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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Friar
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Servant Friars
• Order of Friars Preachers
• Order of Friars Minor Conventuals
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Webster Dictionary
• Friar
• Curtal Friar
• Black Friar
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Friar
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Austin Friars
• Begging Friars
• Crouched (or Crutched, I.e., Crossed) Friars
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Austin Friars
• Black Friars
• Friar
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Capuchin Friars Minor
• Crutched Friars
• Friar
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Friars

(1):

(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.

(2):

(n.) An American fish; the silversides.

(3):

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