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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
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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
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Capuchin Friars Minor
• Crutched Friars
• Friar
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Friars

(brother, ) A term common to the monks of all orders. In a more peculiar sense, it is restrained to such monks as are not priests: for those in orders are usually dignified with the appellation of father.