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Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc. With aspect open, shall erect his head. Pope. The Moor is of a free and open nature. Shak. The…

Candid; frank; generous. Dryden. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ness, n. Walton.

His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. Franklin.

he state of being pestered; vexation; worry. "The trouble and pesterment of children." B. Franklin.

to be niggardly; to be covetous. Gower. The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare. Franklin. To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank. "An honest mind, and plain." Shak.

Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.

the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves." Franklin.

obliges parishes to support the poor offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness. Franklin.

k in pride he is able to abase. Dan. iv. 37. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Franklin.

or money or its equivalent. It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. Franklin.

actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To all obliging, yet reserved to all. Walsh. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. Dryden. -- Re*serv"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

e raised, I ruin all my foes. Milton. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. Franklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. Longfellow.

Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called. [Also salique.] Salic law. (a) A code of laws formed by the Salian Franks in the fifth century. By one provision of this code women were excluded from the inheritance of landed property. (b) Specifically, in modern times, a law supposed to be a speci…

A low perennial plant (Frankenia lævis) resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.

to pleasure, ease, and sloth. Milton. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. Franklin.

e, -- used for cooking. -- Dry stove. See under Dry. -- Foot stove. See under Foot. -- Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary. -- Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. -- Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.

Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.

are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government. Franklin.