freight car (frat kar)

A railroad-car for carrying freight, commonly a box-car. Called in Great Britain a goods - wagon or goods - van. freight-engine (frat'en"jin), n. A locomotive used for drawing freight-trains. [U.S.] freighter (fra'ter), n. 1. One who freights or charters a ship for the transportation of goods or merchandise; a shipper. He represented in behalf of himself and other owners and freighters of the London gally, that the said gally sailed from Jamaica the latter end of February last. Parliamentary Hist ., 6 Anne, 1706. The Lord's Addre . 2. One who sends goods by land or by sea, either for himself or for others. See freight, n., 2. The local trader or the agricultural freighter . Contemporary Rev. , LI. 81. Men employed by the freighters to look after the mules The American, IX. 110. during the night to prevent their straying off. 3. A ship or ve el engaged in the carrying trade. The ship "Maria". being at that period employed as a freighter, C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 244. Heavily loaded freighters were lurching in, every mule straining in his collar, every trace taut and quivering. The Century, XXXI. 65. freight-house (frat hous), n. A house or depot for freight. [U. S.]=Syn. Station, etc. See depot. freighting (fra'ting), n. [Verbal n. of freight, v.] The carriage or transportation of freight; freightage. In the rainy season, the water flowing down from the various ravines and from the Salto (the source of the San Miguel) fills the arroyo, and renders freighting in wagons difficult, but does not impede transit by mules and pack trains. L. Hamilton , Mexican Handbook, p. 67. freighting (frā'ting), p . a . [Ppr. of freight , v .] Concerned with the carrying of freight or merchandise. At the beginning of that war (as in the commencement of every war) traders were struck with a sort of panick. Many went out of the freighting busine . Burke, Late State of the Nation. freightle (frat'les), a. Destitute of freight. freight train (frat'tran), n. A train of freightfreinet, v. t. See fra in1. freit, freity. See freet, freety. freket, n. See freak1. freltet, n. A Middle English form of frailty. fremd (fremd), a. and n. [North. E. and Sc., also frem, fremit, fremmit, frammit, etc.; Called in Britain a goods - train . A faucon peregryn than semed she Of fremde londe. Chaucer , Squire's Tale, 1. 421. Wharfrae cam thir [these] frem swains, Wi' us this night to guest? Rosmer Hafmand (Child's Ballads, I. 254). 2. Not akin; unrelated. Many are that neuer haue halde the ordyre of lufe ynesche thaire frendys sybbe or ffremede, bot outhire thay lufe thaym ouer mekill or thay lufe tham ouer lyttill. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 8. I saw not how the bairn could dwell among them, seeing that they were fremd in heart if they were kin in blood. Mrs. Oliphant. 3. Strange; singular; queer. Never was there yit so fremed a cas. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1046. Better my friend think me fremit Than fashious. Ramsay's Scotch Proverbs. 41. Wild; undomesticated. Bothe fremed and tame. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 529. The fremd, strangers; the strange world: as, to go into the fremd, to go among strangers: said of any one leaving the family in which he was brought up and going into the service of strangers. [Scotch.] II. n. A stranger; a foreigner or an alien. So now his frend is chaunged for a frenne. Spenser , Shep. Cal., April. As perjur'd cowards in adversity, With sight of fear, from friends to fremb'd do fly. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. IMG:content-1830.png:[blocks in formation] Mony klyf he ouer-clambe in contrayez straunge, Fer floten fro his frendez fremedly he rydez. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 714. fremescence (fre-mes'ens), n. [ fremescent . ] Noise suggestive of tumult. [Rare.] Rumour, therefore, shall arise; in the Palais Royal, and in broad France. Palene sits on every face; confused tremor and fremescence; waxing into thunder-peals, of fury stirred on by fear. Carlyle, French Rev., I. v. 4. fremescent (fre-mes'ent), a. [ Thuriot shows himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent . Carlyle, French Rev., I. v. 6. fremitus (frem'i-tus), n.; pl. fremitus. [L. fremitus, a dull, roaring, humming, murmuring sound, The so-called hydatid fremitus... scarcely differs from the ordinary impulse communicated by fluid within any other kind of tumor. Cobbold , Tapeworms (1866), p. 63. Palpation of the chest probably reveals a fremitus over the central portion of the chest. Med. News , LII. 290.