friendship 
Welcome, brave duke ! tliy fri>'it'!hii> makes us fresh. 
Mil/,:, 1 II. -M. VI., iii. 3. 
Why, having kept good faith, ami often shown 
/V/. m/.<A/// ami truth to others, iind'st tlum none? 
Cvit'iwr, Expostulation, 1. 277. 
3. Congenial union of one with another or oth- 
ers; an individual relation of friendliness: as, 
to contract a friendship with a person : often in 
the plural. 
\l\* friendships, still to few confin'd, 
Wi>re always of the middling kind. 
Death of Dr. Su'ift. 
And softly, thro 1 a vinous mist, 
My college friendships gliniinrr. 
Tennyson, Will Waterproof. 
4. An act of kindness or friendliness ; friendly 
aid; help; relief. [Archaic.] 
I know I am flesh and blood, 
And you have done me friendships infinite and often, 
That must require me honest and a true man. 
Beau, and Ft. , Coxcomb, ii. 1. 
A frende that delyteth iu loue, dothe a man morefrend- 
shype, and stycketh faster vnto hym then a brother. 
Bible of 1551, Prov. xviii. 24. 
Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel ; 
Some frieivlship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest. 
Skak., Lear, Iii. 2. 
5f. Conformity; affinity; correspondence. 
We know those colours which have a friendship with 
each other. Dryden, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting. 
= Syn. 1. Amity, fellowship, companionship, alliance. 
frier 1 (fri'er), . One who or that which fries. 
Imp. Diet. 
frier 2 t, n- An obsolete spelling of friar. 
frieryt, . An obsolete spelling of friary, 
Friese (frez), n. and a. \< ME. *Frese, < AS. 
Frixa, Frysa, Fresa (usually in pi. Frisan, etc.) 
= OFries. Frise, Frese = MD. Vriese, D. Fries = 
MLG. Vrese = OHG. Frieso, Friaso, Friso, MHG. 
Vriese, G. Friese = Dan. Fris-er = ML. Friso(n-), 
Freso(n-), a Friese, a native of Friesland, a 
Friesian ; first mentioned by Tacitus and Pliny, 
in the plural form Frisii (Gr. Qpiatoi, bpeiaioi), 
as a people of northern Germany. Hence Frie- 
sian, Friesic, Friesish, etc. Cf./ri;r.] I. n. I. A 
native or an inhabitant of Friesland ; one of the 
Friesian race; a Friesian. 2f. The language 
spoken in Friesland or by Friesians. See Friesic. 
Butter, bread, cheese, 
Are good English and good Friege. Old rime. 
II. a. Pertaining to the Friesians or to their 
language. 
frieseite (fre'zlt), . [After F. M. von Friese.'] 
A sulphid of silver and iron from Joachims- 
thai, Bohemia. It is allied to sternbergite. 
Friesian, Frisian (fre'ziau, friz'ian), a. and 
n. [< Friese + -tan.] I. a. Pertaining to the 
people of Friesland, or to their language. 
II. . 1. A native or an inhabitant of Fries- 
land ; a Friese ; one of the Low German people 
who were the ancestors of the present inhabit- 
ants of Friesland. 2. The language spoken in 
Friesland or by Friesians. See Friesic. 
Friesic (fre'zik), a. and n. [Formerly also 
Frisic, Frisiek; < Friese + -ic; avar., with term, 
-ic, of the earlier type Friesish, q. v.] I. a. Same 
as Friesian. 
II. . The language of the Friesians. Friesic, 
in its oldest form specifically called Old Friesic, is a Low 
German dialect formerly spoken in the northern part of 
Germany in the district which includes the present Fries- 
land. Old Friesic, with Old Saxon and Anglo-Saxon, con- 
stituted the main part of what is collectively called Old 
Low German, of which the present modern Friesic in its 
local variations, North, East, and West Friesic, and Dutch, 
Flemish, and Low German iu its restricted sense (Platt 
Deutnhl are the modern continental remains. 
Friesish (fre'zish), a. and n. [< ME. "Frcsish, 
< AS. *Frisise, Frysisc, Fresisc (= OFries. *F re- 
sist = D. Vriesch = MLG. Vresch, LG. Freisch = 
G. Friesisch = Dan. Sw. Frisisk), Friesish ; as 
Friese (AS. Frisa) + -js/i 1 .] I. a. Pertaining 
to a Friese, or to the Friesians, or to Friesland; 
Friesiau : same as Friesic. 
II. n. Same as Friesic. [Little used.] 
frieze 1 (frez), . [Formerly also freeze, frize, 
frise (= D. fries = G. fries = Dan. /rise = Sw. 
flfis) ; < OF. frise, frize, F. frise = Sp. Pg. friso 
= It. freffio, frieze; aparticularuseof OF. freze, 
fraise, F.fraise, a ruff, = OSp. freso, a fringe, = 
Oli.frigio, friso, fregio, tnod.fregio, fringe, lace, 
border, ornament, prob. < ML. phrygium, frigi- 
uin, phrysum, frisium, frisum, an embroidered 
border, lit. Phrygian work, neut. of Phrygius, 
Phrygian: see Phrygian, and cf. auriphrygia, 
fregiatura. Otherwise supposed to be 'con- 
nected with frieze^, frizz, frizzle, etc., or with 
Friese, Friesic, etc.] In arch., that part of an en- 
tablature which is between the architrave and 
the cornice ; also, any longitudinal decorative 
feature or band of extended length, occupying 
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a position, in architecture or decoration, more 
or less similar to that of the frieze in an en- 
tablature. The frieze in its simplest form is flat and 
plain ; but in the Doric style it is divided into triglyphs 
frigate-mackerel 
pret. and pp. friczed, ppr. 
~ To for 
Frieze. 
Left-hand side of stairway of the great altar at Pergamon. 
and metopes, and in other styles, and even in the Doric 
when not over columns, it frequently bears a continuous 
series of figures sculptured in relief, as the Panathenaic 
frieze around the cella of the Parthenon. Such a frieze is 
sometimes called a zophoros. See entablature, and cuts 
under column and gigantoiiiachy, 
Here he learns to mount 
His curious Stairs, there finds he Frie and Cornish, 
And other Places other Peeces furnish. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
No jutty, frieze, 
Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird 
Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle. 
SAo*., Macbeth, i.6. 
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. 
Milton, P. L., I. 716. 
The encircling friezes [on a silver-gilt bowl] are full of 
groups and symbols which have evidently been adapted by 
a Phtenician artist from Egyptian prototypes. 
C. T. Newton, Art and Arehaeol., p. 316. 
frieze 1 (frez), r. t. ; pret. and pp. friezed, ppr. 
friezing. [Early mod. E.fryse; = F. /raiser, 
border, = It. fregiare, trim, border, < ML. pJiry- 
giare, border, embroider; from the noun: see 
frieze 1 , .] If. To border; embroider; orna- 
ment the edge of. 
On the top of the whiche mountayne was a tree of golde, 
the braunches and bowes frysed with gold, spreding on 
every side. Ilall, Hen. VIII., an. 2. 
2. To furnish with a frieze. 
Gerard and Stephen stopped before a tall, thin, stuccoed 
house, balustraded and friezed. Disraeli, Sibyl, p. 94. 
frieze 2 (frez), . and a. [Formerly also freeze, 
freese, frize, frise; <. ME. fryse (= G. fries = 
Sw. Dan. fris) = OF. frige, frise, frisse, F. frise 
= Pg. Sp. frisa, < ML. frisius, in full pannus 
frisius (mod. F. drop de Frise), as if cloth made 
in Friesland, but there appears to be no evi- 
dence for an immediate connection except the 
similarity of spelling. Some etymologists de- 
rive the word from frizz, which others, on the 
contrary, derive from frieze 2 , n. Hence frisado, 
q. v.] I. . 1. A thick and warm woolen cloth 
used for rough outer garments since the four- 
teenth century. The modern material of this name is 
covered with a nap forming little tufts, and Is especially 
used in Ireland, whence it is exported for overcoating. 
Cloth of gold do not despise, 
Though thou'rt matched with cloth of frize. 
Old proverb. 
I will ascend to the groom porter's next, 
Fly higher games, and make my mincing knight 
Walk musing iu their knotty frieze abroad. 
W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, ii. 3. 
Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of col- 
ored calico, and a cloak of gray frieze. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, v. 
2. In leather-manuf., an imperfection in leather, 
sometimes appearing in the preparatory pro- 
cesses of tanning. It consists in excessive tenderness 
of the grain of the hide, which appears as if it had been 
scraped off. 
Frieze is principally caused in the subsequent step of 
sweating when the grain of the hide is inclined to be ten- 
der and has the appearance of being scraped off. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 239. 
II. a. Made of the napped or shaggy cloth 
called frieze. 
A Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and bri- 
ers, [to) goe in a pounced dublet and a paire of embrodered 
hosen, in the Citie to weare a frise lerkin and a paire of 
leather breeches. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 238. 
Woven after the manner of deep, frieze rugges. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, viii. 48. 
He wore a frieze coat, and breakfasted upon toast and 
ale. Steele, Guardian, No. 34. 
frieze 2 (frez), v. t. ; 
friezing. [</HM,M. d./Hw,~q. v.] To form 
a nap on, as cloth, like the nap of frieze ; fur- 
nish with a nap ; frizzle ; curl : used especially 
in the past participle : as, a friezed stuff or gar- 
ment. 
frieze-panel (frez'pan'el), . In carji., one of 
the upper panels of a door having at least three 
tiers of panels. 
friezer (fre'zer), . One who or that which 
friezes. 
frieze-rail (frez'ral), n. In carp., the rail next 
the top rail of a door of six panels. 
friezing-machine (fre ' zing-ma-shen*), . A 
machine for frieziug cloth. 
frig (frig), v. i. ; pret. and pp. frigged, ppr. frig- 
ging. [Early mod. E. frigge, perhaps (with so- 
nant g for surd k) < ME. frikien, keep in con- 
stant motion (of the arms and hands), < AS. 
frician (once), dance. Hence the assibilated 
form fridge 1 , q. v.] To keep in constant mo- 
tion; wriggle. [Prov. Eng.] 
frigate (frig'at), . [Formerly &\8ofrigat,frigot; 
= D. fregat = G. fregatte = Dan. fregat = Sw. 
fregatt, < OF.fregate, F.fregate, < It. fregata, 
dial, fragata = Sp. Pg. fragata, a frigate ;' per- 
haps, as Diez supposes, for *farga ta, an assumed 
contr. form of L. fabricata, fern. pp. of fabri- 
care, build, construct, whence fabricate: cf. E. 
forge 1 (F. forge, Sp. Pg. forja, etc.), from the 
same source. So F. Mtimcnt, a building, also 
a vessel.] If. Any small sailing vessel. 
Behold the water worke and play 
About her little friyot, therein making way. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 7. 
Under those verie bridges he left certain spaces be- 
tweene, from whence the light pinnaces and frigats might 
make out to charge and recharge the enemie, and retire 
themselves thither againe in safetie. 
Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 745. 
We tooke & frigate of tenne tunne, commlng from Gwa- 
thanelo laden witli hides and ginger. 
llaklmjti Voyages, III. 289. 
2. Among ships of war of the old style, a ves- 
sel larger than a sloop or a brig, and smaller 
than a ship of the line, usually carrying her 
guns (which varied in number from about thir- 
ty to fifty or sixty) on the main-deck and on a 
raised quarter-deck and forecastle, or having 
two decks. Such ships were often fast sailers, and were 
much used as cruisers in the great wars of the eighteenth 
and the early part of the nineteenth century. Since the 
introduction of iron-clad vessels the term frigate has been 
applied to war-ships of this kiiid having high speed and 
great fighting power. 
He [Commissioner Pett] . . . invented that excellent 
and new ornament of the navy which we call frigate, for- 
midable to our enemies, to us most useful and safe. 
Evelyn, Memoirs, I. 671. 
On the third day of May the admiral [ Russell] sail'd from 
St. Helens with the combined squadrons of England and 
Holland, amounting to ninety ships of the line, besides/rt^- 
ates, fire-ships, and tenders. Smollett, Hist. Eng. , an. 1693. 
3. Same a.s frigate-bird Double-banked frigate, 
or double-banker, a frigate which carried guns on two 
decks, and had a flush upper deck. 
frigate-bird (frig'at-berd), . A large marine 
bird, the Fregata aquila or Tachypetes aquilus 
and other species of the same genus, belonging 
to the family Fregatidte or Tachypetida; and 
order Steganopodcs or Totipalmatce, noted for 
Frigate-bird (Frfgat 
powers of flight and raptorial disposition, found 
near land on most of the wanner seas of the 
globe. It has long pointed wings with a great sweep, a 
long forflcate tail, extremely small totipaimate feet, a 
long, strong, hooked bill, a gular pouch, and dark colora- 
tion. Also called frigate, frigate-pelican, and man-of- 
war bird. 
frigate-built (frig 'at- bilt), a. Naut., having 
a quarter-deck and forecastle raised above the 
main-deck. 
frigate-mackerel (frig'at-mak' ! 'e-rel), n. A 
scombroid fish, Aitxis thazard, of stout fusiform 
shape, with the spinous dorsal fin remote from 
the second one, and having a toothless vomer 
