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people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

n shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

Openness; frankness. [Archaic]

ies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies. Franklin.

ical doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles. Hume.

To raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. Franklin.

Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain. "Bluff King Hal." Sir W. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.

An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.

ge in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person. An ill-natured brute of a husband. Franklin.

d to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin.

Open; frank; ingenuous; outspoken.

A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell.

A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections. Several of Charlemagne's capitularies. Hallam.

Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt.

Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed. [Obs.] Not close and clancular, but frank and open. Barrow.

Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved. Be confident to speak, Northumberland; We three are but thyself. Shak.