Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.
Frett (n.) A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
Fretted (p. p. & a.) Rubbed or worn away; chafed.
Fretted (p. p. & a.) Agitated; vexed; worried.
Fretted (p. p. & a.) Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.
Fretted (p. p. & a.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
Fretter (n.) One who, or that which, frets.
Fretty (a.) Adorned with fretwork.
Freta (pl. ) of Fretum
Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea.
Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.
Freya (n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
Friabiiity (n.) The quality of being friable; friableness.
Friable (a.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
Friar (n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
Friar (n.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
Friar (n.) An American fish; the silversides.
Friarly (a.) Like a friar; inexperienced.
Friary (n.) Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.
Friary (n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.
Friary (n.) The institution or praactices of friars.
Friation (n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
Frible (a.) Frivolous; trifling; sily.
Fribble (n.) A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
Fribble (v. i.) To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.
Fribble (v. i.) To totter.
Fribbler (n.) A trifler; a fribble.
Fribbling (a.) Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.
Friborg (n.) Alt. of Friborgh
Friborgh (n.) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.
Fricace (n.) Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
Fricace (n.) An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.
Fricandeau (n.) Alt. of Fricando
Fricando (n.) A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel.
Fricassee (n.) A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
Fricassed (imp. & p. p.) of Frlcassee
Fricasseeing (p. pr. &. vb. n.) of Frlcassee
Frlcassee (v. t.) To dress like a fricassee.
Frication (n.) Friction.
Fricative (a.) Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc.
Fricative (n.) A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.
Fricatrice (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot.
Frickle (n.) A bushel basket.
Ftiction (n.) The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.
Ftiction (n.) The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.
Ftiction (n.) A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.
Frictional (a.) Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.
Frictionless (a.) Having no friction.
Friday (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
Fridge (n.) To rub; to fray.
Fridstol (n.) Alt. of Frithstool
Frithstool (n.) A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary.
Fried () imp. & p. p. of Fry.
Friend (n.) One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.
Friend (n.) One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.
Friend (n.) One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.
Friend (n.) A paramour of either sex.
Friended (imp. & p. p.) of Friend
Friending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Friend
Friend (v. t.) To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Friended (a.) Having friends;
Friended (a.) Inclined to love; well-disposed.
Friending (n.) Friendliness.
Friendless (a.) Destitute of friends; forsaken.
Friendlily (adv.) In a friendly manner.
Friendliness (n.) The condition or quality of being friendly.
Friendly (a.) Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
Friendly (a.) Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.
Friendly (a.) Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
Friendly (a.) Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.
Friendly (adv.) In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.
Friendship (n.) The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.
Friendship (n.) Kindly aid; help; assistance,
Friendship (n.) Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
Frier (n.) One who fries.
Friese (n.) Same as Friesic, n.
Friesic (a.) Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands.
Friesic (n.) The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark.
Friesish (a.) Friesic.
Frieze (n.) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
Frieze (n.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
Frieze (n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
Frieze (v. t.) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
Friezed (a.) Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2.
Friezer (n.) One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.
Frigate (n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.
Frigate (n.) Any small vessel on the water.
Frigate-built (a.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
Frigatoon (n.) A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
Frigefaction (n.) The act of making cold. [Obs.]
Frigefactive (a.) Cooling.
Frigerate (e. t.) To make cool.
Frigg (n.) Alt. of Frigga
Frigga (n.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
Fright (n.) A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
Fright (n.) Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
Frighted (imp.) of Fright
Frighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fright