The Collaborative International Dictionary
Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[`e]re brother, friar, fr. L. frater brother. See Brother.]
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(R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz:
Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans.
Augustines.
Dominicans or Black Friars.
White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
(Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
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(Zo["o]l.) An American fish; the silversides.
Friar bird (Zo["o]l.), an Australian bird ( Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus.
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.
--Brande & C.Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood.
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.
--Milton.Friar skate (Zo["o]l.), the European white or sharpnosed skate ( Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.
Wiktionary
n. The friarbird.
Wikipedia
Leatherhead is a town in Surrey, England on the right bank of the river Mole, and at the edge of the contiguous built-up area of London. Its local district is Mole Valley. Records exist of the place from Anglo Saxon England. It has a combined theatre and cinema, which is at the centre of the re-modelling following late 20th century pedestrianisation. The bypass streets to the town centre close and feature annually in the London-Surrey cycle classic which is ranked by the world's cycling federation.
Just north-east of the midpoint of Surrey and at a junction of ancient north–south and east–west roads, elements of the town have been a focus for transport throughout its history. A main early spur to this was the construction of the bridge over the seasonally navigable River Mole in the early medieval period. Later the Swan Hotel provided 300 years of service to horse-drawn coaches. In the late 20th century the M25 motorway was built nearby.
Leatherhead is a town in Surrey, England.
Leatherhead may also refer to:
- Leatherhead F.C., a football club in Surrey, England
- Leatherhead (helmet), headgear formerly worn by firefighters and policemen in New York City
- Leatherhead (TMNT), a large mutant alligator character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Leatherheads, a film about American football with George Clooney
- Friarbird, species of honeyeaters in the genus Philemon
Usage examples of "leatherhead".
We got to Leatherhead without misadventure about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I took supper with my cousins and commended my wife to their care.
Had it not been for my promise to the innkeeper, she would, I think, have urged me to stay in Leatherhead that night.
The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose, by way of the Old Woking road -- the road I had taken when I drove to Leatherhead or they had hidden.
I cannot account for it, but my impotent desire to reach Leatherhead worried me excessively.
Nothing more of the fighting was known that night, the night of my drive to Leatherhead and back.
I figured her at Leatherhead, terrified, in danger, mourning me already as a dead man.
I had idea of going to Leatherhead, though I knew that there I had the poorest chance of finding my wife.
I was too shaken to go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your advice.
Wells's wife has cousins at Leatherhead, and they, listening gravely and with obvious skepticism to our wild tales of Martians with heat-rays laying waste to Woking, gave us supper and evidently expected that we would be guests for the night, it now being nearly ten.
She says that everything is burned and ruined as far as she went in the directions of Banstead and Leatherhead, and some sort of red weed, no doubt of Martian origin, is weirdly spreading across the land.
He drank a pint of bitter ale while Gertrude Quincey examined a road atlas to determine the best route to Leatherhead.