LekhoriLekhoriHonest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
May I be frank with you?
Unmistakable, clinically obvious, self-evident.
The research probes whether treating pre-diabetes with metformin can prevent progression to frank diabetes.
Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
It is of frank gift.
Free postage, a right exercised by governments (usually with definite article).
October 5, 1780, William Cowper, 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.
To place a frank on an envelope.
It will be so ridiculous to see all his letters directed to him with an M.P.—But do you know, he says, he will never frank for me?
To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Mrs. Ford. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?
A diminutive of the male given name Francis.
Your name is Francis, is it? Frank, sir. Your name is Francis. There was never a St. Frank. That's a name for gangsters and politicians.
From Middle English frank, from Old French franc (“free”), in turn from the name of an early Germanic confederation, the Franks, from Proto-West Germanic *frankō (“javelin, spear”). Doublet of Frank, ...
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But, although her friends were kind, Lady Anne was not easy; neither daughter made her appearance, nor did she receive a letter to account for their silence. She remembered, indeed, that Charles Penrhyn could not get franks now, and her daughters knew she would not pay postage; and she had commanded Helen to work night and day, saying, "surely they can give her common materials."
The grey heron.
A pigsty.
Obsolete form of franc, former French coins, moneys of account, and currency.
Frank, or Franc, 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 money of account; in which ſenſe it is equivalent to the livre, or twenty ſols.
One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.
To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid; He is franked up to fatting for his pains
A surname transferred from the nickname.