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Black Friar :: Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine..

Friary :: Friary (n.) Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.

Austin :: Austin (a.) Augustinian; as, Austin friars..

Leatherhead :: Leatherhead (n.) The friar bird.

Disfriar :: Disfriar (v. t.) To depose or withdraw from the condition of a friar.

Minim :: Minim (n.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

Friary :: Friary (n.) The institution or praactices of friars.

Friar :: Friar (n.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.

Leatherneck :: Leatherneck (n.) The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

Silversides :: Silversides (n.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker..

Mendicant :: Mendicant (a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars..

Friar :: Friar (n.) 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..

Possessioner :: Possessioner (n.) An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc., as contrasted with mendicant friars..

Minor :: Minor (n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

Augustinian :: Augustinian (n.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

Four-o''clock :: Four-o'clock (n.) The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words..

Mendinant :: Mendinant (n.) A mendicant or begging friar.

Convert :: Convert (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir..

White Friar :: White friar () A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite..

Friarly :: Friarly (a.) Like a friar; inexperienced.

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