FREEM, adj. Handsome. Yorksh. FREE-MARTIN, s. The female calf of twins, when the other is a male. FREEMEN-SONG, 8. A ballad of a lively description.

FREENDESSE, 8. A female friend. FREENDFULLE, adv. Friendly. FREES, adj. Frail; brittle. Pr. P. FREESPOKEN, adj. Affable. Var. d. FREET, (1) 8. A spectre, or frightful object. North.

(2) pret. t. Devoured. FREISER, 8. (4.-N.) The strawberry plant.

FREIST, v. (1) (A.-S.) To freeze; to cool.

(2) To seek.

FREISTES, 8. Fraughts.

FREITUR, 8. The frater-house.

FREK, (1) adv.

eager; hasty.

(4.-S.) Quick;

(2) adj. Firm; powerful; brave. FREKE, 8. (4.-S.) A man; a fellow. FRELE, adj. (4.-N.) Frail. Freleté, frelnes, frailty.

FRELICHE, adj. (4.-S.) Noble.

FRELY,

FRENCH-CROWN, s. The baldness produced by the lues venerea. FRENCH-CRUST, 8. The lues venerea. FRENCH-HOOD, 8. An article of dress in use temp. Hen. VIII.

For by their injunction the husband is their head under God, and they subjects to their husbands. But this power that some of them have, is disguised geare and strange fashions. They must weare french-hoods, and I cannot tell you, I, what to call it. And when they make them readie and come to the covering of their heads, they will call and say, give me my french-hood, and give me my bonet, or my cap, and so forth. Latimer's Sermons,

FRENCHIFIED, adj. Having the lues

venerea.

FRENCH-MAGPIE, 8. The longtailed tomtit.

FRENCH-NUT, s. A walnut. West. FRENCH-PIE, s. Meat stewed between two dishes.

FRENCH-RUSSET, s. A sort of stuff. His band is starch'd with grease, frenchrusset cleare;

His beard, for want of combing, full of mange. Davies, Scourge of Folly, 1611. FREND, part. p. Asked. Gawayne. FRENDED, adj. Having friends.

This woman was born in London, worshipfully frended, honestly brought up, and very wel maryed, saving somwhat to sone; her husbande an honest citezen, yong and goodly, and of good substance. More's Life of Richard III. FRENDREDE, S. Friendship. FRENETIKE, adj. (A.-N.) Frantic. FRENNE, 8. A stranger. "An

aliene, a forraine, a frenne." Florio. See Frem. FRENSEIE, 8. (A.-N.) A frenzy. FRENZY, adj. Frolicsome. Leic. FREQUENCE, 8. (Fr.) Frequency, FREQUENT, adj. (Lat.) Currently reported.

FRERE, 8. (4.-N.) A friar; lite. rally, a brother.

FRES, 8. A question, or doubt. FRESCADES, S. (Fr.) Cool places refreshments.

FRESEES. A dish in ancient cookery made of pork, chickens,and spices.

(4) adj.

Rainy. North.

(5) adj.

Unripe. Somerset.

(6) adj. Handsome; beautiful.
(7) adj. Gay in dress. Oxfd.
(8) adj. Intoxicated. Var. d.
(9) Sober. Wight.

(10) adj. Rather fat. Var. d.
FRESH DRINK, 8. Small beer. Var.d.
FRESHE, v. To refresh; to take
refreshment.

FRESHEN, v. To enlarge in the
udder, &c., previous to calving.
North.

FRESHER, 8. A small frog. East.
FRESHET, 8. A stream of fresh water.
FRESHEUR, 8. (Fr.) Freshness.
FRESH-FORCE, 8. An old municipal
law term in London, equivalent
to Novel Desseizen. Calthrop's
Reports, 1670.
FRESH-LIQUOR, 8.
fat. West.

Unsalted hog's

FRESLILY, adv. Fiercely.

FRESONE, S. A Friesland horse.

Morte Arthure.

FRESSE, adj. Fresh; quick.
FRESTE, (1) v. To lend, or trust.
(2) To delay, or linger.
(3) s. A loan.
FRET, (1) v. (A.-S.) To adorn.

(2) 8. Ornamental work of va-
rious kinds and in many different
senses, especially raised or em-
bossed work.

(3) s. (Lat. fretum.) A narrow
strait of the sea.

An island parted from the firme land
with a little fret of the sea.

Knolles's Hist. of the Turks, 462.
(4) v. To ferment, as cider. West.
(5) v. To rub.

Ferramenta, quæ axi immissa prohibent
attritum ejus. Peeces of iron, which

being driven into the axelltree, doe
keepe it from fretting out: some call
them tackes. Nomenclator, 1585.

(6) part. p. Tore up.

(7) 8. A wicker basket. Somerset..
(8) v. To graze. West.

(9) v. To thaw. Northampt.
FRETCHETY, adj. Fretful; fidgety;
old; brittle. West.
FRETCHIT, adj. Peevish.

FRETE, v. (1) (4.-S.) To eat, or
devour; to corrode.

(2) To rub. See Fret (6).
(3) To blame, or scold.
FRETENT,part.p. Frightened. Cumb.
FRETISHING, 8. A pain and stiff-
ness in the limbs from cold.
FRETROTS, 8. A religious sect, re-
sembling the Adamites.
FRETS, 8. The points at which a
string is to be stopped in a lute
or guitar. Howell.
FRETTEN, adj. Spotted.
FRETTING, S. A griping, or writhing.
FREV, prep. From. Used when the
next word begins with a vowel.
North.

FREVERE, V. (4.-S.) To comfort; to
solace.

Manne, wanne thyt takest ase other mete,
Into thy wombe hyzt sedlyth;
Ac ne defith nauzt ase thy mete,
Wyth thyne flesch medlyth,
Ac kevereth

Al other wyse, and so thy body
And thy saule hyzt frevereth.

William de Shoreham.

FRIARS'-KNOTS, 8. A kind of tassels used in embroidery, temp. Hen. VIII.

FRIARS'-LOAVES, 8. Fossil echini. Suff.

FRIARS'-PIECE, 8. The piece of fat in a leg of mutton, called also the pope's eye.

FRIBBLE, (1) 8. An idler; a coxcomb. A company of fribbles, enough to discredit any honest house in the world.

No, I'd have you to know, I am for none of your skip-jacks ;-no, give me your persons of quality, there's somewhat to be got by them. The Cheats, 1662.

(2) v. To mock. FRIBBLING, adj. Captious.

FRICACE, 8. A sort of ointment for

a sore place.

FRICHE, adj. Brisk; nimble. Oxfd. FRICKLE, 8. A basket for fruit holding about a bushel.

FRIDDLE, v. To waste time in trifles. Northampt.

FRIDGE, v. (1) To rub so as to in-
jure; to fret, or fray. Var. d.
(2) To dance about.
FRIDLEYS, 8. A name applied to
certain small rents formerly paid
to the lord of the great manor of
Sheffield by the inhabitants of
the Frith of Hawksworth for
liberty of common. Hunter.
FRIE, 8. A very young pike.
FRIEND-BACK,8. A hang-nail.North.
FRIEZE, S. A coarse narrow cloth.
FRIGGE, (1) v. To warm.

(2) v. To meddle officiously.
(3) v. To wriggle.

(4) 8. The rump of beef or mut-
ton. Warw.

FRIGGLE, V. To trifle; to be tedious. Northampt.

FRIGHTEN, v. To astonish. West. FRILL, (1) v. To shiver, as hawks; to tremble with cold.

(2) 8. The cry of an eagle. (3) v. To turn back in plaits. FRIM, adj. (A.-S. freom, strong.) Vigorous; thriving. The term is now in the provinces chiefly

applied to plants or trees in a vigorous and growing state, and its meaning in such cases is kind and thriving. It also signifies well fed, as applied to cattle. Through the frim pastures, freely at his leisures. Drayton's Moses, p. 1576.

(2) The same as Frem. Frimfolks, strangers.

FRIMICATE, v. To give one's self airs. East.

FRIMZY, adj. Slight; soft. Kent. FRINE, v. To whimper. North. FRINJEL, 8. That part of a flail

which falls on the corn. Suffolk. FRINNISHY, adj. Over-nice. Devon. FRINNY, v. To neigh. Lanc. FRIPERER,

FRIPLER,

FRIPPER,

8. A cleaner of old apparel for sale; a seller of old clothes

and rags. FRIPPERY, 8. An old clothes shop. Florio.

FRISE. Friesland.

FRISKET, 8. That part of the press whereon the paper is laid to be put under the spindle in printing.

FRISKIN, 8. A gay lively person. FRISLET, 8. A sort of small ruffle. FRISSURE, 8. A dish in old cookery,

composed chiefly of hare. FRIST, v. (1) To give respite for a debt; to trust for a time, or forbear. North.

(2) To put off. See Freste. FRISTELE, 8. (4.-N.) A flute. FRIT, S. A sort of pancake. Linc. FRITCH, adj. Free; sociable. West. FRITFUL, adj. Timorous. Warw. FRITH, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A hedge; a coppice; a high wood. It is still used in the provinces for ground overgrown with bushes, or underwood; and for fields which have been taken from woods.

(2) v. To plash a hedge. Devon. FRITHE, 8. (4.-S.) Peace. FRITTERS, 8. Small pancakes, with apples in them. Suffolk.

FRITTING, S. Fitting and fastening
the felloes of a wheel. Kennett.
FRITTISH, adj. Cold. Cumb.
FRIZ, part. p. Frozen.
FRIZADE, 8. Frieze cloth.
FRIZZLE, 8. A fry. Northampt.
FRO, prep. (4.-S.) From.
FROATING, (1) part. a. Mending;
repairing. Middleton.

(2) s. Great industry. Cumb. FROBICHER, 8. A furbisher. FROBLY-MOBLY, adv. Indifferently

well. Sussex. FROCK, S. A frog.

FROD, 8. Floating lumps of ice passing in large masses down the Severn.

FRODMORTELL, 8. (A.-S.) A free
pardon for manslaughter.
FROES. See Frow.
FROG, 8. (1) A frock.

(2) Part of a horse's foot. Worc.
(3) Frog in the middle, a child's
game. Frog over an old dog,
leap-frog. As naked as a frog,

stark naked.

He was afraid of every dog,
When he was out of town;
Almost as naked as a frog,

With grief he sat him down.
The Welch Traveller, n. d.

FROG-CHEESE, 8. Boleti, growing
on decayed wood. Northampt.
FROGGAM, 8. A slattern. Yorksh.
FROGON, 8. (A.-N.) A poker.
FROG-SEAT, 8. A toadstool. North-
ampt.

FROG-SPIT, 8. Cuckoo-spit.
FROICE, 8. A frock.

FROISE, (1) 8. A large thick pan-
cake, of the full size of the frying-
pan, sometimes containing small
pieces of bacon mixed with the
batter. East. The ancient froise
was like a pancake in form, but
composed of different materials.
(2) v. To spread thin. Suffolk.
FROKIN, 8. A little frow, or woman.
FROME, adv. First. Atte frome,

at the first, immediately, above all things. See Atte-frome.

FROM-WARD, adv. Back. To-ward and from-ward, thither and back. FRONST, adj. (4.-N.) Wrinkled. FRONT, (1) 8. (A.-N.) The forehead. (2) v. To face.

The father fronted with a guile.

Warner's Albions England, 1592. And whom so many Romaine peers, grandcaptaines of such might,

Of whom nine emperours themselves in persons here did fight,

Could hardly foyle, were fronted now even of a barbarous foe. Ib.

(3) v. To butt, as rams.
(4) To front up, to bind the
hair with a fillet.

FRONTAL, 8. (4.-N.) A piece of ar

mour for the forehead of a horse. FRONTAL, 18. A hanging for the FRONTIER, front of an altar. FRONTIERE, S. (Fr.) (1) The front of a building.

(2) A front, or border. FRONTLET, S. (Fr.) A forehead-band.

Forsoth, women have many lettes,
And they be masked in many nettes;
As frontlets, fyllets, partlettes, &c.
Four Ps, O. Pl., i, 64.

Hoods, frontlets, wires, cauls, curling irons,
periwigs, &c.
Lyly's Mydas.
FRONSTEAD, 8. A farm-yard. Yorksh.
FROOM, adj. Strong; healthy. Glouc.
See Frim.

FROPISH, adj. Cross; out of
FROPPISH, temper; peevish.

Oh, my dear, dear bud, welcome home; why dost thou look so fropish, who has nanger'd thee?

Wycherley, Country Wife, 1688. FRORE, adj. Frozen. Frory, frosty. FRORING, S. (4.-S.) Help; assistance. FRORT, adv. Forward. Chesh.

frost. Suffolk.

FROST, V. To turn down the hinder part of horses' shoes in frosts, to prevent their slipping. East. FROST-CETCHEN, adj. Frost-bitten. Shropsh.

FROSTED, adj. Frozen. Devon. FROST-NAILS, s. Nails put in horses' shoes in frosty weather. Var. d. FROTE, V. (A.-N.) To rub. Froterer, one who rubs.

FROTH, adj. Tender. Tusser. FROTHER, v. To feed. Linc. FROUGH, adj. (1) Loose; spongy; FROW, tender.

(2) Short; crisp; brittle. FROUNCE, (1) v. To wrinkle; to knit the brow; to frown.

With that sche frounceth up the brow,
This covenaunt y wille alowe.

(2) 8. A frown, or wrinkle.
(3) v. To curl, or twist.

Gower.

Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guise,

Some prancke their ruffes.

Spens., F. Q., I, iv, 14. With dressing, braiding, frouncing, flow'ring. Drayt., Nymph., ii. (4) 8. A wrinkled ornament on a cup. Pr. P.

(5) 8. A flounce, in dress.

(6) s. A disease in hawks, which hinders them from closing the beak.

FROUNTELLE, 8. A frontlet. FROUNTY, adj. Very passionate. Linc. FROUSE, v. To rumple. South. FROUST, S. A musty smell. Var. d. FROUT, adj. Frightened. Hampsh. FROUZE, v. To curl. Florio. FROUZY, adj. (1) Froward; peevish; crusty.

(2) Offensive to the eye or smell. Kent.

(3) Seedy, from dissipation.

I look frouzy this morning. 'ad, I must leave off this drinking, it will kill me else. Mountfort, Greenwich Park, 1691. FROVER, v. (4.-S.) To comfort; to solace. See Frevere.

FROW, (1) s. (Dutch.) A woman; pl. froes.

(2) 8. A dirty woman; a slattern;
a lusty woman. North.
(3) adj. Hasty.

(4) adv. Hastily.

(5) adj. Brittle; crisp. Berks.
(6) v. To pine. Northampt.
FROWARD, (1) adv. Back.
(2) adj. (A.-S.) Averse.

FROWDIE, S. A dirty woman. North.
FROWER. Same as Frommard, q. v.
FROWRINGE, adj. Froward.
FROWY, adj. Stale; not sweet. East.
Spenser applies it to grass.
But if they (the sheep) with thy goats
should yede,

They soon might be corrupted;
Or like not of the frowy fede,
Or with the weeds be glutted.

Spens., Shep. Kal., July, 109.

FROWYTE, 8. Fruit.

FROYTE,

FRUB, v. To rub, or furbish. Florio. FRUCE, S. Fruit. Pr. P. FRUCTUOUS, adj. (A.-N.) Fruitful. FRUE, adj. True; faithful. Linc. FRUFF, adj. Brittle; cross-grained. FRUGAL, adj. Relaxed. Norfolk. FRUGGAN, 8. (1) (Fr. fourgon.) A curved iron scraper to stir ashes in an oven. North.

(2) A slovenly woman. North. FRUIT, 8. Apples. Heref. FRUITESTERE, s. A female seller of fruit.

FRUM, adj. (1) Early. Frum potatoes, or fruit, Shropsh.

(2) Full; fat. Frumness, repletion. See Frim.

(3) Numerous; thick; rank; overgrown. West. FRUMENTY,

FRUMETY,

8. Hulled wheat boiled in milk, and

FURMETY, seasoned. A favorite dish in the North. A person in a