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.