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Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. Milward.

Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth. -- Free"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Free"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Frankness; openness; unreservedness. I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton.

of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast.

The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written also friburgh and fribourg.] Burril.

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive. Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors. Sir W. Scott. -- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.

hich seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the van; -- the opposite to back or rear; as, the front of a house; the front of an army. Had he his hurts before Ay, on the front. Shak.

Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty plebeians." Shak.

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden.

The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge.

An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows anot…

In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak.

A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.