frank¹ /frangk/

1. Free or open
2. Liberal (obsolete)
3. Open or candid in expression
4. Unrestrained (obsolete)
5. Unmistakable or true (medicine; as in frank pus or asthma)

1. To sign or mark so as to ensure free carriage, eg at a post office
2. To send thus signed or marked
3. To mark by means of a frankˈing-machine to show that postage has been paid

1. The signature of a person who had the right to frank a letter
2. The mark left by a franking-machine
3. A franked envelope

frankˈly adverb

1. To be frank
2. In a frank manner

frankˈness noun

• brutalized
• brutalizes
• brutalizing
• brutally
• brute
• bruted
• brute fact
• brute facts
• brute force
• brutelike
• bruteness
• brutenesses
• bruter
• brutes
• brutified
• brutifies
• brutify
• brutifying
• bruting
• brutings
• brutish
• brutishly
• brutishness
• brutishnesses
• brutum fulmen