Part 4562

<hw>Frank"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.</def>

<h1>Frankpledge</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Frank"pledge`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Frank</ets> free + <ets>pledge</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The tithing itself</def>.

<i>Bouvier.</i>

<blockquote>The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in <b>frankpledge</b> for each other. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Frantic</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fran"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>frentik</ets>, <ets>frenetik</ets>, F. <ets>frentique</ets>, L. <ets>phreneticus</ets>, from Gr. <?/. See <er>Frenzy</er>, and cf. <er>Frenetic</er>, <er>Phrenetic</er>.]</ety> <def>Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.</def>

<blockquote>Die, <b>frantic</b> wretch, for this accursed deed! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Torrents of <b>frantic</b> abuse. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Fran"tic*al*ly</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Fran"tic*ly</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<i>Shak.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Fran"tic*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Frap</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Frap</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Frapped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Frapping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>frapper</ets> to strike, to seize ropes. Cf. <er>Affrap</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together.</def>

<i>Tottem.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To brace by drawing together, as the cords of a drum.</def>

<i>Knoght.</i>

<h1>Frape</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Frape</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <ets>frap</ets>, and Prov. E. <ets>frape</ets> to scold.]</ety> <def>A crowd, a rabble.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>ares.</i>

<h1>Frapler</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Frap"ler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A blusterer; a rowdy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Unpolished, a <b>frapler</b>, and base. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Frater</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fra"ter</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., a brother.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>A monk; also, a frater house.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shipley.</i>

<cs><col>Frater house</col>, <cd>an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a <altname>fratery</altname>.</cd></cs>