Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 63
Frenums (n. pl. ) of Frenum.
Frena (n. pl. ) of Frenum.
Frenum (n.) (Zool.) A cheek stripe of color.
Frenum (n.) (Anat.) Same as Fr[ae]num.
Fraenum, or Frenum, (n.; pl. E. Fr[ae]nums) (Anat.) A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fr[ae]num of the tongue.
Frenzical (a.) Frantic. [Obs.] -- Orrery.
Frenzied (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.
Frenzied (a.) Affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity" [syn: frenzied, manic].
Frenzied (a.) Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye" [syn: frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied].
Frenzy (v. t.) 使發狂；使狂怒 [H] To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness. [R.] "Frenzying anguish." -- Southey.
Frenzies (n. pl. ) of Frenzy.
Frenzy (n.) （暫時的） 瘋狂；狂怒；狂熱；極度的激動 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; derangement; alienation; aberration; delirium. See Insanity.
Frenzy (a.) Mad; frantic. [R.]
They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. -- Bunyan.
Frenzy (n.) State of violent mental agitation [syn: {craze}, {delirium}, {frenzy}, {fury}, {hysteria}].
Frequence (n.) A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
Frequence (n.) Frequency; abundance.
Frequencies (n. pl. ) of Frequency.
Frequency (n.) The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
Frequency (n.) A crowd; a throng.
Frequent (a.) Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.
Frequent (a.) Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
Frequent (a.) Full; crowded; thronged. [Obs.]
Frequent (a.) Often or commonly reported. [Obs.]
Frequented (imp. & p. p.) of Frequent.
Frequenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frequent.
Frequent (v. t.) To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.
Frequent (v. t.) To make full; to fill. [Obs.]
Frequent (a.) Coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints" [ant: {infrequent}].
Frequent (a.) Frequently encountered; "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'".
Frequent (v.) Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: {patronize}, {patronise}, {shop}, {shop at}, {buy at}, {frequent}, {sponsor}] [ant: {boycott}].
Frequent (v.) Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; "She haunts the ballet" [syn: {frequent}, {haunt}].
Frequentable (a.) Accessible. [R.] -- Sidney.
Frequentage (n.) The practice or habit of frequenting. [R.] -- Southey.
Frequentation (n.) The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. -- Chesterfield.
Frequentative (a.) Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb.
Frequentative (n.) A frequentative verb. -- n. A frequentative verb.
Frequentative (n.) A verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action.
Frequenter (n.) One who frequents; one who often visits, or resorts to customarily.
Frequenter (n.) A regular customer [syn: patron, frequenter].
Frequently (adv.) 頻繁地，屢次地 At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly.
Frequently (adv.) Many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee" [syn: {frequently}, {often}, {oftentimes}, {oft}, {ofttimes}] [ant: {infrequently}, {rarely}, {seldom}].
Frequentness (n.) The quality of being frequent.
Frere (n.) A friar.
Frescade (a.) A cool walk; shady place.
Frescoes (n. pl. ) of Fresco.
Frescos (n. pl. ) of Fresco.
Fresco (a.) A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.
Fresco (a.) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.
Fresco (a.) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
Fresco (a.) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.
Frescoed (imp. & p. p.) of Fresco.
Frescoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fresco.
Fresco (v. t.) To paint in fresco, as walls.
Fresh (a.) Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
Fresh (a.) New; original; additional. "Fear of fresh mistakes." -- Sir W. Scott.
A fresh pleasure in every fresh posture of the limbs. -- Landor.
Fresh (a.) Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.
Fresh (a.) Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.
Fresh (a.) In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.
Fresh (a.) Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.
Fresh (a.) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.
Fresh breeze (Naut.), A breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour.
Fresh gale, A gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour.
Fresh way (Naut.), Increased speed.
Syn: Sound; unimpaired; recent; unfaded: ruddy; florid; sweet; good: inexperienced; unpracticed: unused; lively; vigorous; strong.
Freshes (n. pl. ) of Fresh.
Fresh (n.) A stream or spring of fresh water.
He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are. -- Shak.
Fresh (n.) A flood; a freshet. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Fresh (n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. -- Beverly.
Fresh (v. t.) To refresh; to freshen. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R.
Fresh (adv.) Very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh, new].
Fresh (a.) Recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"; "fresh lettuce" [ant: stale].
Fresh (a.) (Of a cycle) Beginning or occurring again; "a fresh start"; "fresh ideas".
Fresh (a.) Imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air" [syn: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic].
Fresh (a.) Original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: fresh, new, novel].
Fresh (a.) Not canned or otherwise preserved; "fresh vegetables" [ant: preserved].
Fresh (a.) Not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water" [syn: fresh, sweet] [ant: salty].
Fresh (a.) Having recently calved and therefore able to give milk; "the cow is fresh".
Fresh (a.) With restored energy [syn: fresh, invigorated, refreshed, reinvigorated].
Fresh (a.) Not soured or preserved; "sweet milk" [syn: fresh, sweet, unfermented].
Fresh (a.) Free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air" [syn: clean, fresh].
Fresh (a.) Not yet used or soiled; "a fresh shirt"; "a fresh sheet of paper"; "an unused envelope" [syn: fresh, unused].
Fresh (a.) Improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!" [syn: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy, sassy, wise].
Fresh () ["Fresh: A Higher-Order Language Based on Unification", G. Smolka, in Logic Programming: Functions, Relations and Equations", D. DeGroot et al, P-H 1986, pp. 469-524]. (1996-04-28)
Freshen (v. i.) To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
Freshen (v. i.) To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
Freshened (imp. & p. p.) of Freshen.
Freshening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Freshen.
Freshen (v. t.) To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
Freshen (v. t.) To refresh; to revive. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Freshen (v. t.) (Naut.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. -- Totten.
To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it.
To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part.
To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Freshen (v.) Make (to feel) fresh; "The cool water refreshed us" [syn: refresh, freshen].
Freshen (v.) Become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game" [syn: freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up].
Freshen (v.) Make fresh again [syn: refresh, freshen, refreshen] [ant: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary].
Freshet (n.) A stream of fresh water. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Freshet (n.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.
Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. -- Longfellow.
Freshet (n.) The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow [syn: freshet, spate].
Freshly (adv.) In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.
Looks he as freshly as he did? -- Shak.
Freshly (adv.) Very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh, new].
Freshly (adv.) In an impudent or impertinent manner; "a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently" [syn: impertinently, saucily, pertly, freshly, impudently].
Freshmen (n. pl. ) of Freshman.
Freshman (n.) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
Syn: frosh.
He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. -- Goldsmith.
Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]
Freshman (a.) Used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college" [syn: freshman, first-year].
Freshman (n.) A first-year undergraduate [syn: freshman, fresher].
Freshman (n.) Any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant].
Freshmanship (n.) The state of being a freshman.
Freshment (n.) Refreshment. [Obs.]
Freshness (n.) The state of being fresh.
The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. -- Hayward.
And breathe the freshness of the open air. -- Dryden.
Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. -- Granville.
Freshness (n.) The property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated; "she loved the freshness o newly baked bread"; "the freshness of the air revived him" [ant: staleness].
Freshness (n.) Originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel [syn: freshness, novelty].
Freshness (n.) An alert and refreshed state [syn: freshness, glow].
Freshness (n.) Originality by virtue of being new and surprising [syn: novelty, freshness].
Freshness (n.) The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness].
Fresh-new (a.) Unpracticed. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.
Fresh-water (a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.
Fresh-water (a.) Unskilled; raw. [Colloq.] "Fresh-water soldiers." -- Knolles. Fresnel lamp.
Fresnel lamp () Alt. of Fres'nel' lan'tern
Fres'nel' lan'tern () A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.
Fresnel lens () See under Lens.
Lens (n.; pl. Lenses) (Opt.) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure. Lenses
Note: Of spherical lenses, there are six varieties, as shown in section in the figures herewith given: viz., a plano-concave; b double-concave; c plano-convex; d double-convex; e converging concavo-convex, or converging meniscus; f diverging concavo-convex, or diverging meniscus.
Crossed lens (Opt.), A double-convex lens with one radius equal to six times the other.
Crystalline lens. (Anat.) See Eye.
Fresnel lens (Opt.), 菲涅耳透鏡（英語：Fresnel lens），又譯菲涅爾透鏡，別稱螺紋透鏡，是由法國物理學家奧古斯丁·菲涅耳所發明的一種透鏡。此設計原來被應用於燈塔，這個設計可以建造更大孔徑的透鏡，其特點是焦距短，且比一般的透鏡的材料用量更少、重量與體積更小。和早期的透鏡相比，菲涅耳透鏡更薄，因此可以傳遞更多的光，使得燈塔即使距離相當遠仍可看見。A compound lens formed by placing around a central convex lens rings of glass so curved as to have the same focus; used, especially in lighthouses, for concentrating light in a particular direction; -- so called from the inventor.
Multiplying lens or Multiplying glass (Opt.), A lens one side of which is plane and the other convex, but made up of a number of plane faces inclined to one another, each of which presents a separate image of the object viewed through it, so that the object is, as it were, multiplied.
Polyzonal lens. See Polyzonal.
Lens (n.) A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images [syn: lens, lense, lens system].
Lens (n.) Genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils [syn: Lens, genus Lens].
Lens (n.) (Metaphor) A channel through which something can be seen or understood; "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen".
Lens (n.) Biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina [syn: lens, crystalline lens, lens of the eye].
Lens (n.) Electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons [syn: lens, electron lens].
LENS () Laser Engineered Net-Shaping.
Fresnel lens (n.) Lens composed of a number of small lenses arranged to make a lightweight lens of large diameter and short focal length.
Fret (n.) See 1st Frith.
Fretted (imp. & p. p.) of Fret.
Fretting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fret.
Fret (v. t.) 穿 著；戴著；佩帶著；塗抹（香水，化妝品）；（習慣性地）戴著（假髮，眼鏡等）；面露，面帶，面有……色；（將鬍鬚，頭髮）留成……的樣子；保持……的樣 子；（船隻）升，掛（旗）；（騎師、騎士）打著（旗）；穿破，磨損，磨出；沖刷；沖蝕；使疲乏，使厭煩；使力竭；消磨（時間） To devour. [Obs.]
The sow frete the child right in the cradle. -- Chaucer.
Fret (v. t.) To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.
With many a curve my banks I fret. -- Tennyson.
Fret (v. t.) To impair; to wear away; to diminish.
By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. -- Shak.
Fret (v. t.) To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.
Fret (v. t.) To tease; to irritate; to vex.
Fret not thyself because of evil doers. -- Ps. xxxvii. 1.
Fret (v. i.) 磨損；穿破；變舊；用壞；耐久；耐穿；耐磨 [Q]；（時間）逐漸消逝 [（+on/ away）] To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.
Fret (v. i.) To eat in; to make way by corrosion.
Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation. -- Wiseman.
Fret (v. i.) To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.
Fret (v. i.) To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. -- Dryden.
Fret (n.) [U] 穿；戴；佩；使用；（常用於複合詞）衣服，服裝；時裝；磨損，損耗；耐用性，經久性 The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. -- Addison.
Fret (n.) Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.
Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret. -- Pope.
Fret (n.) Herpes; tetter. -- Dunglison.
Fret (n.) pl. (Mining) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.
Fret (v. t.) To ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.
Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about. -- Spenser.
Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. -- Shak.
Fret (n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork.
Fret (n.) (Arch.) An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art.
His lady's cabinet is a adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney-piece with . . . carving. -- Evelyn.
Fret (n.) The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.
A fret of gold she had next her hair. -- Chaucer.
Fret saw, a saw with a long, narrow blade, used in cutting frets, scrolls, etc.; a scroll saw; a keyhole saw; a compass saw.
Fret (n.) (Her.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
Fret (n.) (Mus.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.
Fret (v. t.) To furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
Fret (n.) Agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither].
Fret (n.) A spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion [syn: worn spot, fret].
Fret (n.) An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief); "there was a simple fret at the top of the walls" [syn: fret, Greek fret, Greek key, key pattern].
Fret (n.) A small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch.
Fret (v.) Worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now" [syn: fuss, niggle, fret].
Fret (v.) Be agitated or irritated; "don't fret over these small details".
Fret (v.) Provide (a musical instrument) with frets; "fret a guitar".
Fret (v.) Become or make sore by or as if by rubbing [syn: chafe, gall, fret].
Fret (v.) Cause annoyance in.
Fret (v.) Gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: eat into, fret, rankle, grate].
Fret (v.) Carve a pattern into.
Fret (v.) Decorate with an interlaced design.
Fret (v.) Be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" [syn: choke, gag, fret].
Fret (v.) Cause friction; "my sweater scratches" [syn: rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratch].
Fret (v.) Remove soil or rock; "Rain eroded the terraces" [syn: erode, eat away, fret].
Fret (v.) Wear away or erode [syn: fret, eat away].
Fretful (a.) 煩惱的，焦躁的 Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- Fret"ful*ly, adv. -- Fret"ful*ness, n.
Syn: Peevish; ill-humored; ill-natured; irritable; waspish; captious; petulant; splenetic; spleeny; passionate; angry.
Usage: Fretful, Peevish, Cross. These words all indicate an unamiable working and expression of temper. Peevish marks more especially the inward spirit: a peevish man is always ready to find fault. Fretful points rather to the outward act, and marks a complaining impatience: sickly children are apt to be fretful. Crossness is peevishness mingled with vexation or anger.
Fretful (a.) Nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child" [syn: antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy].
Fretful (a.) Habitually complaining; "a whiny child" [syn: fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny].