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A stranger. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean (Bot.), the common kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). -- French berry (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French ch…

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

A native or one of the people of France.

Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. Milton.

Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- Frenet"ic*al*ly, adv.

A cheek stripe of color.

Frantic. [Obs.] Orrery.

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

nt and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

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

The act of refraining. [Obs.]

th. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

ment of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

e spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.