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Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic] Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. Shak.

Foolishly. [Archaic] Verstegan (1673). Make him speak fondly like a frantic man. Shak.

prayer is, that God, for the worthiness of his Son, would, notwithstanding, vouchsafe to grant. Hooker.

so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. Dryden. To force the tyrant from his seat by war. Sahk. Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. Fuller.

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume. Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. Milton. The goblet crowned, Breathed aromatic fragrancies around. Pope.

A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franch…

A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unident…

Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. Milton.

Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- Frenet"ic*al*ly, adv.

Frantic. [Obs.] Orrery.

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

Mad; frantic. [R.] They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

smoke of arctic winters. Kane. -- Frost valve, a valve to drain the portion of a pipe, hydrant, pump, etc., where water would be liable to freeze. -- Jack Frost, a popular personification of frost.

Exaggerated declamation; rant.

A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.

Like a full soldier. Shak. I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted. Ford.

are of the circle. Let AB be an arc in a circle, whose radius OA is unity let AC be a quadrant, and let OC, DB, and AF be drawnpependicular to OA, and EB and CG parallel to OA, and let OB be produced to G and F. E Then BD is the sine of the arc AB; OD or EB is the cosine, AF is the tangent, CG is the cotangent, OF is t…

to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.

Wandering; vagrant. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.