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A frater house. See under Frater.

To make cool. [Obs.] Blount.

Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak.

In vain. [Obs.] Vicars.

Propped; supported by accessory organs. [R.] Gray.

To flash as lightning. [R.]

A salt of fumaric acid.

To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Having flowers like buds.

propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

Becoming smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.

Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.

A salt of glyceric acid.

kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. "A secret grate of iron bars." Shak.

Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows.

has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays. Milton.

One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.

Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.

A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

Of or pertaining to mercury; containing, or impregnated with, mercury. [R.]