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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>FRANCOPR</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="francophile"> Francophile, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. friendly to the French or to France. <DD>noun a person friendly to the French or to France. </DL> <A NAME="francophilia"> Francophilia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> love or admiration for the French or France. </DL> <A NAME="francophobe"> Francophobe, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. fearing or hating the French or France. <DD>noun a person who fears or hates the French or France. </DL> <A NAME="francophobia"> Francophobia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> fear or hatred of the French or France. Ex. There have been several serious French complaints here lately about growing Francophobia (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="francophone"> Francophone or francophone, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a French-speaking native or inhabitant of a country in which French is one of two or more official languages. <DD>adj. =Francophonic. </DL> <A NAME="francophonic"> Francophonic or francophonic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of Francophones; French-speaking. </DL> <A NAME="francoprussian"> Franco-Prussian, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with France and Prussia. Ex. the Franco-Prussian war. </DL> <A NAME="franctireur"> franc-tireur, noun, pl. francs-tireurs.<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"> frangibility, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or state of being frangible. </DL> <A NAME="frangible"> frangible, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> easily broken or breakable; fragile. Ex. a delicate, irreplaceable, and most frangible set of antique china teacups. noun frangibleness. </DL> <A NAME="frangipane"> frangipane, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a cake of pastry made with cream, almonds, and spices. <DD> 2. =frangipani. </DL> <A NAME="frangipani"> frangipani, noun, pl. -panis.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a perfume made from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine. <DD> 2. the red jasmine, a tropical American shrub or tree of the dogbane family. </DL> <A NAME="frangipanni"> frangipanni, noun, pl. -nis. =frangipani.</DL> <A NAME="franglais"> franglais or Franglais, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> French spoken with many English words and expressions. 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). </DL> <A NAME="franglification"> franglification, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the introduction of English words and expressions into French. </DL> <A NAME="frank"> frank (1), adjective, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. 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. Ex. She was frank in telling me she did not like my new hat. <DD> 2. clearly manifest; undisguised; plain. Ex. frank mutiny, a frank imitation. <DD> 3. (Rare.) liberal; generous. Ex. In such frank style the people lived (James Anthony Froude). <DD> 4. (Obsolete.) without restriction or restraint; free. Ex. The court of aldermen ... shall all have their places frank (Alexander Pope). <DD>v.t. 1. to send (a letter, message, or package) without charge. <DD> 2. to mark to show that a letter, message, or package is to be sent without charge. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) to send or convey (a person) free of charge; enable to come and go freely. Ex. English ... will now frank the traveller through the most of North America (Robert Louis Stevenson). <DD> 4. to secure exemption for; make immune. Ex. The abstract merits ... are almost franked from criticism (George Saintsbury). <DD>noun 1. a mark to show that a letter, message, or package is to be sent without charge. Ex. I must ... send this scrawl into town to get a frank ... it is not worthy of postage (Scott). <DD> 2. the right to send letters, messages, or packages without charge. <DD> 3. a letter, message, or package sent without charge. adv. frankly. noun frankness. </DL> <A NAME="frank"> frank (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a frankfurter. </DL> <A NAME="frank"> Frank, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a member of a group of West Germanic tribes that conquered northern Gaul in the 400's and 500's A.D. <DD> 2. a Levantine name for any European. </DL> <A NAME="frankable"> frankable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be franked. Ex. a frankable letter. </DL> <A NAME="frankenstein"> Frankenstein, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a scientist in a story written in the 1800's who creates a monster that he cannot control. <DD> 2. the monster itself. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) anything that causes the ruin of its creator. </DL> <A NAME="franker"> franker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or machine that franks letters, messages, or packages. </DL> <A NAME="frankfortsausage"> frankfort sausage, =frankfurter.</DL> <A NAME="frankfurt"> frankfurt, noun. =frankfurter.</DL> <A NAME="frankfurter"> frankfurter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a reddish smoked sausage made of beef and pork, or of beef alone; wiener. Frankfurters on buns are often called hot dogs. </DL> <A NAME="frankincense"> frankincense, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fragrant gum resin from certain Asiatic or African trees of the same family as myrrh. It gives off a sweet, spicy odor when burned. It has been much used from ancient times, especially for burning as incense in religious observances. </DL> <A NAME="frankincensed"> frankincensed, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> perfumed with frankincense. </DL> <A NAME="frankish"> Frankish, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with the Franks. <DD>noun the Germanic language of the Franks (def. 1). </DL> <A NAME="franklin"> franklin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in England: <DD> 1. a freeholder. <DD> 2. (in the 1300's and 1400's) a landowner of free but not noble birth, who ranked next below the gentry. </DL> <A NAME="franklinian"> Franklinian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. of or having to do with Benjamin Franklin. <DD> 2. following his views or example in politics. <DD>noun a follower of Franklin. </DL> <A NAME="franklinite"> franklinite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mineralogy.) an oxide of iron, manganese, and zinc, found in brilliant black crystals, used as a zinc ore and in the manufacture of spiegeleisen, a kind of pig iron. </DL> <A NAME="franklinsgrouse"> Franklin's grouse,<DL COMPACT><DD> a grouse found in the spruce regions of the northwestern U.S. </DL> <A NAME="franklinsgull"> Franklin's gull,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small white gull with gray mantle, black and white wing tips, and in the summer a black head; prairie pigeon. It is one of the few gulls not found along seacoasts, nesting in the prairies and marshy lakes of interior North America. </DL> <A NAME="franklinstove"> Franklin stove,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD> 1. a stove for heating a room, resembling an iron fireplace, devised by Benjamin Franklin. <DD> 2. any one of certain open stoves. </DL> <A NAME="franklintree"> Franklin tree,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small tree of the tea family that once grew wild in Georgia, now cultivated for its showy white flowers. </DL> <A NAME="frankpledge"> frankpledge, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in Old English Law: <DD> 1. a system by which the members of a tithing (a group of ten inhabitants of a community) were made responsible for one another's conduct. <DD> 2. each of these mutually responsible members. <DD> 3. the tithing itself. </DL> <A NAME="frantic"> frantic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. very much excited; wild with rage, fear, pain, grief, etc.. Ex. frantic with anxiety. The trapped animal made frantic efforts to escape. For frantic boast and foolish word Thy mercy on thy people Lord (Rudyard Kipling). (SYN) mad, distracted. <DD> 2. (Archaic.) affected with mental disease; lunatic; insane. noun franticness. </DL> <A NAME="frantically"> frantically or franticly, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a frantic manner; with wild excitement. Ex. The fox pulled frantically at the trap to escape. </DL> <A NAME="frap"> frap, transitive verb, frapped, frapping.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (Nautical.) <DD> a. to bind (as a sail) securely. <DD> b. to draw taut the ropes of (as tackle). <DD> 2. (British Dialect.) to strike. </DL> <A NAME="frappe"> frappe, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a flavored milk drink into which ice cream has been beaten. <DD> 2. =frappe. </DL> <A NAME="frappe"> frappe, adjective, noun, verb, -peed, -peing.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD>adj. iced; cooled. <DD>noun 1. a fruit juice sweetened and partially frozen or shaken with finely cracked ice. <DD> 2. any frozen or iced food or drink. <DD>v.t. to ice; cool. Ex. The daiquiris were served frappeed. </DL> <A NAME="fras"> F.R.A.S.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. </DL> <A NAME="frascati"> Frascati, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sweet white wine made in Latium, central Italy. </DL> <A NAME="fraserfir"> Fraser fir,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small fir that grows in the mountains of North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, having dense foliage and small cones with a rough surface, and often used as a Christmas tree; she-balsam. </DL> <A NAME="frasier"> frasier, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Heraldry.) cinquefoil. </DL> <A NAME="frass"> frass, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the refuse left behind by boring insects. <DD> 2. the excrement of larvae. </DL> <A NAME="frat"> frat, noun, verb, fratted, fratting.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun (U.S. Slang.) a fraternity. <DD>v.i. (Slang.) to fraternize. Ex. ... a little fratting with a certain ... lady, with an obvious eye to the main chance (London Times). </DL> <A HREF="fratch.dic">NEXT</A>