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The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone.

Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.

A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together…

lavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.

erials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc. Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon. Lev. x. 1.

Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; sa, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc. Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve. Fuller.…

The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.

from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite. Jew's frankincense, gum styrax, or benzoin. -- Jew's mallow (Bot.), an annual herb (Corchorus olitorius) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber. -- Jew's pitch, asphaltum; bitumen. -- The Wandering Je…

ool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.

te or quality of being lazy. Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. Franklin.

Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds. Frankland.

s. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

bor, to maintain his life. Stirling. What maintains one vice would bring up two children. Franklin.

Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. -- n.

aken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- "I love you." Shak. Siren, now mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a phrase. Dryden.…

Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naïve manners; a naïve person; naïve and unsophisticated remarks.

ntrasted with the nickelic compounds, the metal has a lower valence; as, nickelous oxide. Frankland.

consumed. Lam. iii. 22. It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received. Franklin.

The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.

ss mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.