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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fairing \Fair"ing\, n. A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. --Gay. {Fairing box}, a box receiving savings or small sums of money. --Hannah More. | |
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Fairing \Fair"ing\, n. A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. --Gay. {Fairing box}, a box receiving savings or small sums of money. --Hannah More. | |
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Fairness \Fair"ness\, n. The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc. | |
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Hornsnake \Horn"snake`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A harmless snake ({Farancia abacura}), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below. | |
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Farinaceous \Far`i*na"ceous\, a. [L. farinaceus.] 1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet. 2. Yielding farina or flour; as, ffarinaceous seeds. 3. Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance. | |
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Fare \Fare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faring}.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Icel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?] a way through, [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] a ferry, strait, [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to convey, [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to go, march, [?][?][?][?][?] beyond, on the other side, [?][?][?][?][?] to pass through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. [root]78. Cf. {Chaffer}, {Emporium}, {Far}, {Ferry}, {Ford}, {Peril}, {Port} a harbor, {Pore}, n.] 1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. --Milton. 2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill. So fares the stag among the enraged hounds. --Denham. I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson (More's Utopia). So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras. 3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared sumptuously every day. --Luke xvi. 19. 4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends. --Milton. 5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.] She ferde [fared] as she would die. --Chaucer. | |
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Farinose \Far`i*nose"\, a. [L. farinosus: cf. F. farineux.] 1. Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.)Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy. | |
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Farmhouse \Farm"house`\, n. A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence. | |
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Farmost \Far"most`\, a. Most distant; farthest. A spacious cave within its farmost part. --Dryden. | |
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Steading \Stead"ing\, n. The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also {onstead}, {farmstead}, {farm offices}, or {farmery}. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Farmstead \Farm"stead\, n. A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. --Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. --Carlyle. | |
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Steading \Stead"ing\, n. The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also {onstead}, {farmstead}, {farm offices}, or {farmery}. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Farmstead \Farm"stead\, n. A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. --Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. --Carlyle. | |
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Farmsteading \Farm"stead*ing\, n. A farmstead. [Scot.] --Black. | |
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Farness \Far"ness\, n. [From {Far}, a.] The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. [R.] --Grew. | |
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Farfow \Far"fow\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Farrowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Farrowing}.] To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine. --Tusser. | |
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Faruncular \Fa*run"cu*lar\, a. Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles. | |
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Fear \Fear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fearing}.] [OE. feren, faeren, to frighten, to be afraid, AS. f[?]ran to terrify. See {Fear}, n.] 1. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. --Ps. xxiii. 4. Note: With subordinate clause. I greatly fear my money is not safe. --Shak. I almost fear to quit your hand. --D. Jerrold. 2. To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. Leave them to God above; him serve and fear. --Milton. 3. To be anxious or solicitous for. [R.] The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you. --Shak. 4. To suspect; to doubt. [Obs.] Ay what else, fear you not her courage? --Shak. 5. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. [Obs.] fear their people from doing evil. --Robynsin (More's utopia). Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs. --Shak. Syn: To apprehend; dread; reverence; venerate. | |
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Fearnaught \Fear"naught`\, n. 1. A fearless person. 2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment. | |
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d8Feringee \[d8]Fer*in"gee\, n. [Per. Farang[c6], or Ar. Firanj[c6], properly, a Frank.] The name given to Europeans by the Hindos. [Written also {Feringhee}.] | |
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Fermacy \Fer"ma*cy\, n. [OE. See {Pharmacy}.] Medicine; pharmacy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fern \Fern\, n. [AS. fearn; akin to D. varen, G. farn, farnkraut; cf. Skr. par[c9]a wing, feather, leaf, sort of plant, or Lith. papartis fern.] (Bot.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the {Filices}, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. Note: The plants are asexual, and bear clustered sporangia, containing minute spores, which germinate and form prothalli, on which are borne the true organs of reproduction. The brake or bracken, the maidenhair, and the polypody are all well known ferns. {Christmas fern}. See under {Christmas}. {Climbing fern} (Bot.), a delicate North American fern ({Lygodium palmatum}), which climbs several feet high over bushes, etc., and is much sought for purposes of decoration. {Fern owl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European goatsucker. (b) The short-eared owl. [Prov. Eng.] -- {Fern shaw}, a fern thicket. [Eng.] --R. Browning. | |
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Ferry \Fer"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ferried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ferrying}.] [OE. ferien to convey, AS. ferian, from faran to go; akin to Icel. ferja to ferry, Goth. farjan to sail. See {Fare}.] To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat. | |
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Fieriness \Fi"er*i*ness\, n. The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper. --Addison. | |
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Fiorin \Fi"o*rin\, n. [Cf. Ir. fiothran a sort of grass.] (Bot.) A species of creeping bent grass ({Agrostis alba}); -- called also {fiorin grass}. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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Insurance \In*sur"ance\, n. [From {Insure}.] 1. The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. {Assurance}, n., 6. Note: The person who undertakes to pay in case of loss is termed the insurer; the danger against which he undertakes, the risk; the person protected, the insured; the sum which he pays for the protection, the premium; and the contract itself, when reduced to form, the policy. --Johnson's Cyc. 2. The premium paid for insuring property or life. 3. The sum for which life or property is insured. 4. A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance. [Obs.] The most acceptable insurance of the divine protection. --Mickle. {Accident insurance}, insurance against pecuniary loss by reason of accident to the person. {Endowment insurance} [or] {assurance}, a combination of life insurance and investment such that if the person upon whose life a risk is taken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. {Fire insurance}. See under {Fire}. {Insurance broker}, a broker or agent who effects insurance. {Insurance company}, a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against loss, damage, or death. {Insurance policy}, a certificate of insurance; the document containing the contract made by an insurance company with a person whose property or life is insured. {Life insurance}. See under {Life}. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. --Simmonds. {Fire bar}, a grate bar. {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight. {Fire beetle}. (Zo[94]l.) See in the Vocabulary. {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear as if burnt by fire. {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for the fire. {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and used for lining fire boxes, etc. {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished fires. {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}. {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}. {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton. {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}. {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary. {Fire drill}. (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice. (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; -- used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by many savage peoples. {Fire eater}. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire gilding. {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire; also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium or small percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an owner of property from loss by fire during a specified period. {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel. {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out fire. {Fire master} (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the composition of fireworks. {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against fire. {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections. {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. --Abbot. {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing fires. {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the contract of insurance against loss by fire. {Fire pot}. (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles, formerly used as a missile in war. (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a furnace. (c) A crucible. (d) A solderer's furnace. {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond. {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting fire to an enemy's ships. {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire. {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites, caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen. --Raymond. {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of combustion; heating surface. {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. --Farrow. {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India. {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}. {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager; zealous. {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of troops. {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn. {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}. {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle. {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion. | |
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Firing \Fir"ing\, n. 1. The act of disharging firearms. 2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it. --Knight. 3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison. 4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln. 5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer. {Firing iron}, an instrument used in cauterizing. | |
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Firing \Fir"ing\, n. 1. The act of disharging firearms. 2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it. --Knight. 3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison. 4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln. 5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer. {Firing iron}, an instrument used in cauterizing. | |
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Firing pin \Fir"ing pin`\ In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it. | |
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Firm \Firm\, a. [Compar. {Firmer}; superl. {Firmest}.] [OE. ferme, F. ferme, fr.L. firmus; cf. Skr. dharman support, law, order, dh[?] to hold fast, carry. Cf. {Farm}, {Throne}.] 1. Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood. 2. Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent. Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. --Milton. By one man's firm obediency fully tried. --Milton. 3. Solid; -- opposed to fluid; as, firm land. 4. Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance. Syn: Compact; dense; hard; solid; stanch; robust; strong; sturdly; fixed; steady; resolute; constant. | |
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Firmness \Firm"ness\, n. The state or quality of being firm. Syn: {Firmness}, {Constancy}. Usage: Firmness belongs to the will, and constancy to the affections and principles; the former prevents us from yielding, and the latter from fluctuating. Without firmness a man has no character; [bd]without constancy,[b8] says Addison, [bd]there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.[b8] | |
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Firms \Firms\, n. pl. [From {Firm}, a.] (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together. [Obs.] | |
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Firring \Fir"ring\, n. (Arch.) See {Furring}. | |
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Angle \An"gle\ ([acr][nsm]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.] 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. --Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. --Milton. 2. (Geom.) (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet. (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. 3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. --Dryden. 4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological [bd]houses.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. --Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope. {Acute angle}, one less than a right angle, or less than 90[deg]. {Adjacent} or {Contiguous angles}, such as have one leg common to both angles. {Alternate angles}. See {Alternate}. {Angle bar}. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as {Angle iron}. {Angle bead} (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. {Angle brace}, {Angle tie} (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight. {Angle iron} (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. {Angle leaf} (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. {Angle meter}, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. {Angle shaft} (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. {Curvilineal angle}, one formed by two curved lines. {External angles}, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. {Facial angle}. See under {Facial}. {Internal angles}, those which are within any right-lined figure. {Mixtilineal angle}, one formed by a right line with a curved line. {Oblique angle}, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. {Obtuse angle}, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90[deg]. {Optic angle}. See under {Optic}. {Rectilineal} or {Right-lined angle}, one formed by two right lines. {Right angle}, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a quarter circle). {Solid angle}, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. {Spherical angle}, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. {Visual angle}, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. {For Angles of commutation}, {draught}, {incidence}, {reflection}, {refraction}, {position}, {repose}, {fraction}, see {Commutation}, {Draught}, {Incidence}, {Reflection}, {Refraction}, etc. | |
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Instance \In"stance\, n. [F. instance, L. instantia, fr. instans. See {Instant}.] 1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. --Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. [Obs.] The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. --Shak. 3. Occasion; order of occurrence. These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance. --Sir M. Hale. 4. That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example. Most remarkable instances of suffering. --Atterbury. 5. A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. --Shak. {Causes of instance}, those which proceed at the solicitation of some party. --Hallifax. {Court of first instance}, the court by which a case is first tried. {For instance}, by way of example or illustration. {Instance Court} (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court. Syn: Example; case. See {Example}. | |
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--Milton. Note: The most common general names of masts are {foremast}, {mainmast}, and {mizzenmast}, each of which may be made of separate spars. 2. (Mach.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane. {Afore the mast}, {Before the mast}. See under {Afore}, and {Before}. {Mast coat}. See under {Coat}. {Mast hoop}, one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See {Made}. | |
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Foremast \Fore"mast`\, n. (Naut.) The mast nearest the bow. {Foremast} {hand [or] man} (Naut.), a common sailor; also, a man stationed to attend to the gear of the foremast. | |
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--Milton. Note: The most common general names of masts are {foremast}, {mainmast}, and {mizzenmast}, each of which may be made of separate spars. 2. (Mach.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane. {Afore the mast}, {Before the mast}. See under {Afore}, and {Before}. {Mast coat}. See under {Coat}. {Mast hoop}, one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See {Made}. | |
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Foremast \Fore"mast`\, n. (Naut.) The mast nearest the bow. {Foremast} {hand [or] man} (Naut.), a common sailor; also, a man stationed to attend to the gear of the foremast. | |
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Foremost \Fore"most`\, a. [OE. formest first, AS. formest, fyrmest, superl. of forma first, which is a superl. fr. fore fore; cf. Goth. frumist, fruma, first. See {Fore}, adv., and cf. {First}, {Former}, {Frame}, v. t., {Prime}, a.] First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank or dignity; as, the foremost troops of an army. THat struck the foremost man of all this world. --Shak. | |
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Foremostly \Fore"most`ly\, adv. In the foremost place or order; among the foremost. --J. Webster. | |
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Fore-night \Fore"-night`\, n. The evening between twilight and bedtime. [Scot.] | |
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Forensal \Fo*ren"sal\, a. Forensic. [R.] | |
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Forensic \Fo*ren"sic\, a. [L. forensis, fr. forum a public place, market place. See {Forum}.] Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes. {Forensic medicine}, medical jurisprudence; medicine in its relations to law. | |
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Forensic \Fo*ren"sic\, n. (Amer. Colleges) An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis. | |
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Forensic \Fo*ren"sic\, a. [L. forensis, fr. forum a public place, market place. See {Forum}.] Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes. {Forensic medicine}, medical jurisprudence; medicine in its relations to law. | |
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Forensical \Fo*ren"sic*al\, a. Forensic. --Berkley. | |
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Forinsecal \Fo*rin"se*cal\, a. [L. forinsecus from without.] Foreign; alien. [Obs.] --Bp. Burnet. | |
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Formic \For"mic\, a. [L. formica an ant: cf. F. formique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether. {Amido formic acid}, carbamic acid. {Formic acid}, a colorless, mobile liquid, {HCO.OH}, of a sharp, acid taste, occurring naturally in ants, nettles, pine needles, etc., and produced artifically in many ways, as by the oxidation of methyl alcohol, by the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the first member of the fatty acids in the paraffin series, and is homologous with acetic acid. | |
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Formic \For"mic\, a. [L. formica an ant: cf. F. formique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether. {Amido formic acid}, carbamic acid. {Formic acid}, a colorless, mobile liquid, {HCO.OH}, of a sharp, acid taste, occurring naturally in ants, nettles, pine needles, etc., and produced artifically in many ways, as by the oxidation of methyl alcohol, by the reduction of carbonic acid or the destructive distillation of oxalic acid. It is the first member of the fatty acids in the paraffin series, and is homologous with acetic acid. | |
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Nitrile \Ni"trile\ (? [or] ?), n. [See {Nitro-}.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia. Note: The nitriles are named with reference to the acids produced by their decomposition, thus, hydrocyanic acid is {formic nitrile}, and methyl cyanide is {acetic nitrile}. | |
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Turf \Turf\ (t[ucir]rf), n.; pl. {Turfs}, Obs. {Turves}. [AS. turf; akin to D. turf peat, G. torf, OHG. zurba turf, Sw. & Icel. torf turf, peat, Dan. t[94]rv, Skr. darbha a kind of grass, a tuft of grass. [root]242.] 1. That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. At his head a grass-green turf. --Shak. The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves. --Milton. 2. Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See {Peat}. 3. Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the. [bd]We . . . claim the honors of the turf.[b8] --Cowper. Note: Turf is often used adjectively, or to form compounds which are generally self-explaining; as, turf ashes, turf cutter or turf-cutter, turf pit or turf-pit, turf-built, turf-clad, turf-covered, etc. {Turf ant} (Zo[94]l.), a small European ant ({Formica flava}) which makes small ant-hills on heaths and commons. {Turf drain}, a drain made with turf or peat. {Turf hedge}, a hedge or fence formed with turf and plants of different kinds. {Turf house}, a house or shed formed of turf, common in the northern parts of Europe. {Turf moss} a tract of turfy, mossy, or boggy land. {Turf spade}, a spade for cutting and digging turf, longer and narrower than the common spade. | |
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Jet \Jet\, n. [OF. jet, jayet, F. ja[8b]et, jais, L. gagates, fr. Gr. [?]; -- so called from [?] or [?], a town and river in Lycia.] [written also {jeat}, {jayet}.] (Min.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also {black amber}. {Jet ant} (Zo[94]l.), a blackish European ant ({Formica fuliginosa}), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees. | |
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Slave \Slave\, n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See {Slav}.] 1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge? --Milton. 2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. 3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave. 4. An abject person; a wretch. --Shak. {Slave ant} (Zo[94]l.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially {Formica fusca} of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by {Formica sanguinea}. {Slave catcher}, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. {Slave coast}, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. {Slave driver}, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. {Slave hunt}. (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. --Barth. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. {Slave ship}, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. {Slave trade}, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. {Slave trader}, one who traffics in slaves. Syn: Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See {Serf}. | |
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Carpenter \Car"pen*ter\, n. [OF. carpentier, F. charpentier, LL. carpentarius, fr. L. carpentum wagon, carriage.] An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. Syn: {Carpenter}, {Joiner}. Usage: The carpenter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, floors, and other structural parts of a building. The joiner supplies stairs, doors shutters, mantelpieces, cupboards, and other parts necessary to finishing the building. In America the two trades are commonly united. {Carpenter ant} (Zo[94]l.), any species of ant which gnaws galleries in the wood of trees and constructs its nests therein. They usually select dead or somewhat decayed wood. The common large American species is {Formica Pennsylvanica}. {Carpenter bee} (Zo[94]l.), a large hymenopterous insect of the genus {Xylocopa}; -- so called because it constructs its nest by gnawing long galleries in sound timber. The common American species is {Xylocopa Virginica}. | |
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Wood \Wood\, n. [OE. wode, wude, AS. wudu, wiodu; akin to OHG. witu, Icel. vi[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ved wood, and probably to Ir. & Gael. fiodh, W. gwydd trees, shrubs.] 1. A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. --Shak. 2. The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber. [bd]To worship their own work in wood and stone for gods.[b8] --Milton. 3. (Bot.) The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain. Note: Wood consists chiefly of the carbohydrates cellulose and lignin, which are isomeric with starch. 4. Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses. {Wood acid}, {Wood vinegar} (Chem.), a complex acid liquid obtained in the dry distillation of wood, and containing large quantities of acetic acid; hence, specifically, acetic acid. Formerly called {pyroligneous acid}. {Wood anemone} (Bot.), a delicate flower ({Anemone nemorosa}) of early spring; -- also called {windflower}. See Illust. of {Anemone}. {Wood ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}) which lives in woods and forests, and constructs large nests. {Wood apple} (Bot.). See {Elephant apple}, under {Elephant}. {Wood baboon} (Zo[94]l.), the drill. {Wood betony}. (Bot.) (a) Same as {Betony}. (b) The common American lousewort ({Pedicularis Canadensis}), a low perennial herb with yellowish or purplish flowers. {Wood borer}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The larva of any one of numerous species of boring beetles, esp. elaters, longicorn beetles, buprestidans, and certain weevils. See {Apple borer}, under {Apple}, and {Pine weevil}, under {Pine}. (b) The larva of any one of various species of lepidopterous insects, especially of the clearwing moths, as the peach-tree borer (see under {Peach}), and of the goat moths. (c) The larva of various species of hymenopterous of the tribe Urocerata. See {Tremex}. (d) Any one of several bivalve shells which bore in wood, as the teredos, and species of Xylophaga. (e) Any one of several species of small Crustacea, as the {Limnoria}, and the boring amphipod ({Chelura terebrans}). {Wood carpet}, a kind of floor covering made of thin pieces of wood secured to a flexible backing, as of cloth. --Knight. {Wood cell} (Bot.), a slender cylindrical or prismatic cell usually tapering to a point at both ends. It is the principal constituent of woody fiber. {Wood choir}, the choir, or chorus, of birds in the woods. [Poetic] --Coleridge. {Wood coal}, charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal. {Wood cricket} (Zo[94]l.), a small European cricket ({Nemobius sylvestris}). {Wood culver} (Zo[94]l.), the wood pigeon. {Wood cut}, an engraving on wood; also, a print from such an engraving. {Wood dove} (Zo[94]l.), the stockdove. {Wood drink}, a decoction or infusion of medicinal woods. {Wood duck} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A very beautiful American duck ({Aix sponsa}). The male has a large crest, and its plumage is varied with green, purple, black, white, and red. It builds its nest in trees, whence the name. Called also {bridal duck}, {summer duck}, and {wood widgeon}. (b) The hooded merganser. (c) The Australian maned goose ({Chlamydochen jubata}). {Wood echo}, an echo from the wood. {Wood engraver}. (a) An engraver on wood. (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any of several species of small beetles whose larv[91] bore beneath the bark of trees, and excavate furrows in the wood often more or less resembling coarse engravings; especially, {Xyleborus xylographus}. {Wood engraving}. (a) The act or art engraving on wood; xylography. (b) An engraving on wood; a wood cut; also, a print from such an engraving. {Wood fern}. (Bot.) See {Shield fern}, under {Shield}. {Wood fiber}. (a) (Bot.) Fibrovascular tissue. (b) Wood comminuted, and reduced to a powdery or dusty mass. {Wood fretter} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of beetles whose larv[91] bore in the wood, or beneath the bark, of trees. {Wood frog} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American frog ({Rana sylvatica}) which lives chiefly in the woods, except during the breeding season. It is drab or yellowish brown, with a black stripe on each side of the head. {Wood germander}. (Bot.) See under {Germander}. {Wood god}, a fabled sylvan deity. {Wood grass}. (Bot.) See under {Grass}. {Wood grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce partridge. See under {Spruce}. {Wood guest} (Zo[94]l.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.] {Wood hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged rails of the genus {Ocydromus}, including the weka and allied species. (b) The American woodcock. {Wood hoopoe} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old World arboreal birds belonging to {Irrisor} and allied genera. They are closely allied to the common hoopoe, but have a curved beak, and a longer tail. {Wood ibis} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large, long-legged, wading birds belonging to the genus {Tantalus}. The head and neck are naked or scantily covered with feathers. The American wood ibis ({Tantalus loculator}) is common in Florida. {Wood lark} (Zo[94]l.), a small European lark ({Alauda arborea}), which, like, the skylark, utters its notes while on the wing. So called from its habit of perching on trees. {Wood laurel} (Bot.), a European evergreen shrub ({Daphne Laureola}). {Wood leopard} (Zo[94]l.), a European spotted moth ({Zeuzera [91]sculi}) allied to the goat moth. Its large fleshy larva bores in the wood of the apple, pear, and other fruit trees. {Wood lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley. {Wood lock} (Naut.), a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. {Wood louse} (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to {Oniscus}, {Armadillo}, and related genera. See {Sow bug}, under Sow, and {Pill bug}, under {Pill}. (b) Any one of several species of small, wingless, pseudoneuropterous insects of the family {Psocid[91]}, which live in the crevices of walls and among old books and papers. Some of the species are called also {book lice}, and {deathticks}, or {deathwatches}. {Wood mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous small mites of the family {Oribatid[91]}. They are found chiefly in woods, on tree trunks and stones. {Wood mote}. (Eng. Law) (a) Formerly, the forest court. (b) The court of attachment. {Wood nettle}. (Bot.) See under {Nettle}. {Wood nightshade} (Bot.), woody nightshade. {Wood nut} (Bot.), the filbert. {Wood nymph}. (a) A nymph inhabiting the woods; a fabled goddess of the woods; a dryad. [bd]The wood nymphs, decked with daisies trim.[b8] --Milton. (b) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored moths belonging to the genus {Eudryas}. The larv[91] are bright-colored, and some of the species, as {Eudryas grata}, and {E. unio}, feed on the leaves of the grapevine. (c) (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of handsomely colored South American humming birds belonging to the genus {Thalurania}. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. {Wood offering}, wood burnt on the altar. We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. --Neh. x. 34. {Wood oil} (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees of the genus {Dipterocarpus}, having properties similar to those of copaiba, and sometimes substituted for it. It is also used for mixing paint. See {Gurjun}. {Wood opal} (Min.), a striped variety of coarse opal, having some resemblance to wood. {Wood paper}, paper made of wood pulp. See {Wood pulp}, below. {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a North American tyrant flycatcher ({Contopus virens}). It closely resembles the pewee, but is smaller. {Wood pie} (Zo[94]l.), any black and white woodpecker, especially the European great spotted woodpecker. {Wood pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of Old World pigeons belonging to {Palumbus} and allied genera of the family {Columbid[91]}. (b) The ringdove. {Wood puceron} (Zo[94]l.), a plant louse. {Wood pulp} (Technol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale. {Wood quail} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to {Rollulus} and allied genera, as the red-crested wood quail ({R. roulroul}), the male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red hairlike feathers. {Wood rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the cottontail. {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American wild rats of the genus {Neotoma} found in the Southern United States; -- called also {bush rat}. The Florida wood rat ({Neotoma Floridana}) is the best-known species. {Wood reed grass} (Bot.), a tall grass ({Cinna arundinacea}) growing in moist woods. {Wood reeve}, the steward or overseer of a wood. [Eng.] {Wood rush} (Bot.), any plant of the genus {Luzula}, differing from the true rushes of the genus {Juncus} chiefly in having very few seeds in each capsule. {Wood sage} (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of the genus {Teucrium}. See {Germander}. {Wood screw}, a metal screw formed with a sharp thread, and usually with a slotted head, for insertion in wood. {Wood sheldrake} (Zo[94]l.), the hooded merganser. {Wood shock} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher. See {Fisher}, 2. {Wood shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old World singing birds belonging to {Grallina}, {Collyricincla}, {Prionops}, and allied genera, common in India and Australia. They are allied to the true shrikes, but feed upon both insects and berries. {Wood snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American woodcock. (b) An Asiatic snipe ({Gallinago nemoricola}). {Wood soot}, soot from burnt wood. {Wood sore}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cuckoo spit}, under {Cuckoo}. {Wood sorrel} (Bot.), a plant of the genus Oxalis ({Oxalis Acetosella}), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of {Shamrock}. {Wood spirit}. (Chem.) See {Methyl alcohol}, under {Methyl}. {Wood stamp}, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for impressing figures or colors on fabrics. {Wood star} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small South American humming birds belonging to the genus {Calothorax}. The male has a brilliant gorget of blue, purple, and other colors. {Wood sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the yaffle. {Wood swallow} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of Old World passerine birds belonging to the genus {Artamus} and allied genera of the family {Artamid[91]}. They are common in the East Indies, Asia, and Australia. In form and habits they resemble swallows, but in structure they resemble shrikes. They are usually black above and white beneath. {Wood tapper} (Zo[94]l.), any woodpecker. {Wood tar}. See under {Tar}. {Wood thrush}, (Zo[94]l.) (a) An American thrush ({Turdus mustelinus}) noted for the sweetness of its song. See under {Thrush}. (b) The missel thrush. {Wood tick}. See in Vocabulary. {Wood tin}. (Min.). See {Cassiterite}. {Wood titmouse} (Zo[94]l.), the goldcgest. {Wood tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), the sculptured tortoise. See under {Sculptured}. {Wood vine} (Bot.), the white bryony. {Wood vinegar}. See {Wood acid}, above. {Wood warbler}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of American warblers of the genus {Dendroica}. See {Warbler}. (b) A European warbler ({Phylloscopus sibilatrix}); -- called also {green wren}, {wood wren}, and {yellow wren}. {Wood worm} (Zo[94]l.), a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer. {Wood wren}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The wood warbler. (b) The willow warbler. | |
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Hill \Hill\, n. [OE. hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil, L. collis, and prob. to E. haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d {Holm}.] 1. A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain. Every mountain and hill shall be made low. --Is. xl. 4. 2. The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See {Hill}, v. t. 3. A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [U. S.] {Hill ant} (Zo[94]l.), a common ant ({Formica rufa}), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests. {Hill myna} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of birds of India, of the genus {Gracula}, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also {hill mynah}.] See {Myna}. {Hill partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a partridge of the genus {Aborophila}, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. {Hill tit} (Zo[94]l.), one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family {Leiotrichid[91]}. Many are beautifully colored. | |
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3. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot. --Bacon. 4. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc. 5. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. 6. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby. 7. (Mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance. 8. (Naut.) (a) See {Footrope}, a. (b) A breastband for a leadsman. (c) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. (d) A jackstay. --W. C. Russell. --Totten. Note: Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses, like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or horse[?]dealer, horsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as, horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay, horse ant, etc. {Black horse}, {Blood horse}, etc. See under {Black}, etc. {Horse aloes}, caballine aloes. {Horse ant} (Zo[94]l.), a large ant ({Formica rufa}); -- called also {horse emmet}. {Horse artillery}, that portion of the artillery in which the cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the cavalry; flying artillery. {Horse balm} (Bot.), a strong-scented labiate plant ({Collinsonia Canadensis}), having large leaves and yellowish flowers. {Horse bean} (Bot.), a variety of the English or Windsor bean ({Faba vulgaris}), grown for feeding horses. {Horse boat}, a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a boat propelled by horses. {Horse bot}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Botfly}, and {Bots}. {Horse box}, a railroad car for transporting valuable horses, as hunters. [Eng.] {Horse} {breaker [or] trainer}, one employed in subduing or training horses for use. {Horse car}. (a) A railroad car drawn by horses. See under {Car}. (b) A car fitted for transporting horses. {Horse cassia} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Cassia Javanica}), bearing long pods, which contain a black, catharic pulp, much used in the East Indies as a horse medicine. {Horse cloth}, a cloth to cover a horse. {Horse conch} (Zo[94]l.), a large, spiral, marine shell of the genus Triton. See {Triton}. {Horse courser}. (a) One that runs horses, or keeps horses for racing. --Johnson. (b) A dealer in horses. [Obs.] --Wiseman. {Horse crab} (Zo[94]l.), the Limulus; -- called also {horsefoot}, {horsehoe crab}, and {king crab}. {Horse crevall[82]} (Zo[94]l.), the cavally. | |
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Warrior \War"rior\ (?; 277), n. [OE. werreour, OF. werreour, guerreor, from guerre, werre, war. See {War}, and {Warray}.] A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. --Milton. {Warrior ant} (Zo[94]l.), a reddish ant ({Formica sanguinea}) native of Europe and America. It is one of the species which move in armies to capture and enslave other ants. | |
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Slave \Slave\, n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See {Slav}.] 1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge? --Milton. 2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition. 3. A drudge; one who labors like a slave. 4. An abject person; a wretch. --Shak. {Slave ant} (Zo[94]l.), any species of ants which is captured and enslaved by another species, especially {Formica fusca} of Europe and America, which is commonly enslaved by {Formica sanguinea}. {Slave catcher}, one who attempted to catch and bring back a fugitive slave to his master. {Slave coast}, part of the western coast of Africa to which slaves were brought to be sold to foreigners. {Slave driver}, one who superintends slaves at their work; hence, figuratively, a cruel taskmaster. {Slave hunt}. (a) A search after persons in order to reduce them to slavery. --Barth. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. {Slave ship}, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. {Slave trade}, the business of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. {Slave trader}, one who traffics in slaves. Syn: Bond servant; bondman; bondslave; captive; henchman; vassal; dependent; drudge. See {Serf}. | |
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Red \Red\, a. [Compar. {Redder} (-d?r); superl. {Reddest}.] [OE. red, reed, AS. re[a0]d, re[a2]d; akin to OS. r[omac]d, OFries. r[amac]d, D. rood, G. roht, rot, OHG. r[omac]t, Dan. & Sw. r[94]d, Icel. rau[edh]r, rj[omac][edh]r, Goth. r[a0]uds, W. rhudd, Armor. ruz, Ir. & Gael. ruadh, L. ruber, rufus, Gr. 'eryqro`s, Skr. rudhira, rohita; cf. L. rutilus. [root]113. Cf. {Erysipelas}, {Rouge}, {Rubric}, {Ruby}, {Ruddy}, {Russet}, {Rust}.] Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. [bd]Fresh flowers, white and reede.[b8] --Chaucer. Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose. --Shak. Note: Red is a general term, including many different shades or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red, and the like. Note: Red is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, red-breasted, red-cheeked, red-faced, red-haired, red-headed, red-skinned, red-tailed, red-topped, red-whiskered, red-coasted. {Red admiral} (Zo[94]l.), a beautiful butterfly ({Vanessa Atalanta}) common in both Europe and America. The front wings are crossed by a broad orange red band. The larva feeds on nettles. Called also {Atlanta butterfly}, and {nettle butterfly}. {Red ant}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A very small ant ({Myrmica molesta}) which often infests houses. (b) A larger reddish ant ({Formica sanquinea}), native of Europe and America. It is one of the slave-making species. {Red antimony} (Min.), kermesite. See {Kermes mineral} (b), under {Kermes}. {Red ash} (Bot.), an American tree ({Fraxinus pubescens}), smaller than the white ash, and less valuable for timber. --Cray. {Red bass}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Redfish} (d) . {Red bay} (Bot.), a tree ({Persea Caroliniensis}) having the heartwood red, found in swamps in the Southern United States. {Red beard} (Zo[94]l.), a bright red sponge ({Microciona prolifera}), common on oyster shells and stones. [Local, U.S.] {Red birch} (Bot.), a species of birch ({Betula nigra}) having reddish brown bark, and compact, light-colored wood. --Gray. {Red blindness}. (Med.) See {Daltonism}. {Red book}, a book containing the names of all the persons in the service of the state. [Eng.] {Red book of the Exchequer}, an ancient record in which are registered the names of all that held lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II. --Brande & C. {Red brass}, an alloy containing eight parts of copper and three of zinc. {Red bug}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A very small mite which in Florida attacks man, and produces great irritation by its bites. (b) A red hemipterous insect of the genus {Pyrrhocoris}, especially the European species ({P. apterus}), which is bright scarlet and lives in clusters on tree trunks. (c) See {Cotton stainder}, under {Cotton}. {Red cedar}. (Bot.) An evergreen North American tree ({Juniperus Virginiana}) having a fragrant red-colored heartwood. (b) A tree of India and Australia ({Cedrela Toona}) having fragrant reddish wood; -- called also {toon tree} in India. | |
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Formicaroid \For`mi*ca"roid\, a. [NL. Formicarius, the typical genus + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) Like or pertaining to the family {Formicarid[91]} or ant thrushes. | |
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Formicary \For"mi*ca*ry\, n. [LL. formicarium, fr. L. formica an ant.] (Zo[94]l.) The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. | |
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Formicate \For"mi*cate\ (f[ocir]r"m[icr]*k[amac]t), v. i. [See {Formication}.] To creep or crawl like ants; swarm with, or as with, ants. An open space which formicated with peasantry. --Lowell. | |
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Formicate \For"mi*cate\, a. [L. formica an ant.] (Zo[94]l.) Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. | |
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Formication \For`mi*ca"tion\, n. [L. formicatio, fr. formicare to creep like an ant, to feel as if ants were crawling on one's self, fr. formica ant: cf. F. formication.] (Med.) A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. --Dunglison. | |
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Formicid \For"mi*cid\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the ants. -- n. One of the family {Formicid[91]}, or ants. | |
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Forncast \Forn*cast"\, p. p. [OE. foren + cast. See {Forecast}.] Predestined. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Fornical \For"ni*cal\, a. Relating to a fornix. | |
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Fornicate \For"ni*cate\, Fornicated \For"ni*ca`ted\, a. [L. fornicatus, fr. fornix, -icis, an arch, vault.] 1. Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched. 2. (Bot.) Arching over; overarched. --Gray. | |
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Fornicate \For"ni*cate\, v. i. [L. fornicatus, p. p. of fornicari to fornicate, fr. fornix, -icis, a vault, a brothel in an underground vault.] To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse. | |
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Fornicate \For"ni*cate\, Fornicated \For"ni*ca`ted\, a. [L. fornicatus, fr. fornix, -icis, an arch, vault.] 1. Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched. 2. (Bot.) Arching over; overarched. --Gray. | |
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Fornication \For`ni*ca"tion\, n. [F. fornication, L. fornicatio.] 1. Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery. Note: In England, the offense, though cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to secular prosecution. In the United States it is indictable in some States at common law, in others only by statute. --Whartyon. 2. (Script.) (a) Adultery. (b) Incest. (c) Idolatry. | |
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Fornicator \For"ni*ca`tor\, n. [F. fornicateur, OF. fornicator, from L. fornicator.] An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication. | |
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Fornicatress \For"ni*ca`tress\, n. [Cf. F. fornicatrice, L. fornicatrix.] A woman guilty of fornication. --Shak. | |
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d8Fornix \[d8]For"nix\, n.; pl. {Fornices}. [L., an arch.] (Anat.) (a) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva. (b) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain. | |
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Forum \Fo"rum\, n.; pl. E. {Forums}, L. {Fora}. [L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See {Foreign}.] 1. A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people. 2. A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes. He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum. --Brougham. | |
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Frame \Frame\, n. 1. 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. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame. --Milton. 2. The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. --Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. --Prescott. 3. 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; as: (a) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels. (b) (Founding) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings. (c) The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering. (d) A structure of four bars, adjustable in size, on which cloth, etc., is stretched for quilting, embroidery, etc. (e) (Hort.) A glazed portable structure for protecting young plants from frost. (f) (Print.) A stand to support the type cases for use by the compositor. 4. (Mach.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc. 5. Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government. She that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother. --Shak. Put your discourse into some frame. --Shak. 6. Particular state or disposition, as of the mind; humor; temper; mood; as, to be always in a happy frame. 7. Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. [Obs.] John the bastard Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. --Shak. {Balloon frame}, {Cant frames}, etc. See under {Balloon}, {Cant}, etc. {Frame} {building [or] house}, a building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] -- {Frame level}, a mason's level. {Frame saw}, a thin saw stretched in a frame to give it rigidity. | |
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Franc \Franc\, n. [F., fr. franc a Franc. See {Frank}, a.] 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. | |
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Franchise \Fran"chise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Franchised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Franchising}.] [Cf. OF. franchir to free, F., to cross.] To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to. --Shak. | |
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Franchise \Fran"chise\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F., fr. franc, fem. franche, free. See {Frank}, a.] 1. Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. (LAw) A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. --W. H. Seward. 3. The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary. Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals. --London Encyc. 4. Magnanimity; generosity; liberality; frankness; nobility. [bd]Franchise in woman.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Elective franchise}, the privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers. | |
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Franchise \Fran"chise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Franchised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Franchising}.] [Cf. OF. franchir to free, F., to cross.] To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to. --Shak. | |
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Franchisement \Fran"chise*ment\, n. [Cf. OF. franchissement.] Release; deliverance; freedom. --Spenser. | |
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Franchise \Fran"chise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Franchised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Franchising}.] [Cf. OF. franchir to free, F., to cross.] To make free; to enfranchise; to give liberty to. --Shak. | |
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Francic \Fran"cic\, a. [See {Frank}, a.] Pertaining to the Franks, or their language; Frankish. | |
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Franciscan \Fran*cis"can\, a. [LL. Franciscus Francis: cf. F. franciscain.] (R. C. Ch.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. {Franciscan Brothers}, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also {Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis}. {Franciscan Nuns}, nuns who follow the rule of t. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also {Poor Clares} or {Minoresses}. {Franciscan Tertiaries}, the Third Order of St. Francis. | |
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Franciscan \Fran*cis"can\, n. (R.C.Ch.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also {Friars Minor}; and in England, {Gray Friars}, because they wear a gray habit. | |
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Franciscan \Fran*cis"can\, a. [LL. Franciscus Francis: cf. F. franciscain.] (R. C. Ch.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. {Franciscan Brothers}, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also {Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis}. {Franciscan Nuns}, nuns who follow the rule of t. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also {Poor Clares} or {Minoresses}. {Franciscan Tertiaries}, the Third Order of St. Francis. | |
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Franciscan \Fran*cis"can\, a. [LL. Franciscus Francis: cf. F. franciscain.] (R. C. Ch.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. {Franciscan Brothers}, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also {Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis}. {Franciscan Nuns}, nuns who follow the rule of t. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also {Poor Clares} or {Minoresses}. {Franciscan Tertiaries}, the Third Order of St. Francis. | |
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Franciscan \Fran*cis"can\, a. [LL. Franciscus Francis: cf. F. franciscain.] (R. C. Ch.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. {Franciscan Brothers}, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also {Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis}. {Franciscan Nuns}, nuns who follow the rule of t. Francis, esp. those of the Second Order of St. Francis, -- called also {Poor Clares} or {Minoresses}. {Franciscan Tertiaries}, the Third Order of St. Francis. | |
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Francolin \Fran"co*lin\, n. [F.; cf. It. francolino, Sp. francolin.] (Zo[94]l.) A spurred partidge of the genus {Francolinus} and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species ({F. vulgaris}) was formerly common in southern Europe, but is now nearly restricted to Asia. | |
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Partridge \Par"tridge\, n. [OE. partriche, pertriche, OF. pertris, perdriz, F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. [?].] (Zo[94]l.) 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus {Perdix} and several related genera of the family {Perdicid[91]}, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. --Chaucer. Note: The common European, or gray, partridge ({Perdix cinerea}) and the red-legged partridge ({Caccabis rubra}) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known species. 2. Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to {Colinus}, and allied genera. [U.S.] Note: Among them are the bobwhite ({Colinus Virginianus}) of the Eastern States; the plumed, or mountain, partridge ({Oreortyx pictus}) of California; the Massena partridge ({Cyrtonyx Montezum[91]}); and the California partridge ({Callipepla Californica}). 3. The ruffed grouse ({Bonasa umbellus}). [New Eng.] {Bamboo partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a spurred partridge of the genus {Bambusicola}. Several species are found in China and the East Indies. {Night partridge} (Zo[94]l.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.] {Painted partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a francolin of South Africa ({Francolinus pictus}). {Partridge berry}. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant ({Mitchella repens}) of the order {Rubiace[91]}, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen ({Gaultheria procumbens}); also, the plant itself. {Partridge dove} (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Mountain witch}, under {Mountain}. {Partridge pea} (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb ({Cassia Cham[91]crista}), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. {Partridge shell} (Zo[94]l.), a large marine univalve shell ({Dolium perdix}), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. {Partridge wood} (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree {Andira inermis}. Called also {pheasant wood}. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. {Sea partridge} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic sand partridge ({Ammoperdix Bonhami}); -- so called from its note. {Snow partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a large spurred partridge ({Lerwa nivicola}) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia. {Spruce partridge}. See under {Spruce}. {Wood partridge}, [or] {Hill partridge} (Zo[94]l.), any small Asiatic partridge of the genus {Arboricola}. | |
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Francolite \Fran"co*lite\, n. (Min.) A variety of apatite from Wheal Franco in Devonshire. | |
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Frangent \Fran"gent\, a. [L. frangens, p. pr. of frangere. See {Fraction}.] Causing fracture; breaking. [R.] --H. Walpole. | |
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Frangibility \Fran`gi*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. frangibilit[82].] The state or quality of being frangible. --Fox. | |
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Frangible \Fran"gi*ble\, a. [Cf. F. frangible.] Capable of being broken; brittle; fragile; easily broken. | |
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Frangipani \Fran`gi*pan"i\, Frangipanni \Fran`gi*pan"ni\, n. [Another spelling of frangipane.] A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus {Plumeria}. | |
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Frangipani \Fran`gi*pan"i\, Frangipanni \Fran`gi*pan"ni\, n. [Another spelling of frangipane.] A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus {Plumeria}. | |
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Frangulic \Fran*gu"lic\, Frangulinic \Fran`gu*lin"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species ({Rhamnus Frangula}) of the buckthorn. {Frangulinic acid} (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin. | |
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Frangulin \Fran"gu*lin\, n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species ({Rhamnus Frangula}) of the buckthorn; -- called also {rhamnoxanthin}. | |
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Frangulic \Fran*gu"lic\, Frangulinic \Fran`gu*lin"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species ({Rhamnus Frangula}) of the buckthorn. {Frangulinic acid} (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin. | |
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Frangulic \Fran*gu"lic\, Frangulinic \Fran`gu*lin"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species ({Rhamnus Frangula}) of the buckthorn. {Frangulinic acid} (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin. | |
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Frank \Frank\, n. [See {Frank}, a.] 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. | |
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Frank \Frank\, n. [Cf. F. franc. See {Frank}, a.] 1. (Ethnol.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France. 2. A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant. 3. A French coin. See {Franc}. | |
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Frank \Frank\, n. [OF. franc.] A pigsty. [Obs.] | |
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Frank \Frank\, v. t. To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Frank \Frank\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The common heron; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Frank \Frank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Franked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Franking}.] 1. To send by public conveyance free of expense. --Dickens. 2. To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. | |
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Frank \Frank\, a. [Compar {Franker}; superl. {Frankest}.] [F. franc free, frank, L. Francus a Frank, fr. OHG. Franko the name of a Germanic people on the Rhine, who afterward founded the French monarchy; cf. AS. franca javelin, Icel. frakka. Cf. {Franc}, {French}, a., {Franchise}, n.] 1. Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. [R.] [bd]It is of frank gift.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc. 3. Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. --L'Estrange. 4. Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. --Spenser. Syn: Ingenuous; candid; artless; plain; open; unreserved; undisguised; sincere. See {Candid}, {Ingenuous}. | |
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Frankalmoigne \Frank`al*moigne"\, n. [F. franc free + Norm. F. almoigne alma, for almosne, F. aum[93]ne. See {Frank}, a., and {Almoner}.] (Eng. Law) 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}. --Burrill. | |
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Frank-chase \Frank"-chase`\, n. [Frank free + chase.] (Eng. Law) The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. --Burrill. | |
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Frank \Frank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Franked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Franking}.] 1. To send by public conveyance free of expense. --Dickens. 2. To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. | |
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d8Yerba \[d8]Yer"ba\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.) An herb; a plant. Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena [Sp., a good herb], a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint ({Mentha sativa}, {viridis}, etc.), but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate plant ({Micromeria Douglasii}). {Yerba dol osa}. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.] A kind of buckthorn ({Rhamnus Californica}). {Yerba mansa}. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.] A plant ({Anemopsis Californica}) with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians. {Yerba reuma}. [Cf. Sp. reuma rheum, rheumatism.] A low California undershrub ({Frankenia grandifolia}). | |
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Sea heath \Sea" heath`\ (Bot.) A low perennial plant ({Frankenia l[91]vis}) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe. | |
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Frank \Frank\, a. [Compar {Franker}; superl. {Frankest}.] [F. franc free, frank, L. Francus a Frank, fr. OHG. Franko the name of a Germanic people on the Rhine, who afterward founded the French monarchy; cf. AS. franca javelin, Icel. frakka. Cf. {Franc}, {French}, a., {Franchise}, n.] 1. Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. [R.] [bd]It is of frank gift.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc. 3. Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. --L'Estrange. 4. Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. --Spenser. Syn: Ingenuous; candid; artless; plain; open; unreserved; undisguised; sincere. See {Candid}, {Ingenuous}. | |
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Frank \Frank\, a. [Compar {Franker}; superl. {Frankest}.] [F. franc free, frank, L. Francus a Frank, fr. OHG. Franko the name of a Germanic people on the Rhine, who afterward founded the French monarchy; cf. AS. franca javelin, Icel. frakka. Cf. {Franc}, {French}, a., {Franchise}, n.] 1. Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. [R.] [bd]It is of frank gift.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc. 3. Liberal; generous; profuse. [Obs.] Frank of civilities that cost them nothing. --L'Estrange. 4. Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense. --Spenser. Syn: Ingenuous; candid; artless; plain; open; unreserved; undisguised; sincere. See {Candid}, {Ingenuous}. | |
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Frank-fee \Frank"-fee`\, n. [Frank free + fee.] (Eng. Law) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. --Burrill. | |
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Frankfort black \Frank"fort black`\ A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. --McElrath. | |
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Frankincense \Frank"in*cense\, n. [OF. franc free, pure + encens incense.] 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. | |
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Franking \Frank"ing\, n. (Carp.) A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter. | |
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Frank \Frank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Franked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Franking}.] 1. To send by public conveyance free of expense. --Dickens. 2. To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. | |
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Frankish \Frank"ish\, a. Like, or pertaining to, the Franks. | |
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Frank-law \Frank"-law`\, n. [Frank free + law.] (Eng. Law) 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}. --Abbot. | |
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Franklin \Frank"lin\, n. [OE. frankelein; cf. LL. franchilanus. See {Frank}, a.] An English freeholder, or substantial householder. [Obs.] --Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. --Sir J. Stephen. | |
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Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw. stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf. {Estufa}, {Stew}, {Stufa}.] 1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts. When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of Strafford. How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! --Burton. 2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes. {Cooking stove}, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking. {Dry stove}. See under {Dry}. {Foot stove}. See under {Foot}. {Franklin stove}. See in the Vocabulary. {Stove plant} (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. {Stove plate}, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves. | |
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Franklin stove \Frank"lin stove`\ 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. | |
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Franklinic \Frank*lin"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. {Franklinic electricity}, electricity produced by friction; called also {statical electricity}. | |
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Franklinic \Frank*lin"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. {Franklinic electricity}, electricity produced by friction; called also {statical electricity}. | |
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Franklinite \Frank"lin*ite\, n. (Min.) A kind of mineral of the spinel group. | |
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Frankly \Frank"ly\, adv. In a frank manner; freely. Very frankly he confessed his treasons. --Shak. Syn: Openly; ingenuously; plainly; unreservedly; undisguisedly; sincerely; candidly; artlessly; freely; readily; unhesitatingly; liberally; willingly. | |
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Frank-marriage \Frank"-mar"riage\, n. [Frank free + marriage.] (Eng. Law) 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. [Obs.] --Blackstone. | |
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Frankness \Frank"ness\, n. The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality. | |
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Frankpledge \Frank"pledge`\, n. [Frank free + pledge.] (O. Eng. Law) (a) A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety. (b) The tithing itself. --Bouvier. The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other. --Macaulay. | |
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Fraying \Fray"ing\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns. --B. Jonson. | |
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Fray \Fray\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frayed} (fr[amac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Fraying}.] [See 1st {Fray}, and cf. {Affray}.] To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. --I. Taylor. What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed? --Spenser. | |
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Free \Free\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Freed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Freeing}.] [OE. freen, freoien, AS. fre[a2]gan. See {Free}, a.] 1. To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. --Clarendon. Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. --Dryden. Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke. --Milton. 2. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of. This master key Frees every lock, and leads us to his person. --Dryden. 3. To frank. [Obs.] --Johnson. | |
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Freemason \Free"ma`son\, n. One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance. | |
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Freemasonic \Free`ma*son"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal. | |
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Freemasonry \Free"ma`son*ry\, n. The institutions or the practices of freemasons. | |
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Freeness \Free"ness\, n. The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness. | |
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Fremescent \Fre*mes"cent\, a. [L. fremere to roar, murmur + -escent.] Becoming murmurous, roaring. [bd]Fremescent clangor.[b8] --Carlyle. -- {Fre*mes"cence}, n. | |
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Fremescent \Fre*mes"cent\, a. [L. fremere to roar, murmur + -escent.] Becoming murmurous, roaring. [bd]Fremescent clangor.[b8] --Carlyle. -- {Fre*mes"cence}, n. | |
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Sole \Sole\, n. [F. sole, L. solea; -- so named from its flat shape. See {Sole} of the foot.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus {Solea} and allied genera of the family {Soleid[91]}, especially the common European species ({Solea vulgaris}), which is a valuable food fish. (b) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole ({Lepidopsetta bilineata}), the long-finned sole ({Glyptocephalus zachirus}), and other species. {Lemon}, [or] {French}, {sole} (Zo[94]l.), a European species of sole ({Solea pegusa}). {Smooth sole} (Zo[94]l.), the megrim. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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French \French\, n. 1. The language spoken in France. 2. Collectively, the people of France. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Avignon berry \A`vignon" ber"ry\ (Bot.) The fruit of the {Rhamnus infectorius}, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also {French berry}. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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{French window} (Arch.), a casement window in two folds, usually reaching to the floor; -- called also {French casement}. {Window back} (Arch.), the inside face of the low, and usually thin, piece of wall between the window sill and the floor below. {Window blind}, a blind or shade for a window. {Window bole}, part of a window closed by a shutter which can be opened at will. [Scot.] {Window box}, one of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Chalk \Chalk\, n. [AS. cealc lime, from L. calx limestone. See {Calz}, and {Cawk}.] 1. (Min.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone. 2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See {Crayon}. {Black chalk}, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. {By a long chalk}, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] --Lowell. {Chalk drawing} (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See {Crayon}. {Chalk formation}. See {Cretaceous formation}, under {Cretaceous}. {Chalk line}, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. {Chalk mixture}, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. {Chalk period}. (Geol.) See {Cretaceous period}, under {Cretaceous}. {Chalk pit}, a pit in which chalk is dug. {Drawing chalk}. See {Crayon}, n., 1. {French chalk}, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. {Red chalk}, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle. | |
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Chippendale \Chip"pen*dale\, a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: {French Chippendale}, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; {Chinese Chippendale}, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and {Gothic Chippendale}, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- {Chip"pen*dal*ism}, n. It must be clearly and unmistakably understood, then, that, whenever painted (that is to say, decorated with painted enrichment) or inlaid furniture is described as Chippendale, no matter where or by whom, it is a million chances to one that the description is incorrect. --R. D. Benn. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Cowslip \Cow"slip`\ (-sl[icr]p`), n. [AS. c[umac]slyppe, c[umac]sloppe, prob. orig., cow's droppings. Cf. {Slop}, n.] (Bot.) 1. A common flower in England ({Primula veris}) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States. 2. In the United States, the marsh marigold ({Caltha palustris}), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of {Marsh marigold}. {American cowslip} (Bot.), a pretty flower of the West ({Dodecatheon Meadia}), belonging to the same order ({Primulace[91]}) with the English cowslip. {French cowslip} (Bot.), bear's-ear ({Primula Auricula}). | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Leave \Leave\, n. [OE. leve, leave, AS. le[a0]f; akin to le[a2]f pleasing, dear, E. lief, D. oorlof leave, G. arlaub, and erlauben to permit, Icel. leyfi. [?] See {Lief}.] 1. Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. David earnestly asked leave of me. --1 Sam. xx. 6. No friend has leave to bear away the dead. --Dryden. 2. The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; -- used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go. A double blessing is a'double grace; Occasion smiles upon a second leave. --Shak. And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren. --Acts xviii. 18. {French leave}. See under {French}. Syn: See {Liberty}. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Ladyfish \La"dy*fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large, handsome oceanic fish ({Albula vulpes}), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also {bonefish}, {grubber}, {French mullet}, and {macab[82]}. (b) A labroid fish ({Harpe rufa}) of Florida and the West Indies. | |
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Mullet \Mul"let\, n. [OE. molet, mulet, F. mulet, fr. L. mullus.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also {gray mullets}. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are {Mugil capito} of Europe, and {M. cephalus} which occurs both on the European and American coasts. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any species of the genus {Mullus}, or family {Mullid[91]}; called also {red mullet}, and {surmullet}, esp. the plain surmullet ({Mullus barbatus}), and the striped surmullet ({M. surmulletus}) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See {Surmullet}. {French mullet}. See {Ladyfish} (a) . | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Purple \Pur"ple\, n.; pl. {Purples}. [OE. purpre, pourpre, OF. purpre, porpre, pourpre, F. pourpre, L. purpura purple fish, purple dye, fr. Gr. [?] the purple fish, a shell from the purple dye was obtained, purple dye; cf. [?] dark (said of the sea), purple, [?] to grow dark (said of the sea), to be troubled; perh. akin to L. furere to rage, E. fury: cf. AS. purpure. Cf. {Porphyry}, {Purpure}.] 1. A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue. Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. -- Milton. Note: The ancient words which are translated purple are supposed to have been used for the color we call crimson. In the gradations of color as defined in art, purple is a mixture of red and blue. When red predominates it is called violet, and when blue predominates, hyacinth. 2. Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple. Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple, and scarlet. --Ex. xxvi. 1. 3. Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth. [bd]He was born in the purple.[b8] --Gibbon. 4. A cardinalate. See {Cardinal}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus {Basilarchia} (formerly {Limenitis}) as, the banded purple ({B. arthemis}). See Illust. under {Ursula}. 6. (Zo[94]l.) Any shell of the genus Purpura. 7. pl.(Med.) See {Purpura}. 8. pl. A disease of wheat. Same as {Earcockle}. Note: Purple is sometimes used in composition, esp. with participles forming words of obvious signification; as, purple-colored, purple-hued, purple-stained, purple-tinged, purple-tinted, and the like. {French purple}. (Chem.) Same as {Cudbear}. {Purple of Cassius}. See {Cassius}. {Purple of mollusca} (Zo[94]l.), a coloring matter derived from certain mollusks, which dyes wool, etc., of a purple or crimson color, and is supposed to be the substance of the famous Tyrian dye. It is obtained from Ianthina, and from several species of Purpura, and Murex. {To be born in the purple}, to be of princely birth; to be highborn. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Calendar \Cal"en*dar\, n. [OE. kalender, calender, fr. L. kalendarium an interest or account book (cf. F. calendrier, OF. calendier) fr. L. calendue, kalendae, calends. See {Calends}.] 1. An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac. 2. (Eccl.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. 3. An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy. Note: Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state. --Bacon. {Calendar clock}, one that shows the days of the week and month. {Calendar month}. See under {Month}. {French Republican calendar}. See under {Vend[82]miaire}. {Gregorian calendar}, {Julian calendar}, {Perpetual calendar}. See under {Gregorian}, {Julian}, and {Perpetual}. | |
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Rice \Rice\, n. [F. riz (cf. Pr. ris, It. riso), L. oryza, Gr. [?][?][?], [?][?][?], probably from the Persian; cf. OPers. br[c6]zi, akin to Skr. vr[c6]hi; or perh. akin to E. rye. Cf. {Rye}.] (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Oryza sativa}) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. {Ant rice}. (Bot.) See under {Ant}. {French rice}. (Bot.) See {Amelcorn}. {Indian rice}., a tall reedlike water grass ({Zizania aquatica}), bearing panicles of a long, slender grain, much used for food by North American Indians. It is common in shallow water in the Northern States. Called also {water oat}, {Canadian wild rice}, etc. {Mountain rice}, any species of an American genus ({Oryzopsis}) of grasses, somewhat resembling rice. {Rice bunting}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Ricebird}. {Rice hen} (Zo[94]l.), the Florida gallinule. {Rice mouse} (Zo[94]l.), a large dark-colored field mouse ({Calomys palistris}) of the Southern United States. {Rice paper}, a kind of thin, delicate paper, brought from China, -- used for painting upon, and for the manufacture of fancy articles. It is made by cutting the pith of a large herb ({Fatsia papyrifera}, related to the ginseng) into one roll or sheet, which is flattened out under pressure. Called also {pith paper}. {Rice troupial} (Zo[94]l.), the bobolink. {Rice water}, a drink for invalids made by boiling a small quantity of rice in water. {Rice-water discharge} (Med.), a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera. {Rice weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small beetle ({Calandra, [or] Sitophilus, oryz[91]}) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also {black weevil}. | |
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Amelcorn \Am"el*corn`\, n. [Ger. amelkorn: cf. MHG. amel, amer, spelt, and L. amylum starch, Gr. [?].] A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also {French rice}. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Roof \Roof\, n. [OE. rof, AS. hr[?]f top, roof; akin to D. roef cabin, Icel. hr[?]f a shed under which ships are built or kept; cf. OS. hr[?]st roof, Goth. hr[?]t. Cf. {Roost}.] 1. (Arch.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see {Roofing}) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering. 2. That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth. The flowery roof Showered roses, which the morn repaired. --Milton. 3. (Mining.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. {Bell roof}, {French roof}, etc. (Arch.) See under {Bell}, {French}, etc. {Flat roof}. (Arch.) (a) A roof actually horizontal and level, as in some Oriental buildings. (b) A roof nearly horizontal, constructed of such material as allows the water to run off freely from a very slight inclination. {Roof plate}. (Arch.) See {Plate}, n., 10. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Sash \Sash\, n. [F. ch[acir]ssis a frame, sash, fr. ch[acir]sse a shrine, reliquary, frame, L. capsa. See {Case} a box.] 1. The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes. 2. In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called {gate}. {French sash}, a casement swinging on hinges; -- in distinction from a vertical sash sliding up and down. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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{French window} (Arch.), a casement window in two folds, usually reaching to the floor; -- called also {French casement}. {Window back} (Arch.), the inside face of the low, and usually thin, piece of wall between the window sill and the floor below. {Window blind}, a blind or shade for a window. {Window bole}, part of a window closed by a shutter which can be opened at will. [Scot.] {Window box}, one of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash. | |
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French \French\ (fr[ecr]nch), a. [AS. frencisc, LL. franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. franceis, franchois, fran[cced]ois, F. fran[cced]ais. See {Frank}, a., and cf. {Frankish}.] Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. {French bean} (Bot.), the common kidney bean ({Phaseolus vulgaris}). {French berry} (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. {French casement} (Arch.) See {French window}, under {Window}. {French chalk} (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under {Chalk}. {French cowslip} (Bot.) The {Primula Auricula}. See {Bear's-ear}. {French fake} (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it backward and forward in parallel bends, so that it may run freely. {French honeysuckle} (Bot.) a plant of the genus {Hedysarum} ({H. coronarium}); -- called also {garland honeysuckle}. {French horn}, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; -- called in France {cor de chasse}. {French leave}, an informal, hasty, or secret departure; esp., the leaving a place without paying one's debts. {French pie} [French (here used in sense of [bd]foreign[b8]) + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zo[94]l.), the European great spotted woodpecker ({Dryobstes major}); -- called also {wood pie}. {French polish}. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consisting of gums dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. {French purple}, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. --Ure. {French red} rouge. {French rice}, amelcorn. {French roof} (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. {French tub}, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also {plum tub}. --Ure. {French window}. See under {Window}. | |
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Frenchify \French"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frenchified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frenchifying}.] [French + -fy.] To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. --Burke. | |
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Frenchify \French"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frenchified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frenchifying}.] [French + -fy.] To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. --Burke. | |
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Frenchify \French"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frenchified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frenchifying}.] [French + -fy.] To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. --Burke. | |
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Frenchism \French"ism\, n. A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. --Earle. | |
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Frenchman \French"man\, n.; pl. {Frenchmen}. A native or one of the people of France. | |
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Frenchman \French"man\, n.; pl. {Frenchmen}. A native or one of the people of France. | |
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Frenzical \Fren"zi*cal\, a. Frantic. [Obs.] --Orrery. | |
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Frenzied \Fren"zied\, p. p. & a. Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- {Fren"zied-ly}, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. --Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. --Sir W Scott. | |
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Frenzied \Fren"zied\, p. p. & a. Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- {Fren"zied-ly}, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. --Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. --Sir W Scott. | |
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Frenzy \Fren"zy\, n.; pl. {Frenzies}. [OE. frenesie, fransey, F. fr[82]n[82]sie, L. phrenesis, fr. Gr. [?] for [?] disease of the mind, phrenitis, fr. [?] mind. Cf. {Frantic}, {Phrenitis}.] Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. --Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. --Shak. Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangment; alienation; aberration; delirium. See {Insanity}. | |
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Frenzy \Fren"zy\, a. Mad; frantic. [R.] They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. --Bunyan. | |
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Frenzy \Fren"zy\, v. t. To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness [R.] [bd]Frenzying anguish.[b8] --Southey. | |
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Frenzy \Fren"zy\, n.; pl. {Frenzies}. [OE. frenesie, fransey, F. fr[82]n[82]sie, L. phrenesis, fr. Gr. [?] for [?] disease of the mind, phrenitis, fr. [?] mind. Cf. {Frantic}, {Phrenitis}.] Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. --Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. --Shak. Syn: Insanity; lunacy; madness; derangment; alienation; aberration; delirium. See {Insanity}. | |
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Fire \Fire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fring}.] 1. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile. 2. To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery. 3. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge. Love had fired my mind. --Dryden. 4. To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man. 5. To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler. 6. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate. [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. --Shak. 7. To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc. 8. To drive by fire. [Obs.] Till my bad angel fire my good one out. --Shak. 9. (Far.) To cauterize. {To fire up}, to light up the fires of, as of an engine. | |
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Fringe \Fringe\, n. [OF, fringe, F. frange, prob. fr. L. fimbria fiber, thread, fringe, cf. fibra fiber, E. fiber, fimbriate.] 1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like. 2. Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine. The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance. --Jer. Taylor. 3. (Opt.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe. 4. (Bot.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See {Peristome}. {Fringe tree} (Bot.), a small tree ({Chionanthus Virginica}), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow-white flowers, with long pendulous petals. | |
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Fringe \Fringe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fringed}; p. pr. & vb. a. {Fringing}.] To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. -- Bryant. {Fringing reef}. See {Coral reefs}, under {Coral}. | |
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Fringe tree \Fringe tree\ A small oleaceous tree ({Chionanthus virginica}), of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated. | |
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Fringe \Fringe\, n. [OF, fringe, F. frange, prob. fr. L. fimbria fiber, thread, fringe, cf. fibra fiber, E. fiber, fimbriate.] 1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like. 2. Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine. The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance. --Jer. Taylor. 3. (Opt.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe. 4. (Bot.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See {Peristome}. {Fringe tree} (Bot.), a small tree ({Chionanthus Virginica}), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow-white flowers, with long pendulous petals. | |
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Fringed \Fringed\, a. Furnished with a fringe. {Fringed lear} (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs. | |
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Fringe \Fringe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fringed}; p. pr. & vb. a. {Fringing}.] To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. -- Bryant. {Fringing reef}. See {Coral reefs}, under {Coral}. | |
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Fringed \Fringed\, a. Furnished with a fringe. {Fringed lear} (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs. | |
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Fringeless \Fringe"less\, a. Having no fringe. | |
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Fringent \Frin"gent\, a. Encircling like a fringe; bordering. [R.] [bd]The fringent air.[b8] --Emerson. | |
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Chaffinch \Chaf"finch\, n. [Cf. {Chiff-chaff}.] (Zo[94]l.) A bird of Europe ({Fringilla c[d2]lebs}), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also {copper finch}. | |
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Brambling \Bram"bling\, n. [OE. bramline. See {Bramble}, n.] (Zo[94]l.) The European mountain finch ({Fringilla montifringilla}); -- called also {bramble finch} and {bramble}. | |
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Fringillaceous \Frin`gil*la"ceous\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Fringilline. | |
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Fringilline \Frin*gil"line\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the family {Fringillid[91]}; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike. | |
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Fringe \Fringe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fringed}; p. pr. & vb. a. {Fringing}.] To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. -- Bryant. {Fringing reef}. See {Coral reefs}, under {Coral}. | |
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Fringe \Fringe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fringed}; p. pr. & vb. a. {Fringing}.] To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. -- Bryant. {Fringing reef}. See {Coral reefs}, under {Coral}. | |
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Coral \Cor"al\, n. [Of. coral, F, corail, L. corallum, coralium, fr. Gr. kora`llion.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. Note: The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of {Madreporaria}, and to the hydroid genus, {Millepora}. The red coral, used in jewelry, is the stony axis of the stem of a gorgonian ({Corallium rubrum}) found chiefly in the Mediterranean. The {fan corals}, {plume corals}, and {sea feathers} are species of {Gorgoniacea}, in which the axis is horny. Organ-pipe coral is formed by the genus {Tubipora}, an Alcyonarian, and {black coral} is in part the axis of species of the genus {Antipathes}. See {Anthozoa}, {Madrepora}. 2. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color. 3. A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. {Brain coral}, or {Brain stone coral}. See under {Brain}. {Chain coral}. See under {Chain}. {Coral animal} (Zo[94]l.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called {coral insects}. {Coral fish}. See in the Vocabulary. {Coral reefs} (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as {fringing reefs}, when they border the land; {barrier reefs}, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; {atolls}, when they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See {Atoll}. {Coral root} (Bot.), a genus ({Corallorhiza}) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under {Coralloid}. {Coral snake}. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake {(Elaps corallinus)}, coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake ({Tortrix scytale}). {Coral tree} (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is {Erythrina Corallodendron}. {Coral wood}, a hard, red cabinet wood. --McElrath. | |
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Fringy \Frin"gy\, a. Aborned with fringes. --Shak. | |
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Stem \Stem\, n. [AS. stemn, stefn, st[91]fn; akin to OS. stamn the stem of a ship, D. stam stem, steven stem of a ship, G. stamm stem, steven stem of a ship, Icel. stafn, stamn, stem of a ship, stofn, stomn, stem, Sw. stam a tree trunk, Dan. stamme. Cf. {Staff}, {Stand}.] 1. The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top. After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. --Sir W. Raleigh. The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. --Dryden. 2. A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry. 3. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors. [bd]All that are of noble stem.[b8] --Milton. While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent. --Herbert. 4. A branch of a family. This is a stem Of that victorious stock. --Shak. 5. (Naut.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow. 6. Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout. Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years. --Fuller. 7. Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached. 8. (Bot.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean. 9. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The entire central axis of a feather. (b) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian. 10. (Mus.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc. 11. (Gram.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base. {From stem to stern} (Naut.), from one end of the ship to the other, or through the whole length. {Stem leaf} (Bot.), a leaf growing from the stem of a plant, as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf. | |
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Brie cheese \Brie" cheese"\ A kind of soft French cream cheese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; -- called also {fromage de Brie}. | |
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Frounce \Frounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Frounced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frouncing}.] [OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F. froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, L. frons forehead. See {Front}, and cf. {Flounce} part of a dress.] To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. --Milton. | |
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Frounce \Frounce\, v. i. To form wrinkles in the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.] The Commons frounced and stormed. -- Holland. | |
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Frounce \Frounce\, n. 1. A wrinkle, plait, or curl; a flounce; -- also, a frown. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. An affection in hawks, in which white spittle gathers about the hawk's bill. --Booth. | |
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Frounce \Frounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Frounced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frouncing}.] [OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F. froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, L. frons forehead. See {Front}, and cf. {Flounce} part of a dress.] To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. --Milton. | |
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Frounceless \Frounce"less\, a. Without frounces. --Rom. of R. | |
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Frounce \Frounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Frounced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frouncing}.] [OE. frouncen, fronsen, to told, wrinkle, OF. froncier, F. froncer, perh. fr. an assumed LL. frontiare to wrinkle the forehead, L. frons forehead. See {Front}, and cf. {Flounce} part of a dress.] To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair. Not tricked and frounced, as she was wont. --Milton. | |
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Fry \Fry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frying}.] [OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. [?], Skr. bhrajj. Cf. {Fritter}.] To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts. | |
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Frying \Fry"ing\, n. The process denoted by the verb fry. {Frying pan}, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat. vegetables, etc. | |
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Frying \Fry"ing\, n. The process denoted by the verb fry. {Frying pan}, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat. vegetables, etc. | |
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Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.] 1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon. 2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20. {Bustamente furnace}, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. {Furnace bridge}, Same as {Bridge wall}. See {Bridge}, n., 5. {Furnace} {cadmiam [or] cadmia}, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. --Raymond. {Furnace hoist} (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace. | |
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Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. 1. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obs. or R.] He furnaces The thick sighe from him. --Shak. | |
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Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. {Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used. | |
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Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.] 1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon. 2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20. {Bustamente furnace}, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. {Furnace bridge}, Same as {Bridge wall}. See {Bridge}, n., 5. {Furnace} {cadmiam [or] cadmia}, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. --Raymond. {Furnace hoist} (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace. | |
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Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. 1. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obs. or R.] He furnaces The thick sighe from him. --Shak. | |
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Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. {Hydrocarbon burner}, {furnace}, {stove}, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used. | |
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Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.] 1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon. 2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20. {Bustamente furnace}, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. {Furnace bridge}, Same as {Bridge wall}. See {Bridge}, n., 5. {Furnace} {cadmiam [or] cadmia}, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. --Raymond. {Furnace hoist} (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace. | |
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Furnace \Fur"nace\, n. [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.] 1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note: Furnaces are classified as wind or air. furnaces when the fire is urged only by the natural draught; as blast furnaces, when the fire is urged by the injection artificially of a forcible current of air; and as reverberatory furnaces, when the flame, in passing to the chimney, is thrown down by a low arched roof upon the materials operated upon. 2. A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. --Deut. iv. 20. {Bustamente furnace}, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. {Furnace bridge}, Same as {Bridge wall}. See {Bridge}, n., 5. {Furnace} {cadmiam [or] cadmia}, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. --Raymond. {Furnace hoist} (Iron Manuf.), a lift for raising ore, coal, etc., to the mouth of a blast furnace. | |
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Furnish \Fur"nish\, n. That which is furnished as a specimen; a sample; a supply. [Obs.] --Greene. | |
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Furnish \Fur"nish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Furnished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Furnishing}.] [OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See {Frame}, v. t., and {-ish}.] 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. --2 Tim. iii. 17, 2. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number. --Is. lxv. 11. His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. --Macaulay. | |
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Furnish \Fur"nish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Furnished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Furnishing}.] [OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See {Frame}, v. t., and {-ish}.] 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. --2 Tim. iii. 17, 2. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number. --Is. lxv. 11. His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. --Macaulay. | |
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Furnisher \Fur"nish*er\, n. One who supplies or fits out. | |
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Furnish \Fur"nish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Furnished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Furnishing}.] [OF. furnir, fornir, to furnish, finish, F. fournir; akin to Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See {Frame}, v. t., and {-ish}.] 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. --2 Tim. iii. 17, 2. To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense. Ye are they . . . that furnish the drink offering unto that number. --Is. lxv. 11. His writings and his life furnish abundant proofs that he was not a man of strong sense. --Macaulay. | |
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Furnishment \Fur"nish*ment\, n. The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. [Obs.] --Daniel. | |
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Fur \Fur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Furred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Furring}.] 1. To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. [bd]You fur your gloves with reason.[b8] --Shak. 2. To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue. 3. (Arch.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp. --Gwill. | |
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Furring \Fur"ring\, n. 1. (Carp.) (a) The leveling of a surface, or the preparing of an air space, by means of strips of board or of larger pieces. See {Fur}, v. t., 3. (b) The strips thus laid on. 2. (Shipbuilding) Double planking of a ship's side. 3. A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit. | |
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Furrow \Fur"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Furrowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Furrowing}.] [From {Furrow}, n.; cf. AS. fyrian.] 1. To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea. --Shak. 2. To mark with channels or with wrinkles. Thou canst help time to furrow me with age. --Shak. Fair cheeks were furrowed with hot tears. --Byron. | |
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Furuncle \Fu"run*cle\, n. [L. furunculus a petty thief, a boil, dim. of fur thief: cf. F. furoncle.] (Med.) A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil. | |
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Fahrney Keedy Me, MD Zip code(s): 21713 | |
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Fearrington, NC (CDP, FIPS 22970) Location: 35.80633 N, 79.07351 W Population (1990): 1101 (574 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Francis, OK (town, FIPS 27650) Location: 34.87490 N, 96.59264 W Population (1990): 346 (139 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Francis, UT (town, FIPS 26940) Location: 40.61221 N, 111.27529 W Population (1990): 381 (141 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Francis Creek, WI (village, FIPS 27125) Location: 44.20151 N, 87.72222 W Population (1990): 562 (223 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54214 | |
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Francisco, IN (town, FIPS 25306) Location: 38.33396 N, 87.44863 W Population (1990): 560 (233 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47649 | |
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Franconia, NH Zip code(s): 03580 Franconia, VA (CDP, FIPS 29552) Location: 38.76309 N, 77.14906 W Population (1990): 19882 (8414 housing units) Area: 18.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 22310 | |
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Frank, NC Zip code(s): 28657 | |
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Frankenmuth, MI (city, FIPS 30200) Location: 43.33046 N, 83.74022 W Population (1990): 4408 (1900 housing units) Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48734 | |
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Frankford, DE (town, FIPS 28310) Location: 38.52227 N, 75.23287 W Population (1990): 591 (241 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19945 Frankford, MO (city, FIPS 25552) Location: 39.49321 N, 91.32068 W Population (1990): 396 (191 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63441 | |
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Frankfort, IL (village, FIPS 27624) Location: 41.49699 N, 87.83594 W Population (1990): 7180 (2317 housing units) Area: 21.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60423 Frankfort, IN (city, FIPS 25324) Location: 40.28110 N, 86.51030 W Population (1990): 14754 (6146 housing units) Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Frankfort, KS (city, FIPS 24275) Location: 39.70381 N, 96.41764 W Population (1990): 927 (454 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Frankfort, KY (city, FIPS 28900) Location: 38.19077 N, 84.86520 W Population (1990): 25968 (11880 housing units) Area: 37.7 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Frankfort, ME Zip code(s): 04438 Frankfort, MI (city, FIPS 30260) Location: 44.63686 N, 86.23398 W Population (1990): 1546 (850 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49635 Frankfort, NY (village, FIPS 27188) Location: 43.03809 N, 75.07194 W Population (1990): 2693 (1124 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13340 Frankfort, OH (village, FIPS 28182) Location: 39.40800 N, 83.18284 W Population (1990): 1065 (435 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45628 Frankfort, SD (city, FIPS 22580) Location: 44.87741 N, 98.30857 W Population (1990): 192 (100 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57440 | |
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Frankfort Height, IL Zip code(s): 62840 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frankfort Springs, PA (borough, FIPS 27312) Location: 40.48132 N, 80.44556 W Population (1990): 134 (49 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frankfort Square, IL (CDP, FIPS 27644) Location: 41.51890 N, 87.80314 W Population (1990): 6227 (1892 housing units) Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin, AL (town, FIPS 28024) Location: 32.45525 N, 85.80279 W Population (1990): 152 (69 housing units) Area: 8.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36444 Franklin, AR (town, FIPS 25030) Location: 36.17140 N, 91.77233 W Population (1990): 205 (84 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72536 Franklin, AZ Zip code(s): 85534 Franklin, GA (city, FIPS 31292) Location: 33.28141 N, 85.09767 W Population (1990): 876 (362 housing units) Area: 8.4 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Franklin, IA (city, FIPS 28740) Location: 40.66642 N, 91.51167 W Population (1990): 152 (58 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Franklin, ID (city, FIPS 28810) Location: 42.01611 N, 111.80232 W Population (1990): 478 (177 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83237 Franklin, IL (village, FIPS 27663) Location: 39.62036 N, 90.04720 W Population (1990): 634 (240 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Franklin, IN (city, FIPS 25450) Location: 39.49221 N, 86.05654 W Population (1990): 12907 (4661 housing units) Area: 18.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46131 Franklin, KY (city, FIPS 28918) Location: 36.72802 N, 86.57394 W Population (1990): 7607 (3257 housing units) Area: 18.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42134 Franklin, LA (city, FIPS 27155) Location: 29.80084 N, 91.51446 W Population (1990): 9004 (3365 housing units) Area: 11.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 70538 Franklin, MA (CDP, FIPS 25100) Location: 42.08689 N, 71.38731 W Population (1990): 9965 (3604 housing units) Area: 10.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 02038 Franklin, ME Zip code(s): 04634 Franklin, MI (village, FIPS 30340) Location: 42.51735 N, 83.30205 W Population (1990): 2626 (1010 housing units) Area: 6.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48025 Franklin, MN (city, FIPS 22364) Location: 44.53085 N, 94.88612 W Population (1990): 441 (226 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Franklin, MN (city, FIPS 22382) Location: 47.52364 N, 92.51995 W Population (1990): 22 (11 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55333 Franklin, MO (city, FIPS 25624) Location: 39.01133 N, 92.75472 W Population (1990): 181 (85 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65250 Franklin, NC (town, FIPS 24640) Location: 35.18105 N, 83.38181 W Population (1990): 2873 (1682 housing units) Area: 9.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28734 Franklin, NE (city, FIPS 17530) Location: 40.09660 N, 98.95102 W Population (1990): 1112 (576 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68939 Franklin, NH (city, FIPS 27380) Location: 43.45126 N, 71.66848 W Population (1990): 8304 (3744 housing units) Area: 71.4 sq km (land), 4.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 03235 Franklin, NJ (borough, FIPS 24930) Location: 41.11050 N, 74.58985 W Population (1990): 4977 (1970 housing units) Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07416 Franklin, NY (village, FIPS 27221) Location: 42.34261 N, 75.16641 W Population (1990): 409 (196 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13775 Franklin, OH (city, FIPS 28476) Location: 39.55392 N, 84.30117 W Population (1990): 11026 (4208 housing units) Area: 21.1 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Franklin, PA (borough, FIPS 27360) Location: 40.34195 N, 78.88350 W Population (1990): 565 (263 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Franklin, PA (city, FIPS 27456) Location: 41.39195 N, 79.83880 W Population (1990): 7329 (3430 housing units) Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16323 Franklin, TN (city, FIPS 27740) Location: 35.92941 N, 86.84198 W Population (1990): 20098 (8748 housing units) Area: 66.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37064 Franklin, TX (city, FIPS 27288) Location: 31.02493 N, 96.48566 W Population (1990): 1336 (615 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77856 Franklin, VA (city, FIPS 620) Location: 36.68080 N, 76.93597 W Population (1990): 7864 (3166 housing units) Area: 19.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Franklin, VA (city, FIPS 29600) Location: 36.68080 N, 76.93597 W Population (1990): 7864 (3166 housing units) Area: 19.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 23851 Franklin, VT Zip code(s): 05457 Franklin, WI (city, FIPS 27300) Location: 42.88630 N, 88.00982 W Population (1990): 21855 (7753 housing units) Area: 89.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53132 Franklin, WV (town, FIPS 29044) Location: 38.64603 N, 79.33311 W Population (1990): 914 (412 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 26807 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin County, AL (county, FIPS 59) Location: 34.43593 N, 87.84365 W Population (1990): 27814 (11772 housing units) Area: 1646.4 sq km (land), 28.1 sq km (water) Franklin County, AR (county, FIPS 47) Location: 35.51225 N, 93.89193 W Population (1990): 14897 (6228 housing units) Area: 1578.9 sq km (land), 26.2 sq km (water) Franklin County, FL (county, FIPS 37) Location: 29.80158 N, 84.81673 W Population (1990): 8967 (5891 housing units) Area: 1383.0 sq km (land), 1275.5 sq km (water) Franklin County, GA (county, FIPS 119) Location: 34.37329 N, 83.22767 W Population (1990): 16650 (7613 housing units) Area: 682.0 sq km (land), 7.9 sq km (water) Franklin County, IA (county, FIPS 69) Location: 42.73053 N, 93.26047 W Population (1990): 11364 (5018 housing units) Area: 1508.6 sq km (land), 1.5 sq km (water) Franklin County, ID (county, FIPS 41) Location: 42.18277 N, 111.81034 W Population (1990): 9232 (3240 housing units) Area: 1723.6 sq km (land), 7.6 sq km (water) Franklin County, IL (county, FIPS 55) Location: 37.99210 N, 88.92340 W Population (1990): 40319 (18430 housing units) Area: 1067.3 sq km (land), 50.1 sq km (water) Franklin County, IN (county, FIPS 47) Location: 39.42215 N, 85.05575 W Population (1990): 19580 (7176 housing units) Area: 999.8 sq km (land), 13.8 sq km (water) Franklin County, KS (county, FIPS 59) Location: 38.56725 N, 95.28781 W Population (1990): 21994 (8926 housing units) Area: 1486.4 sq km (land), 7.2 sq km (water) Franklin County, KY (county, FIPS 73) Location: 38.23527 N, 84.87862 W Population (1990): 43781 (18543 housing units) Area: 545.2 sq km (land), 4.3 sq km (water) Franklin County, MA (county, FIPS 11) Location: 42.58330 N, 72.59129 W Population (1990): 70092 (30394 housing units) Area: 1818.6 sq km (land), 58.7 sq km (water) Franklin County, ME (county, FIPS 7) Location: 44.97682 N, 70.44362 W Population (1990): 29008 (17280 housing units) Area: 4397.8 sq km (land), 120.3 sq km (water) Franklin County, MO (county, FIPS 71) Location: 38.40767 N, 91.07613 W Population (1990): 80603 (32451 housing units) Area: 2388.2 sq km (land), 19.6 sq km (water) Franklin County, MS (county, FIPS 37) Location: 31.47750 N, 90.89805 W Population (1990): 8377 (3555 housing units) Area: 1462.4 sq km (land), 5.5 sq km (water) Franklin County, NC (county, FIPS 69) Location: 36.07854 N, 78.28440 W Population (1990): 36414 (14957 housing units) Area: 1273.2 sq km (land), 6.6 sq km (water) Franklin County, NE (county, FIPS 61) Location: 40.18316 N, 98.94749 W Population (1990): 3938 (1950 housing units) Area: 1491.7 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Franklin County, NY (county, FIPS 33) Location: 44.60032 N, 74.30913 W Population (1990): 46540 (21962 housing units) Area: 4225.9 sq km (land), 170.8 sq km (water) Franklin County, OH (county, FIPS 49) Location: 39.96970 N, 83.00980 W Population (1990): 961437 (405418 housing units) Area: 1398.5 sq km (land), 8.8 sq km (water) Franklin County, PA (county, FIPS 55) Location: 39.92713 N, 77.72380 W Population (1990): 121082 (48629 housing units) Area: 1999.4 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water) Franklin County, TN (county, FIPS 51) Location: 35.15150 N, 86.09718 W Population (1990): 34725 (13717 housing units) Area: 1432.6 sq km (land), 55.0 sq km (water) Franklin County, TX (county, FIPS 159) Location: 33.17571 N, 95.21863 W Population (1990): 7802 (4219 housing units) Area: 739.9 sq km (land), 23.6 sq km (water) Franklin County, VA (county, FIPS 67) Location: 36.99322 N, 79.88081 W Population (1990): 39549 (17526 housing units) Area: 1792.6 sq km (land), 50.4 sq km (water) Franklin County, VT (county, FIPS 11) Location: 44.86012 N, 72.90899 W Population (1990): 39980 (17250 housing units) Area: 1650.0 sq km (land), 144.0 sq km (water) Franklin County, WA (county, FIPS 21) Location: 46.53690 N, 118.90477 W Population (1990): 37473 (13664 housing units) Area: 3217.3 sq km (land), 60.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin Furnace, OH (CDP, FIPS 28532) Location: 38.60795 N, 82.84650 W Population (1990): 1212 (466 housing units) Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45629 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin Grove, IL (village, FIPS 27689) Location: 41.84102 N, 89.30014 W Population (1990): 968 (332 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61031 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin Lakes, NJ (borough, FIPS 24990) Location: 41.00690 N, 74.20801 W Population (1990): 9873 (3171 housing units) Area: 24.5 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07417 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 41) Location: 32.13824 N, 91.67272 W Population (1990): 22387 (8719 housing units) Area: 1614.7 sq km (land), 31.2 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin Park, IL (village, FIPS 27702) Location: 41.93540 N, 87.87818 W Population (1990): 18485 (6685 housing units) Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60131 Franklin Park, NJ Zip code(s): 08823 Franklin Park, PA (borough, FIPS 27552) Location: 40.59173 N, 80.09869 W Population (1990): 10109 (3420 housing units) Area: 35.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin Springs, GA (city, FIPS 31320) Location: 34.28345 N, 83.14635 W Population (1990): 475 (206 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklin Square, NY (CDP, FIPS 27309) Location: 40.70000 N, 73.67702 W Population (1990): 28205 (10111 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 11010 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklinton, LA (town, FIPS 27190) Location: 30.84878 N, 90.14364 W Population (1990): 4007 (1512 housing units) Area: 12.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 70438 Franklinton, NC (town, FIPS 24720) Location: 36.10364 N, 78.45661 W Population (1990): 1615 (755 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27525 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklintown, PA (borough, FIPS 27576) Location: 40.07518 N, 77.02914 W Population (1990): 373 (161 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franklinville, NC (town, FIPS 24740) Location: 35.74499 N, 79.69177 W Population (1990): 666 (259 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27248 Franklinville, NJ Zip code(s): 08322 Franklinville, NY (village, FIPS 27331) Location: 42.33528 N, 78.45651 W Population (1990): 1739 (756 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14737 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frankston, TX (town, FIPS 27300) Location: 32.05510 N, 95.50363 W Population (1990): 1127 (514 housing units) Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75763 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franksville, WI Zip code(s): 53126 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frankton, IN (town, FIPS 25702) Location: 40.22053 N, 85.77249 W Population (1990): 1736 (683 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46044 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Franktown, CO Zip code(s): 80116 Franktown, VA Zip code(s): 23354 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frankville, AL Zip code(s): 36538 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Fra]nquez, PR (comunidad, FIPS 29555) Location: 18.34214 N, 66.42800 W Population (1990): 2052 (588 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
French Camp, CA (CDP, FIPS 26028) Location: 37.88282 N, 121.27873 W Population (1990): 3018 (543 housing units) Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95231 French Camp, MS (village, FIPS 26020) Location: 33.29209 N, 89.39848 W Population (1990): 320 (79 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39745 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
French Gulch, CA Zip code(s): 96033 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
French Island, WI (CDP, FIPS 27875) Location: 43.85830 N, 91.26030 W Population (1990): 4478 (1731 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
French Lick, IN (town, FIPS 25972) Location: 38.54723 N, 86.62017 W Population (1990): 2087 (948 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47432 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
French Settlemen, LA Zip code(s): 70733 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
French Settlement, LA (village, FIPS 27435) Location: 30.31146 N, 90.80330 W Population (1990): 829 (359 housing units) Area: 7.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
French Village, MO Zip code(s): 63036 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frenchburg, KY (city, FIPS 29260) Location: 37.95481 N, 83.62245 W Population (1990): 625 (287 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frenchmans Bayou, AR Zip code(s): 72338 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frenchtown, MT Zip code(s): 59834 Frenchtown, NJ (borough, FIPS 25350) Location: 40.52578 N, 75.05628 W Population (1990): 1528 (613 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 08825 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Frenchville, PA Zip code(s): 16836 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Furnas County, NE (county, FIPS 65) Location: 40.17341 N, 99.91475 W Population (1990): 5553 (2905 housing units) Area: 1859.9 sq km (land), 6.3 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
fairings n. /fer'ingz/ [FreeBSD; orig. a typo for `fairness'] A term thrown out in discussion whenever a completely and transparently nonsensical argument in one's favor(?) seems called for, e,g. at the end of a really long thread for which the outcome is no longer even cared about since everyone is now so sick of it; or in rebuttal to another nonsensical argument ("Change the loader to look for /kernel.pl? What about fairings?") | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
frink /frink/ v. The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found esp. on the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.lemurs, where it is said that the lemurs know what `frink' means, but they aren't telling. Compare {gorets}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FORMAC FORmula MAnipulation Compiler. J. Sammet & Tobey, IBM Boston APD, 1962. An extension of {Fortran} for {symbolic mathematics}. Versions: PL/I-FORMAC and FORMAC73. ["Introduction to FORMAC", J.E. Sammet et al, IEEE Trans Elec Comp (Aug 1964)]. [Sammet 1969, pp. 474-491]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Formes composition and synthesis, written in {VLISP}. ["Formes: Composition and Scheduling of Processes", X. Rodet & P. Cointe, Computer Music J 8(3):32-50 (Fall 1984)]. (1996-06-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
forms 1. 2. (1998-03-24) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Frame Check Sequence for {error detection and correction}(?). FCS is used in {X.25}, {HDLC}, {Frame Relay}, and other {data link layer} {protocols}. (1998-02-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
frame grabber {analog} {video} signal (from a video camera or {VCR}) and stores it as a digital {image} under computer control. (1997-07-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FrameKit ["The FrameKit User's Guide", E. Nyberg, TR CMU- CMT-88-MEMO, CMU 1988]. (1994-10-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
frames per second moving image. (2000-02-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FRANK ["Using BINS for Interprocess Communication", P.C.J. Graham, SIGPLAN Notices 20(2):32-41 (Feb 1985)]. (1995-01-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Franz Lisp primarily for work in {symbolic algebra} by R. Fateman et al at {Ucb} in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in {C} and includes a compiler called "{Liszt}". ["The FRANZ LISP Manual", J.K. Foderaro et al. UC Berkeley 1980]. Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08. {(ftp://ted.cs.uidaho.edu/pub/hol/franz.tar.Z)}. (2001-12-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FRINGE C. Katz, GE, 1961. Subcomponent of GE-255 GECOM system. Sorting and merging of data, reports and file maintenance. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
frink /frink/ The unknown ur-verb, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the {Usenet} newsgroup {news:alt.fan.lemurs}, where it is said that the lemurs know what "frink" means, but they aren't telling. Compare {gorets}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-16) | |
From The Elements (22Oct97) [elements]: | |
francium Symbol: Fr Atomic number: 87 Atomic weight: (223) Radioactive element, belongs to group 1 of the periodic table. Found in uranium and thorium ores. The 22 known isotopes are all radioactive, with the most stable being Fr-223. Its existence was confirmed in 1939 by Marguerite Perey. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Fornication in every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See {ADULTERY}.) But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols (Isa. 1:2; Jer. 2:20; Ezek. 16; Hos. 1:2; 2:1-5; Jer. 3:8,9). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Frankincense (Heb. lebonah; Gr. libanos, i.e., "white"), an odorous resin imported from Arabia (Isa. 60:6; Jer. 6:20), yet also growing in Palestine (Cant. 4:14). It was one of the ingredients in the perfume of the sanctuary (Ex. 30:34), and was used as an accompaniment of the meat-offering (Lev. 2:1, 16; 6:15; 24:7). When burnt it emitted a fragrant odour, and hence the incense became a symbol of the Divine name (Mal. 1:11; Cant. 1:3) and an emblem of prayer (Ps. 141:2; Luke 1:10; Rev. 5:8; 8:3). This frankincense, or olibanum, used by the Jews in the temple services is not to be confounded with the frankincense of modern commerce, which is an exudation of the Norway spruce fir, the Pinus abies. It was probably a resin from the Indian tree known to botanists by the name of Boswellia serrata or thurifera, which grows to the height of forty feet. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Frying-pan (Heb. marhesheth, a "boiler"), a pot for boiling meat (Lev. 2:7; 7:9). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Furnace (1.) Chald. attun, a large furnace with a wide open mouth, at the top of which materials were cast in (Dan. 3:22, 23; comp. Jer. 29:22). This furnace would be in constant requisition, for the Babylonians disposed of their dead by cremation, as did also the Accadians who invaded Mesopotamia. (2.) Heb. kibshan, a smelting furnace (Gen. 19:28), also a lime-kiln (Isa. 33:12; Amos 2:1). (3.) Heb. kur, a refining furnace (Prov. 17:3; 27:21; Ezek. 22:18). (4.) Heb. alil, a crucible; only used in Ps. 12:6. (5.) Heb. tannur, oven for baking bread (Gen. 15:17; Isa. 31:9; Neh. 3:11). It was a large pot, narrowing towards the top. When it was heated by a fire made within, the dough was spread over the heated surface, and thus was baked. "A smoking furnace and a burning lamp" (Gen. 15:17), the symbol of the presence of the Almighty, passed between the divided pieces of Abraham's sacrifice in ratification of the covenant God made with him. (See {OVEN}.) (6.) Gr. kamnos, a furnace, kiln, or oven (Matt. 13:42, 50; Rev. 1:15; 9:2). | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
France France:Geography Location: Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain Map references: Europe Area: total area: 547,030 sq km land area: 545,630 sq km comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Colorado note: includes Corsica and the rest of metropolitan France, but excludes the overseas administrative divisions Land boundaries: total 2,892.4 km, Andorra 60 km, Belgium 620 km, Germany 451 km, Italy 488 km, Luxembourg 73 km, Monaco 4.4 km, Spain 623 km, Switzerland 573 km Coastline: 3,427 km (mainland 2,783 km, Corsica 644 km) Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: Madagascar claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius claims Tromelin Island; Seychelles claims Tromelin Island; Suriname claims part of French Guiana; Mexico claims Clipperton Island; territorial claim in Antarctica (Adelie Land); Saint Pierre and Miquelon is focus of maritime boundary dispute between Canada and France Climate: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean Terrain: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east Natural resources: coal, iron ore, bauxite, fish, timber, zinc, potash Land use: arable land: 32% permanent crops: 2% meadows and pastures: 23% forest and woodland: 27% other: 16% Irrigated land: 11,600 sq km (1989 est.) Environment: current issues: some forest damage from acid rain; air pollution from industrial and vehicle emissions; water pollution from urban wastes, agricultural runoff natural hazards: flooding international agreements: party to - Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands, Whaling; signed, but not ratified - Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Desertification, Law of the Sea Note: largest West European nation; occasional warm tropical wind known as mistral France:People Population: 58,109,160 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 19% (female 5,438,447; male 5,700,143) 15-64 years: 65% (female 18,889,771; male 19,001,536) 65 years and over: 16% (female 5,433,276; male 3,645,987) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 0.46% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 9.29 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 0.86 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 6.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 78.37 years male: 74.5 years female: 82.44 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.8 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women) adjective: French Ethnic divisions: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities Religions: Roman Catholic 90%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim (North African workers) 1%, unaffiliated 6% Languages: French 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1991 est.) total population: 99% Labor force: 24.17 million by occupation: services 61.5%, industry 31.3%, agriculture 7.2% (1987) France:Government Names: conventional long form: French Republic conventional short form: France local long form: Republique Francaise local short form: France Digraph: FR Type: republic Capital: Paris Administrative divisions: 22 regions (regions, singular - region); Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Bourgogne, Bretagne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse, Franche-Comte, Haute-Normandie, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Rhone-Alpes note: the 22 regions are subdivided into 96 departments; see separate entries for the overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion) and the territorial collectivities (Mayotte, Saint Pierre and Miquelon) Dependent areas: Bassas da India, Clipperton Island, Europa Island, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, New Caledonia, Tromelin Island, Wallis and Futuna note: the US does not recognize claims to Antarctica Independence: 486 (unified by Clovis) National holiday: National Day, Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789) Constitution: 28 September 1958, amended concerning election of president in 1962, amended to comply with provisions of EC Maastricht Treaty in 1992; amended to tighten immigration laws 1993 Legal system: civil law system with indigenous concepts; review of administrative but not legislative acts Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Francois MITTERRAND (since 21 May 1981); election last held 8 May 1988 (next to be held by May 1995); results - Second Ballot Francois MITTERRAND 54%, Jacques CHIRAC 46% head of government: Prime Minister Edouard BALLADUR (since 29 March 1993) cabinet: Council of Ministers; appointed by the president on the suggestion of the prime minister Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament (Parlement) Senate (Senat): elections last held 27 September 1992 (next to be held September 1995; nine-year term, elected by thirds every three years); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (321 total; 296 metropolitan France, 13 for overseas departments and territories, and 12 for French nationals abroad) RPR 91, UDF 142, PS 66, PCF 16, independents 2, other 4 National Assembly (Assemblee Nationale): elections last held 21 and 28 March 1993 (next to be held NA 1998); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (577 total) RPR 247, UDF 213, PS 67, PCF 24, independents 26 Judicial branch: Constitutional Court (Cour Constitutionnelle) Political parties and leaders: Rally for the Republic (RPR), Alain JUPPE, interim head; Union for French Democracy (UDF, coalition of PR, CDS, RAD, PSD), Valery Giscard d'ESTAING; Republican Party (PR), Gerard LONGUET; Center for Social Democrats (CDS), Francois BAYROU; Radical (RAD), Yves GALLAND; Socialist Party (PS), Henri EMMANUELLI; Left Radical Movement (MRG), Jean-Francois HORY; Communist Party (PCF), Robert HUE; National Front (FN), Jean-Marie LE PEN; The Greens, Antoine WAECHTER, Jean-Louis VIDAL, Guy CAMBOT; Generation Ecology (GE), Brice LALONDE Other political or pressure groups: Communist-controlled labor union (Confederation Generale du Travail - CGT) nearly 2.4 million members (claimed); Socialist-leaning labor union (Confederation Francaise Democratique du Travail or CFDT) about 800,000 members (est.); independent labor union (Force Ouvriere) 1 million members (est.); independent white-collar union (Confederation Generale des Cadres) 340,000 members (claimed); National Council of French Employers (Conseil National du Patronat Francais - CNPF or Patronat) Member of: ACCT, AfDB, AG (observer), AsDB, Australia Group, BDEAC, BIS, CCC, CDB (non-regional), CE, CERN, EBRD, EC, ECA (associate), ECE, ECLAC, EIB, ESA, ESCAP, FAO, FZ, G- 5, G- 7, G-10, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, MTCR, NACC, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, ONUSAL, OSCE, PCA, SPC, UN, UN Security Council, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMIH, UNPROFOR, UNRWA, UNTSO, UNU, UPU, WCL, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Ambassador Jacques ANDREANI chancery: 4101 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007 telephone: [1] (202) 944-6000 consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, and San Juan (Puerto Rico) US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Ambassador Pamela C. HARRIMAN embassy: 2 Avenue Gabriel, 75382 Paris Cedex 08 mailing address: Unit 21551, Paris; APO AE 09777 telephone: [33] (1) 42 96 12 02, 42 61 80 75 FAX: [33] (1) 42 66 97 83 consulate(s) general: Bordeaux, Marseille, Strasbourg Flag: three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), white, and red; known as the French Tricouleur (Tricolor); the design and colors are similar to a number of other flags, including those of Belgium, Chad, Ireland, Cote d'Ivoire, and Luxembourg; the official flag for all French dependent areas Economy Overview: One of the world's most highly developed economies, France has substantial agricultural resources and a diversified modern industrial sector. Large tracts of fertile land, the application of modern technology, and subsidies have combined to make it the leading agricultural producer in Western Europe. Largely self-sufficient in agricultural products, France is a major exporter of wheat and dairy products. The industrial sector generates about one-quarter of GDP, and the growing services sector has become crucial to the economy. Following stagnation and recession in 1991-93, French GDP in 1994 expanded 2.4%. Growth in 1995 is expected to be in the 3.0% to 3.5% range. Persistently high unemployment will still pose a major problem for the government. Paris remains committed to maintaining the franc-deutsche mark parity, which has kept French interest rates high despite France's low inflation. Although the pace of economic and financial integration within the European Union has slowed down, integration presumably will remain a major force shaping the fortunes of the various economic sectors over the next few years. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.0801 trillion (1994 est.) National product real growth rate: 2.4% (1994 est.) National product per capita: $18,670 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.6% (1994) Unemployment rate: 12.6% (yearend 1994) Budget: revenues: $220.5 billion expenditures: $249.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $47 billion (1993 budget) Exports: $249.2 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.) commodities: machinery and transportation equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, agricultural products, iron and steel products, textiles and clothing partners: Germany 18.6%, Italy 11.0%, Spain 11.0%, Belgium-Luxembourg 9.1%, UK 8.8%, Netherlands 7.9%, US 6.4%, Japan 2.0%, FSU 0.7% (1991 est.) Imports: $238.1 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.) commodities: crude oil, machinery and equipment, agricultural products, chemicals, iron and steel products partners: Germany 17.8%, Italy 10.9%, US 9.5%, Netherlands 8.9%, Spain 8.8%, Belgium-Luxembourg 8.5%, UK 7.5%, Japan 4.1%, FSU 1.3% (1991 est.) External debt: $300 billion (1993 est.) Industrial production: growth rate 2.6% (1994 est.) Electricity: capacity: 105,250,000 kW production: 447 billion kWh consumption per capita: 6,149 kWh (1993) Industries: steel, machinery, chemicals, automobiles, metallurgy, aircraft, electronics, mining, textiles, food processing, tourism Agriculture: accounts for 4% of GDP (including fishing and forestry); one of the world's top five wheat producers; other principal products - beef, dairy products, cereals, sugar beets, potatoes, wine grapes; self-sufficient for most temperate-zone foods; shortages include fats and oils and tropical produce, but overall net exporter of farm products; fish catch of 850,000 metric tons ranks among world's top 20 countries and is all used domestically Economic aid: donor: ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $75.1 billion Currency: 1 French franc (F) = 100 centimes Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1 - 5.9243 (January 1995), 5.5520 (1994), 5.6632 (1993), 5.2938 (1992), 5.6421 (1991), 5.4453 (1990) Fiscal year: calendar year France:Transportation Railroads: total: 34,074 km standard gauge: 33,975 km 1.435-m gauge (5,850 km electrified; 12,132 km double or multiple track) other: 99 km various gauges including 1.000-m (privately owned and operated) (1994) Highways: total: 1,511,200 km paved: 811,200 km (including 7,700 km of controlled access divided highway) unpaved: 700,000 km (1992) Inland waterways: 14,932 km; 6,969 km heavily traveled Pipelines: crude oil 3,059 km; petroleum products 4,487 km; natural gas 24,746 km Ports: Bordeaux, Boulogne, Cherbourg, Dijon, Dunkerque, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Mullhouse, Nantes, Paris, Rouen, Saint Nazaire, Saint Malo, Strasbourg Merchant marine: total: 78 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,186,183 GRT/3,323,068 DWT ships by type: bulk 6, cargo 7, chemical tanker 6, container 15, liquefied gas tanker 4, oil tanker 21, passenger 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 11, short-sea passenger 5, specialized tanker 2 note: France also maintains a captive register for French-owned ships in the Kerguelen Islands (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) and French Polynesia Airports: total: 476 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 12 with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 29 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 96 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 74 with paved runways under 914 m: 188 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 3 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 74 France:Communications Telephone system: 39,200,000 telephones; highly developed; extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks; large-scale introduction of optical-fiber systems; satellite systems for domestic traffic local: NA intercity: microwave radio relay, optical fiber cable, and domestic satellites international: 2 INTELSAT earth stations (with total of 5 antennas - 2 Indian Ocean and 3 for Atlantic Ocean); HF radio communications with more than 20 countries; INMARSAT service; EUTELSAT TV service Radio: broadcast stations: AM 41, FM 800 (mostly repeaters), shortwave 0 radios: 48 million Television: broadcast stations: 846 (mostly repeaters) televisions: 36 million France:Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy (includes Naval Air), Air Force and Air Defense, National Gendarmerie Manpower availability: males age 15-49 14,740,155; males fit for military service 12,258,691; males reach military age (18) annually 378,489 (1995 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $47.1 billion, 3.1% of GDP (1995) | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
French Guiana (overseas department of France) French Guiana:Geography Location: Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and Suriname Map references: South America Area: total area: 91,000 sq km land area: 89,150 sq km comparative area: slightly smaller than Indiana Land boundaries: total 1,183 km, Brazil 673 km, Suriname 510 km Coastline: 378 km Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: Suriname claims area between Riviere Litani and Riviere Marouini (both headwaters of the Lawa) Climate: tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: low-lying coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains Natural resources: bauxite, timber, gold (widely scattered), cinnabar, kaolin, fish Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 82% other: 18% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: NA natural hazards: high frequency of heavy showers and severe thunderstorms; flooding international agreements: NA Note: mostly an unsettled wilderness French Guiana:People Population: 145,270 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 32% (female 22,511; male 23,535) 15-64 years: 63% (female 41,995; male 50,064) 65 years and over: 5% (female 3,608; male 3,557) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 4.13% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 25.23 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 4.61 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 20.65 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 15.1 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 75.52 years male: 72.27 years female: 78.94 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 3.46 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: French Guianese (singular and plural) adjective: French Guianese Ethnic divisions: black or mulatto 66%, Caucasian 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10% Religions: Roman Catholic Languages: French Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1982) total population: 83% male: 84% female: 82% Labor force: 23,265 by occupation: services, government, and commerce 60.6%, industry 21.2%, agriculture 18.2% (1980) French Guiana:Government Names: conventional long form: Department of Guiana conventional short form: French Guiana local long form: none local short form: Guyane Digraph: FG Type: overseas department of France Capital: Cayenne Administrative divisions: none (overseas department of France) Independence: none (overseas department of France) National holiday: National Day, Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789) Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution) Legal system: French legal system Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Francois MITTERRAND (since 21 May 1981) head of government: Prefect Jean-Francois CORDET (since NA 1992); President of the General Council Elie CASTOR (since NA); President of the Regional Council Antoine KARAM (22 March 1993) cabinet: Council of Ministers Legislative branch: unicameral General Council and a unicameral Regional Council General Council: elections last held 25 September and 8 October 1988 (next to be held NA); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (19 total) PSG 12, URC 7 Regional Council: elections last held 22 March 1992 (next to be held NA); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (31 total) PSG 16, FDG 10, RPR 2, independents 3 French Senate: elections last held 24 September 1989 (next to be held September 1998); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (1 total) PSG 1 French National Assembly: elections last held 21 and 28 March 1993 (next to be held NA 1998); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (2 total) RPR 1, independent 1 Judicial branch: Court of Appeals (highest local court based in Martinique with jurisdiction over Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana) Political parties and leaders: Guianese Socialist Party (PSG), Elie CASTRO; Conservative Union for the Republic (UPR), Leon BERTRAND; Rally for the Center Right (URC); Rally for the Republic (RPR); Guyana Democratic Front (FDG), Georges OTHILY; Walwari Committee, Christine TAUBIRA-DELANON Member of: FZ, WCL, WFTU Diplomatic representation in US: none (overseas department of France) US diplomatic representation: none (overseas department of France) Flag: the flag of France is used Economy Overview: The economy is tied closely to that of France through subsidies and imports. Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing and forestry are the most important economic activities, with exports of fish and fish products (mostly shrimp) accounting for more than 60% of total revenue in 1992. The large reserves of tropical hardwoods, not fully exploited, support an expanding sawmill industry that provides sawn logs for export. Cultivation of crops - rice, cassava, bananas, and sugarcane - is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated. French Guiana is heavily dependent on imports of food and energy. Unemployment is a serious problem, particularly among younger workers. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $800 million (1993 est.) National product real growth rate: NA% National product per capita: $6,000 (1993 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (1992) Unemployment rate: 13% (1990) Budget: revenues: $735 million expenditures: $735 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1987) Exports: $59 million (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: shrimp, timber, rum, rosewood essence partners: France 52%, Spain 15%, US 5% (1992) Imports: $1.5 billion (c.i.f., 1992) commodities: food (grains, processed meat), other consumer goods, producer goods, petroleum partners: France 77%, Germany 11%, US 5% (1992) External debt: $1.2 billion (1988) Industrial production: growth rate NA% Electricity: capacity: 180,000 kW production: 450 million kWh consumption per capita: 3,149 kWh (1993) Industries: construction, shrimp processing, forestry products, rum, gold mining Agriculture: some vegetables for local consumption; rice, corn, manioc, cocoa, bananas, sugar; livestock - cattle, pigs, poultry Illicit drugs: small amount of marijuana grown for local consumption Economic aid: recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $1.51 billion Currency: 1 French franc (F) = 100 centimes Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1 - 5.9243 (January 1995), 5.5520 (1994), 5.6632 (1993), 5.2938 (1992), 5.6421 (1991), 5.4453 (1990) Fiscal year: calendar year French Guiana:Transportation Railroads: total: 22 km (est.) Highways: total: 1,137 km paved: 455 km unpaved: improved, unimproved earth 682 km (1988) Inland waterways: 460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers; 3,300 km navigable by native craft Ports: Cayenne, Degrad des Cannes, Saint-Laurent du Maroni Merchant marine: none Airports: total: 11 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2 with paved runways under 914 m: 5 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3 French Guiana:Communications Telephone system: 18,100 telephones; fair open-wire and microwave radio relay system local: NA intercity: open wire and microwave radio relay international: 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 7, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: 9 televisions: NA French Guiana:Defense Forces Branches: French Forces, Gendarmerie Manpower availability: males age 15-49 41,986; males fit for military service 27,298 Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP Note: defense is the responsibility of France | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
French Polynesia (overseas territory of France) French Polynesia:Geography Location: Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from South America to Australia Map references: Oceania Area: total area: 3,941 sq km land area: 3,660 sq km comparative area: slightly less than one-third the size of Connecticut Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 2,525 km Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: none Climate: tropical, but moderate Terrain: mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs Natural resources: timber, fish, cobalt Land use: arable land: 1% permanent crops: 19% meadows and pastures: 5% forest and woodland: 31% other: 44% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: NA natural hazards: occasional cyclonic storms in January international agreements: NA Note: includes five archipelagoes; Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Nauru French Polynesia:People Population: 219,999 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 36% (female 38,361; male 39,744) 15-64 years: 60% (female 64,034; male 69,024) 65 years and over: 4% (female 4,437; male 4,399) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 2.23% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 27.56 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 5.27 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 14.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.75 years male: 68.32 years female: 73.29 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 3.3 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: French Polynesian(s) adjective: French Polynesian Ethnic divisions: Polynesian 78%, Chinese 12%, local French 6%, metropolitan French 4% Religions: Protestant 54%, Roman Catholic 30%, other 16% Languages: French (official), Tahitian (official) Literacy: age 14 and over can read and write but definition of literary not available (1977) total population: 98% male: 98% female: 98% Labor force: 76,630 employed (1988) French Polynesia:Government Names: conventional long form: Territory of French Polynesia conventional short form: French Polynesia local long form: Territoire de la Polynesie Francaise local short form: Polynesie Francaise Digraph: FP Type: overseas territory of France since 1946 Capital: Papeete Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of France); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 5 archipelagic divisions named Archipel des Marquises, Archipel des Tuamotu, Archipel des Tubuai, Iles du Vent, and Iles Sous-le-Vent note: Clipperton Island is administered by France from French Polynesia Independence: none (overseas territory of France) National holiday: National Day, Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789) Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution) Legal system: based on French system Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Francois MITTERRAND (since 21 May 1981); High Commissioner of the Republic Paul RONCIERE (since 8 August 1994) head of government: President of the Territorial Government of French Polynesia Gaston FLOSSE (since 10 May 1991); Deputy to the French Assembly and President of the Territorial Assembly Jean JUVENTIN (since NA November 1992); Territorial Vice President and Minister of Health Michel BUILLARD (since 12 September 1991) cabinet: Council of Ministers; president submits a list of members of the Assembly for approval by them to serve as ministers Legislative branch: unicameral Territorial Assembly: elections last held 17 March 1991 (next to be held March 1996); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (41 total) People's Rally for the Republic (Gaullist) 18, Polynesian Union Party 12, New Fatherland Party 7, other 4 French Senate: elections last held 24 September 1989 (next to be held September 1998); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (1 total) party NA French National Assembly: elections last held 21 and 28 March 1993 (next to be held NA March 1998); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (2 total) People's Rally for the Republic (Gaullist) 2 Judicial branch: Court of Appeal, Court of the First Instance, Court of Administrative Law Political parties and leaders: People's Rally for the Republic (Tahoeraa Huiraatira), Gaston FLOSSE; Polynesian Union Party (includes Te Tiarama), Alexandre LEONTIEFF; Here Ai'a Party, Jean JUVENTIN; New Fatherland Party (Ai'a Api), Emile VERNAUDON; Polynesian Liberation Front (Tavini Hviraatira No Te Ao Maohi), Oscar TEMARU; Independent Party (Ia Mana Te Nunaa), Jacques DROLLET; other small parties Member of: ESCAP (associate), FZ, ICFTU, SPC, WMO Diplomatic representation in US: none (overseas territory of France) US diplomatic representation: none (overseas territory of France) Flag: the flag of France is used Economy Overview: Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either employed by the military or supports the tourist industry. Tourism accounts for about 20% of GDP and is a primary source of hard currency earnings. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.5 billion (1993 est.) National product real growth rate: NA% National product per capita: $7,000 (1993 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.7% (1991) Unemployment rate: 10% (1990 est.) Budget: revenues: $614 million expenditures: $957 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1988) Exports: $88.9 million (f.o.b., 1989) commodities: coconut products 79%, mother-of-pearl 14%, vanilla, shark meat partners: France 54%, US 17%, Japan 17% Imports: $765 million (c.i.f., 1989) commodities: fuels, foodstuffs, equipment partners: France 53%, US 11%, Australia 6%, NZ 5% External debt: $NA Industrial production: growth rate NA%; accounts for 15% of GDP Electricity: capacity: 75,000 kW production: 275 million kWh consumption per capita: 1,189 kWh (1993) Industries: tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts Agriculture: coconut and vanilla plantations; vegetables and fruit; poultry, beef, dairy products Economic aid: recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $3.95 billion Currency: 1 CFP franc (CFPF) = 100 centimes Exchange rates: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF) per US$1 - 96.25 (January 1995), 100.94 (1994), 102.96 (1993), 96.24 (1992), 102.57 (1991), 99.00 (1990); note - linked at the rate of 18.18 to the French franc Fiscal year: calendar year French Polynesia:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 600 km (1982) paved: NA unpaved: NA Ports: Mataura, Papeete, Rikitea, Uturoa Merchant marine: total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,127 GRT/6,710 DWT ships by type: passenger-cargo 2, refrigerated cargo 1 note: a subset of the French register allowing French-owned ships to operate under more liberal taxation and manning regulations than permissable under the main French register Airports: total: 43 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 14 with paved runways under 914 m: 18 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 4 French Polynesia:Communications Telephone system: 33,200 telephones local: NA intercity: NA international: 1 INTELSAT (Pacific Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 2, shortwave 0 radios: 84,000 Television: broadcast stations: 6 televisions: 26,400 French Polynesia:Defense Forces Branches: French Forces (includes Army, Navy, Air Force), Gendarmerie Note: defense is responsibility of France | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
French Southern And Antarctic Lands (overseas territory of France) French Southern And Antarctic Lands:Geography Location: Southern Africa, islands in the southern Indian Ocean, about equidistant between Africa, Antarctica, and Australia; note - "French Southern and Antarctic Lands" includes Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Crozet, and Iles Kerguelen in the southern Indian Ocean, along with the French-claimed sector of Antartica, "Terre Adelie"; the United States does not recognize the French claim to "Terre Adelie" Map references: Antarctic Region Area: total area: 7,781 sq km land area: 7,781 sq km comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Delaware note: includes Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen; excludes "Terre Adelie" claim of about 500,000 sq km in Antarctica that is not recognized by the US Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 1,232 km Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 nm from Iles Kerguelen only territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: "Terre Adelie" claim in Antarctica is not recognized by the US Climate: antarctic Terrain: volcanic Natural resources: fish, crayfish Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100% Irrigated land: 0 sq km Environment: current issues: NA natural hazards: Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul are extinct volcanoes international agreements: NA Note: remote location in the southern Indian Ocean French Southern And Antarctic Lands:People Population: no indigenous inhabitants; note - there are researchers whose numbers vary from 150 in winter (July) to 200 in summer (January) French Southern And Antarctic Lands:Government Names: conventional long form: Territory of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands conventional short form: French Southern and Antarctic Lands local long form: Territoire des Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises local short form: Terres Australes et Antarctiques Francaises Digraph: FS Type: overseas territory of France since 1955; governed by High Administrator Bernard de GOUTTES (since May 1990), who is assisted by a 7-member Consultative Council and a 12-member Scientific Council Capital: none; administered from Paris, France Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of France); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 3 districts named Ile Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam; excludes "Terre Adelie" claim in Antarctica that is not recognized by the US Independence: none (overseas territory of France) Flag: the flag of France is used Economy Overview: Economic activity is limited to servicing meteorological and geophysical research stations and French and other fishing fleets. The fish catches landed on Iles Kerguelen by foreign ships are exported to France and Reunion. Budget: revenues: $17.5 million expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA (1992) French Southern And Antarctic Lands:Transportation Highways: total: NA paved: NA unpaved: NA Ports: none; offshore anchorage only Merchant marine: total: 48 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,290,975 GRT/2,403,050 DWT ships by type: bulk 5, cargo 6, chemical tanker 4, container 1, liquefied gas tanker 3, multifunction large-load carrier 1, oil tanker 15, refrigerated cargo 4, roll-on/roll-off cargo 8, specialized liquefied tanker 1 note: a subset of the French register allowing French-owned ships to operate under more liberal taxation and manning regulations than permissable under the main French register Airports: none French Southern And Antarctic Lands:Communications Telephone system: NA telephones local: NA intercity: NA international: NA Radio: broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: NA televisions: NA French Southern And Antarctic Lands:Defense Forces Note: defense is the responsibility of France |