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An English freeholder, or substantial householder. [Obs.] Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen.

. A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.

Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. Franklinic electricity, electricity produced by friction; called also statical electricity.

A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

To epitomize; to abridge. Franklin.

ered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

n shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

ies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies. Franklin.

ical doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

To raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. Franklin.

An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.

ge in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person. An ill-natured brute of a husband. Franklin.

d to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin.

cent, or other minor coin of copper. [Colloq.] My friends filled my pockets with coppers. Franklin.

whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor. Creditors have better memories than debtors. Franklin.

soldier's debt. Shak. When you run in debt, you give to another power over your liberty. Franklin.

toil of fools. Milton. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Franklin.

A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

cies of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.