| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| fracted | adjective | Having a part displaced, as if broken; — said of an ordinary. |
| frabbit | adjective | Crabbed; peevish. |
| fraenum | noun | Alt. of Frenum |
| fragile | adjective | Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. |
| fraight | adjective | Same as Fraught. |
| frailly | adverb | Weakly; infirmly. |
| frailty | adjective | The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced., A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. |
| fraised | adjective | Fortified with a fraise. |
| framing | present participle & vb. noun | of Frame, The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames., A framework, or a sy/ of frames. |
| frampel | adjective | Alt. of Frampoid |
| francic | adjective | Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish. |
| franion | noun | A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. |
| franked | imp. & past participle | of Frank |
| frankly | adverb | In a frank manner; freely. |
| frantic | adjective | Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. |
| frapped | imp. & past participle | of Frap |
| frapler | noun | A blusterer; a rowdy. |
| fratery | noun | A frater house. See under Frater. |
| fraught | noun | A freight; a cargo., Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged., of Fraught, To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. |
| fraying | present participle & vb. noun | of Fray, The skin which a deer frays from his horns. |
| freaked | imp. & past participle | of Freak |
| freckle | verb t. | A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands., Any small spot or discoloration., To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot., To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted. |
| freckly | adjective | Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled. |
| freeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Free |
| freedom | noun | The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence., Privileges; franchises; immunities., Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will., Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom., Frankness; openness; unreservedness., Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license., Generosity; liberality. |
| freelte | noun | Frailty. |
| freemen | plural | of Freeman |
| freeman | noun | One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal., A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. |
| freezer | noun | One who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream. |
| freight | noun | That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight., The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired., The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods., Freight transportation, or freight line., Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car., 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. |
| frenums | plural | of Frenum |
| frescos | plural | of Fresco |
| freshes | plural | of Fresh |
| freshen | verb t. | To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh., To refresh; to revive., To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse., To grow fresh; to lose saltness., To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens. |
| freshet | adjective | A stream of fresh water., A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. |
| freshly | adverb | In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. |
| fretted | imp. & past participle | of Fret, Rubbed or worn away; chafed., Agitated; vexed; worried., Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface., Interlaced one with another; — said of charges and ordinaries. |
| fretful | adjective | Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. |
| fretten | adjective | Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. |
| fretter | noun | One who, or that which, frets. |
| friable | adjective | Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. |
| friarly | adjective | Like a friar; inexperienced. |
| fribble | noun | A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop., To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously., To totter. |
| friborg | noun | Alt. of Friborgh |
| fricace | noun | Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce., An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent. |
| frickle | noun | A bushel basket. |
| friesic | adjective | Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands., 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. |
| friezed | adjective | Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2. |
| friezer | noun | One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes. |
| frigate | noun | 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., Any small vessel on the water. |
| frilled | imp. & past participle | of Frill, Furnished with a frill or frills. |
| fringed | imp. & past participle | of Fringe, Furnished with a fringe. |
| fripper | noun | One who deals in frippery or in old clothes. |
| frisian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province of the Netherlands; Friesic., A native or inhabitant of Friesland; also, the language spoken in Friesland. See Friesic, n. |
| frisked | imp. & past participle | of Frisk |
| friskal | noun | A leap or caper. |
| frisker | noun | One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. |
| frisket | adjective | The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing. |
| frislet | noun | A kind of small ruffle. |
| frisure | noun | The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. |
| fritted | imp. & past participle | of Frit |
| fritter | verb t. | A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters., A fragment; a shred; a small piece., To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying., To break into small pieces or fragments. |
| frizzed | imp. & past participle | of Friz |
| frizzes | plural | of Friz |
| frizzle | verb t. | To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle., A curl; a lock of hair crisped. |
| frizzly | adjective | Alt. of Frizzy |
| frocked | adjective | Clothed in a frock. |
| frogbit | noun | A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers., An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits. |
| frogged | adjective | Provided or ornamented with frogs; as, a frogged coat. See Frog, n., 4. |
| fronded | adjective | Furnished with fronds. |
| fronted | imp. & past participle | of Front, Formed with a front; drawn up in line. |
| frontal | adjective | Belonging to the front part; being in front, Of or pertaining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones., Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet, An ornamental band for the hair., The metal face guard of a soldier., A little pediment over a door or window., A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies., A medicament or application for the forehead., The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium. |
| fronto- | A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc. | |
| fronton | noun | Same as Frontal, 2. |
| frosted | adjective | Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. |
| frothed | imp. & past participle | of Froth |
| frounce | verb i. | To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair., To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown., A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; — also, a frown., An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk’s bill. |
| froward | adjective | Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. |
| frowned | imp. &, past participle | of Frown |
| frubish | verb t. | To rub up: to furbish. |
| fructed | adjective | Bearing fruit; — said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon. |
| fruiter | adjective | A ship for carrying fruit. |
| fruit’y | adjective | Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. |
| frumper | noun | A mocker. |
| frustum | noun | The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other., One of the drums of the shaft of a column. |
| frutage | noun | A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit., A confection of fruit. |