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Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man. [Archaic] Lowell. They were Night and Day, and Day and Night, Piligrims wight with steps forthright. Emerson.

Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne.

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and…

Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.

square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.

The act of making cold. [Obs.]

Cooling. [Obs.] Boyle.

To make cool. [Obs.] Blount.

The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya.

suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare. Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit. Dryden.

To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb.

Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. [Obs.] See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne.

In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.

The quality of being frightful.

Free from fright; fearless. [Obs.]

Fear; terror. [Obs.]

Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.

The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.

The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. Sir T. Browne.

In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.