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  • English Word Frangulinic Definition Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn.
  • English Word Franion Definition A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.
  • English Word Frank Definition A pigsty.
  • English Word Frank Definition To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
  • English Word Frank Definition The common heron; -- so called from its note.
  • English Word Frank Definition Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
  • English Word Frank Definition Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
  • English Word Frank Definition Liberal; generous; profuse.
  • English Word Frank Definition Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
  • English Word Frank Definition To send by public conveyance free of expense.
  • English Word Frank Definition To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
  • English Word Frank Definition The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.
  • English Word Frank Definition A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
  • English Word Frank Definition A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
  • English Word Frank Definition A French coin. See Franc.
  • English Word Frank-chase Definition The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.
  • English Word Frank-fee Definition A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
  • English Word Frank-law Definition The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights.
  • English Word Frank-marriage Definition A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.
  • English Word Frankalmoigne Definition A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms.
  • English Word Franked Definition of Frank
  • English Word Frankfort black Definition A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
  • English Word Frankincense Definition A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
  • English Word Franking Definition of Frank
  • English Word Franking Definition A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.
  • English Word Frankish Definition Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
  • English Word Franklin Definition An English freeholder, or substantial householder.
  • English Word Franklin stove Definition A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
  • English Word Franklinic Definition Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
  • English Word Franklinite Definition A kind of mineral of the spinel group.