Frank-chase

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• Frank

  ·noun Liberal; generous; profuse. II. Frank ·noun A <<Pigsty>>. III. Frank ·noun The common heron;...

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• frank

  The large fish-eating heron of our lakes and pools. ...

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• Chase

  ·v That which is pursued or hunted. II. Chase ·vt To cut, so as to make a screw thread. III. Chase...

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• chase

  The vessel pursued by some other, that pursuing being the chaser. This word is also applied to a r...

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• Chase

  [Hunting] ...

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• Frank-fee

  ·noun A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. ...

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• Frank-law

  ·noun The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of ...

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• Frank-marriage

  ·noun A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife b...

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• Smedley, Frank

  (1818-1864) Novelist, was the author of several novels which had considerable popularity, including...

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• Harris, Frank

  (b. 1856) Novelist, etc. Elder Conklin, The Man William Shakespeare (1898), Montes the Matador (190...

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• chase, to

  To pursue a ship, which is also called giving chase. ♦ A stern chase is when the chaser follows th...

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• chase, bow

  Cannon situated in the fore part of the ship to fire upon any object ahead of her. Chasing ahead, or...

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• chase-guns

  Such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns. ...

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• chase-ports

  The gun-ports at the bows and through the stern of a war-ship. ...

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• chase-sight

  Where the sight is usually placed. ...

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• chase-stern

  The cannon which are placed in the after-part of a ship, pointing astern. ...

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• Bullen, Frank Thomas

  (b. 1857) Writer of nautical romances. The Cruise of the Cachalot, Idylls of the Sea, With Christ a...

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• Moore, Frank Frankfort

  (b. 1855) Novelist and dramatist. Dawn (verse), Told by the Sea, I forbid the Banns (1893), The Jes...

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• wild-goose chase

  A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy. ...

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• give chase, to

  to make sail in pursuit of a stranger. ...

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• chase of a gun

  That part of the conical external surface extending from the moulding in front of the trunnions to t...

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• set the chase, to

  To mark well the position of the vessel chased by bearing, so that by standing away from her on one ...

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