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An archdeacon. [Obs.]

peech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.

An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, floriken, florican.]

Utterly drunk; very drunk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To foreshow; to presignify; to prognosticate. Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood. Daniel.

Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. Shak.

A freckle. [Obs.] A few fraknes in his face. Chaucer.

Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.

An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier.

To hearken. Tennyson.

end to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply. The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl. Dryden. Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you. Deut. iv. 1.

One who hearkens; a listener.

Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

Shocked; dismayed.

Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

nothing was left but their tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns.

See Kitchen middens.

resembling an immense octopus. To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.

The quality or state of being ladylike.