frans hals
- n Dutch portrait and genre painter who endowed his portraits with vitality and humor (1580?-1666)
frankness
- n the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
- n the trait of being blunt and outspoken
franz anton mesmer
- n Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
franz ferdinand
- n archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I; his assassination at Sarajevo triggered the outbreak of World War I (1863-1914)