Franklinian 
The whole science of electricity, so far as it is known, 
according to the Franklinian theory. 
. \nini. M:iir. Bug. (trans.), p. 400. 
Franklinic (frangk-liu'ik), a. [< Franklin (see 
Franklinian) + -ic.] In elect., frictional: an 
epithet applied to electricity excited by fric- 
tion. 
Lectures on Electricity (Dynamic and Franklinic). 
Vail, Med. Cat., p. 12. 
Franklinism (frangk'lin-izm), n. [< Franklin 
(see Franklinic) + -ism.] Same as frictional 
electricity. See electricity. 
It has also been called " frictional " electricity, from the 
mode of its production ; and also " Franklinic " electricity, 
or Fmnkliiuxiii. E. C. Mann, Psycho). Med., p. 556. 
franklinite (frangk'lin-It), . [< Franklin (see 
def.) + -jfc'A] An oxid of iron, zinc, and man- 
ganese, belonging to the spinel group, it occurs 
ia octahedral crystals and rounded grains, of a black color 
and metallic luster ; it resembles magnetite, but is feebly 
if at all magnetic. It is found in New Jersey near the vil- 
lage of Franklin or Franklin Furnace (whence the name), 
associated with the zinc oxid zincite, the zinc silicate wu- 
leniite, the manganese silicates rhodonite and tephroite, 
and other species. 
franklinization (frangk"lin-i-za'shon), re. [< 
"franklinize (< Franklin (see Franklinic) + -ize) 
r -ation.] The therapeutic application of fric- 
tional electricity. 
Another method that may be applied during the day is 
general franklinization. Med. News, L. 509. 
frankly (frangk'li), adv. 1. In a frank or 
unreserved manner; without reserve or dis- 
guise ; candidly : as, to confess one's faults 
frankly. 
He owned me frankly he had been much imposed upon 
by those false accounts of things he had heard in the coun- 
try. Addison, Conversion of the Foxhunter. 
2. Freely; without hindrance or restraint; will- 
ingly. [Now rare.] 
When they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them 
both. Luke vii. 42. 
O, were it but my life, 
I'd throw it down for your deliverance 
As frankly as a pin. Shak., M. for M., ill. 1. 
Her father and myself (lawful espials) 
Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen, 
We may of their encounter frankly judge. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 
= Syn. See/rartfrs, a. 
frank-marriage (frangk'mar"aj), n. [ME. 
franke mariage, < OF. franc mariage: see 
frank^ and marriage.] In old Eng. law, an es- 
tate of inheritance given to a man together 
with his wife (being a daughter or near relative 
of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of 
their two bodies begotten, to be held free of ser- 
vice other than fealty, to the fourth genera- 
tion. 
But you wil I gif gentilly, sire, of myne, . . . 
With my fair doughter in franke mariage: 
For other hane non discended of my lyne. 
Rom. ofl'artenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1506. 
frankness (frangk ' nes), w. 1. Plainness of 
speech; candor; openness; ingenuousness: as, 
he told me his opinion with frankness. 
With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself 
and others. The same frankness runs through all his con- 
versation. Steele, Spectator, No. 2. 
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint ; 
the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which 
he treated me, drew me to him. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xv. 
Frederick of Prussia said, with a commendable frank- 
ness, that he always found the God of Battles on the side 
of the strongest regiments. Sumner, Orations, 1. 55. 
2f. Liberality; bounteousness. 
He [Verrio] was expensive, and kept a great table, and 
often pressed the king for money with a freedom which 
his majesty's own frankness indulged. 
Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, III. i. 
frank-pledge (frangk'plej), n. [< OF. franc 
plege: see frank 2 and pledge.'] In old Eng. law : 
(a) A pledge or surety for the good behavior 
of freemen ; specifically, an early English sys- 
tem by which the members of each decennary 
or tithing, composed of ten households, were 
made responsible for one another, so that if 
one of them committed an offense the other 
nine were bound to make reparation. 
The Articles of the View of Frank-pledge were part of 
the Common Law, but were also enacted in Acts of Parlia- 
ment, and were added to from time to time, as fresh cir- 
cumstances arose. 
Quoted in English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), Int., p. xxi. 
The association of ten men in common responsibility 
legally embodied in the frithborh or frankpledije. 
ShMs, Const. Hist., 41. 
Who that has observed the common responsibility of 
the dweller! in a Chinese street for the preservation of 
order in that street, has not been reminded of the old 
Saxon frank-pledge? Science, VI. 479, Supp. 
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(6) A member of a decennary thus bound in 
pledge for his neighbors, (c) The decennary 
or tithing itself. 
frank-service (fraugk'ser"vis), . Service per- 
formed by freemen. 
frank-tenant (frangk 'ten* ant), . A free- 
holder. Utimson. 
frank-tenement (frangk'ten"e-ment), . In 
Eny. law : (a) The possession of the soil by a 
freeman. Hence (6) An estate of freehold. 
fransicalt, a. [< fransy (= frenzy) + -ic-al. 
Of. frantic.~\ Frantic. Dames. 
A certain fransical maladie they call Love. 
Sir P. Sidney, Wanstead Play, p. 619. 
fransyt, . See frenzy. 
frantic (fran'tik), a. and n. [Formerly fran- 
ticlc, frentick, frantik, a.lso phrantick, phrentick; 
< HE.frentik, frenetik, < OF . frenetique, F. fre- 
netique = Pr. frenetic = Sp. frenetico = Pg. It. 
frenetico, < ML. frcneticus, L. phreneticus or 
phreniticus (whence E. also phrenetic), < Gr. 
Qpevr/TiKof, correctly <j>pevniK.6s, mad, suffering 
from inflammation of the brain (phrenitis), < 
<t>peviTif, inflammation of the brain, < tppqv (</>pev-) , 
the brain: see phrenitis. Cf . franzy = frenzy, 
and frenetic = phrenetic.'] I.a. l.Mad; raving; 
wild; distracted: as, frantic with fear or grief. 
"Wei artow wyse," quod she to Witte, "any wysdomes 
to telle 
To flatereres or to foils that/ran*)/* ben of wittes I" 
Piers Plovrman (B), x. 6. 
Shall the wild words of this distemper'd man, 
Frantic with age and sorrow, make a breach 
Betwixt your majesty and me? 
Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 2. 
Some few hours more 
Spent here would turn me apish, if not frantic. 
Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iv. 2. 
2. Characterized by violence and mental disor- 
der ; springing from madness or distraction. 
Blood to blood, self against self : 0, preposterous 
And frantic outrage! Shak., Kich. III., ii. 4. 
About this time a franlick Opinion was held by one 
Peter Bourchet, a Gentleman of the Middle Temple, That 
it was lawful to kill them that opposed the Truth of the 
Gospel. Baker, Chronicles, p. 349. 
To violate even prejudices which have taken deep root 
in the minds of a people is scarcely expedient ; to think 
of extirpating natural appetites and passions ia frantic. 
Macaulay, Mitford's Hist. Greece. 
=Syn. 1. Distracted, infuriate, frenzied, raging. 
II. t n. A frenzied person ; a madman. 
Fantastik/rana'is, that would innovate, 
And every moment change your form of state. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Captainea. 
Have I put on this habit of & frantic, 
With love as full of fury, to beguile 
The nimble eye of watchful jealousy? 
Middleton and Rowley, Changeling, iv. 3. 
frantict (fra,n'tik), v. i. [(frantic, a."] To run 
about frantically. 
First [the needle] frantics up and down from side to side, 
And restless beats his crystal'd iv'ry case. 
Quarles, Emblems, v. 4. 
frantically (fran'ti-kal-i), adv. In a frantic or 
furious manner; madly; wildly. 
franticly (fran'tik-li), adv. Same as frantically. 
Fie, fle, how franticly I square my talk ! 
Shak., Tit. And., iii. 2. 
frantic-madt (fran'tik-mad), a. Quite mad; 
raving mad. 
Past cure I am, now reason is past care, 
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest. 
Shak., Sonnets, cxlvii. 
franticness (fran'tik-nes), n. The state of be- 
ing frantic ; distraction ; frenzy. 
franzy (fran'zi), . An obsolete or dialectal 
form of. frenzy. 
franzy (fran'zi), a. [(.franzy, n., with modified 
sense of frantic, .] Cross; fretful. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
Her hair won't curl, all I can do with it, and she's so 
franzy about having it put up i' paper. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, i. 2. 
frap (frap), v. ; pret. and pp.frapped, ppr./rop- 
ping. [In def. I., 1, a var. of earlier frape, 
q. v. ; in def. I., 2, directly < F. frapper, strike, 
knock, naut. fix, fasten: see /rape.] I, trans. 
1. To strike; smite. [Prov. Eng.] 
Whose heart wa&frajfped with such surpassing woe, as 
neither teare nor word could issue forth. 
Palace of Pleasure, II., sig. Bb 3. 
2. Naut., to secure by many turns of a lashing. 
At length, John . . . succeeded, after a hard struggle, 
. . . in smothering it [the sail], &nt\ frapping it with long 
pieces of sinnet. K. //. Dana, Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 255. 
II. intrans. To fly into a passion. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
frap (frap), . [< frap, v.] A violent fit of rage. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
frater 
frapet, '' ' [ME./ry>en, < OF . fraper, frapper , 
F. frapper = Pr. frapar, strike ; prpb. of Teut. 
origin, ult. (.flap, q. v.] Same as frap 1 , 1. 
With inyn ax I st-hill hem frape, 
Tiler schal no Sarezyn escape. 
llichard Coer de Lion, 1. 2613. 
frapet, " [ME. frape, frappe, a crowd; cf. E. 
dial. /raps, noise, perhaps < OF. fraper, frapper, 
F. frapper, strike: eeefrape, .] Acompany; 
a crowd ; a multitude ; a rabble ; a mob. 
My faire Buster Polyxene, 
Cassandre, Eleyne, or any of the frape. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 410. 
He ... ffyghttez with alle the frappe a furlange of waye, 
(felled tele appone felde with his faire wapene. 
tlorte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2091. 
fraplet,". ' [Freq. of f rap, f rape.] To bluster. 
The lamentable plight of the east provinces under Va- 
lens deceived by his courtiers, and making much of these 
frapling lawyers and petiefoggers. 
Holland, tr. of Ammianus (1609). 
Controwle you once, then you begin tafraple. 
Ashmole's Theatrmn Chemicum Brit. (1652), p. 324. 
fraplert (frap'ler), n. [<fraple, v., + -eri.] A 
blusterer ; a rowdy. 
I say to thee thou art rude, debauched, impudent, coarse, 
unpolished, a.frapler, and base. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
fraplingt (frap'ling), n. [Verbal n. offrapk, v.] 
Quarreling; strife. 
Idomeneus in frapling prompt, 
What mean'st thou thus to prate 1 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 39. 
frappS (fra-pa'), a. [F., pp. of frapper, strike, 
smite: see frap, v."] Made very cold by the ap- 
plication of ice : said of wine, and, in French 
restaurants, of water: as, a carafe frappte, a 
water-bottle filled and artificially frozen. 
frappett, n. [Origin obscure.] A term of en- 
dearment. 
Why, my little frappet you, I heard thy uncles talk of 
thy riches, that thou hadst hundreds a year. 
Wilkins, Miseries of Enforced Marriage, v. 
frapping (frap 'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of frap, v., 
q. v.] Fretful; peevish. [Prov. Eng.] 
frappisht, a. [Var. froppish, q. v. ; equiv. to 
frapping; < frap + -is/i 1 .] Fretful ; peevish. 
Kennett, MS. Lansdowne, 1033. (Halliwell.) 
fraryt, [ME., &\sofreyry; < OF. /rarie, F. 
frairie,<ML.fratria, abrotherhood, fraternity, 
< L. frater, brother: see /rater.] A brother- 
hood ; a fraternity. 
The order of foles . . . 
Nornbre of thys/rary, is Ix. and iij. 
Lydgale, Minor Poems, p. 164. 
We be all off &freyry; 
I ame sour awne brother. 
The Horn of Kinij Arthur (Child's Ballads, I. 26). 
Frasera (fra'zer-a), . [NL., named after John 
leaser, an English botanist (1750-1817).] A 
North American genus of gentianaceous plants, 
having a single erect stem from a mostly bien- 
nial thick bitter root, and numerous usually 
dull-white flowers. There are 8 species, of which F. 
Carolinensis is the only one that is found in the Atlantic 
States. Its root, known as American columbo, resembles 
gentian in its properties, and is used as a tonic. 
frasier (fra'zier), n. [< OF. fraisier, frasier, F. 
fraisier, a strawberry-plant, < fraise, a straw- 
berry : see fraiseS.] In her. : (a) A straw- 
berry-plant, perhaps used only in the arms of 
the family of Fraser as a rebus. (6) A cinque- 
foil, a supposed representation of a strawberry- 
leaf. 
fratch (frach), v. i. [< ME. fracchen, creak.] 
If. To creak, as a cart. Prompt. Parv., pp. 76, 
175. 2. To quarrel; brawl. [Prov. Eng.] 
O, Donald, ye are just the man 
Who when he gets a wife 
Begins to fratch. 
Miss Blamire, Cumberland Songs. 
3. To sport ; frolic. [Prov. Eng.] 
fratch (frach), . [<. fratch, v.~\ 1. A quarrel 
or brawl. 
I ha' never had no fratch afore sin ever I were born wi' 
any o' my like ; Gonnows I ha' none now that's o' my 
makin'. Dickens, Hard Times, xx. 
2. A rude, quarrelsome fellow. 3. A frolic- 
some child. [Prov. Eng. in all senses.] 
fratcher(frach'er), n. A scold. Brockett. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
fratchy (frach'i), a. [< fratch + -yi.] Quar- 
relsome. [Prov. Eng.] 
frater (fra'ter), n. [< L. frater = E. brother: 
see fraternal, friar, etc., and brother.] 1. A 
brother; a friar; a monk. 2t. One who as- 
sumes the garb and character of a begging friar. 
See the extracts. 
A Frater is a brother of as danmd a broode as the rest : 
his office is to traiiell with a long wallet at his backe, and 
