immoral means, particularly deception in contracts, or bargain and sale, either by stating falsehoods, or suppressing truth.

If success a lover's toil attends, who asks if force or fraud obtained his ends.

Fraudful

FRAUD'FUL, adjective

1. Deceitful in making bargains; trickish; treacherous; applied to persons.

2. Containing fraud or deceit; applied to things.

Fraudfully

FRAUD'FULLY, adverb Deceitfully; with intention to deceive and gain an undue advantage; trickishly; treacherously; by stratagem.

Fraudulence

FRAUD'ULENCE,

FRAUD'ULENCY, noun Deceitfulness; trickishness in making bargains, or in social concerns.

Fraudulency

FRAUD'ULENCY, n. Deceitfulness; trickishness in making bargains, or in social concerns.

Fraudulent

FRAUD'ULENT, adjective

1. Deceitful in making contracts; trickish; applied to persons.

2. Containing fraud; founded on fraud; proceeding from fraud; as a fraudulent bargain.

3. Deceitful; treacherous; obtained or performed by artifice.

Fraudulently

FRAUD'ULENTLY, adverb By fraud; by deceit; by artifice or imposition.

Fraught

FRAUGHT, adjective fraut.

1. Laden; loaded; charged; as a vessel richly fraught with goods from India. This sense is used in poetry; but in common business, freighted only is used.

2. Filled; stored; full; as a scheme fraught with mischief; the scriptures are fraught with excellent precepts.

FRAUGHT, noun A freight; a cargo. [Not now used.]

FRAUGHT, verb transitive To load; to fill; to crowd. obsolete

Fraughtage

FRAUGHT'AGE, noun Loading; cargo. [Not used.]

Fray

FRAY, noun [Latin fractura, from frango, frico.]

1. A boil, quarrel or violent riot, that puts men in fear. This is the vulgar word for affray, and the sense seems to refer the word to Fr. effrayer.

2. A combat; a battle; also, a single combat or duel.

3. A contest; contention.

4. A rub; a fret or chafe in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.

FRAY, verb transitive To fright; to terrify. obsolete

FRAY, verb transitive [Latin frico, to rub.]

1. To rub; to fret, as cloth by wearing.

2. To rub; as, a deer frays his head.

Frayed

FRA'YED, participle passive Frightened; rubbed; worn.

Fraying

FRA'YING, participle present tense Frightening; terrifying; rubbing.

FRA'YING, noun Peel of a deer's horn.

Freak

FREAK, noun

1. Literally, a sudden starting or change of place. Hence,

2. A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim or fancy; a capricious prank.

She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation.

FREAK, verb transitive [Heb. to divide.]

To variegate; to checker.

FREAKed with many a mingled hue.

Freakish

FRE'AKISH, adjective Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

It may be a question, whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two.

Freakishly

FRE'AKISHLY, adverb Capriciously; with sudden change of mind, without cause.

Freakishness

FRE'AKISHNESS, noun Capriciousness; whimsicalness.

Freckle

FRECK'LE, noun

1. A spot of a yellowish color in the skin, particularly on the face, neck and hands. Freckles may be natural or produced by the action of the sun on the skin, or from the jaundice.

2. Any small spot or discoloration.

Freckled

FRECK'LED, adjective

1. Spotted; having small yellowish spots on the skin or surface; as a freckled face or neck.

2. Spotted; as a freckled cowslip.

Freckledness

FRECK'LEDNESS, noun The state or being freckled.

Frecklefaced

FRECK'LEFACED, adjective Having a face full of freckles.

Freckly

FRECK'LY, adjective Full of freckles; sprinkled with spots.

Fred

FRED, Victorious peace. Our ancestors called a sanctuary, fredstole, a seat of peace.

Free

FREE, noun [Heb. See Frank.]

1. Being at liberty; not being under necessity or restraint, physical or moral; a word of general application to the body, the will or mind, and to corporations.

2. In government, not enslaved; not in a state of vassalage or dependence; subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws; not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord; as a free state, nation or people.

3. Instituted by a free people, or by consent or choice of those who are to be subjects, and securing private rights and privileges by fixed laws and principles; not arbitrary or despotic; as a free constitution or government.

There can be no free government without a democratical branch in the constitution.

4. Not imprisoned, confined or under arrest; as, the prisoner is set free

5. Unconstrained; unrestrained; not under compulsion or control. A man is free to pursue his own choice; he enjoys free will.

6. Permitted; allowed; open; not appropriated; as, places of honor and confidence are free to all; we seldom hear of a commerce perfectly free

7. Not obstructed; as, the water has a free passage or channel; the house is open to a free current of air.

8. Licentious; unrestrained. The reviewer is very free in his censures.

9. Open; candid; frank; ingenuous; unreserved; as, we had a free conversation together.

Will you be free and candid to your friend?

10. Liberal in expenses; not parsimonious; as a free purse; a man is free to give to all useful institutions.

11. Gratuitous; not gained by importunity or purchase. He made him a free offer of his services. It is a free gift. The salvation of men is of free grace.

12. Clear of crime or offense; guiltless; innocent.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free

13. Not having feeling or suffering; clear; exempt; with from; as free from pain or disease; free from remorse.

14. Not encumbered with; as free from a burden.

15. Open to all, without restriction or without expense; as a free school.

16. Invested with franchises; enjoying certain immunities; with of; as a man free of the city of London.

17. Possessing without vassalage or slavish conditions; as free of his farm.

18. Liberated from the government or control of parents, or of a guardian or master. A son or an apprentice, when of age, is free

19. Ready; eager; not dull; acting without spurring or shipping; as a free horse.

20. Genteel; charming. [Not in use.]

FREE, verb transitive

1. To remove from a thing any encumbrance or obstruction; to disengage from; to rid; to strip; to clear; as, to free the body from clothes; to free the feet from fetters; to free a channel from sand.

2. To set at liberty; to rescue or release from slavery, captivity or confinement; to loose. The prisoner is freed from arrest.

3. To disentangle; to disengage.

4. To exempt.

He that is dead is freed from sin. Romans 6:18.

5. To manumit; to release from bondage; as, to free a slave.

6. To clear from water, as a ship by pumping.

7. To release from obligation or duty.

To free from or free of, is to rid of, by removing, in any manner.

Freebench

FREEBENCH', noun A widow's dower in a copyhold.

Freebooter

FREE'BOOTER, noun [ See Booty.]

One who wanders about for plunder; a robber; a pillager; a plunderer.

Freebooting

FREE'BOOTING, noun Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.

Freeborn

FREE'BORN, adjective Born free; not in vassalage; inheriting liberty.

Freechapel

FREECHAP'EL, noun In England, a chapel founded by the king and not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary. The kind may also grant license to a subject to found such a chapel.

Free city, in Germany, an imperial city, not subject to a prince, but governed by its own magistrates.

Freecost

FREE'COST, noun Without expense; freedom from charges.

Freed

FREED, participle passive Set at liberty; loosed; delivered from restraint; cleared of hinderance or obstruction.

Freedenizen

FREEDEN'IZEN, noun A citizen.

Freedman

FREE'DMAN, noun A man who has been a slave and is manumitted.

Freedom

FREE'DOM, noun

1. A state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious. [See Liberty.]

2. Particular privileges; franchise; immunity; as the freedom of a city.

3. Power of enjoying franchises.

4. Exemption from fate, necessity, or any constraint in consequence of predetermination or otherwise; as the freedom of the will.

5. Any exemption from constraint or control.

6. Ease or facility of doing any thing. He speaks or acts with freedom

7. Frankness; boldness. He addressed his audience with freedom

8. License; improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; with a plural. Beware of what are called innocent freedoms.

Freefishery

FREEFISH'ERY, noun A royal franchise or exclusive privilege of fishing in a public river.

Freefooted

FREE'FOOTED, adjective Not restrained in marching. [Not used.]

Freehearted

FREEHEARTED, adjective [See Heart.]

1. Open; frank; unreserved.

2. Liberal; charitable; generous.

Freeheartedness

FREEHEARTEDNESS, noun Frankness; openness of heart; liberality.

Freehold

FREE'HOLD, adjective That land or tenement which is held in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life. It is of two kinds; in deed, and in law. The first is the real possession of such land or tenement; the last is the right a man has to such land or tenement, before his entry or seizure.

Freehold is also extended to such offices as a man holds in fee or for life. It is also taken in opposition to villenage.

In the United States, a freehold is an estate which a man holds in his own right, subject to no superior nor to conditions.

Freeholder

FREE'HOLDER, noun One who owns an estate in fee-simple, fee-tail or for life; the possessor of a freehold. Every juryman must be a freeholder

Freeing

FREE'ING, participle present tense Delivering from restraint; releasing from confinement; removing incumbrances or hinderances from any thing; clearing.

Freely

FREE'LY, adverb

1. At liberty; without vassalage, slavery or dependence.

2. Without restraint, constraint or compulsion; voluntarily. To render a moral agent accountable, he must act freely

3. Plentifully; in abundance; as, to eat or drink freely

4. Without scruple or reserve; as, to censure freely

5. Without impediment or hinderance.

Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. Genesis 2:16.

6. Without necessity, or compulsion from divine predetermination.

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

7. Without obstruction; largely; copiously. The patient bled freely

8. Spontaneously; without constraint or persuasion.

9. Liberally; generously; as, to give freely to the poor.

10. Gratuitously; of free will or grace, with out purchase or consideration.

Freely ye have received, freely give. Matthew 10:8.

Freeman

FREE'MAN, noun [free and man.]

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

2. One who enjoys or is entitled to a franchise or peculiar privilege; as the freemen of a city or state.

Freemason

FREE'MASON, noun One of the fraternity of masons.

Freeminded

FREE'MINDED, adjective Not perplexed; free from care.

Freeness

FREE'NESS, noun

1. The state or quality of being free, unconstrained, unconfined, unincumbered, or unobstructed.

2. Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor; as the freeness of a confession.

3. Liberality; generosity; as freeness in giving.

4. Gratuitousness; as the freeness of divine grace.

Freeschool

FREE'SCHOOL, noun

1. A school supported by funds, etc., in which pupils are taught without paying for tuition.

2. A school open to admit pupils without restriction.

Freespoken

FREE'SPOKEN, adjective Accustomed to speak without reserve.

Freestone

FREE'STONE, noun Any species of stone composed of sand or grit, so called because it is easily cut or wrought.

Freethinker

FREE'THINKER, noun A softer name for a deist; an unbeliever; one who discards revelation.

Freethinking

FREE'THINKING, noun Unbelief.

Freetongued

FREE'TONGUED, adjective Speaking without reserve.

Freewarren

FREEWAR'REN, noun A royal franchise or exclusive right of killing beasts and fowls of warren within certain limits.

Freewill

FREEWILL', noun

1. The power of directing our own actions without restraint by necessity or fate.

2. Voluntariness; spontaneousness.

Freewoman

FREE'WOMAN, noun A woman not a slave.

Freeze

FREEZE, verb intransitive preterit tense froze; participle passive frozen, or froze. [Gr. had for its radical letters.]

1. To be congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body. Water freezes at the temperature of 32 degrees above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer. Mercury freezes at 40 degrees below zero.

2. To be of that degree of cold at which water congeals.

3. To chill; to stagnate, or to retire from the extreme vessels; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

4. To be chilled; to shiver with cold.

5. To die by means of cold. We say a man freezes to death.

FREEZE, verb transitive

1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to change from a fluid to a solid form by cold or abstraction of heat. This weather will freeze the rivers and lakes.

2. To kill by cold; but we often add the words to death. this air will freeze you, or freeze you to death.

3. To chill; to give the sensation of cold and shivering. This horrid tale freezes my blood.

FREEZE, in architecture. [See Frieze.]

Freight

FREIGHT, noun frate. [Latin fero; formed like bright.]

1. The cargo, or any part of the cargo of a ship; lading; that which is carried by water. The freight of a ship consists of cotton; the ship has not a full freight; the owners have advertised for freight; freight will be paid for by the ton.

2. Transportation of goods. We paid four dollars a ton for the freight from London to Barcelona.

3. The hire of a ship, or money charged or paid for the transportation of goods. After paying freight and charges, the profit is trifling.

FREIGHT, verb transitive

1. To load with goods, as a ship or vessel of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another. We freighted the ship for Amsterdam; the ship was freighted with flour for Havana.

2. To load as the burden.

Freighted

FREIGHTED, participle passive Loaded, as a ship or vessel.

Freighter

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

Freighting

FREIGHTING, participle present tense Loading, as a ship or vessel.

Freisleben

FREISLEBEN, noun A mineral of a blue or bluish gray color, brittle and soft to the touch.

Fren

FREN, noun A stranger. [Not used.]

French

FRENCH, adjective Pertaining to France or its inhabitants.

FRENCH Chalk, scaly talc, a variety of indurated talc, in masses composed of small scales; its color is pearly white or grayish.

FRENCH, noun The language spoken by the people of France.

French-Horn

FRENCH-HORN', noun A wind instrument of music made of metal.

Frenchify

FRENCH'IFY, verb transitive To make French; to infect with the manner of the French.

Frenchlike

FRENCH'LIKE, adjective Resembling the French.

Frenetic

FRENET'IC, adjective [See Frantic and Phrenetic.]

Frenzied

FREN'ZIED, part. adjective Affected with madness.

Frenzy

FREN'ZY, noun [Latin phrenitis, Gr. from mind, which is from moving, rushing. See Frantic.]

Madness; distraction; rage; or any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction.

All else is towering frenzy and distraction.

Frequence

FRE'QUENCE, noun [Latin frequentia.] A crowd; a throng; a concourse; an assembly. [Little used.]

Frequency

FRE'QUENCY, noun

1. A return or occurrence of a thing often repeated at short intervals. The frequency of crimes abates our horror at the commission; the frequency of capital punishments tends to destroy their proper effect.

2. A crowd; a throng. [Not used.]

Frequent

FRE'QUENT, adjective [Latin frequens.]

1. Often seen or done; often happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring. We made frequent visits to the hospital.

2. Used often to practice any thing. He was frequent and loud in his declamations against the revolution.

3. Full; crowded; thronged. [Not used.]

FRE'QUENT, verb transitive [Latin frequento.]

To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. The man who frequents a dram-shop, an ale house, or a gaming table, is in the road to poverty, disgrace and ruin.

He frequented the court of Augustus.

Frequentable

FREQUENT'ABLE, adjective Accessible. [Not used.]

Frequentation

FREQUENTA'TION, noun

1. The act of frequenting.

2. The habit of visiting often.

Frequentative

FREQUENT'ATIVE, adjective

In grammar, signifying the frequent repetition of an action; as a frequentative verb.

Frequented

FRE'QUENTED, participle passive Often visited.

Frequenter

FRE'QUENTER, noun One who often visits or resorts to customarily.

Frequently

FRE'QUENTLY, adverb Often; many times; at short intervals; commonly.

Frequentness

FRE'QUENTNESS, noun The quality of being frequent or often repeated.

Fresco

FRES'CO, noun

1. Coolness; shade; a cool refreshing state of the air; duskiness.

2. A picture not drawn in glaring light, but in dusk.

3. A method of painting in relief on walls, performed with water-colors on fresh plaster, or on a wall laid with mortar not yet dry. the colors, incorporating with the mortar, and drying with it, become very durable. It is called fesco, either because it is done on fresh plaster, or because it is used on walls and buildings in the open air.

4. A cool refreshing liquor.

Fresh

FRESH, adjective [Eng. rush, which gives the radical sense, though it may not be the same word.]

1. Moving with celerity; brisk; strong; somewhat vehement; as a fresh breeze; fresh wind; the primary sense.

2. Having the color and appearance of young thrifty plants; lively; not impaired or faded; as when we say, the fields look fresh and green.

3. Having the appearance of a healthy youth; florid; ruddy; as a fresh-colored young man.

4. New; recently grown; as fresh vegetables.

5. New; recently made or obtained. We have a fresh supply of goods from the manufactory, or from India; fresh tea; fresh raisins.

6. Not impaired by time; not forgotten or obliterated. The story is fresh in my mind; the ideas are fresh in my recollection.

7. Not salt; as fresh water; fresh meat.

8. Recently from the well or spring; pure and cool; not warm or vapid. Bring a glass of fresh water.

9. In a state like that of recent growth or recentness; as, to preserve flowers and fruit fresh

FRESH as April, sweet as May.

10. Repaired from loss or diminution; having new vigor. He rose fresh for the combat.

11. New; that has lately come or arrived; as fresh news; fresh dispatches.

12. Sweet; in a good state; not stale.

13. Unpracticed; unused; not before employed; as a fresh hand on board of a ship.

14. Moderately rapid; as, the ship makes fresh way.

FRESH, noun A freshet.

Freshen

FRESH'EN, verb transitive fresh'n.

1. To make fresh; to dulcify; to separate, as water from saline particles; to take saltiness from any thing; as, to freshen water, fish or flesh.

2. To refresh; to revive. [Not used.]

3. In seaman's language, to apply new service to a cable; as, to freshen hawse.

FRESH'EN, verb intransitive

1. To grow fresh; to lose salt or saltiness.

2. To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.

Freshened

FRESH'ENED, participle passive Deprived of saltiness; sweetened.

Freshes

FRESH'ES, noun

1. The mingling of fresh water with salt water in rivers or bays, or the increased current of an ebb tide by means of a flood of fresh water, flowing towards or into the sea, and discoloring the water.

2. A flood; an overflowing; an inundation; a freshet.

Freshet

FRESH'ET, n

1. A flood or overflowing of a river, by means of heavy rains or melted snow; an inundation.

2. A stream of fresh water.

Freshly

FRESH'LY, adverb

1. Newly; in the former state renewed; in a new or fresh state.

2. With a healthy look; ruddily.

3. Briskly; strongly.

4. Coolly.

Freshman

FRESH'MAN, noun

1. A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.

2. In colleges, one of the youngest class of students.

Freshmanship

FRESH'MANSHIP, noun The state of a freshman.

Freshness

FRESH'NESS, noun

1. Newness; vigor; spirit; the contrary to vapidness; as the freshness of liquors or odors.

2. Vigor; liveliness; the contrary to a faded state; as the freshness of plants or of green fields.

3. Newness of strength; renewed vigor; opposed to weariness or fatigue.

The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men.

4. Coolness; invigorating quality or state.

And breathe the freshness of the open air.

5. Color of youth and health; ruddiness.

Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace.

6. Freedom from saltiness; as the freshness of water or flesh.

7. A new or recent state or quality; rawness.

8. Briskness, as of wind.

Freshnew

FRESH'NEW, adjective Unpracticed. [Not used.]

Freshwater

FRESH'WATER, adjective

1. Accustomed to sail on freshwater only, or in the coasting trade; as a freshwater sailor.

2. Raw; unskilled.

Freshwatered

FRESH'WATERED, adjective Newly watered; supplied with fresh water.

Fret

FRET, verb transitive [Latin rodo, rosi, rado, to scrape. To fret or gnaw gives the sense of unevenness, roughness, in substances; the like appearance is given to fluids by agitation.]

1. To rub; to wear away a substance by friction; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal.

2. To corrode; to gnaw; to ear away; as, a worm frets the planks of a ship.

3. To impair; to wear away.

By starts, his fretted fortunes give him hope and fear.

4. To form into raised work.

5. To variegate; to diversify.

Yon gray lines that fret the clouds are messengers of day.

6. To agitate violently.

7. To agitate; to disturb; to make rough; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.

8. To tease; to irritate; to vex; to make angry.

FRET not thyself because of evil doers. Psalms 37:1.

9. To wear away; to chafe; to gall. Let not a saddle or harness fret the skin of your horse.

FRET, verb intransitive

1. To be worn away; to be corroded. Any substance will in time fret away by friction.

2. To eat or wear in; to make way of attrition or corrosion.

Many wheels arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation.

3. To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; as the rancor that frets in the malignant breast.

4. To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

FRET, noun

1. The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water; small undulations continually repeated.

2. Work raised in protuberances; or a kind of knot consisting of two lists or small fillets interlaced, used as an ornament in architecture.

3. Agitation of mind; commotion of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret

Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret

4. A short piece of wire fixed on the fingerboard of a guitar, etc., which being pressed against the strings varies the tone.

5. In heraldry, a bearing composed of bars crossed and interlaced.

FRET, verb transitive To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.

FRET, noun [Latin fretum.] A frith, which see.

Fretful

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

Fretfully

FRET'FULLY, adverb Peevishly; angrily.

Fretfulness

FRET'FULNESS, noun Peevishness; ill-humor; disposition to fret and complain.

Frett

FRETT, noun With miners, the worn side of the bank of a river.

Fretted

FRET'TED, participle passive Eaten; corroded; rubbed or worn away; agitated; vexed; made rough on the surface; variegated; ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets.

Fretter

FRET'TER, noun That which frets.

Fretting

FRET'TING, participle present tense Corroding; wearing away; agitating; vexing; making rough on the surface; variegating.

FRET'TING, noun Agitation; commotion.

Fretty

FRETTY, adjective Adorned with fretwork.

Fretum

FRE'TUM, noun [Latin] An arm of the sea.

Fretwork

FRET'WORK, noun Raised work; work adorned with frets.

Friability

FRIABIL'ITY,

FRI'ABLE, adjective [Latin friabilis, from frio, to break or crumble. Heb. to break.]

Easily crumbled or pulverized; easily reduced to powder. Pumice and calcined stones are very friable.

Friable

FRI'ABLE, a. [L. friabilis, from frio, to break or crumble. Heb. to break.] Easily crumbled or pulverized; easily reduced to powder. Pumice and calcined stones are very friable.

Friableness

FRI'ABLENESS, noun [See Friable.] The quality of being easily broken, crumbled and reduced to powder.

Friar

FRI'AR, noun [Latin frater. See Brother.]

1. An appellation common to the monks of all orders; those who enter religious orders considering themselves as a fraternity or brotherhood. Friars are generally distinguished into four principal branches, viz:1. Minors, gray friars or Franciscans; 2. Augustines; 3. Dominicans or black friars; 4. White Friars or Carmelites.

2. In a restricted sense, a monk who is not a priest; those friars who are in orders being called fathers.

Friarlike

FRI'ARLIKE, adjective Like a friar; monastic; unskilled in the world.

Friarly

FRI'ARLY, adjective Like a friar; untaught in the affairs of life.

Friars-Cowl

FRI'AR'S-COWL, noun A plant, a species of Arum, with a flower resembling a cowl.

Friars-Lantern

FRIAR'S-LAN'TERN, noun The ignis fatuus.

Friary

FRI'ARY, noun A monastery; a convent of friars.

FRI'ARY, adjective Like a friar; pertaining to friars.

Fribble

FRIB'BLE, adjective [Latin frivolus.] Frivolous; trifling; silly.

FRIB'BLE, noun A frivolous, trifling, contemptible fellow.

FRIB'BLE, verb intransitive To trifle; also, to totter.

Fribbler

FRIB'BLER, noun A trifler.

Friborg

FRI'BORG, noun [free and burg.] The same as frankpledge.

Fricace

FRIC'ACE, noun [See Fricassee.] Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce; also, an unguent prepared by frying things together. obsolete

Fricassee

FRICASSEE', noun [Latin frigo.]

A dish of food made by cutting chickens, rabbits or other small animals into pieces, and dressing them in a frying pan, or a like utensil.

FRICASSEE', verb transitive To dress in fricassee

Frication

FRICA'TION, noun [Latin fricatio, from frico, to rub.] The act of rubbing; friction. [Little used.]

Friction

FRIC'TION, noun [Latin frictio, frico, to rub.]

1. The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition. Many bodies by friction emit light, and friction generates or evolves heat.

2. In mechanics, the effect of rubbing, or the resistance which a moving body meets with from the surface on which it moves.

3. In medicine, the rubbing of the body with the hand, or with a brush, flannel, etc.; or the rubbing of a diseased part with oil, unguent or other medicament.

Frid-Stole

FRID-STOLE. [See Fred.]

Friday

FRI'DAY, noun

The sixth day of the week, formerly consecrated to Frigga.

Fridge

FRIDGE, verb transitive To move hastily. [Not in use.]

Friend

FRIEND, noun frend.

1. One who is attached to another by affection; one who entertains for another sentiments of esteem, respect and affection, which lead him to desire his company, and to seek to promote his happiness and prosperity; opposed to foe or enemy.

A friend loveth at all times. Proverbs 17:17.

2. One not hostile; opposed to an enemy in war.

3. One reconciled after enmity. Let us be friends again.

4. An attendant; a companion.

5. A favorer; one who is propitious; as a friend to commerce; a friend to poetry; a friend to charitable institution.

6. A favorite. Hushai was David's friend

7. A term of salutation; a familiar compellation.

FRIEND, how camest thou in hither? Matthew 22:12.

So Christ calls Judas his friend though a traitor.

Mat 26.

8. Formerly, a paramour.

9. A friend at court, one who has sufficient interest to serve another.

FRIEND, verb transitive frend. To favor; to countenance; to befriend; to support or aid. [But we now use befriend.]

Friended

FRIEND'ED, participle passive frend'ed.

1. Favored; befriended.

2. adjective Inclined to love; well disposed.

Friendless

FRIEND'LESS, adjective frend'less. Destitute of friends; wanting countenance or support; forlorn.

Friendlike

FRIEND'LIKE, adjective frend'like. Having the dispositions of a friend.

Friendliness

FRIEND'LINESS, noun frend'liness.

1. A disposition to friendship; friendly disposition.

2. Exertion of benevolence or kindness.

Friendly

FRIEND'LY, adjective frend'ly.

1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; kind; favorable; disposed to promote the good of another.

Thou to mankind be good and friendly still, and oft return.

2. Disposed to peace.

3. Amicable. We are on friendly terms.

4. Not hostile; as a friendly power or state.

5. Favorable; propitious; salutary; promoting the good of; as a friendly breeze or gale. Excessive rains are not friendly to the ripening fruits. Temperance is friendly to longevity.

FRIEND'LY, adverb frend'ly. In the manner of friends; amicably. [Not much used.]

Friendship

FRIEND'SHIP, noun frend'ship.

1. An attachment to a person, proceeding from intimate acquaintance, and a reciprocation of kind offices, or from a favorable opinion of the amiable and respectable qualities of his mind. friendship differs from benevolence, which is good will to mankind in general, and from that love which springs from animal appetite. True friendship is a noble and virtuous attachment, springing from a pure source, a respect for worth or amiable qualities. False friendship may subsist between bad men, as between thieves and pirates. This is a temporary attachment springing from interest, and may change in a moment to enmity and rancor.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

There is little friendship in the world.

The first law of friendship is sincerity.

2. Mutual attachment; intimacy.

If not in friendship live at least in peace.

3. Favor; personal kindness.

His friendships, still a few confined, were always of the middling kind.

4. Friendly aid; help; assistance.

5. Conformity; affinity; correspondence; aptness to unite.

We know those colors which have a friendship with each other.

[Not common and hardly legitimate.]

Frieze

FRIEZE, noun freez. [Gr. to shiver or tremble with fear, whose elements are frg or frk.]

1. Properly, the nap on woolen cloth; hence, a kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff, with a nap on one side.

2. In architecture, that part of the entablature of a column which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, usually enriched with figures of animals or other ornaments of sculpture, whence its name.

Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven.

Friezed

FRIE'ZED, adjective Napped; shaggy with nap or frieze.

Friezelike

FRIE'ZELIKE, adjective Resembling frieze.

Frigate

FRIG'ATE, noun [Gr. signifies not fortified. Latin aphractum, an open ship or vessel.]

1. A ship of war, of a size larger than a sloop or brig, and less than a ship of the line; usually having two decks and carrying from thirty to forty four guns. But ships mounting a less number than thirty guns are sometimes called frigates; as are ships carrying a larger number.

2. Any small vessel on the water. [Not used.]

Frigate-Built

FRIG'ATE-BUILT, adjective Having a quarter deck and forecastle raised above the main deck.

Frigatoon

FRIGATOON', noun A Venetian vessel with a square stern, without a foremast, having only a mainmast and mizenmast.

Frigefaction

FRIGEFAC'TION, noun [Latin frigus, cold, and facio, to make.] The act of making cold. [Little used.]

Fright

FRIGHT, noun frite. [Gr. to fear, that is, to shrink or shiver.]

Sudden and violent fear; terror; a passion excited by the sudden appearance of danger. It expresses more than fear, and is distinguished from fear and dread, by its sudden invasion and temporary existence; fright being usually of short duration, whereas fear and dread may be long continued.

Frighted

FRIGHTED,

FRIGHTEN, verb transitive To terrify; to scare; to alarm suddenly with danger; to shock suddenly with the approach of evil; to daunt; to dismay.

Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit.

Frighten

FRIGHTEN, v.t. To terrify; to scare; to alarm suddenly with danger; to shock suddenly with the approach of evil; to daunt; to dismay. Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit.

Frightened

FRIGHTENED, participle passive Terrified; suddenly alarmed with danger.

Frightful

FRIGHTFUL, adjective Terrible; dreadful; exciting alarm; impressing terror; as a frightful chasm or precipice; a frightful tempest.

Frightfully

FRIGHTFULLY, adverb

1. Terribly; dreadfully; in a manner to impress terror and alarm; horribly.

2. Very disagreeably; shockingly. She looks frightfully to day.

Frightfulness

FRIGHTFULNESS, noun The quality of impressing terror.

Frigid

FRIG'ID, adjective [Latin frigidus, from frigeo, to be or to grow cold; rigeo, to be stiff or frozen. Gr.]

1. Cold; wanting heat or warmth; as the frigid zone.

2. Wanting warmth of affection; unfeeling; as a frigid temper or constitution.

3. Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

4. Dull; jejune; unanimated; wanting the fire of genius or fancy; as a frigid style; frigid rhymes.

5. Stiff; formal; forbidding; as a frigid look or manner.

6. Wanting zeal; dull; formal; lifeless; as frigid services.

Frigidity

FRIGID'ITY, noun

1. Coldness; want of warmth. But not applied to the air or weather.

2. Want of natural heat, life and vigor of body; impotency; imbecility; as the frigidity of old age.

3. Coldness of affection.

4. Dullness; want of animation or intellectual fire; as the frigidity of sentiments or style.

Frigidly

FRIG'IDLY, adverb Coldly; dully; without affection.

Frigidness

FRIG'IDNESS, noun Coldness; dullness; want of heat or vigor; want of affection. [See Frigidity.]

Frigorific

FRIGORIF'IC, adjective [Latin frigorificus; frigus, cold, and facio, to make.]

Causing cold; producing or generating cold.

Frill

FRILL, noun [infra.] An edging of fine linen on the bosom of a shirt or other similar thing; a ruffle.

FRILL, verb intransitive

To shake; to quake; to shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.

FIRM, adjective Flourishing. [Not in use.]

Fringe

FRINGE, noun frinj. [Latin frango, to break.]

1. An ornamental appendage to the borders of garments or furniture, consisting of loose threads.

The golden fringe ev'n set the ground on flame.

2. Something resembling fringe; an open broken border.

FRINGE, verb transitive To adorn or border with fringe or a loose edging.

Fringed

FRING'ED, participle passive Bordered with fringe.

Fringemaker

FRINGEMAKER, noun One who makes fringe.

Fringing

FRING'ING, participle present tense Bordering with fringe.

Fringy

FRING'Y, adjective Adorned with fringes.

Fripperer

FRIP'PERER, noun [See Frippery.] One who deals in old cloths.

Frippery

FRIP'PERY, noun

1. Old clothes; cast dresses; clothes thrown aside, after wearing. Hence, waste matter; useless things; trifles; as the frippery of wit.

2. The place where old clothes are sold.

3. The trade or traffic in old clothes.

Friseur

FRISEU'R, noun A hair dresser.

Frisk

FRISK, verb intransitive

1. To leap; to skip; to spring suddenly one way and the other.

The fish fell a frisking in the net.

2. To dance, skip and gambol in frolic and gaiety.

The frisking satyrs on the summits danced.

In vain to frisk or climb he tries.

FRISK, adjective Lively; brisk; blithe.

FRISK, noun A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety.

Friskal

FRISK'AL, noun A leap or caper. [Not in use.]

Frisker

FRISK'ER, noun One who leaps or dances in gaiety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person.

Frisket

FRISK'ET, noun [See Frisk.]

In printing, the light frame in which a sheet of paper is confined to be laid on the form for impression.

Friskful

FRISK'FUL, adjective Brisk; lively.

Friskiness

FRISK'INESS, noun Briskness and frequency of motion; gaiety; liveliness; a dancing or leaping in frolic.

Frisking

FRISK'ING, participle present tense Leaping; skipping; dancing about; moving with life and gaiety.

Frisky

FRISK'Y, adjective Gay; lively.

Frit

FRIT, noun [Latin frictus, frigo, Eng. to fry.]

In the manufacture of glass, the matter of which glass is made after it has been calcined or baked in a furnace. It is a composition of silex and fixed alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.

Frith

FRITH, noun [Latin freetum; Gr. from to pass over, or to pass; properly, a passage, a narrow channel that is passable or passed.]

1. A narrow passage of the sea; a strait. It is used for the opening of a river into the sea; as the frith of Forth, or of Clyde.

2. A kind of wear for catching fish.

FRITH, noun

1. A forest; a woody place.

2. A small field taken out of a common.

[Not used in America.]

Frithy

FRITH'Y, adjective Woody. [Not in use.]

Fritillary

FRIT'ILLARY, noun [Latin fritillus, a dice-box.]

The crown imperial, a genus of plants, called in the Spanish dictionary checkered lily.

Fritter

FRIT'TER, noun [Latin frictus, fried.]

1. A small pancake; also, a small piece of meat fried.

2. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.

And cut whole giants into fritters.

FRIT'TER, verb transitive

1. To cut meat into small pieces to be fried.

2. To break into small pieces or fragments.

Break all their nerves, and fritter all their sense.

To fritter away, is to diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time.

Frivolity

FRIVOL'ITY, noun [See Frivolousness.]

Frivolous

FRIV'OLOUS, adjective [Latin frivlus, from the root of frio, to break into small pieces, to crumble; tero, trivi, to rub or wear out.]

Slight; trifling; trivial; of little weight, worth or importance; not worth notice; as a frivolous argument; a frivolous objection or pretext.

Frivolously

FRIV'OLOUSLY, adverb In a trifling manner.

Frivolousness

FRIV'OLOUSNESS, noun The quality of being trifling or of very little worth or importance; want of consequence.

Friz

FRIZ, verb transitive [See Frieze.]

1. To curl; to crisp to form into small curls with a crisping-pin.

2. To form the nap of cloth into little hard burs, prominences or knobs.

Frized

FRIZ'ED, participle passive Curled; formed into little burs on cloth.

Frizing

FRIZ'ING, participle present tense Curling; forming little hard burs on cloth.

Frizzle

FRIZ'ZLE, verb transitive To curl; to crisp; as hair.

Frizzled

FRIZ'ZLED, participle passive Curled; crisped.

Frizzler

FRIZ'ZLER, noun One who makes short curls.

Frizzling

FRIZ'ZLING, participle present tense Curling; crisping.

Fro

FRO, adverb [In some languages it is a prefix, having the force of a negative.]

FROm; away; back or backward; as in the phrase, to and fro that is, to and from, forward or toward and backward, hither and thither.

Frock

FROCK, noun

An upper coat, or an outer garment. The word is now used for a loose garment or shirt worn by men over their other clothes, and for a kind of gown open behind, worn by females. The frock was formerly a garment worn by monks.

Frog

FROG, noun [Latin rana, from the root of rend, from its broken shape, or from leaping, or its fragor or hoarse voice.]

1. An amphibious animal of the genus Rana, with four feet, a naked body, and without a tail. It is remarkable for swimming with rapidity, and for taking large leaps on land. Frogs lie torpid during winter.

2. In farriery. [See Frush.]

Frogbit

FROG'BIT, noun A plant, the Hydrocharis.

Frogfish

FROG'FISH, noun

1. An animal of surinam, which is said to change from a fish to a frog and then to a fish again. It is cartilaginous, and exquisite food.

2. The Lophius, or fishing frog.

Froggrass

FROG'GRASS, noun A plant.

Froggy

FROG'GY, adjective Having frogs.

Froise

FROISE, noun A kind of food made by frying bacon inclosed in a pancake.

Frolick

FROL'ICK, adjective

Gay; merry; full of levity; dancing, playing or frisking about; full of pranks.

The frolick wind that breathes the spring.

The gay, the frolick and the loud.

[This adjective is seldom used except in poetry. As a noun and a verb, its use is common.]

FROL'ICK, noun

1. A wild prank; a flight of levity, or gaiety and mirth.

He would be at his frolick once again.

2. A scene of gaiety and mirth, as in dancing or play. [This is a popular use of the word in America.]

FROL'ICK, verb intransitive To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth and gaiety.

The buzzing insects frolick in the air.

Frolickly

FROL'ICKLY, adverb With mirth and gaiety. obsolete

Frolicksome

FROL'ICKSOME, adjective Full of gaiety and mirth; given to pranks.

Frolicksomeness

FROL'ICKSOMENESS, noun Gaiety; wild pranks.