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Word Meanings - FRANKLIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An English freeholder, or substantial householder. Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen.

Related words: (words related to FRANKLIN)

  • ENGLISHWOMAN
    Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • SUBSTANTIALS
    Essential parts. Ayliffe.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • FRANKLIN
    An English freeholder, or substantial householder. Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen.
  • LANDHOLDER
    A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a.
  • FRANKLIN STOVE
    . A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SUBSTANTIALITY
    The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • FRANKLINITE
    A kind of mineral of the spinel group.
  • ENGLISHRY
    1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
  • SUBSTANTIAL
    1. Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life. Milton. If this atheist would have his chance to be real and substantial agent, he is more stupid than the vulgar. Bentley. 2. Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real;
  • FREEHOLDER
    The possessor of a freehold.
  • SUBSTANTIALIZE
    To make substantial.
  • SMALLNESS
    The quality or state of being small.
  • SUBSTANTIALNESS
    The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • INSUBSTANTIAL
    Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
  • SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
    More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
  • INSUBSTANTIALITY
    Unsubstantiality; unreality.
  • CONSUBSTANTIALLY
    In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.
  • UNSUBSTANTIALIZE
    To make unsubstantial.
  • CONSUBSTANTIALISM
    The doctrine of consubstantiation.
  • XANTHOSE
    An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.
  • ABYSMALLY
    To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

 

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