Friar

Definition of Friar

Fri´ar
n.1.(R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
2.(Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
3.(Zool.) An American fish; the silversides.
Friar bird
(Zool.) an Australian bird (Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; - called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock.
Friar's balsam
(Med.) a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin.
Friar's cap
(Bot.) the monkshood.
- Brande & C.
Friar's cowl
(Bot.) an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
Friar's lantern
the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp.
Friar skate
(Zool.) the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); - called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.
- Milton.

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abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, religieux, religious, stylite
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