| frederick | (n) a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore |
| frederick i | (n) son of Frederick William who in 1701 became the first king of Prussia (1657-1713) |
| frederick i | (n) Holy Roman Emperor from 1152 to 1190; conceded supremacy to the pope; drowned leading the Third Crusade (1123-1190), Syn. Frederick Barbarossa, Barbarossa |
| frederick ii | (n) king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786), Syn. Frederick the Great |
| frederick ii | (n) the Holy Roman Emperor who led the Sixth Crusade and crowned himself king of Jerusalem (1194-1250), Syn. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II |
| fredericksburg | (n) a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River |
| fredericksburg | (n) an important battle in the American Civil War (1862); the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee, Syn. Battle of Fredericksburg |
| frederick william | (n) the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688), Syn. Great Elector |
| frederick william i | (n) son of Frederick I who became king of Prussia in 1713; reformed and strengthened the Prussian army (1688-1740) |
| frederick william ii | (n) king of Prussia who became involved in a costly war with France (1744-1797) |
| frederick william iii | (n) king of Prussia who became involved in the Napoleonic Wars (1770-1840) |
| frederick william iv | (n) king of Prussia who violently suppressed democratic movements (1795-1865) |
| limerick | (n) port city in southwestern Ireland |
| limerick | (n) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba |
| maverick | (n) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action, Syn. rebel |
| maverick | (n) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it |
| ashton | (n) British choreographer (1906-1988), Syn. Sir Frederick Ashton |
| banting | (n) Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941), Syn. F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting |
| cody | (n) United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917), Syn. William Frederick Cody, Buffalo Bill, William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody |
| delius | (n) English composer of orchestral works (1862-1934), Syn. Frederick Delius |
| douglass | (n) United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895), Syn. Frederick Douglass |
| furnivall | (n) English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910), Syn. Frederick James Furnivall |
| handel | (n) a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759), Syn. Georg Friedrich Handel, George Frideric Handel, George Frederick Handel |
| hassam | (n) United States painter noted for brilliant colors and bold brushwork (1859-1935), Syn. Childe Hassam, Frederick Childe Hassam |
| herschel | (n) English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871), Syn. John Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel |
| herschel | (n) English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822), Syn. William Herschel, Sir William Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel |
| hopkins | (n) English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947), Syn. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
| irregular | (adj) independent in behavior or thought, Syn. maverick, unorthodox, Example: she led a somewhat irregular private life; maverick politicians |
| lewis | (n) United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961), Syn. Frederick Carleton Lewis, Carl Lewis |
| loewe | (n) United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987), Syn. Frederick Loewe |
| menninger | (n) United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953), Syn. Charles Menninger, Charles Frederick Menninger |
| north | (n) British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792), Syn. Second Earl of Guilford, Frederick North |
| olmsted | (n) United States landscape architect primarily responsible for the design of Central Park in New York City (1822-1903), Syn. Frederick Law Olmsted |
| page | (n) English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962), Syn. Sir Frederick Handley Page |
| parrish | (n) United States painter (1870-1966), Syn. Maxfield Parrish, Maxfield Frederick Parrish |
| sanger | (n) English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918), Syn. Frederick Sanger, Fred Sanger |
| soddy | (n) English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956), Syn. Frederick Soddy |
| turner | (n) United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951), Syn. Frederick Jackson Turner |
| vinson | (n) United States jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1890-1953), Syn. Frederick Moore Vinson |
| wilkins | (n) English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004), Syn. Maurice Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins |
| worth | (n) French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895), Syn. Charles Frederick Worth |
| Gaverick | n. (Zool.) The European red gurnard (Trigla cuculus). [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Limerick | n. [ Said to be from a song with the same verse construction, current in Ireland, the refrain of which contains the place name Limerick. ] A humorous, often nonsensical, and sometimes risqé poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet, and rhyme, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rhyme. It often begins with "There once was a . . ." or "There was a . . ."; as -- There was a young lady, Amanda,
Whose Ballades Lyriques were quite fin de
Siècle, I deem
But her Journal Intime
Was what sent her papa to Uganda.
[ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ] |
| Maverick | n. In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Maverick | v. t. To take a maverick. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Maverick brand | . A brand originated by a dishonest cattleman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Whitterick | n. The curlew. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
