| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fring | present participle & vb. noun | of Fire |
| fract | verb t. | To break; to violate. |
| frail | noun | A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins., The quantity of raisins — about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, — contained in a frail., A rush for weaving baskets., Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm., Tender., Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; — often applied to fallen women. |
| frame | verb t. | To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice., To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false., To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform., To cause; to bring about; to produce., To support., To provide with a frame, as a picture., To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech., To proceed; to go., Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure; esp., the constructional system, whether of timber or metal, that gives to a building, vessel, etc., its model and strength; the skeleton of a structure., The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person., A kind of open case or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or supporting things, as that which incloses or contains a window, door, picture, etc.; that on which anything is held or stretched, The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels., A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings., The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering., A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc., A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost., A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor., A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc., Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government., Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame., Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. |
| franc | adjective | A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes. |
| frank | noun | A pigsty., To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten., The common heron; — so called from its note., Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free., Free in uttering one’s real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc., Liberal; generous; profuse., Unrestrained; loose; licentious; — used in a bad sense., To send by public conveyance free of expense., To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc., 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., A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France., A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; — a term used in the Levant., A French coin. See Franc. |
| frape | noun | A crowd, a rabble. |
| fraud | noun | Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick., An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another., A trap or snare. |
| freak | verb t. | To variegate; to checker; to streak., A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. |
| freck | verb t. | To checker; to diversify. |
| freed | imp. & past participle | of Free |
| freer | noun | One who frees, or sets free. |
| froze | imp. | of Freeze, imp. of Freeze. |
| fremd | adjective | Alt. of Fremed |
| frena | plural | of Frenum |
| frere | noun | A friar. |
| fresh | superl | Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound., New; original; additional., Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water., Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs., In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship., Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind., Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted., A stream or spring of fresh water., A flood; a freshet., The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea., To refresh; to freshen. |
| frett | noun | The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4., A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda. |
| freta | plural | of Fretum |
| freya | noun | The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; — in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. |
| friar | noun | 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 white or pale patch on a printed page., An American fish; the silversides. |
| fried | imp. & p. p. of Fry., of Fry | |
| frier | noun | One who fries. |
| frigg | noun | Alt. of Frigga |
| frill | verb i. | To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills., To wrinkle; — said of the gelatin film., To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap., 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., A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce. |
| frisk | adjective | Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky., A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap., To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety. |
| frist | verb t. | To sell upon credit, as goods. |
| frith | noun | A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth., A kind of weir for catching fish., A forest; a woody place., A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. |
| frize | noun | See 1st Frieze. |
| frizz | verb t. & noun | See Friz, v. t. & n. |
| frock | noun | A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman’s frock., A coarse gown worn by monks or friars, and supposed to take the place of all, or nearly all, other garments. It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord., To clothe in a frock., To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock. |
| frond | noun | The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree. |
| frons | noun | The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex. |
| front | noun | The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face., The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence; seeming; as, a bold front; a hardened front., The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; — the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army., A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing; as, in front of un person, of the troops, or of a house., The most conspicuous part., That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women., The beginning., Of or relating to the front or forward part; having a position in front; foremost; as, a front view., To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner., To appear before; to meet., To face toward; to have the front toward; to confront; as, the house fronts the street., To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church., To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel., To have or turn the face or front in any direction; as, the house fronts toward the east. |
| frore | adverb | Frostily. |
| frorn | p. adjective | Frozen. |
| frory | adjective | Frozen; stiff with cold., Covered with a froth like hoarfrost. |
| frost | verb i. | The act of freezing; — applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids., The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather., Frozen dew; — called also hoarfrost or white frost., Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character., To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants., To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass., To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather. |
| frote | verb t. | To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. |
| froth | noun | The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement., Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought., Light, unsubstantial matter., To cause to foam., To spit, vent, or eject, as froth., To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain., To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer froths; a horse froths. |
| frown | verb i. | To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look., To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness., To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence., A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl., Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune. |
| frowy | adjective | Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. |
| fruit | verb t. | Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; — commonly used in the plural., The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3., The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it., The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them., The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body., That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance., To bear fruit. |
| frump | verb t. | To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub., A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout., A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. |
| frush | verb t. | To batter; to break in pieces., Easily broken; brittle; crisp., Noise; clatter; crash., The frog of a horse’s foot., A discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse’s foot; — also caled thrush. |