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Substantiivi
frank englanniksi
Frank
honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
(ux)
unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident
Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
(RQ:Spenser Complaints)
Liberal; generous; profuse.
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
Unrestrained; loose; licentious.
Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
October 5, 1780, (w), ''letter to Rev. William Unwin''
- I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again.
The notice on an envelope where a stamp would normally be found.
(RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)
To place a frank on an envelope.
(RQ:Austen Sense and Sensibility)
To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
To send by public conveyance free of expense.
1850-1859, (w), ''Household Words''
- This required extensive correspondence; so, in the next place, the privilege of franking letters in reference to the emigrants' registration office, was obtained—much to the indignation of red tapists.
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(RQ:Kerouac On the Road)
(quote-av)|actor=Jackie Cooper|role=Perry White|passage=I want the name of this flying whatchamacallit to go with the Daily Planet like bacon and eggs, franks and beans, death and taxes, politics and corruption!
(quote-song)
The heron.
A pigsty.
To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
(obsolete form of), former French coins, of account|moneys of account, and currency.
1771, :s:EB1|''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 630:
- Britannica, First Edition/Frank|F(smallcaps), or F(smallcaps), an ancient coin, either of gold or ſilver, ſtruck and current in France. The value of the gold frank was ſomewhat more than that of the gold crown; the ſilver frank was a third of the gold one; this coin is long out of uſe, though the term is ſtill retained as the name of a of account; in which ſenſe it is equivalent to the livre, or twenty ſols.
franc (gloss)
(l), candid, blunt, open-hearted
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