FPage 300
- English Word Frank Definition To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
- English Word Frank Definition The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.
- English Word Frank Definition A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
- English Word Frank Definition A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
- English Word Frank Definition A French coin. See Franc.
- English Word Frank-chase Definition The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase.
- English Word Frank-fee Definition A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
- English Word Frank-law Definition The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights.
- English Word Frank-marriage Definition A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.
- English Word Frankalmoigne Definition A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms.
- English Word Franked Definition of Frank
- English Word Frankfort black Definition A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc.
- English Word Frankincense Definition A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
- English Word Franking Definition of Frank
- English Word Franking Definition A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.
- English Word Frankish Definition Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.
- English Word Franklin Definition An English freeholder, or substantial householder.
- English Word Franklin stove Definition A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
- English Word Franklinic Definition Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin.
- English Word Franklinite Definition A kind of mineral of the spinel group.