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Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson.

To draw together; to bind with a view to secure and strengthen, as a vessel by passing cables around it; to tighten; as a tackle by drawing the lines together. Tottem.

A crowd, a rabble. [Obs.] ares.

A blusterer; a rowdy. [Obs.] Unpolished, a frapler, and base. B. Jonson.

Iced; frozen; artificially cooled; as, wine frappé. -- n.

A lashing binding a thing tightly or binding things together.

A monk; also, a frater house. [R.] Shipley. Frater house, an apartament in a convent used as an eating room; a refectory; -- called also a fratery.

Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.

To fraternize; to hold fellowship. Jefferson.

Fraternization. [R.] Jefferson.

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers. I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the hearts of Englishmen. Burke.

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.

The name which St. Francis of Assisi gave to his followers, early in the 13th century.

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

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

In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.