Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FREEZE, v.t.

1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to change from a fluid to a solid form by cold or abstraction of heat. This weather will freeze the rivers and lakes.
2. To kill by cold; but we often add the words to death. This air will freeze you, or freeze you to death.
3. To chill; to give the sensation of cold and shivering. This horrid tale freezes my blood.

FREEZ'ING, n.

A state of congelation.

FREEZ'ING, ppr.

Congealing; hardening into ice.

FREIGHT, n. [frate; D. vragt; G. fracht; Sw. fracht; Dan. fragt; Fr. fret; Port. frete; Sp. flete; Arm. fret. See Fraught. Qu. from the root of L. fero; formed like bright, from the Ethiopic barah.]

1. The cargo, or any part of the cargo of a ship; lading; that which is carried by water. The freight of a ship consists of cotton; the ship has not a full freight; the owners have advertised for freight; freight will be paid for by the tun.
2. Transportation of goods. We paid four dollars a tun for the freight from London to Barcelona.
3. The hire of a ship, or money charged or paid for the transportation of goods. After paying freight and charges, the profit is trifling.

FREIGHT, v.t.

1. To load with goods, as a ship or vessel of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another. We freighted the ship for Amsterdam; the ship was freighted with flour for Havanna.
2. To load as the burden. Shak.

FREIGHT-ED, pp.

Loaded, as a ship or vessel.

FREIGHT-ER, n.

One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.

FREIGHT-ING, ppr.

Loading, as a ship or vessel.

FREIGHT'LESS, a.

Destitute of freight.

FREIS'LE-BEN, n.

A mineral of a blue or bluish gray color, brittle, and soft to the touch. Cleaveland.

FREN, n.

A stranger. [Not used.] Spenser.

FRENCH, a.

Pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French Chalk, scaly talck, a variety of indurated talck, in masses composed of small scales; its color is pearly white or grayish. Cleaveland.

FRENCH, n.

The language spoken by the people of France.

FRENCH-HORN', n.

A wind instrument of music made of metal.

FRENCH'I-FI-ED, pp.

Made like the French. Burke.

FRENCH'I-FY, v.t.

To make French; to infect with the manner of the French. Camden.

FRENCH'LIKE, a.

Resembling the French. Bp. Hall

FRENCH'MAN, n.

A man of the French nation.

FRE-NET'IC, a. [See FRANTIC and PHRENETIC.]

FREN'ZIC-AL, a.

Partaking of frenzy.

FREN'ZIED, a. [participial adj.]

Affected with madness.

FREN'ZI-ED-LY, adv.

Madly; distractedly.

FREN'ZY, n. [Fr. frenesie; It. frenesia; from L. phrenitis, Gr. φρενιτις, from φρην, mind, which is from moving, rushing. See Frantic.]

Madness; distraction; rage; or any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison.

FRE'QUENCE, n. [Fr. from L. frequentia.]

A crowd; a throng; a concourse; an assembly. [Little used.] Shak. Milton.

FRE'QUEN-CY, n.

1. A return or occurrence of a thing often repeated at short intervals. The frequency of crimes abates our horror at the commission; the frequency of capital punishments tends to destroy their proper effect.
2. A crowd; a throng. [Not used.] B. Jonson.