frain 
For it [the child) was in an aache yfounde : 
She cleped it Frain in that stoimde. 
The/i-et/118 of the asche is nfiviui 
After the language uf IJrcteyn. 
L,,;i le Freine, \. 223 (Weber s Metr. Rom.) 
They fomide Firumbas thar a lay vndre a tre of /raj,,,,. 
Sir F/rumbras, 1. 1035(Ellis, Spec. Early Eng. Metr. lion,.). 
fraischeurt (fra'sher), >,. [<OF./ra^r,F. frama ^i' e '( 
fraiclteur, < OF. /row, fern, fmischc, F. /rac7i, c ble o \ 
2359 
frakelt, a. [ME., ulsofrekel, var., with term. -c/, 
of fritkeil, q. v. ] Same as f raked. 
Semen hwen thou naldes [wouldst not] Godd, this flkele 
world &frakele. liali Mtidr.nhed (ed. Cockayne), p. 7. 
Freshness ; coolness. 
fratclteur , 
fresh, cool: see freak.] 
[Bare.] 
Hither in summer evenings you repair, 
Tu taste the fraischeur of the purer air. 
Dryden, To his Sacred Majesty. 
fraiseH, r. t. [ME., < AS. fnisinii, ask, try, 
tempt, = OS. freson, try, tempt, endanger, = 
OHG.freison. be in danger or terror; cf. OHtr. 
* freisjan, MHG. vreisen, endanger, terrify ; weak 
verbs, associated with Goth.fraisan, try, prove, 
test. Cf. fraist.'l To put in terror or danger. 
He fellez forests fele, forraysc the landez, 
tfrysthez [read ffrythez, i. e., friths, spares] no fraunchez, 
- ' >.t\u 
fraise' 2 (fraz), . [Also written poise, perhaps 
< OF.fmis,froise, broken, froisser, break, crush, 
bruise. Cf. F. fraise, pluck (of a calf, lamb, 
etc.).] A pancake with bacon in it. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
fraise 3 (fraz), n. [F., a strawberry, < LL. as if 
"fragea, < L. fragum, a strawberry-plant, pi. 
fraga, strawberries (> It. fraga = Walloon 
freee, strawberry).] In her., the conventional frame (fram) .; pre t. 
strawberry-leaf, as those in the coronets of f ramin g f f< ME. fra 
English dukes, marquises, etc. 
fraise 4 (fraz), n. [< F. fraise, a ruff like those 
lAMlal* ^I.M,"/, ... L - _..,----, . tTGIrlell, J 1 tjllWH&Iti, ^Clivim, fim^wlm, ^.w...^.., 
worn in the time of Queen Elizabeth., formerly f mm i en ^ fremien, fremen, intr. (with dat. obj.), 
also freze, another form of frise, frize, part of ^nAt, be of advantage, avail, < AS. fremman, 
the entablature of an order: see frieze^. But f rem ian, tr., advance, promote, perform, exe- 
there seems to be a reference to frise in chevaux- cute comm it, do, framian, fremian, intr., prof- 
de-frise, q. v.] 1. In fort., a defense consisting it ayail _ O S. fremmian, perform, = OFries. 
of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in ? rema CO mmit, effect, = MLG. vromen, LG. 
a horizontal or an inclined position. See cut 
under fortification. 2. A tool used by marble- 
workers for enlarging a drill-hole. It is grooved 
and somewhat conical. 
fraised (frazd), a. [< /raise* + -ed?.] Forti- 
fied with a fraise. 
fraistt, v. [ME.fraisten,freisten,frasten, < Icel. 
freista = Sw.fresta, try, attempt, test, tempt, ^ ^ ,,, v , 8 , , , 
= Dan. friste, try, attempt, tempt, experience ; kind _ j^ el- f ramr ^ forward, prominent, = Sw. 
with formative -t (akin to Goth, "fraistan, in jj an _ f rom pi ou s, meek; connected with AS. 
deriv. fraistubni, fraistobni, trial, temptation), f ra m from prep., from: see from. mu 
from the verb (Goth, fraisan, etc.) represented i Con8true t' appears first in ME.] I. 
by /raise* : B ee /raisei.] I. trans. 1. To try; To strengthen ; refresh; support, 
test; prove ; put to the proof. 
Thou fraisted us, als silver fraisted isse. 
Ps. Ixv. 10 (ME. version) [Ixvl. 10]. 
Fulle many men the world here/rai(, 
Bot he is noght wyse that tharin traystes. 
Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1. 1090. 
2. To learn by trial ; experience. 
goure douhtynesse of blode the Sarazins salle freiste. 
Kob. of Brunne, tr. of Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), 
[p. 175. 
3. To seek to learn ; ask; inquire. 
ffrayne will I fer and fraist of there werkes, 
Meue to my mater and make here an ende. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 97. 
4. To seek; be eager for; desire. 
frame 
Our English 1'iiiversitles, however far in the historic 
distance we may throw back their origin, must have been 
framed on the model of the Continental Universities. 
Stubla, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 141. 
Q. [< frame, .] To surround or provide with 
a frame, as a picture ; put into a frame, as a 
piece of cloth. 
There at the window stood, 
Framed in its black square length, with lamp in hand, 
Pompilia. Broiminij, King and Book, I. 28B. 
Lo ! God's likeness the ground-plan 
Neither modell'd, glaz'd, nor framed. 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 
Satins may also be cleaned, dried, damped, brushed, 
framed, and finished, exactly as described for silk damasks. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 147. 
II. intrans. If. To profit; avail. 
Of ther childer it sais the names, 
To neven [name] tharn here it ne frames. 
Rob. of Brunne, in Layamon (ed. Madden), III. 389. 
The mcate with some of them could scant frame, by rea- 
son of their queazie stomackes. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 276. 
2f. To fit ; accord. 
When thou hast turned them all ways, and done thy 
best to hew them and to make them frame, thou must be 
fain to cast them out. 
Tyndak, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 106. 
Sweet! then, while each thing doth /tame, 
Take me to thee, and thee to me ! 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 563). 
My rude rhymes ill with thy verses frame. 
L. Bryskett (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 274). 
3f. To succeed in doing or trying to do some- 
thing; manage. 
Said he, "Sae weel we frame, 
I think it is convenient 
That we should sing a psalm." 
Battle of Philiphaugh (Child's Ballads, VIII. 133). 
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth : and he 
said Sibboleth : for he could not frame to pronounce it 
right. Judges xii. 6. 
4. To wash ore with the aid of a frame. 5. To 
move. Dailies. [Prov. Eng.] 
An oath, and a threat to set Throttler on me if I did not 
frame off, rewarded my perseverance. 
, ~= OHG. fremman, freman, MHG. fre- ' * , Wnthering Heights x,i 
'men = Icel. fremja, frama = Sw. framja = Dan. frame (fram), n. [< ME. franie, a fabric struc- 
fremme, promote, further, perform (etc.; the ture, also profit, advantage, benefit, < Ab. ^re- 
various verbal forms and senses are mingled), mu,freme, profit, advantage, benefit, = Icel./ra- 
< AS. fram, from, a., bold, forward, strenuous, mi, advancement; from the verb.] If. Profit; 
strong, = OS. from, earnest, = OFries. fremo, advantage ; benefit. 
"" " -tr-rrr, He n]a(ie a]] aucter ( a i tar ) on Codes name, 
a. [< frame + -able.'] 
Capabie'of being" framed or formed. [Rare.] 
Man hath still a reasonable understanding, and a will 
thereby /romaWe to good things, but is not thereunto now 
able to frame himself. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v., App. 1. 
framboesia (fram-be'si-a), n. [NL., < F. fram- 
boise (whence Sp. frambuesa), raspberry, dial. 
(Walloon) frombdhe, perhaps (with change of 
6r to fr by association with F. fraise, straw- 
berry: see /raise 3 ) < D. braambezie, raspberry, 
blackberry, = OHG. "brdmberi, pramperi, MHG. 
brambere, G. brombeere, blackberry: see bram- 
ble, brambleberry."] In pathol., the yaws, a 
chronic contagious disease prevalent in the 
Antilles, some parts of Africa, and other tropi- 
cal regions, characterized by raspberry-like 
excrescences, whence the name. The name has 
also been somewhat loosely applied to other affections of 
the skin anatomically resembling the yaws. Also called 
v _ [< framboesia 
+ -aid."] Like or indicating the disease called 
framboesia. 
Vegetations and growths occur, at first wart-like, later 
profusely hypertrophic /ramdom'oid. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, V. 77. 
and pp. framed, ppr. 
amen, construct, build, 
framen, fremen, fremmen, strengthen, refresh, 
fremen, fremmen, perform, execute, framen, 
f rom . D. vroom - MLG. vrome = MHG. mum, 
vr G f romm> pious, strong, brave, honest, 
The sense 
trans. If. 
liay.frayst I no fyjt, in fayth I the telle. 
Sir Oawayne and the Green Kniyht (E. E. T. S.), 1. 279. 
II. intrans. To go forth on an expedition; 
sally forth. 
The kyng fravstez a-furth over the fresche strandez. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1227. 
fraitert, fraitort, . [Early mod. E. also frayter, 
fray tor, froyter ; < ME. fraitor, fraitour, fray- 
tour, freitour, freitur, fratour, frature, < OF. 
fraitur, by apheresis from refreitor, refretor, 
refretour, refretoire, < ML. refectorium, a dining- 
hall in a convent, a refectory: see refectory. 
Hence fratery, fratry, and in comp. frater- 
house.] A dining-hall in a convent; a refec- 
tory. 
Thus thei ben exempt from cloistre, and from risyng 
at mydnyjt, and fro fastinge in her [their] fraitour, and 
other workes of obedience. 
Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), I. 292. 
And thanne freres in here freitoure shal fynden a keye 
Of Constantynes coffres, in which is the catel 
That Gregories god-children han yuel dispended. 
Piers Plmtman (B), x. 323. 
fraket, See/refce. 
frakedt, [ME., < AS.fracoth,fracuth,fraeod, 
fraced, bad, base, unseemly, vile, shameful. Cf. 
/rafceJ.] Bad; vile; shameful. 
Nis none weree fo thene frakede fere [than a bad com- 
panion]. Old Eng. Homilies (ed. Morris), II. 189. 
Thor [there] ghe [she] gan fremen Ysmael 
With watres drinc and bredes mel. 
Generis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1246. 
At last, with creeping crooked pace forth came 
An old, old man, with beard as white as snow, 
That on a staffe his feeble steps did/ram. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 30. 
2t. To execute ; perform. 
Alle haueden sworen him oth . . . 
That he sholden hise wille freme. 
Havelok, 1. 439. 
The silken tackle 
Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands 
That yarely/rame the office. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 
3. To fit, as for a specific end ; make suitable 
or conformable ; adapt ; adjust. 
I will hereafter frame my self to be coy. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 85. 
He hath a person, and a smooth dispose, 
To be suspected, fram'd to make women false. 
Shak., Othello, i. 3. 
It is a happiness to be born and framed unto virtue. 
Sir T. Broniie, Religio Medici, ii. 2. 
It seems to me the little lass is framing herself to some 
artifice. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 86. 
4. To construct by fitting and uniting together 
the several parts ; fabricate by union of constit- 
uent parts : as, to frame a house, a door, or a 
machine. 
First are two seates placed, or one so framed that two 
may sit In the same apart. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 191. 
A fairer creature never did 
Dame Nature ever frame. 
The Cruel Black (Child's Ballads, III. 370). 
5. In general, to bring or put into form or or- 
der; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; 
contrive; plan; devise. 
Exceedingly they troubled were in thought, 
N"e wist what answere unto him to frame. 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 313. 
He began to frame the loveliest countenance he could. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ill. 
For thou art/ram'd of the firm truth of valour. 
~ V., Hen. V., iv. 3. 
Frame a Will ; whereto you shall inscribe 
My master your sole heir. B. Jonson, Volpone, 1. 1. 
And sacrede he thor-on for sowles/roine. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 625. 
We trowe it is to our/rom. 
Jtob. of Brunne, tr. of Langtoft's Chron. (ed. Hearne), 
[p. 162. 
2f. The act of planning or contriving; contri- 
vance ; invention. 
John the bastard, 
Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. 
Shak., Much Ado, iv. 1. 
3. Form, constitution, or structure in general; 
system; order: as, the frame of government. 
For then [at the last day] the present frame of things 
shall be dissolved, and the bounds set to the more subtile 
and active parts of matter shall be taken away. 
Stillingfleet, Sermons, I. xi. 
The law of Moses, as distinguished from all other re- 
ligious institutions, had nothing in the frame and design 
of it apt either to recommend it to its professors, or to 
invite proselytes. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. iv. 
ed ; fabric ; structure : used especially of natural 
objects with reference to their physical struc- 
ture or constitution. 
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a steril prom- 
ontory. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
The very mould and/rome of hand, nail, finger. 
As you enter at the door, there is opposed to you the 
frame of a wolf in the hangings. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ill. 1. 
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, 
Whatever stirs this mortal frame, 
All are but ministers of Love, 
And feed his sacred flame. Coleridge, Love. 
5. The sustaining parts of a structure fitted 
and joined together; framework: as, ihe frame 
of a house, bridge, ship, or printing-press. See 
cut on following page. 6. Any kind of case 
or structure made for admitting, inclosing, or 
supporting things, whether fixed or movable : 
as, the frame of a window, door, picture, or 
looking-glass. 
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd 
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart ; 
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held. 
Shak., Sonnets, xitv. 
The mill yawned all ruinous with unglazed frames. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xix. 
China has the frame of morals, but has no picture to 
place within it ; it wants an ideal to give beauty to its own 
conception. Faitla of the World, p. 83. 
