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.