friar-bird 
an Australian bird commonly referred to the 
family MelKphagidce : so called from the bare- 
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frictional 
The superficial, trivial, and frigid manner in which that frication (fri-ka' shon), n. [Early mod. E. 
'Mile minister treated this Important branch of admin- f r i c <n-ion ; < OF. fricacioii. friciitinn = Sp. fri- 
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istrati. 
II. n. 1. A frivolous, trifling person 
fribble the leader of such men as Fox and Burko ! 
Thackeray, The Four Georges, George IV. 
The theory of idlers and dilettanti, at fribbles in morals 
and declaim'crs in verse, . . . which when accepted by a 
mature man, and carried along with him through life, is 
a sure mark of feebleness and of insincere dealing with 
himself. Lowell, Study Windows, p. ISO. 
2. Frivolity; nonsense. 
That orator, erst so eloquent, seems now but froth and 
fribble. Lowe, Bismarck, II. 662. 
fribble (frib'l), .; pret. and pp. fribbled, ppr. 
fribbling. [See /rift We, n.'] I. intrans. 1. To 
trifle ; act in a trifling or frivolous manner. 
Those who with the stars do fribble. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, II. iii. 36. 
The fools that are fribbling round about you. 
Thackeray. 
2. To totter. 
How the poor creature fribbles in his gait. 
Tatler, No. 49. 
.. <fri- 
The act 
II. trans. To deal with or dispose of in a tri- 
fling or frivolous way. 
They only take the name of country comedians to abuse 
simple people with a printed play or two, . . . and what is 
worse, they speak but what they list of it, and fribble out 
the rest. 
lliddleton (and another), Mayor of Queenborough, v. 1. 
Here is twenty pieces ; you shall fribble them away at 
the Exchange presently. Shirley, Witty Fair One, iv. 2. fricatricet (frik'a-tris), n. [< L. as if "frica- 
Wnile Lord Melbourne and his whig colleagues. . . were Mx ( a f ter f r i ca tor. m.) foifrictrix, f., < fricare 
fribbliny away their popularity. , frifnftiva-nA frichi<i\ v - f-s-n~- n A 
J. McCarthy, Hist. Own Times, I. x. (PP- /' teams &IM jn ,US), 
friarlyt (fri'ar-li), . [Formerly also frierly ;< fribbleismt (frib'1-izm), n. -"""'--'- i narlot - 
friar + -ly l 3 Like a friar; pertaining to friars; Frivolity. [Rare.] 
monkish. He disdained the fribleism of the French, in adopting 
Friar-bird ( Tropidorhynchus corniculatus). 
ness of the head and neck. Also called monk, 
monk-bird, pimlico, and poor soldier. 
friarlingt (War-ling), n. [< friar + -ling 1 .'] 
A diminutive of friar. 
I hane laboured with mine owne hands, and will labour, 
and will that all my friarlings shall labour, and live of 
their labour, whereby they may support themselues in an 
honest meane. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 381. 
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care, pp. frieatus, rub: see friction.] 
of rubbing; friction. 
Fricarion is one of the euacuacions, yea, or clensynges 
of mankinde, as all the learned amrmeth : . . . a course 
wunnc clothe, to chafe orruhbo the hedde, necke, breast, 
armeholes, bellie, thighcs, Ac., ... is good to open the 
pores. Habeas Bonk (E. E. T. S.), p. 246, note. 
Frications used in the morning serve especially to this 
intention ; but this must evermore accompany them, that 
after the /neat ton, the part be lightly anointed with oyl. 
Bacon, Hist. Life and Death. 
The like, saith Jordan, we observe in canes and woods 
that are unctuous and full of oyle, which will yield fire by 
/ 'rication or collision. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. , iii. 21. 
fricative (frik'a-tiv), a. and n. [< NL. frica- 
tirus,< L. frieatus, pp. ot fricare, rub: see fric- 
tion.] I. a. l.Characterizedby friction: said of 
those alphabetic sounds in which the conspicu- 
ous element is a rustling of the breath through 
a partly opened position of the organs, as s and 
sh, 2andaA,/and, tfjandTH, andsoon. They 
are sometimes divided into subclasses, as sibi- 
lants, like s and sh, and spirants, like / and v. 
2. Sounded by friction, as certain musical 
instruments. See instrument, 3 (d). 
II. n. A fricative consonant. See I., 1. 
It has been common of late to describe the sonant fric- 
atives, v, th in thy, z, etc., as made by means of breath 
added to tone. Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XV. 40, App. 
, ., 
see friction.] A 
This is afriarly fashion. 
Latimer, 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1649. 
Have no abstract or friarly contempt of [riches], . . . 
but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius Postlm- 
mus. Bacon, Riches (ed. 1887). 
The Stoics . . . founded their satisfaction upon a scorn- 
ful and/rterfy contempt of everything, 
Bp. Parker, Platouick Philos. (ed. 1667), p. 16. 
friar-msht, A kind of Christmas game. Dec- 
laration of Popish Impostures (1603). (Nares.) 
friar's-cap (M'arz-kap), n. The wolfs-bane. 
sepals. See Aconitum. 
friar* S-COWl (fri'arz-koul), n. The wake-robin, 
Arum maculatum: so called from its cowl-like 
spathe. See Arum. 
friar's-crown, friar's-thistle (fri'arz-kroun, 
-this'l), n. The woolly-headed thistle, Cnicus 
eriophorus. 
friar-skate (fri'ar-skat), n. The Baia alba, a 
kind of skate or ray. [Local, Eng.] 
friar's-lantern (frl'arz-lan'tern), n. The ignis 
fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp. 
She was pinch 'd and pull'd, she sed; 
And he, by friar's lantern led. 
the blemishes with equal passion as the beauties of the 
ancients. Goldsmith, Phanor. 
fribbler (frib'ler), n. A trifler; a coxcomb ; a 
fribble. 
They whom my correspondent calls male coquets should 
hereafter be called fribblers. A fribbler is one who pro- 
fesses rapture and admiration for the woman to whom he 
addresses, and dreads nothing so much as her consent. 
Spectator, No. 288. 
fribbling (frib'ling),j>. a. Frivolous; trifling; 
feebly captious. 
friborgt, friburght, n. Same a 
cacion,<.ii.fricatio(n-), arubbing: seefrication.] 
Frication. 
amouge the Romayns and Gi-eekes, mfricasics orrubbings. 
Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, ii. 32. 
You make them smooth and sound, 
With a bare/ricoce of your med'cine. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, iii. 2. 
fricace 2 !, [See fricassee.] Meat sliced and 
dressed with strong sauce. 
fricandeau (frik-an-do'), n. ; pi. fricandeaux 
[Formerly also fricando ; < F. frican- 
-MM.J fjjefcie (frik'l), n. [Origin not ascertained.] 
A bushel basket. [Prov. Eng.] 
Frickle, a basket for fruit that holds about a bushel. 
Dean Milles, MS. (Halliwell.) 
bing, rubbing down (of parts of the body), < 
L. fricare, pp. frictus, also frieatus, rub, rub 
down.] 1. The rubbing of the surface of one 
body against that of another ; attrition ; frica- 
tion. 
Frictions make the parts more fleshie and full, as we 
see both in men and in the currying of horses, &c. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 877. 
The sheep here smooths the knotted thorn 
With frictions of her fleece. 
Cowper, Mischievous Bull. 
2. In mecli., the resistance to the relative mo- 
tion, sliding or rolling, of surfaces of bodies in 
contact: called in the former case sliding, in 
the latter rolling friction. It is partly due to the ad- 
hesion of bodies, but the greater part of it is the result of 
their roughness. The friction proper is independent of 
the velocity and of the area of contact; it depends solely 
upon the nature of the two surfaces and upon the pressure 
upon them, to which it is directly proportional. What is 
sometimes called the internal friction of fluids is viscosity 
(which see). The friction of a fluid upon a solid is consid- 
erable ; it is now recognized as an important factor in the 
friar's-thistle. n. See friar's-crown 
friary (frl'ar-i), n. and 
cry, fryery;^ mod. form, accom. to friar, of ME. 
deau, larded veal, ete. ; appar. < friand, friant, 
f , in. . *j J\ J_;_j. __; . * /"*~G1 *.* 
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F. frarie, F. frairie = It. fratria, < thick slice of veal or other meat larded, stewed, science, had produced amongthe peasantry suchintensity 
ML./ratna. a fraternity : see frary.] I. n. ; pi. an d served with a made sauce. 
friaries (-iz). 1. A convent of friars ; amonas- fricandelle (frik-an-del'), n. [P., fern, of fri- 
tery. candeau, q. v.] A ball of chopped veal or other 
There are but 2 Friers in this Friery. meat richly seasoned and fried ; a dish pre- 
Hakluyfs Voyages, II. 103. p al . e( J o vea l, eggs, spices, etc. 
It was late in the reign of Edward before the parish fricaSSOt, V. t. Same as fricassee. 
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fricassee (frik-a-se'), n. [< F. fricassee, a fric- 
assee, any meat fried in a pan ; also a charge 
for a mortar, consisting of stones, bullets, nails, 
and pieces of old iron mixed with grease and 
gunpowder; prop. pp. fern, of fricasser, fric- 
assee, also squander. Usually referred to F. 
frier, fry, < L. frigere, fry, but this is phoneti- 
cally improbable. The sense points rather to 
L. fricare, rub, or to F. fracasscr, break in 
pieces ; but a connection with either of these 
2t. 
of 
Fuller. 
II. a. Pertaining to friars, or to a friary: as, 
"a friary cowl," Camden. 
It was fashionable for persons of the highest rank to 
bequeath their bodies to be buried in the/rrerj/ churches, 
which were consequently filled with sumptuous shrines 
and superb monuments. 
T. Warton, Hist Eng. Poetry, I. 293. 
friationt (fri-a'shon), n. [< L. friatus, pp. 
of friare, rub, crumble: see friable.] The 
act of crumbling or pulverizing. Coles, 1717. 
fribble (frib'l), a. and n. [Origin unknown; 
the verb seems to be earlier than the adj., but 
this may be due to a defect in the records. If 
the adj. is the original, it may be a more Eng- 
lish-looking form for frivol, < OF. frivole, /re- 
verbs has not been made out. 
A dish made by cutting chickens, rabbits, or 
other small animals into pieces, and dressing 
them with a gravy in a frying-pan or a like 
utensil. Formerly also fricasee. 
No cook with art increas'd physicians' fees, 
Nor serv'd up death in soups orfricaseee. 
Garth, Claremont. 
of hatred to their lord that they were ready to find allies 
against him anywhere. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 327. 
The whole number of horses for the field armies, some 
360,000, would, by the system which prevails, be furnish- 
ed immediately and without friction. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 35. 
Angle Of friction. See angle of repose-, under angles. 
Center of friction. See center*. Friction freml- 
tus. See fremitus. Friction Of rest, the friction and 
resistance of bodies in contact and at rest with respect to 
each other when they are compelled to move on one an- 
other. 
That excess, however, of the friction of rest over the 
friction of motion, is instantly destroyed by a slight vibra- 
tion. Rankine, Steam Engine, 13. 
Friction of rolling, or rolling-friction, the resistance 
to the rolling of one surface on another. 
Rolling-friction is the resistance of uneven surfaces 
rolling on one another, like that of a wheel rolling on a 
road. Nystrom, Elem. of Mechanics, p. 88. 
Index or coefficient of friction. See cncffidfnt. 
Cf . fricandeau.] frictional (frik'shqn-al), a. [(.friction + -al.] 
Relating to or of tlie nature of friction ; moved 
or effected by friction ; produced by friction : 
as, frictional electricity. 
If a rigid body rest on a frictional fixed surface, there 
will in general be only three points of contact. 
Thomson and Tail, Nat. Phil., 568. 
Frictional gearing- wheels, wheels which catch or bite, 
and produce motion not by teeth, but by means of friction. 
Witli the view of increasing or diminishing the friction, 
vol, < L. frivoliis, silly, trifling, frivolous : "see fricassee (frik-a-se'), v. t. [Formerly also/nca- >r it m yicvv ui ,. 
frivol.] I. a. Frivolous; trifling; silly; con- see (and fricasse); from the noun.] Toprepare the faces are made more or less V-shaped. Seecutunder 
temptible. or dress as a fricassee. friction-gearing. 
