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n. [ L. affricare to rub on. See Friction. ] The act of rubbing against. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Made friends; reconciled. [ Obs. ] “Deadly foes . . . affriended.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affrighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Affrighting. ] [ Orig. p. p.; OE. afright, AS. āfyrhtan to terrify; ā- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) + fyrhto fright. See Fright. ] To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dreams affright our souls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drear and dying sound
Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To terrify; frighten; alarm; dismay; appall; scare; startle; daunt; intimidate. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Affrighted. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. [ 1913 Webster ]

He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With fright. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To frighten. [ Archaic ] “Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who frightens. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth. [1913 Webster]

n. Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Arab. 'ifrīt. ] (Moham. Myth.) A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. African. -- n. Africa. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Africus, Africanus, fr. Afer African. ] Of or pertaining to Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

African hemp, a fiber prepared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. --
African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). --
African oak or
African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. [ 1913 Webster ]

African violet . --
African-American, see African-American. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of Americans of African ancestry or their history or culture
Syn. -- Afro-American [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 an American whose ancestors were born in Africa, especially a United States citizen of African descent.
Syn. -- Afro-American, African, black, negro [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a “colored” mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) same as African wild dog.
Syn. -- painted wolf, African hunting dog. [ PJC ]

n. A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. “The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [ Amer. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 (Zool.) a dog (Lycaon pictus) with mottled fur found in Africa, notable for the strong social structure of its family groups.
Syn. -- painted wolf, African hunting dog. [ PJC ]

n. Something to lessen friction; antiattrition. -- a. Tending to lessen friction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Back, n. or adv. + friend. ] A secret enemy. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Befriended; p. pr. & vb. n. Befriending. ] To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the darkness befriended. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of befriending. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish or deck with a frill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order, so named because wearing the black mantle of the Dominicans; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
Syn. -- Dominican. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began, and especially October 29, 1929, when a dramatic drop in stock prices contributed to the factors which began the great depression of the 1930's. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

The last week of October 1929 remains forever imprinted in the American memory.
It was, of course, the week of the Great Crash, the stock market collapse that signaled the collapse of the world economy and the Great Depression of the 1930s. From an all-time high of 381 in early September 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted down to a level of 326 on October 22, then, in a series of traumatic selling waves, to 230 in the course of the following six trading days.
The stock market's drop was far from over; it continued its sickening slide for nearly three more years, reaching an ultimate low of 41 in July 1932. But it was that last week of October 1929 that burned itself into the American consciousness. After a decade of unprecedented boom and prosperity, there suddenly was panic, fear, a yawning gap in the American fabric. The party was over. Wall street Journal, October 28, 1977 [ PJC ]

n. [ F. chanfrein. Cf. Chamfron. ] The fore part of a horse's head. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; commonly used in the pl. Chevaux-de-frise. [ F.; cheval horse + Frise Friesland, where it was first used. ] (Mil.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small rent paid to the lord paramount. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Clamjamphrie. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. confricatio, fr. confricare to rub vigorously. ] A rubbing together; friction. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. confrère. See Friar. ] A confrère. [ Obs. ] Weever. [ 1913 Webster ]

A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Fried in fat or oil deep enough to cover the object.
Syn. -- fried. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. dentifricium; dens, dentis, tooth + fricare to rub: cf. F. dentifrice. See Tooth, and Friction. ] A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many did quickly unnun and disfriar themselves. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ Europe + Afric, African. ] 1. (Geog.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Zoögeography) Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. Of European and African descent. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ n.; pl. Frijoles /plu>. Also }. [ Sp. fríjol, fréjol. ] 1. In Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the West Indies, any cultivated bean of the genus Phaseolus, esp. the black seed of a variety of P. vulgaris. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The beanlike seed of any of several related plants, as the cowpea. Frijoles are an important article of diet among Spanish-American peoples, being used as an ingredient of many dishes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. Strips of potatoes, usually cut with a rectangular cross-section, cooked by immersing in hot fat or oil. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. friabilité. ] The quality of being friable; friableness. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray: cf. F. friable. ] Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. “Friable ground.” Evelyn. “Soft and friable texture.” Paley. -- Fri'a*ble*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OR. frere, F. frère brother, friar, fr. L. frater brother. See Brother. ] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) An American fish; the silversides. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friar bird (Zool.), an Australian bird (Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. --
Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. Brande & C. --
Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood. --
Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. --
Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. --
Friar skate (Zool.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tuberous perennial (Arisarum vulgare) having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; -- found in the Mediterranean, Canaries, and Azores.
Syn. -- friars' cowl, Arisarum vulgare. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Friar, n. ] Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]