Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 64
Frett (n.) (Mining) 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.) (Her.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
Fretted (a.) Having frets [ant: unfretted].
Fretted (a.) Having a pattern of fretwork or latticework [syn: fretted, interlaced, latticed, latticelike].
Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] -- Wright.
Fretter (n.) One who, or that which, frets.
Fretty (a.) Adorned with fretwork.
Freta (n. pl. ) of Fretum.
Fretum (n.) [L.] 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.
Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. -- Macaulay.
Fretwork (n.) Framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal [syn: lattice, latticework, fretwork].
Freya (n.) (Scand. Myth.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Freyia, and Freyja.]
Freya (n.) (Norse mythology) Goddess of love and fecundity; daughter of Njorth and sister of Frey [syn: Freya, Freyja].
Friability (n.) 脆弱The quality of being friable; friableness.
Friability (n.) Excessive breakableness [syn: crumbliness, friability].
Friable (a.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. Friable comes from Latin friabilis, from friare, "to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces."
Friable (a.) 易碎的，脆的 Easily broken into small pieces.
Friableness (n.) 易碎，易成粉末 The state or quality of being friable; friability.
Friar (n.) (R. C. Ch.) 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.) (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
Friar (n.) (Zool.) An American fish; the silversides.
Friar bird (Zool.), An Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus.
Friar's balsam (Med.), A stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. -- Brande & C.
Friar's cap (Bot.), The monkshood.
Friar's cowl (Bot.), An arumlike plant ({Arisarum vulgare"> Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant ({Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
Friar's lantern, The ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. -- Milton.
Friar skate (Zool.), The European white or sharpnosed skate ({Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.
Friar (n.) A male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms [syn: friar, mendicant].
Friarly (a.) Like a friar; inexperienced. -- Bacon.
Friary (n.) Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. [Obs.] -- Camden.
Friary (n.) A monastery; a convent of friars. -- Drugdale.
Friary (n.) The institution or praactices of friars. -- Fuller.
Friary (n.) A monastery of friars.
Friation (n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.
Fribble (a.) Frivolous; trifling; sily.
Fribble (n.) A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
A pert fribble of a peer. -- Thackeray.
Fribble (v. i.) To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.
The fools that are fribbling round about you. -- Thackeray.
Foible (v. i.) To totter. [Obs.]
Fribbler (n.) A trifler; a fribble.
Fribbler (a.) Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious. Friborg
Friborg (n.) Alt. of Friborgh.
Friborgh (n.) (Old Eng. Law) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written also friburgh and fribourg.] -- Burril.
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.) (Cookery) A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel. -- A. J. Cooley.
Fricandeau (n.) Larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices.
Fricassee (n.) (Cookery) A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
Fricassee (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Fricasseed; p. pr. &. vb. n. Fricasseeing.] To dress like a fricassee.
Fricassee (n.) Pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings.
Fricassee (v.) Make a fricassee of by cooking; "fricassee meats."
Fricassed (imp. & p. p.) of Frlcassee.
Fricasseeing (p. pr. &. vb. n.) of Frlcassee.
Fricassee (v. t.) To dress like a fricassee.
Frication (n.) Friction. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Fricative (a.) (Phon.) 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, [sect][sect] 197-206, etc.
Fricatrice (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Frickle (n.) A bushel basket. [Obs.]
Friction (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.
Friction (n.) (Mech.) 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.
Friction (n.) A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress.
Angle of friction (Mech.), The angle which a plane onwhich a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane.
Note: This angle varies for different bodies, and for planes of different materials.
Anti-friction wheels (Mach.), Wheels turning freely on small pivots, and sustaining, at the angle formed by their circumferences, the pivot or journal of a revolving shaft, to relieve it of friction; -- called also friction wheels.
Friction balls, or Friction rollers, Balls or rollers placed so as to receive the pressure or weight of bodies in motion, and relieve friction, as in the hub of a bicycle wheel.
Friction brake (Mach.), A form of dynamometer for measuring the power a motor exerts. A clamp around the revolving shaft or fly wheel of the motor resists the motion by its friction, the work thus absorbed being ascertained by observing the force required to keep the clamp from revolving with the shaft; a Prony brake.
Friction chocks, Brakes attached to the common standing garrison carriages of guns, so as to raise the trucks or wheels off the platform when the gun begins to recoil, and prevent its running back. -- Earrow.
Friction clutch, () Friction coupling, An engaging and disengaging gear for revolving shafts, pulleys, etc., acting by friction; esp.:
Friction clutch, () (a) A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that the two will revolve together; as, in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives.
Friction clutch, () (b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of being made fast on its shaft, is held by friction and can turn, by slipping, under excessive strain or in starting.
Friction drop hammer, One in which the hammer is raised for striking by the friction of revolving rollers which nip the hammer rod.
Friction gear. See Frictional gearing, under Frictional.
Friction machine, An electrical machine, generating electricity by friction.
Friction meter, An instrument for measuring friction, as in testing lubricants.
Friction powder, Friction composition, A composition of chlorate of potassium, antimony, sulphide, etc, which readily ignites by friction.
Friction primer, Friction tube, A tube used for firing cannon by means of the friction of a roughened wire in the friction powder or composition with which the tube is filled.
Friction wheel (Mach.), One of the wheels in frictional gearing. See under Frictional.
Frictional (a.) Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.
Frictional gearing, Wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase or decrease friction, as required.
Frictional (a.) Pertaining to or worked or produced by friction; "frictional electricity"; "frictional heat"; "frictional gearing."
Frictionless (a.) Having no friction.
Frictionless (a.) Lacking all friction; "a perpetual motion machine would have to be frictionless."
Friday (n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
Friday (n.) The sixth day of the week; the fifth working day [syn: Friday, Fri].
Fridge (v. t.) To rub; to fray. [Obs.] -- Sterne. Fridstol
Fridstol (n.) Alt. of Frithstool.
Frithstool (n.) A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc.] [Obs.]
Fried () imp. & p. p. of Fry.
Fry (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Fried; p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.] 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.
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.
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. -- Dryden.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. -- Prov. xviii. 24.
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, how camest thou in hither? -- Matt. xxii. 12.
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.
America was first visited by Friends in 1656. -- T. Chase.
Friend (n.) A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] -- Shak.
A friend at court or A friend in court, One disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence.
To be friends with, To have friendly relations with. "He's . . . friends with C[ae]sar." -- Shak.
To make friends with, To become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. "Having now made friends with the Athenians." -- Jowett (Thucyd.).
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. [Obs.]
Fortune friends the bold. -- Spenser.
Friended (a.) Having friends. [Obs.]
Friended (a.) Inclined to love; well-disposed. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Friending (n.) Friendliness. [Obs.] --Shak.
Friendless (a.) Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- Friend"less*ness, n.
Friendlily (adv.) In a friendly manner. -- Pope.
Friendliness (n.) The condition or quality of being friendly. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Friendly (n.) A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.
These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style. -- E. N. Bennett.
Friendly (n.) (Mil.) A member of one's own military forces, or of allied forces.
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.
In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. -- Macaulay.
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.
On the first friendly bank he throws him down. -- Addison.
Syn: Amicable; kind; conciliatory; propitious; favorable. See Amicable.
Friendly (adv.) In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. [Obs.] -- Shak.
In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly met. -- Beau. & Fl.
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.
There is little friendship in the world. -- Bacon.
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. -- Rambler.
Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. -- Spenser.
Friendship (n.) Kindly aid; help; assistance. [Obs.]
Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. -- Shak.
Friendship (n.) Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [Obs.]
Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other. -- Dryden.
Frier (n.) One who fries.
Frier (n.) same as fryer.
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.
Compare: German
German (n.; pl. Germans) A native or one of the people of Germany.
German (n.) The German language.
German (n.) (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.
German (n.) (b) A social party at which the german is danced.
High German, The Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, The basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; But High German is also used to cover both groups.
Low German, The language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low German), spoken in many dialects.
Friesish (a.) Friesic. [R.]
Frieze (n.) (Arch.) 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.) (Arch.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. -- Milton.
Frieze (n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." -- Goldsmith.
Frieze (v. t.) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
Friezing machine, A machine for friezing cloth; a friezing machine.
Frieze (n.) An architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice.
Frieze (n.) A heavy woolen fabric with a long nap.
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.) 三帆快速戰艦，護衛艦 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. [Formerly spelled frigat and friggot.]
Frigate (n.) Any small vessel on the water. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Frigate bird (Zool.), A web-footed rapacious bird, of the genus Fregata; -- called also man-of-war bird, and frigate pelican. Two species are known; that of the Southern United States and West Indies is F. aquila. They are remarkable for their long wings and powerful flight. Their food consists of fish which they obtain by robbing gulls, terns, and other birds, of their prey. They are related to the pelicans.
Frigate mackerel (Zool.), An oceanic fish ({Auxis Rochei"> Frigate mackerel (Zool.), an oceanic fish ({Auxis Rochei) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United States.
Frigate pelican. (Zool.) Same as Frigate bird.
Frigate (n.) [ C ] 護衛艦 A small, fast military ship.
Frigate-built (a.) (Naut.) Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
Frigatoon (n.) (Naut.) 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. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Frigerate (v. t.) To make cool. [Obs.] -- Blount. Frigg
Frigg (n.) Alt. of Frigga.
Frigga (n.) (Scand. Myth.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.
Fright (n.) 驚嚇，恐怖 [U] [C]；【口】醜陋的人（或物）；令人吃驚的人（或物）[S] 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. [Colloq.]
Syn: Alarm; terror; consternation. See Alarm.
Frighted (imp.) of Fright.
Frighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fright.