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s; as, temperate in eating and drinking. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Franklin.

advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.

ms thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone. Cowper. Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See Frankalmoigne.

Producing or bearing frankincense.

The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary. Blackstone.

nt; the morrow."To-morrow is our wedding day." Cowper. One today is worth two to-morrows. Franklin.

. He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. Franklin.

Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton.

- View halloo, the shout uttered by a hunter upon seeing the fox break cover. -- View of frankpledge (Law), a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone. -- View of premises (Law), the inspection by the jury of the place where a litigated transaction is said to…

olumes. An odd volume of a set of books bears not the value of its proportion to the set. Franklin.

in consequence of our wishes. Rambler. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy. Franklin.

um group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, br…