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adjective

frank adj. (compar. franker; superl. frankest)

Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free. (R.) "It is of frank gift."

Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.

Liberal; generous; profuse. (Obs.) "Frank of civilities that cost them nothing."

Unrestrained; loose; licentious; used in a bad sense.

Synonyms: Ingenuous; candid; artless; plain; open; unreserved; undisguised; sincere. See Candid, Ingenuous.

verb

Frank v. t. To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten. (Obs.)

frank v. t. (past & past part. franked; pres. part. franking)

To send by public conveyance free of expense.

To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.

noun

Frank n. A pigsty. (Obs.)

Frank n. (Zool.) The common heron; so called from its note. (Prov. Eng.)

Frank n. The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to go free of postage. Called also the franking privilege. "I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again."

Frank n.

(Ethnol.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.

A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; a term used in the Levant.

A French coin. See Franc.

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... are those used in pruning—but where this is attended to properly from the start, a good sharp jack-knife and a pair of pruning shears (the English makes are the best, as they are in some things, when we are frank enough to confess the truth) will easily handle all the ...

— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell

... kept up until night. We had lost some men during the day, but not so many as we had feared. First a poor fellow from the Seventh Maine, his heart and left lung torn out by a shell; then one from the Forty-ninth New York, shot in the head; the next was from our own regiment, Frank Jeffords, who had to suffer amputation of a leg; then a man from the Forty-ninth was sent to the rear with his heel crushed. In all, our loss did not exceed twenty men. The casualties in the other brigades were less ...

— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens

... exceptional duties incident to such a position. It was whilst making the arrangements for the expedition by sea, which was to transport the staff, materiel, and stores of the Settlement, that Mr. Jardine, foreseeing the want of fresh provision, proposed to the Government to send his own sons, Frank and Alexander, overland with a herd of cattle to form a station from which it might be supplied. This was readily acceded to, the Government agreeing to supply the party with the services of a qualified surveyor, fully equipped, to act as Geographer, by noting ...

— The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine • Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine

... to see you, Mr. Walker," he declared. "My name is Hubert Morrissey, and the gentleman who is with me is Mr. Frank Campbell. We're on a ...

— The Flag • Homer Greene

... There was a frank advance, tempered by a proper caution, I fancied, in the words I wrote. It was evident that she was unmarried, but outside of that certainty there lay a vast range of possibilities, some of them alarming ...

— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various

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