Fraught, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fraughted or Fraught; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fraughting.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G.
frachten, cf. OHG. frhtn to deserve. See Fraught, n.] To freight; to
load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.]
Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships.
Fairfax.
Fraught"age (?; 48), n. Freight; loading; cargo. [Obs.] Shak.
Fraught"ing, a. Constituting the freight or cargo. [Obs.] "The
fraughting souls within her." Shak.
Fraun"ho*fer lines` (?). (Physics.) The lines of the spectrum;
especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so
called because first accurately observed and interpreted by Fraunhofer,
a German physicist.
Frax"in (?), n. [From Fraxinus.] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline
substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash
(Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It
shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also
paviin.
||Frax"i*nus (?), n. [L., the ash tree.] (Bot.) A genus of deciduous
||forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the
||true ash trees.
Fraxinus excelsior is the European ash; F. Americana, the white ash; F.
sambucifolia, the black ash or water ash.
Fray (fr), n. [Abbreviated from affray.] Affray; broil; contest;
combat.
Who began this bloody fray?
Shak.
Fray, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frayed (frd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fraying.] [See
1st Fray, and cf. Affray.] To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. I.
Taylor.
What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed?
Spenser.
Fray, v. t. [Cf. OF. fraier. See Defray, v. t.] To bear the expense of;
to defray. [Obs.]
The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I
shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied.
Massinger.
Fray, v. t. [OF. freier, fraier, froier, to rub. L. fricare; cf. friare
to crumble, E. friable; perh. akin to Gr. chri`ein to anoint, chri^sma
an anointing, Skr. ghsh to rub, scratch. Cf. Friction.] To rub; to wear
off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is
said to fray her head.
Fray, v. i. 1. To rub.
We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers
frayed.
Sir W. Scott.
2. To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when
the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross
threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly.
A suit of frayed magnificience.
tennyson.
Fray, n. A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
Fray"ing, n. (Zoˆl.) The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B.
Jonson.
Freak (frk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freaked (frkt); p. pr. & vb. n.
Freaking.] [Akin to OE. frakin, freken, freckle, Icel. freknur, pl.,
Sw. fr‰kne, Dan. fregne, Gr. perkno`s dark- colored, Skr. pÁni
variegated. Cf. Freckle, Freck.] To variegate; to checker; to streak.
[R.]
Freaked with many a mingled hue.
Thomson.
Freak, n. [Prob. from OE. frek bold, AS. frec bold, greedly; akin to
OHG. freh greedly, G. frech insolent, Icel. frekr greedy, Goth.
faÌhufriks avaricious.] A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind;
a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will
instantly change her habitation.
Spectator.
Syn. -- Whim; caprice; folly; sport. See Whim.
Freak"ing, a. Freakish. [Obs.] Pepys.
Freak"ish, a. Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.
It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more
freakish of the two.
L'Estrange.
Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.
Pope.
-- Freak"ish*ly, adv. -- Freak"ish*ness, n.
Freck (?), v. t. [Cf. Freak, v. t., Freckle.] To checker; to diversify.
[R. & Poet.]
The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow.
Lowell.
Freck"le (frk"k'l), n. [Dim., from the same root as freak, v. t.] 1. A
small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face,
neck, or hands.