One had better be laughed at for taking a foxc FOXCASE. n.f.fox and cafe.) A fox's skin.for a fox, than be deftroyed by taking a live fo for a cafe. L'Etrange. FOXCHASE. n. f. fox and chafe.] The purf of the fox with hounds. See the fame man, in vigour, in the gout; * FOXFISH. n. J. \vulpecula pifcis | A fish. FOXFORD, a town of Ireland, in Mayn county, feated on the May, 8 miles N. of Cafilebar, and 112 NW. of Dublin. Bofton in Lincolnthire, in 1517. At 16 he wasenter- is by gins; which being baited, and a train made by ed a student of Brazen-nofe college, Oxford; and in drawing raw flesh acrofs in his ufual paths of 1543, he proceeded M. A. and was chofen fellow of haunts to the gin, it proves an inducement Magdalen college. He difcovered an early genius bring him to the place of deftruction. The fo for poetry, and wrote feveral Latin comedies, on is alfo a beaft of chafe, and is taken with Scriptural fubjects, which his fon affures us were hounds, tarriers, &c. See HUNTING. gicy written in an elegant ftyle. He now applied him. FOXALL, a town SE. of Ipfwich, Suffolk. 1elf with uncommon affidity to divinity, parti. FOXBROOK, a village in Staffordshire. cularly church hiftory; and, difcovering a prenature propenfity to the doctrine of reformation, he was expelled the college as an heretic. His diftreis on this occafion was very great; but he toon found an afylum in the houfe of Sir Thomas Lucy of Warwickshire, who employed him as a tutor to his children. Here he married the daughter of a citizen of Coventry. Sir Tomas's children being grown up, after refiding a thort time with his wife's father, he came to London; where finding no immediate means of fubfiftence, he was reduced to the utmost degree of want; but as he was one day fitting in St Paul's church, emaciated with hunger, a ftranger accosted him familiarly, and, bidding him be of good cheer, put a fum of money into his hand; telling him at the fame time, that in a few days new hopes were at hand. He was soon after taken into the family of the duchefs of Richmond, as tutor to the earl of Surrey's children. In this family he lived, at Ryegate in Surrey, during the latter part of the eign of Henry VIII. the entire reign of Edward' VI. and part of that of Q. Mary I: but at length, perfecuted by his implacable enemy Bp. Gardiner, he was obliged to feek refuge abroad. Bafil in Switzerland was the place of his retreat, where he fubfifted by correcting the prefs. On the death of Mary he returned to England; where he was graciously received by his former pupil the duke of Norfolk, who retained him in his family as long as he lived, and bequeathed him a pension at his death. Mr fecretary Cecil alfo obtained for him the rectory of Shipton near Salisbury; and he might have had confiderable preferment, had he been willing to fubfcribe to the canons. He died in 1587, aged 70; and was buried in the chancel of St Giles's, Cripplegate. He was a man of great industry, and considerable learning; a zealous, but not a violent reformer; a nonconformift, but not an enemy to the church of England. He left two fons; one of whom was bred a devine, the other a phycifian. He wrote many pieces: but his principal work is, the Acts and Monuments of the Church, &c. commonly called Fox's Book of Martyrs. (4.) Fox. n. f. fox, Saxon; vos, vosch, Dutch.] 1. A wild animal of the canine kind, with fharp cars, and a bushy tail, remarkable for his cunning, living in holes, and preying upon fowls or fmall animals. The fox barks not when he would fleal the lamb. Shak. -Thefe retreats are more like the dens of robbers, or holes of foxes, than the fortreffes of fair war riours. Locke. 2. By way of reproach, applied to a knave or cunning fellow. (5.) Fox, in zoology. See CANTS, I, N° xvi, 1 --11. The fox is a great nuifance to the hufbandman, Ly taking away and deftroying his lambs, gecie, poultry, &c. The common way to catch him (1.) FOX-GLOVE. n. f. [digitalis.]___ A plant. (2.) Fox GLOVE, in botany. See DIGITALIS FOXHAM, a village NW. of Caine, Wi'ts. whose chief ambition is to how his bravery n * FOXHUNTER. n. f. [fox and bunter.] A min hunting foxes. A term of reproach used of cour try gentlemen.-The foxhunters went their way, and then out fteals the fox. L'Eftrange. (1.) Fox ISLAND, an Island in the Atlantic, on the red foxes. They are called Lyfe Oftrova, by the (1.) FOZ, a town of France, in the dep. of the Mouths of the Rhone, 5 m. WNW. of Martigues. (2.) Foz, a town of France, in the dep. of Var, 4 miles NE. of Barjols. (3.) Foz, a town of Portugal, in the prov. of Alentejo, at the conflux of the Zatas and the Tajo, 24 miles NE. of Lisbon. FOZA, a district of the late Maritime Auftria, one of the 7 Communes in the Vicentino. FOZZANO, a town of France, in the island and dept. of Corfica, 4 miles N. of Sarzano. FRACAS, n.. [French, pronounced Fraca,] a noife; a hurly burly. which form what they call a race, who, in cafe of an attack or defence, mutually help and fupport each other. The inhabitants of the fame ifland lway claim to be of the fame race; and evey perfon looks upon his island as a poffeffion, the property of which is common to all the individuals of the fame fociety. Feafts are very common mong them, and more particularly when the inhatants of one inland are vifited by thofe of the others. The men meet their guefts beating drums, and preceded by the women, who fing and dance, At the conclufion of the dance, the hofts ferve up their beft provifions, and invite their guefts to partake of the feaft. They feed their children when very young with the coarseft flesh, and for the roft part raw. They are hardened to the cold when young, and thus they go barefooted through the winter without the leaft inconvenience, They feldom heat their dwellings; but when they are defirous of warming themfelves, they light a bundle of hay, and ftand over it; or fet fire to tran-oil, which they pour into a hollow ftone. They have a good mhare of plain natural fenfe, but we rather flow of understanding. They feem cold and indifferent in moft of their actions; but let an injury or even a suspicion of one roufe them from this phelgmatic state, and they become fuross and inflexible, taking the moft violent reage without any regard to the confequences. The leaft affliction prompts them to fuicide; the prehenfion of even an uncertain evil often leads them to defpair. Lat. between 52° and 55°N... FOXLEY, 2 villages: 1 in Norfolk, SW. of Repham: in Wilts, near Malmsbury. ForSHIP. . . [from fox.] The character or qualities of a fox; cunning; mifchievous art.Had'ft thou foxfhip To banish him that ftruck more blows for Rome Than thou haft fpoken words. Shak. FOXTAIL. n. f. Lalepecorus.) A plant. FOXTON, 3 English villages: 1. in Cambridgehire: a. in Durham: 3. in Leicestershire. FOXTRAP. n. f. [fox and trap. A gin or fare to catch foxes.-Anfwer a queftion, at what bour of the night to fet a foxtrap. Tatler. (1)FOY. n. f. foi, Fr.) Faith; allegiance. Aa obfolete word. He Eafterland fubdued, and Denmark won, And of them both did for and tribute raise. Fairy Queen. (2,3) Foy, in geography. See FowEY, (4) For, ST, a town of France, in the dep. of Let and Garonne, 35 miles E. of Bourdeaux. Les E. Lat. 44. 49. N. FOYE, a village in Herefordshire. (1.' FOYLE, a river of Ireland in Derry, which rars by Londonderry, into LOUGH FOYLE. FOYLE, LOUGH, a large bay of Ireland; at the mouth of the Foyle (N° 1.) 4 miles below Londonderry. It is 12 miles long and broad, and is wel! fheltered by land on all fides; the estrace not exceeding half a mile wide, having Croce deep channel in the middle between fands 2.1 thallows. FOYN'S ISLAND, an ifland of Ireland, in the Son, 21iles below Limerick. FOYNTON, a town of Suffex, W. of Pevenly. FOYSTON W. of Knaresborough Yorkshire. FRACASTOR, Jerome, a most eminent Italian poet and phyfician, born at Verona in 1482. Two fingularities are related of him one is, that his lips adhered fo clofely to each other when he came into the world, that a furgeon was obliged to divide them with his knife; the other, that his mother was killed with lightning, while he, though in her arms at the very moment, efcaped unhurt. He was eminently killed in the belles lettres, and in all arts and fciences. He was a poet, a philofopher, a phyfician, an aftronomer, and a mathematician. Pope Paul III, made ufe of his authority to remove the council of Trent to Boulogne, under the pretext of a contagious diftemper, which, as Fracaftor depofed, made it no longer fafe to continue at Trent, He was intimately acquainted with cardinal Bembus, Julius Scaliger, and all the great men of his time. He died of an apoplexy at Cafi near Verona, in 1553 and in 1559, the town of Verona erected a ftatue in honour of him. He was the author of many performances, both as a poet and a phy fician; and he was remarkably difinterested in both thefe capacities: for he practifed without fees, and as a poet whose usual reward is glory, no man was ever more diffident about it. Owing to this diffidence, little of his poetry is extant in comparison of what he wrote; and all his Odes and Epigrams, which were read in MS. with admiration, yet being never printed, were loft. All that remains are his 3 books of "Siphilis, or of the French difeafe;" a book of Mifcellaneous Poems; and two books of a poem, intitled, Jofeph, which he began towards the end of his life, but did not live to finish. He compofed alfo a poem, called Alcod five de cura canum venaticorum. His medical pieces are, De Sympathia & Antipathia; De contagione & contagiofis morbis; De caufis criticorum dierum; De vini temperatura: &c. His works, which are all in Latin, have been printed feparately and collectively. The best edition is that of Padua, 1735, in 2 vols 4to. FRACHES, in the glass trade, are the flat iron pans into which the glafs veffels already formed are put when in the tower over the working furnace, but by means of which they are drawn out through the leers, that they may be taken gradually from the fire, and cool by degrees. *To FRACT. v. a. [fractus, Lat.] To break; to violate; to infringe. Found perhaps only in the following paffage. His days and times are paft, Shak. (1.) FRACTION. n.f. [fraction, Fr. fracio, La Latin. 1. The act of tweaking; the ftate of be- FRAGARIA VESCA, the cultivated strawber ing broken.-The furface of the earth hath been The principal varieties are, broke, and the parts of it diffocated: feveral parcels of nature retain ftill the evident marks of fraction and ruin. Burnet.● 2. A broken part of an integral. Pliny put a round number near the truth rather than a fraction. Arbuth. (2.) FRACTION, in arithmetic and algebra, part or division of an unit or integer; or a number which ftands to an unit in the relation of a part to its whole. The word literally imports a broken number. Fractions are ufually divided into decimal, fexagefimal, and vulgar. See ALGEBRA and ARITHMETIC. *FRACTIONAL. adj. [from fraction.] Be longing to a broken number; comprising a broken number. We make a cypher the medium between increasing and decreafing numbers, commonly called abfolute or whole numbers, and negative or fracional numbers."Cocker's Arithmetick. (1.) * FRACTURE. n. f. [fra&ura, Lat.] 1. Breach; feparation of continuous parts.-That may do it without any great fracture of the more ftable and fixed parts of nature, or the infringe ment of the laws thereof. Hale. 2. The feparation of a continuity of a bone in living bodies.-Frac tures of thefcull are dangerous, not in confequence of the injury done to the cranium itfelt, but as the brain becomes affected. Sharp's Sarg. (2.) FRACTURES. See SURGERY. To FRACTURS. v. a. [from the noun.] To break a bone. The leg was dreffed and the frac tured bones united together. Wifeman. FRÆNUM, or FRENUM, BRIDLE, in anato. my, a name given to divers ligaments, from their office in retaining and curbing the motions of the parts they are fietted to: as, 1. FRÆNUM LINGUE, or Bridle of the Tongue, a membranous ligament, which ties the tongue to the os hyoides, larynx, fauces, and lower parts of the mouth. In fome fubjects the franum runs the whole length of the tongue to the very tip; in which cafes, if it were not cut, it would take away all poffibility of fpeech. See SURGERY, Ind. 2. FRÆNUM PENIS, a flender ligament, whereby the prepuce is tied to the lower part of the glans of the penis. Nature varies in the make of this part; it being fo fhort in fome that unless divided it would not admit of perfect erection. There is a kind of little frænum, faftened to the lower part of the clitoris. FRAGA, a ftrong town of Spain in the kingdom of Arragon. It is fi uated among the mountains, having the river Cinca before it, whofe high banks are difficult of accefs; and at its back a biil which cannot eafily be approached with large can non. Alphonfo VII, king of Arragon, and I. of Caftile, was killed by the Moors in 1134, in b fieying this town. It is 33 miles ESE of Saragof fa, and 30 S. of Bilbattio. Lon. o. 23. E. Lat. 41. 27. N. FRAGARIA, the STRAWBERRY: A genus of the polygynia order, belonging to the icofandria class of plants; and in the natural méthod rar king under the 35th order, Sentic. The calyx is decemfid; the petrs five; the receptacle of the feeds ovate, in the form of 1 berry, and deciduous. There is but one ipecks, viz. 1. FRAGARIA VESCA ALPINA, the Alpine, monthly frasberry, having fmall oval leaves, f flowers, and moderate-fized oblong, pointed fr 2. FRAGARIA V. CHILOENSI's, the Chili ftr berry, with large, oval, thick hairy, leaves, la a flowers, and very large firm fruit. 3. FRAGARIA V. MOSCHATA, the hautboy, mufky ftrawberry, having oval, lanceolate, rou leaves, and large pale-red fruit. 4. FRAGÁRIA V. SYLVESTRIS, the wood ftr berry, with oval fawed leaves, and fmall ro fruit. 5. FRAGARIA V. VIRGINIENSIS, the Virgin fcarlet ftrawberry, with oblong oval fawed leav and a roundish fcarlet coloured fruit, All these rieties are hardy, low, perennials, durable in ro but the leaves and fruit ftalks are renewed a ally in fpring. They flower in May and June, their fruit comes to perfection in June, July, 2 Auguft; the Alpine kind continuing till the be ning of winter. They all profper in any comm garden foil, producing abundant crops annu. without much trouble. They increase exceed ly every fummer, both by off-fets or fuckers fo the fides of the plants, and by runners or ftri all of thofe rooting and forming plants at eve joint, each of which feparately planted bears a fe fruit the following year, and bears in great pe fection the fucceeding fummer. Thofe of the A pine kind (N° 1.) will even bear fruit the fam year that they are formed. All the forts are cor monly cultivated in kitchen gardens, in beds o borders of common earth, in rows length wife 1 or 18 inches diftance; the plants the fame diftans from one another in each row. Patches of t different forts, difpofed here and there in the fro of the different compartments of the pleatur ground, will appear ornamental both in the flowers and fruit, and make an aggreeable variety Strawberries, eaten either alone, or with fug and cream, are univerfally esteemed a moft d cious fruit. They are grateful, cooling, fuba and juicy. Though taken in large quantities, thes feldom difagree. They promote perspiration, im part a violet smell to the urine, and diffolve thi tartareous incruftations on the teeth. People a flicted with the ftone have found relief by abs them very largely; and Hoffman fays, he h known confumptive people cured by them. The bark of the root is aftringent. Sheep and goats eat the plant: cows are not fond of it; herfes and fwine refuse it. * FRAGILL. adj. [fragile, Fr. fragilis, Lat Much oitentation, vain of fleshly arms, PRAG LEVY, n. f. {from fragile.] 1. Brit tlencs; calinefs to be broken.-To make an in duration doration with toughness, and less fragility, decoct inftability.-There is nothing a ong all the frails bodies in water for two or three days. Bacon. 2. nefes and uncertainties of this fublunary world fo Weaknes; uncertainty of man's fragility, the tottering and unstable as the virtue of a coward. common chance of war, the violence of fortune, Norris. Keller 3. Frailty; liableness to fault.-All could not be right in fuch a ftate, in the lower age of fragility Wetton. FRAGMENT. . f. [fragmentum, Lat.] A part broken from the whole; an imperfect piece. He who late a fceptre did command, Now grafps a floating fragment in his hand. Dryden. -Cowley in his unfinished fragment of the Davideis, has fhewn us this way to improvement. Watts the Mind. FRAILS, in geography, rocks of Ireland, on the S. coast of Wexford, 12 m. SW. of Carntore Point. * FRAILTY. n. f. [from frail.) 17 Weakness of refolution; inftability of mind; infirmity.-- FRAGNINO, and Two towns of Naples, in FRAGNITELLO, the province of Principatu Ultra; the former 8 miles, and the latter 6, from Benevento. FRAGOA DE S PEDRO, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira; 13 m. SSW. of Lamego. FRAGOAS, a town of Portugal, in the proface of Eftramadura; 6 miles NW. of Santaren. *FRAGOR. n. f. [Latin] A noife; a crack; crath. Not ufed. Purfu'd by hideous fragors, as before The flames defcend, they in their breaches roar. Sandys. * FRAGRANCE. 2 n. f. [frangrantia, Latin.] *FRAGRANCY. Sweetnefs of fmell; pleafag fcent; grateful odour. Eve feparate he fpies, Ve'd in a cloud of fragrance, where the ftood Hf foy'd. Milton I am more pleas'd to furvey my rows of coleworts and cabbages fpringing up in their full fragrany and verdure, than to fee the tender plants a foreign countries kept alive by artificial heats. Speater. FRAGRANT. adj. [fragrans, Lat.] OdoTous; fweet of fmell. Fragrant the fertile earth After foft how'rs; and fweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild. Milton. FRAGRANTLY adv. [from fragrant.] With fweet fent.-As the hops begin to change colour, imell fragrantly, you may conclude them ripe. Mortimer's Hufbandry. FRAGUIER, Claude Francis, a polite and learn ed French writer, born at Paris, of a noble family, ia 1566. He was educated under the Jefuits, and was admitted into their order, but afterwards quitfedit; and, foon after affifted the Abbé Bignon conducting the Journal des Scavans. His writings confift of Latin poems, and many excellent d. Fertations. He died in 1728. (1.) FRAIL. adj. [fragilis, Latin.] 1. Weak; eally decaying; fubject to cafualties; eafily de£royed. I know my body's of fo frail a kind, As force without, fevers within can kill. Davies. Weak of refolution; liable to ertour or feduction. Man is frail, and prone to evil, and there tre may foon fail in words. Taylor. (2) FRAIL. n. 1. A basket made of ruflies. 1. A rush for weaving baskets. (3) FRAIL fignifies alfo 75 lb of raifins. FRAILNESS. . . [from frail.) Weaknefs; VOL. X. PART I. Nor fhould't thou have trufted that to wo man's frailty. Milton's Sanfon Agonifies. -God knows our frailty, pities our weakness, and requires of us no more than we are able to do. Locke. 2. Faults proceeding from weakness fins of infirmity: in this fenfe it has a plural.Love did his reafon blind, And love's the nobleft frailty of the mind. Dryds Death, only death, can break the lafting chain; And here, ev'n then, fhall my cold duft remain; Here all its frailties, all its flames refign, And wait, 'till 'tis no fin to mix with thine. Pope! *FRAISCHEUR. n. . [Fr.] Freshness; coolnefs. A word foolishly innovated by Dryden.-Hither in Summer ev'nings you repair, To taste the fraifcheur of the purer air. Dryde (1.) * FRAISE. n.. [Fr. the caul of an animal.) A pancake with bacon in it. (2.) FRAISE, in fortification, a kind of defence, confifting of pointed stakes, fix or seven feet long, driven parallel to the horizon into the retrench. ments of a camp, a half-moon, or the like, to prevent any approach or fcalade. Fraifes differ from palifades chiefly in this, that the latter ftand perpendicular to the horizon, and the former jet out parallel to it, or nearly fo, being ufually made a little floping, or with the points hanging down. Fraifes are cheiffy ufed in entrenchments and other works thrown up of earth; fometimes they are found under the parapet of a rampart, ferving inftead of the cordon of ftone ufed in ftone works. (3.) FRAISE, in geography, a town of France, in the dept. of Vofges; 6 miles S. of South Diey, and 103 E. of Bruyeres. To FRAISE A BATTALION, is to line the muf queteers round with pikes, that in cafe they should be charged with a body of horfe, the pikes being prefented may cover the foldiers from the fhock, and ferve as a barricade. FRAMBANT SUR PISSE, a town of France, in the dept. of Maine, 9 miles NNW. of Laffay. (1)* FRAME. n. f. from the verb.] 1. A fabrick; any thing conftructed of various parts or members. If the frame of the heavenly arch should diffolve itfelf, if celeftial shares fhould forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turni themfelves any way, as it might happen. Hooker. Cafties made of trees upon frames of timber, with turrets and arches, were anciently matters of magnificence. bacon.— Thefe are thy glorious works parent of good? Almighty! thine this univerfal frame. Milton. 2. Any thing made fo as to inclofe or admit fomething elfe.-Put both the tube and the veffel it leaned on into a convenient wooden frame, to keep them from mifchances. Boyle. 3. Order; regularity adjusted series or difpofition. Savift. Your steady foul preserves her frame ; In good and evil times the fame. 4. Scheme; order.-Another party did refolve to D change change the whole frame of the government in state as well as church. Clarendon. 5. Contrivance; projection. John the Baftard, Shak. Whofe fpirits toil in frame of villanies. 6. Mechanical conftruction. 7. Shape; form; proportion. A bear's a favage beast, Whelp'd without form, until the dam Has lick'd it into thape and frame. Hudibras. (2.) FRAME is alfo ufed for a fort of loom, whercon artificers ftretch their linens, fills, ftuffs, &c. to be embroidered, quilted, or the like. (3.) FRAME, among founders, a kind of ledge, which, being filled with wetted fand, ferves as a mould to call their works in. See FOUNDERY, 4. (4.) FRAME, in joinery, a kind of cafe, wherein a thing is fet or inclofed, or ever. fupported; as a window frame, a picture frame, &c. (5) FRAME, among painters, a kind of fquare, confifting of 4 long flips of wood joined together, whofe intermediate space is divided by threads into feveral little fquares like a net; and hence fometimes called reticula. It ferves to reduce figures from great to fmall; or, on the contrary, to aug. ment their fize from fmall to great. (6.) FRAME, among printers, is the fland which fupports the cafes. See CASE, $ 4. To FRAME. v. a. 1. To form or fabricate by orderly construction and union of various parts. The double gates he findeth locked fait; The one fair fram'd of burnish'd ivory, The other all with filver overcast. Spenfer. 2. To fit one to another.-Hew timber, faw it, frame it and fet it together. Mart. 3. To make; to compofe Then chufing out few words most horrible, Thereof did verfes frame. Spener. 4. To regulate; to adjust.-Let us not deceive ourfelves by pretending to this excellent know. ledge of Chrift Jefus our Lord, if we do not frame our lives according to it Tilletjon. 5. To form to any rule or method by study or precept. I have been a truant to the law; I never could yet frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will. Shakespeare. 6. To form and digeft by thought.-The moft abftrufe ideas are only fuch as the understanding frames to itfelf, by joining together ideas that it had either from objects of fenfe or from its own operations about them. Locke. 7. To contrive; to plan.-Unpardonable the prefumption and info lence in con'riving and framing this letter was. Clarendon. 8. To fettle; to scheme out. Though I cannot make true wars, I'll frame convenient peace. Shak. Coriolanus. 9. To invent; to fabricate, in a bad fenfe; as, to frame a story or lie.-Aftronomers, to folve the phænomena, framed to their conceit eccentricks and epicycles. Bacon. FRAMECOURT, a town of France in the dep. of the Straits of Calais; 41 miles S. of St Pol. * FRAMER. n. J. {from frame; fremman, Sax.] Maker; former; contriver; fchemer.-There was want of accuratenefs in exp ri nents in the first original framer of thote medals. Arbuthnot. FRAMESDEN, a town in Suffolk. FRAMFIELD, a village in Suffex. FRAMINGHAM, a towu SE. of Norwich. FRAMLINGHAM, a large and ancient town of Suffolk. It has the remains of a caftle, built by one of the firft kings of the Eaft Angles. Its walls, which are fill to be feen, are 44 feet high, and & thick; and have is towers, 14 feet each above the wails. Two of thefe are watch-towers, To this caftle, Mary Tudor, afterwards Q. Mary I. retired, when the unfortunate Lady Jane Grav was proclaimed queen. See ENGLAND, $40. Framlingham has a ftately church, built of black flint, with a steeple roo feet high, and a spacious market place; with a weekly market on Saturday, and 2 tairs, in May and Sept. It is pleasantly feat. ed upon a clay hill near the fource of the Ore; 18 miles NE. of Ipfwich, 30 E. of Bury, and 8; NNE. of London, Lon. 1. 26. E. Lat 52. 25. N. FRAMPOLD. 2. f. [This word is written by Dr Hacket, frampul. I know not its original.] Peevith; boisterous; rugged; croffgrained.-Ber hufband! Alas, the fweet woman leads an ill lite with him: the leads a very frampold life with him. Shak.-The frampul man could not be pacified. Hucket's Life of Williams. (1.) FRAMPTON, or FROMETON, a town of England, in Dorfetshire, on the Frome; 6 miles WNW. of Dorchester, 12 NW. of Weymouth, and 126 NE. of London. Lon. 2. 50. W. Lat. 55. 45, N. (2-4) FRAMPTON, the name of other 3 fmal towns, in Berks, Lincoln, and Gloucefterfhires. (5,6.) FRAMPTON UPON SEVERN, a town of Gloucefterfhire, between Berkley and Newnham, and a parish which extends 8 miles in circumference; bounded by the Stroud on the N. the Berkley on the S. and the Severn on the W. The tide comes up in a straight line for 4 miles in length with great rapidity, till it comes to Newn ham Nob, a natural bulwark, which turns the torrent to the E. and by N. of Frampton. FRANC. See FRANK, § IV. FRANCAISE PORT, a port and bay on the coaft of Brafil. Lon. 17. o. W. of Ferro. Lat. 7. o. S. FRANCASTEL, a town of France, in the dep. of Oife, 5 miles SW. of Breteuil. FRANCAVILLA, the name of five towns of Naples: viz. 1. in the province of Abruzzo Citra, 9 miles NE. of Chieti: 2. in that of Bafilicata, 15 miles SW. of Turfi: 3. in Calabria Citra, 4 miles NE. of Caffano: 4. in Calabria Ultra, 13 miles WSW. of Squillace: and, 5. in Otranto, 3 miles NW. of Oria. (I. 1.) FRANCE, an extenfive and mighty kingdom of Europe, fituated between 5o W. and 7′′ E. Lon. and between 43° and 51° N. Lat. Be fore the revolution in 1789, it was bounded by the English channel and the Auftrian Netherlands oa the N.; by Germany, the Alps, Switzerland, Savoy, and Piedmont, on the E.; by the Mediterranean fea and the Pyrenean mountains, which feparate it from Spain on the S.; and by the Atlantic Ocea on the W. (2.) FRANCE, AIR, CLIMATE, SOIL, AND PRODUCE OF. The air of France is pure, temperate, and healthy. It is fo happily fituated in the middle of the temperate zone, that fome reckon it e qual |