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Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo. Longfellow.

To scold; to nag. [Prov. Eng.]

Crabbed; peevish. [Prov. Eng.]

An uproar; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl.

A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed.

Rotten from being too ripe; overripe. [Obs.] Blount.

To break; to violate. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary. Macaulay.

, especially by violence. [Obs.] Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.

Fractional. [Obs.]

To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Pertaining to, or consequent on, a fracture. [R.]

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. --…

A frænum.

A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the frænum of the tongue.

Easily broken; brittle; frail; delicate; easily destroyed. The state of ivy is tough, and not fragile. Bacon.

The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon.