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To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy. Correspondence for fraternizing the two nations. Burke.

One who fraternizes. Burke.

A frater house. See under Frater.

A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin. [Obs.] Crabb.

e, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

Of or pertaining to fratricide; of the nature of fratricide.

The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

To make cool. [Obs.] Blount.

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

In vain. [Obs.] Vicars.

The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

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

A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. Knight.

To flash as lightning. [R.]

Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

A salt of fumaric acid.

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