Frantic (a.) Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.
Frapped (imp. & p. p.) of Frap
Frapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frap
Frap (v. t.) To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.
Frap (v. t.) To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.
Frape (n.) A crowd, a rabble.
Frapler (n.) A blusterer; a rowdy.
Frater (n.) A monk; also, a frater house.
Fraternal (a.) Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace.
Fraternate (v. i.) To fraternize; to hold fellowship.
Fraternation (n.) Alt. of Fraternism
Fraternism (n.) Fraternization.
Fraternities (pl. ) of Fraternity
Fraternity (n.) The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
Fraternity (n.) A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
Fraternity (n.) Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
Fraternization (n.) The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.
Fraternized (imp. & p. p.) of Fraternize
Fraternizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fraternize
Fraternize (v. i.) To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
Fraternize (v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
Fraternizer (n.) One who fraternizes.
Fratery (n.) A frater house. See under Frater.
Fratrage (n.) A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin.
Fratricelli (n. pl.) The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century.
Fratricelli (n. pl.) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.
Fratricidal (a.) Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.
Fratricide (n.) The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
Fratricide (n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
Fraud (n.) 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.
Fraud (n.) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
Fraud (n.) A trap or snare.
Fraudful (a.) Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.
Fraudless (a.) Free from fraud.
Fraudulence (n.) Alt. of Fraudulency
Fraudulency (n.) The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.
Fraudulent (a.) Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.
Fraudulent (a.) Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain.
Fraudulent (a.) Obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest.
Fraudulently (adv.) In a fraudulent manner.
Fraught (n.) A freight; a cargo.
Fraught (a.) Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
Fraughted (imp. & p. p.) of Fraught
Fraught () of Fraught
Fraughting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fraught
Fraught (n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
Fraughtage (n.) Freight; loading; cargo.
Fraughting (a.) Constituting the freight or cargo.
Fraunhofer lines () The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer, a German physicist.
Fraxin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.
Fraxinus (n.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
Fray (n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat.
Frayed (imp. & p. p.) of Fray
Fraying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fray
Fray (v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
Fray (v. t.) To bear the expense of; to defray.
Fray (v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.
Fray (v. i.) To rub.
Fray (v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.
Fray (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
Fraying (n.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns.
Freaked (imp. & p. p.) of Freak
Freaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freak
Freak (v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.
Freak (n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
Freaking (a.) Freakish.
Freakish (a.) Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
Freck (v. t.) To checker; to diversify.
Freckle (v. t.) A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.
Freckle (v. t.) Any small spot or discoloration.
Freckled (imp. & p. p.) of Freckle
Freckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freckle
Freckle (v. t.) To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.
Freckle (v. i.) To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.
Freckled (a.) Marked with freckles; spotted.
Freckledness (n.) The state of being freckled.
Freckly (a.) Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
Fred (n.) Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.
Fredstole (n.) See Fridstol.
Free (superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
Free (superl.) Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
Free (superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
Free (superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
Free (superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
Free (superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
Free (superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
Free (superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
Free (superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
Free (superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
Free (superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
Free (superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
Free (superl.) Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
Free (superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
Free (superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.
Free (superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
Free (superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
Free (superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
Free (adv.) Freely; willingly.
Free (adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.