AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
fratricide: the act of one who murders or kills his own brother.-one who murders or kills his own brother.
fraud: deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.-an intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.-a trap or snare.
fraudful: full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.
fraudulency: the quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness.
fraudulent: using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest.-characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain.-obtained or performed by artifice; as, fraudulent conquest.
fraught: a freight; a cargo.-freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.-of fraught-to freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
fraunhofer lines: the lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by fraunhofer, a german physicist.
fraxin: a colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. it shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.
fraxinus: a genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
fray: affray; broil; contest; combat.-to frighten; to terrify; to alarm.-to bear the expense of; to defray.-to rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.-to rub.-to wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.-a fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
freak: to variegate; to checker; to streak.-a sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
freckle: a small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.-any small spot or discoloration.-to spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.-to become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted.
freckly: full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.
fred: peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, alfred; frederic.
free: exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.-not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.-liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.-not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.-not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.-clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.-unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.-unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.-not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.-exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.-characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.-ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.-invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.-thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.-not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.-not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.-certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.-privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.-not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.-freely; willingly.-without charge; as, children admitted free.-to make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.-to remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.-to frank.
free will: a will free from improper coercion or restraint.-the power asserted of moral beings of willing or choosing without the restraints of physical or absolute necessity.
free-hand: done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free-hand drawing. see under drawing.
free-hearted: open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth.
free-liver: one who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.
free-love: the doctrine or practice of consorting with the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage.
free-milling: yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment.
free-soil: pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.
freebooter: one who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
freebootery: the act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.
freebooting: robbery; plunder; a pillaging.-acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing.
freedom: the state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.-privileges; franchises; immunities.-exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.-ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.-frankness; openness; unreservedness.-improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.-generosity; liberality.
freehold: an estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.
freely: in a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
freeman: one who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.-a member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or state, who has the right to vote at elections. see liveryman.
freemason: one of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.
freemasonic: pertaining to, or resembling, the institutions or the practices of freemasons; as, a freemasonic signal.
freeness: the state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.
freestone: a stone composed of sand or grit; -- so called because it is easily cut or wrought.-having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.
freethinker: one who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
freethinking: undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.-exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.
freewill: of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.
freeze: a frieze.-to become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.-to become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.-to congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.-to cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.-the act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
freezer: one who, or that which, cools or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.
freezing: of freeze-tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
freieslebenite: a sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.
freight: that with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.-the sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.-the price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.-freight transportation, or freight line.-employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.-to load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.
freightage: charge for transportation; expense of carriage.-the transportation of freight.-freight; cargo; lading. milton.
freighter: one who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.-one employed in receiving and forwarding freight.-one for whom freight is transported.-a vessel used mainly to carry freight.
french: of or pertaining to france or its inhabitants.-the language spoken in france.-collectively, the people of france.
frenchify: to make french; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the french; to gallicize.
frenum: a connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the fraenum of the tongue.-a cheek stripe of color.-same as fraenum.
frenzy: any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.-mad; frantic.-to affect with frenzy; to drive to madness
frequency: the condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.-a crowd; a throng.
frequent: often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.-addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.-full; crowded; thronged.-often or commonly reported.-to visit often; to resort to often or habitually.-to make full; to fill.
frequentative: serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb.-a frequentative verb.
fres'nel' lan'tern: a lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical fresnel lens.
fresco: a cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.-the art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.-in modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.-a painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.-to paint in fresco, as walls.
fresh: possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.-new; original; additional.-lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.-youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.-in a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.-renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.-not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.-a stream or spring of fresh water.-a flood; a freshet.-the mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.-to refresh; to freshen.
fresh-water: of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.-accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.-unskilled; raw.
freshen: to make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.-to refresh; to revive.-to relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.-to grow fresh; to lose saltness.-to grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
freshet: a stream of fresh water.-a flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.
freshly: in a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.
freshman: novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.
fret: see 1st frith.-to devour.-to rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship.-to impair; to wear away; to diminish.-to make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.-to tease; to irritate; to vex.-to be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.-to eat in; to make way by corrosion.-to be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.-to be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions.-the agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.-agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret.-herpes; tetter.-the worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.-to ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify.-ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. see fretwork.-an ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in oriental art.-the reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the middle ages confined their hair.-a saltire interlaced with a mascle.-a short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.-to furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
fretful: disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
frett: the worn side of the bank of a river. see 4th fret, n., 4.-a vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
fretted: of fret-rubbed or worn away; chafed.-agitated; vexed; worried.-ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface.-interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.
fretten: rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox.
fretwork: 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.
freya: the daughter of njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the scandinavian venus; -- in teutonic myths confounded with frigga, but in scandinavian, distinct.
friar: 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.-a white or pale patch on a printed page.-an american fish; the silversides.
friary: like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.-a monastery; a convent of friars.-the institution or praactices of friars.
fribble: a frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.-to act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.-to totter.
friborgh: the pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the normans frankpledge. see frankpledge.
fricace: meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.-an unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.
fricando: a ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel.
fricassee: a dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
fricative: 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.-a fricative consonant letter or sound. see guide to pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.
frictional: relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity.
friend: 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.-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.-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.-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.-a paramour of either sex.-to act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
friendly: having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.-appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.-not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.-promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.-in the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.
friendship: 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.-kindly aid; help; assistance,-aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
friesic: of or pertaining to friesland, a province in the northern part of the netherlands.-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.
frieze: 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.-any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. see illust. of column.-a kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.-to make a nap on (cloth); to friz. see friz, v. t., 2.
friezed: gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances.  cf. frieze, v. t., and friz, v. t., 2.
frigate: 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.-any small vessel on the water.
frigatoon: a venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
frigga: the wife of odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the juno of the valhalla.  cf. freya.
fright: a state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.-anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.-to alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.
frighten: to disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
frightful: full of fright; affrighted; frightened.-full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
frigid: cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.-wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.-wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.
frigidness: the state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.
frill: to shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.-to wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.-to provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.-a ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.-a ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.-a similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.-a ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.-a border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
frimaire: the third month of the french republican calendar. it commenced november 21, and ended december 20., see vendemiaire.
fringe: an ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.-something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.-one of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; --  called also interference fringe.-the peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. see peristome.-to adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.