franklinite

[From the Franklin furnace near Hamburg, New Jersey, near which it abounds.] Min.: An isometric opaque iron-black brittle minoral of metallic luster and a brown streak; its hardne 5.5 to 6'5, specific gravity 5:07 to 5:09. Composition: Sesquioxide of iron, 64-51 to 68-88; sesquioxide of manganese, 11.99 to 16:00; protoxide of zinc, 10'81 to 25-30. ( Dana .) frăńk-lý, franck-ly, *franck-lye, adv. [Eng. frank, a.; -ly.] *1. Freely; without constraint; of free will. "The lords mounted their servants upon their own horses; and they, with the volunteers, who frankly listed themselves, amounted to a body of two hundred and fifty horse."-Clarendon. 1918 *2. Liberally; freely; generously; readily. "He frankly forgave them both."- Luke vii. 42. 3. Openly; ingenuously; plainly; candidly; with frankne or candor. "The said Sthenon stept unto him, and thus frankly spake." P. Holland: Plutarch , p. 305. *4. With a free and not pre-occupied mind. "We may of their encounter frankly judge." *frank-măr-riage, s . riage.] Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 1. [Eng. frank, and mar Old Law : A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a person together with a wife, and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. ( Black stone .)