Froissart
JEAN (froi'särt or frwä-sär'), French chronicler; born in Valenciennes, in Hainault, in 1337. He began at 20 to write the history of the wars of the time. His "Chronicle," covering the years 1326-1400, is of capital importance for its period. To a collection of the verses of Wenceslaus of Brabant, Froissart added some of his own, and gave to the whole the title "Meliador, or the Knight of the Golden Sun." All his extant poems were published at Brussels in 3 vols. 1870-1872. He died in Chimay, 1416 (?).
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Front-plate
A cast-iron plate to which chest, port, and exhaust cores are secured sometimes, when a cylinder on which the steam-chest is to be cast is made in loam. Also a plate to cover the breast of a cupola when the hole is made large enough for drawing the cinders and slag when done melting, as must be the case with all cupolas having solid bottoms. See CUPOLA; BREAST; SPOUT.
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Frontal Bone
a bone, double in the fœtus, single in the adult, situate at the base of the cranium, at the superior part of the face. It forms the vault of the orbit, lodges the ethmoid bone in a notch in its middle part, and is articulated besides with the sphenoid, parietal, and the nasal bones, the ossa nasales, superior maxillary, and malar bones.
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Frontenac
LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE DE, a French colonial officer; born in France in 1620. He entered the army in 1635, and at an early age became brigadier. In 1672 he was appointed governor of the French possessions in North America, to be recalled ed 10 years later, in consequence of endless quarrels with his intendant and the Jesuits. He had gained the confidence of the settlers and the respect of the Indians. In 1689, when to the attacks from the Iroquois the misery of a war with England was added, he was again sent out by the king. During the next nine years he loosed his savage allies on the villages of New England, repulsed a British attack on Quebec, and broke the power of the Iroquois. He died in Quebec, Nov. 28, 1698.
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Froschdorf
a village in Lower Austria, rather more than 30 miles from Vienna, and not far from the frontiers of Hungary, on the right bank of the Leitha river; called by the French Frohsdorf. It is celebrated for its splendid castle, which acquired a kind of political importance, from having been, since 1844, the residence of the Duchess d'Angoulême and the rendezvous of the elder Bourbon party. After the death of the duchess it came into the possession of the Comte de Chambord.
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Frost
ARTHUR BURDETT, an American illustrator and author, 'born in Philadelphia in 1851. He was selftaught in art and in 1900 exhibited at the Paris Exposition. He became especially noted for his drawings of animals, and for the illustration of many humorous books, including books written by himself. Among his writings are "Bull Calf and Other Tales"; "Stuff and Nonsense"; "Sports and Games in the Open"; "Book of Drawings" (1905); and "Carlo" (1913).
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Frost (ROBERT an American educator)
ROBERT, an American educator and writer, born in San Francisco in 1875. He studied at Dartmouth College in 1892 and at Harvard, from 1897 to 1899. From 1900 to 1905 he was engaged in farming in Derry, N. H., and from 1905 to 1911 was a teacher of English at the Pinkerton Academy in that town. He lived in Europe in 1912 and 1915. His first book of poems was "A Boy's Will" (1913). He first attained wide notice at the publication of the book of poems entitled "North of Boston" (1914). This placed him in the first rank of the younger American poets. Mountain Interval followed in 1916.
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Frostbite
the freezing of any portion of the body by exposure to a high degree of cold. The parts of the body most exposed to the serious consequence of frostbite are those farthest from the seat of circulation, and the most exposed to a great degree of cold. These are, the toes and feet, fingers, ears, nose, and the cheeks below the eye. The effect of intense cold is, in the first place, to deaden the sensibility of the part most exposed, which it does by contracting the vessels and driving the blood from the surface; when the part, losing its healthy vitality, is unable to resist the specific influence of the surrounding cold, and quickly falls a prey to the potency of the frost, and, in a short time, a partial gives way to an absolute death, or mortification of the member or organ. The treatment of frostbite consists in coaxing back by degrees the vitality of the part; this is most prudently effected by friction, at first with snow, then with water at ordinary temperature, no warmth being applied for some time.
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Frostburg
a city of Maryland, in Allegheny co. It is on the Western Maryland and the Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroads. Its situation at an elevation of about 2,200 feet makes it a popular summer resort. It has a State normal school and also a miners' hospital. Its industries include fire-brick and tile works, planing mills, foundries, hosiery mills, etc. It is the center of Pop. an important coal mining region. (1910) 6,026; (1920) 6,017.
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Frosted Glass
a form of glass made by the Venetians. It has irregularly varied marble-like projecting dislocations in the intervening fissures. Suddenly plunging hot glass into cold water produces crystalline convex fractures, with a polished exterior; but the concave intervening figures are caused, first by chilling, and then reheating at the furnace, and simultaneously expanding the reheated ball of glass by blowing, thus separating the crystals from each other, and leaving open figures bepreparatory to tween, which is done forming vases or ornaments.
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Frosting
The matted or rough surface sometimes given to work before gilding or silvering. See Electro Plating, Bronzing and Staining. The gray surface produced on steel work of watches is also known as frosting, though more commonly called graying.
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Frothingham
ARTHUR LIN- COLN, an American archeologist, born in Boston Rome and in Germany. He was a lecturer in archæology at Johns Hopkins University from 1882 to 1886. In 1887 a member of the faculty of Princeton University, as professor of archæology and ancient history, serving until 1906. In 1395-1896 he was director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. He was a member of many learned societies and was the author of "A History of Sculpture"; of Christian Rome" "Monuments (1908); "A History of Architecture" (1915); and "Handbook of War Facts the calyx and the corolla are converted and Peace Problems" (1918).
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