Definition of frank

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Frank (v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten..

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Disingenuous :: Disingenuous (a.) Not ingenuous; wanting in noble candor or frankness; not frank or open; uncandid; unworthily or meanly artful.
Frank-fee :: Frank-fee (n.) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold..
Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of..
Frank-marriage :: Frank-marriage (n.) 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..
Frankalmoigne :: Frankalmoigne (a.) 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..
Frank-law :: Frank-law (n.) 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..
Reserved :: Reserved (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank..
Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Merovingian :: Merovingian (a.) Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France.
Frank :: Frank (a.) A French coin. See Franc.
Frank :: Frank (n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note.
Frankpledge :: Frankpledge (n.) The tithing itself.
Frank :: Frank (v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten..
Free :: Free (superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
Honest :: Honest (a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance..
Demivill :: Demivill (n.) A half vill, consisting of five freemen or frankpledges..
Salian :: Salian (n.) A Salian Frank.
Ingenuousness :: Ingenuousness (n.) The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
Frank :: Frank (n.) A pigsty.
Avowal :: Avowal (n.) An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles..
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