Definitions for the word "frank" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A pigsty.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The common heron; -- so called from its note.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Liberal; generous; profuse.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To send by public conveyance free of expense.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. a.
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 free of postage.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. a.
A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. a.
A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. a.
A French coin. See Franc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
Member of the germanic people that conquered gaul in the 6th c. frankish adj. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. adj.
1 candid, outspoken. 2 undisguised. 3 open. v. Mark (a letter) to record the payment of postage. n. Franking signature or mark. frankly adv. Frankness n. [latin francus free: related to *frank]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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