freyalite (frialit)

[ Freycinetia (fra-si-ne's hi-ä), พ. [NL., named after Louis Claude de Saulses de Freycinet, a French naval officer and explorer (1779-1842).] A genus of frutescent or climbing plants, of the natural order Pandanaceæ, of which there are about 30 species in southeastern Asia, Australia, and the adjacent islands. Some species are occasionally found in greenhouses. friability (fri-a-bil'i-ti), n. [= F. friabilité = Sp. friabilidad = Pg.friabilidade =It. friabilità; as friable + -ity: see -bility.] The quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder. friable (fri'a-bl), a. [= F. friable = Sp. fri a ble = Pg. friavel = It. friabile, A light friable ground, or moist gravel. Evelyn, Sylva, Of the Che -nut. For the liver, of all the viscera, is the most friable and easily crumbled or di olved. Arbuthnot , On Diet, iii. The pollen-ma es are extremely friable , so that large portions can easily be broken off. Darwin, Fertil, of Orchids by Insects, p. 96. friablene (fri'a-bl-nes), n. Friability. friar (fri'är), n . [Early mod. E. also frier ;く ME. frere , OF. frere , freire, F. frère = Pr. fraire, frar , fra i = Sp. fraile , fray = Pg. frei = It. frate , fra , brother, monk, friar, L. fra- ter , brother, ML. a monk, friar, etc., = E. bro- ther : see brother , frater , fraternal , etc. For the form, cf. brier , briar , Holy writ bit men be war and wisliche hem kepe, That no false frere thorw flatrynge hem by-gyle. Piers Plowman (C), xvi. 77. It was the friar of orders gray, As he forth walked on his way. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 1 (song). 2. [In allusion to Gray or White Friar.] In printing, a gray or indistinct spot or patch in print, usually made by imperfect inking: dis tinguished from monk. The print will be too pale or grey in places, such imperfections being called friars . Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 705. 3. An Irish name of the angler, Lophius pisca tori us.-4. A fish of the family At her i nid a. 5. The friar-bird or leatherhead. See friar bird. Begging friars. See mendicant orders, under mendicant. Crutched, crouched, or cro ed friars (ML. Cruciati ), a minor order of friars, the canons regular of the Holy Cro , so named on account of an embroidered cro which they wore on their garments. Friars' balsam, an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes, used as a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers. It is equivalent to the tincture of benzoin compound of the United States and British pharmacopeias. -Friar's chicken, chicken-broth with eggs dropped in it, or eggs beaten and mixed with it. Also called fried chicken. [Scotch.] My lady-in-waiting.. shall make some friar's chicken, or something very light. I would not advise wine. Scott , Old Mortality, xxiv. Gray friar. See Francis can. Preaching friar. See black-friar and Dominican. - White friar. (a) A Carmelite. (6) A small flake of light-colored sediment floating in wine. If the cork be musty, or white friars in your liquor, your master will save the more. Swift , Directions to Servants, i friar-bird (fri'är-bèrd), n. The leatherhead or four-o'clock, Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, IMG:content-1846.jpg:[blocks in formation] That fribble the leader of such men as Fox and Burke! Thackeray , The Four Georges, George IV. The theory of idlers and dilettanti, of fribbles in morals and declaimers in verse, which when accepted by a mature man, and carried along with him through life, is a sure mark of feeblene and of insincere dealing with himself. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 189. That orator, erst so eloquent, seems now but froth and fribble . Lowe, Bismarck, II. 562. fribble (frib'l), v.; pret. and pp. fribbled , ppr. fribbling. [See fribble , n.] 1. in trans. 1. Το trifle; act in a trifling or frivolous manner. simple people with a printed play or two,. and what is worse, they speak but what they list of it, and fribble out the rest. Middle ton (and another ), Mayor of Queen borough, v. 1. Here is twenty pieces; you shall fribble them away at IMG:content-1847.jpg:[graphic] and will that all my friar lings shall labour, and live of their labour, whereby they may support themselues in an honest meane. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 381. friarlyt (fri'är-li), a . [Formerly also frierly ; While Lord Melbourne and his whig colleagues...were fribbling away their popularity. fribble ism) (frib'l-izm), n. Frivolity. [Rare.] IMG:content-1848.jpg:[blocks in formation] hereafter be called fribblers . A fribbler is one who pro- fe es rapture and admiration for the woman to whom he addre es, and dreads nothing so much as her consent. Spectator , No. 288. Bp. Parker , Platonick Philos. (ed. 1667), p. 16. friar-rusht, n. A kind of Christmas game. Dec- laration of Popish Impostures (1603). ( Nares .) friar's-cap (fri'ärz-kap), n. The wolf's-bane, Aconitum Napellus , so called from its hooded friborgt, friburght, n. Same as frithborg . IMG:content-1849.jpg:[blocks in formation] friar's-lantern (frī'ärz-lantern), n. The ignis fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp. She was pinch'd and pull'd, she sed; And he, by friar's lantern led. IMG:content-1850.png:[blocks in formation] fribbling (frib'ling), p . a . Frivolous; trifling; feebly captious. fricace1t, fricaciet, n. [Appar. irreg. fri- cacion , fricatio ( n- ), a rubbing: see fri cation .] Fri cation. I will not here speke of oyntementes used in olde tyme amonge the Romayns and Greekes, in fricasies or rubbings. fricace2t, n. [See frica ee .] Meat sliced and dre ed with strong sauce. fricandeau (frik-an-dō'), n.; pl. fricandeaux (-dōz'). [Formerly also fricando ; F.frican- deau , larded veal, etc.; appar. friand , friant , fruant (for * fricand ), dainty, nice; cf. OF. fri- andel , appetizing, dainty, F. fri and eau , a person fond of dainties, friandises , dainties, goodies; perhaps ult. connected with frica ee (?).] A thick slice of veal or other meat larded, stewed, and served with a made sauce. fricandelle (frik-an-del'), n. [F., fem. of fri- candeau, q. v.] A ball of chopped veal or other meat richly seasoned and fried; a dish pre- pared of veal, eggs, spices, etc. frica et, v. t. Same as frica ee . Frictions make the parts more fleshie and full, as we see both in men and in the currying of horses, . Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 877. The sheep here smooths the knotted thorn With frictions of her fleece. IMG:content-1851.jpg:[blocks in formation] No cook with art increas'd physicians' fees, Nor serv'd up death in soups or fricasees . Garth , Claremont. frica ee (frik-a-sē'), v . t . [Formerly also frica- see (and frica e ); from the noun.] To prepare or dre as a frica ee. frictionally frictionally (frik's hon-alfriction. 2378 it to move from the rim toward the center or past the center of the disk, as in the feed-motion of some forms of gang-saws. = friend placed under a heavy object to reduce the friction while that object is moving horizontally. Some forms of swing-bridges have such balls placed under them. friction-brake (frik's hon-brāk), n. 1. A brake acting by friction on some part, as of a moving vehicle. 2. A form of dynamometer invented by Prony.-3. An apparatus for testing the lubricating properties of oils. friction-brecci friction-breccia friksh ik's hon-brech"ia), n. In geol., angular or sometimes imperfectly rounded fragments of rock filling more or le completely the cavity left between the sides or walls of a fault or fi ure. This material may have been torn from the walls as one of the results of the violent motion to which the rock was subjected at the time the fi ure originated, or it have fallen in from above after the cavity had been formed. Mineral veins are not infrequently made up in considerable part of brecciated material derived from the rubbing together and crushing of the adjacent rock. Large ma es of rock thus occurring in a vein are called horses. Friction-breccia is also sometimes called fault - rock. See vein and horse.