<B>framework, </B>noun, verb,<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a support or skeleton; stiff part that gives shape to a thing; frame. <BR> <I>Ex. The bridge had a steel framework.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the way in which a thing is put together; structure or system. <BR> <I>Ex. the framework of government.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the branches of a fruit tree. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to graft by inserting cuttings on the branches of (a fruit tree). </DL>
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<B>framing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>framed work; a frame or system of frames. <DD><B> 2. </B>the way in which a thing is put together; framework. <DD><B> 3. </B>the action or process of making or shaping. <BR> <I>Ex. The framing of this letter calls for considerable diplomacy.</I> </DL>
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<B>franc, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the unit of money of France, Belgium, Switzerland, and some other European and African countries, equal to 100 centimes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a coin or note worth one franc. <DD><B> 3. </B>a former French silver coin. (Abbr:) fr. </DL>
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<B>franchisal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or belonging to the franchise. </DL>
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<B>franchise, </B>noun, verb, <B>-chised,</B> <B>-chising.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a privilege or right, granted by a government. <BR> <I>Ex. The city granted the company a franchise to operate buses on the city streets.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the right to vote. <BR> <I>Ex. The United States granted women the franchise in 1920.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the privilege, often exclusive, of selling the products of a manufacturer in a given area. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) an asylum; sanctuary. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to grant a franchise to or for. <BR> <I>Ex. to franchise a retail outlet, a franchised car dealer. The brothers decided ... to franchise the establishment of miniature tracks where the public could pay to take part in the racing [of] cars (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to set free; enfranchise. </DL>
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<B>franchisee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who is franchised by a company to operate a retail store or branch, a hotel, or other business. <BR> <I>Ex. Some [franchises] may require considerable capital on the part of the franchisee, as in setting up a hotel in the Holiday Inns chain, or none at all beyond one's time in becoming a franchisee of a hearing aid company (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>franchiser, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=franchisee.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person or company that grants a franchise. </DL>
<A NAME="franchisor">
<B>franchisor, </B>noun. <B>=franchiser</B></DL>
<A NAME="franciscan">
<B>Franciscan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of Saint Francis of Assisi or the religious order founded by him in 1209. <BR> <I>Ex. Franciscan abstinence, Franciscan cloisters.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a friar belonging to the Franciscan order; Gray Friar. </DL>
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<B>Francis-type, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having spirally curved vanes. <BR> <I>Ex. a Francis-type reaction turbine.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="francium">
<B>francium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rare radioactive chemical element produced artificially from actinium or thorium. It is one of the alkali metals. </DL>
<A NAME="francization">
<B>Francization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of Francizing; Frenchification. </DL>
<A NAME="francize">
<B>Francize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cized,</B> <B>-cizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make French, as in ideas, style, or manners; Frenchify. </DL>
<A NAME="franco">
<B>Franco-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) <DD><B> 1. </B>of France; of the French. <BR> <I>Ex. Francophile = friend of France or the French.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>French and ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Franco-German = French and German.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="francoamerican">
<B>Franco-American, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of France and the United States; French and American. <BR> <I>Ex. Franco-American relations.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with Americans of French descent. <DD><I>noun </I> an American of French descent. </DL>
<A NAME="francogerman">
<B>Franco-German, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of France and Germany; French and German. </DL>
<A NAME="francoism">
<B>Francoism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the policies of Francisco Franco, (1892-1975), dictator of Spain, associated with the Falange. </DL>
<A NAME="francoist">
<B>Francoist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a supporter of Francisco Franco or his policies. </DL>
<A NAME="francolin">
<B>francolin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a partridge found in Africa, southern Asia, and southern Europe. It has a very loud whistle, and its meat is considered a great delicacy. </DL>
<A NAME="francolite">
<B>francolite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a grayish-green or brown variety of apatite from Devonshire, England. It occurs in small rounded crystals grouped in stalactitic masses. </DL>
<A NAME="franconian">
<B>Franconian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the German dialect spoken by the Franks who lived along the Rhine. </DL>
<B>Francophile, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> friendly to the French or to France. <DD><I>noun </I> a person friendly to the French or to France. </DL>
<A NAME="francophilia">
<B>Francophilia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> love or admiration for the French or France. </DL>
<A NAME="francophobe">
<B>Francophobe, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> fearing or hating the French or France. <DD><I>noun </I> a person who fears or hates the French or France. </DL>
<A NAME="francophobia">
<B>Francophobia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> fear or hatred of the French or France. <BR> <I>Ex. There have been several serious French complaints here lately about growing Francophobia (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="francophone">
<B>Francophone</B> or <B>francophone, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a French-speaking native or inhabitant of a country in which French is one of two or more official languages. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=Francophonic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="francophonic">
<B>Francophonic</B> or <B>francophonic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of Francophones; French-speaking. </DL>
<A NAME="francoprussian">
<B>Franco-Prussian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with France and Prussia. <BR> <I>Ex. the Franco-Prussian war.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="franctireur">
<B>franc-tireur, </B>noun, pl. <B>francs-tireurs.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a corps of light infantry, originating in the wars of the French Revolution, and having an organization distinct from that of the regular army. </DL>
<A NAME="frangibility">
<B>frangibility, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or state of being frangible. </DL>
<A NAME="frangible">
<B>frangible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> easily broken or breakable; fragile. <BR> <I>Ex. a delicate, irreplaceable, and most frangible set of antique china teacups.</I> noun <B>frangibleness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="frangipane">
<B>frangipane, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a cake of pastry made with cream, almonds, and spices. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=frangipani.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="frangipani">
<B>frangipani, </B>noun, pl. <B>-panis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a perfume made from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine. <DD><B> 2. </B>the red jasmine, a tropical American shrub or tree of the dogbane family. </DL>
<A NAME="frangipanni">
<B>frangipanni, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nis.</B> <B>=frangipani.</B></DL>
<A NAME="franglais">
<B>franglais</B> or <B>Franglais, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> French spoken with many English words and expressions. <BR> <I>Ex. Franglais permits a Frenchman to do le planning et research on le manpowerisation of a complexe industrielle before taking off for le weekend in le country (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="franglification">
<B>franglification, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the introduction of English words and expressions into French. </DL>
<A NAME="frank">
<B>frank</B> (1), adjective, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>free in expressing one's real thoughts, opinions, and feelings; not hiding what is in one's mind; not afraid to say what one thinks; open. <BR> <I>Ex. She was frank in telling me she did not like my new hat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>clearly manifest; undisguised; plain. <BR> <I>Ex. frank mutiny, a frank imitation.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Rare.) liberal; generous. <BR> <I>Ex. In such frank style the people lived (James Anthony Froude).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) without restriction or restraint; free. <BR> <I>Ex. The court of aldermen ... shall all have their places frank (Alexander Pope).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to send (a letter, message, or package) without charge. <DD><B> 2. </B>to mark to show that a letter, message, or package is to be sent without charge. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to send or convey (a person) free of charge; enable to come and go freely. <BR> <I>Ex. English ... will now frank the traveller through the most of North America (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to secure exemption for; make immune. <BR> <I>Ex. The abstract merits ... are almost franked from criticism (George Saintsbury).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a mark to show that a letter, message, or package is to be sent without charge. <BR> <I>Ex. I must ... send this scrawl into town to get a frank ... it is not worthy of postage (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the right to send letters, messages, or packages without charge. <DD><B> 3. </B>a letter, message, or package sent without charge. adv. <B>frankly.</B> noun <B>frankness.</B> </DL>
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<B>frank</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a frankfurter. </DL>
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<B>Frank, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a group of West Germanic tribes that conquered northern Gaul in the 400's and 500's A.D. <DD><B> 2. </B>a Levantine name for any European. </DL>
<A NAME="frankable">
<B>frankable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be franked. <BR> <I>Ex. a frankable letter.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="frankenstein">
<B>Frankenstein, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a scientist in a story written in the 1800's who creates a monster that he cannot control. <DD><B> 2. </B>the monster itself. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) anything that causes the ruin of its creator. </DL>
<A NAME="franker">
<B>franker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or machine that franks letters, messages, or packages. </DL>
