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fringy (friu'ji), a. [< fringe + -y 1 .] Of the frisetta(fri-zet'a), n. [Dim. of P. frisc, frieze.] 
nature of a fringe; adorned with fringes. A finer variety of frieze. 
Kve frizette. 
l.urd (if my time, my devious path I bend 
Ihioofh/rinfy \vm>dland, or tmooth-shaven lawn. 
Sherutone, Kle^ies, xxiv. 
friplert (frip'ler), n. Same as f ripper. Narcs. 
Though they smell of the fripter's lavender half a year 
after. Greene, Ardadia. 
fripper (frip'er), >i. [Also written frijiier (and 
lengthened fri)>/ierer) ; < OF. fri/iicr, one who 
mends or trims up old garments and sells them, 
frisette, ._ 
friseur (fre-zer'), n. [< F. J riser, curl, friz/ : 
seefrizz.~\ A hair-dresser. 
That barbers' boys who would to trade advance 
Wish us to cull them smart friaeurs from France. 
Crabbe. 
His (Hogg's] very hair has a coarse stringiness about it 
which proves beyond dispute its utter ignorance of all the 
arts of the friseur. 
Lock/iart, in Personal Traits of Brit. Authors. 
Farewell, fripper, farewell, petty broker. 
Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive. 
A fripper's or broker's shop, that hath ends of every- 
thing, but nothing of worth. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 247. 
frisque, P. /risque, 
lively, jolly, blithe, brisk, fine, spruce, gay, var. 
of /res, fris (frische, fresche, f.), fresh; cf. Icel. 
(only mod.) friskr, frisky, brisk, vigorous, = 
Sw. Dan./mfc, lively, hearty, fresh, etc.; both 
F. and Scand. forms are of G. origin, < OHG. 
frisc, MHO}, vriseh, G.frisch, fresh, the prop- 
er Scand. forms for 'fresh' being Icel. ferskr, 
fripperer (frip'tr-er), n. Same as fripper. 
frippery (frip'er-i), n. and a. [< OF.fripcrie, 
F. f riper ie, an old-clothes shop, f ripper's trade, . - -,. . 
old clothes, frippery, < /rimer, fripper : see f rip- bw> J arsk > Dan - "*! fr | sh ( m a more hmit - 
.*-*-", > ed sense): see fresh.] I.f a. Lively; brisk; 
frisky. 
II. n. A frolic ; a gambol ; a dance ; a merry- 
making. 
per.'] I. . 1. Trade or traffic in old clothes. 
D '01. Now your profession, I pray? 
Fr. Frippery, my lord, or, as some term it, Petty Bro- 
kery. Chapman, Monsieur D'Olive, iii. 1. 
2. A place where old clothes are sold. 
Trin. Look, what a wardrobe here is for thee ! 
Cat. Let it alone, thou fool ; it is but trash. 
Trin. O, ho, monster ; we know what belongs to a frip- 
pery. Shalt., Tempest, iv. 1. 
He shews like a walking frippery. 
Massinger, City Madam, i. 1. 
3. Old clothes ; cast-off garments ; clothing dis- 
carded after wearing. 
A world of desperate undertakings, possibly, 
Procures some hungry meals, some tavern surfeits, 
Some frippery to hide nakedness, tv*"* c 1 i ' 
Then doe the salvage beasts begin to play 
Their pleasant friekes, and loath their wonted food. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. x. 46. 
Is not this fine, I trow, to see the gambols, 
To hear the jigs, observe the/mfrs, be enchanted 
With the rare discord of bells, pipes, and tabors, 
Hotch-potch of Scotch and Irish twingle-twangles. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iii. 2. 
The joyful surprise that lighted up their faces and dis- 
played itself over their whole bodies, in a variety of ca- 
pers and/mi*. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, p. 242. 
Rag fair is a place near the Tower of London where old 
cloaths and frippery are sold. Pope, Uunciad, i. 29, note. 
It is a saturnalia of complacent blackguardism and vul- 
gar villainy, tricked out in the cast-off frippery of Thad- 
deus of Warsaw and Sir Charles Grandison. 
Whipple, Ess. and Rev., II. 106. 
Hence 4. Worthless or useless trifles; trum- 
pery; gewgaws. 
Poor poet ape, that would be thought our chief, 
Whose works are e'en the frippery of wit. B. Jonson. 
By living a year or two in town, she is as fond of gauze 
and French f ripper 11 as the best of them. 
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i. 1. 
The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Scott, 
There seems [in Ravenna] to be no interval between the 
marbles and mosaics of Justinian or Theodoric and the 
insignificant /i-ijiperi/ of the last century. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 263. 
II. a. Trifling; frivolous; 
trumpery. 
With his flye popping in and out again, 
Argued a cause, a frippery cause. 
Fletcher, The Chances, ii. 2. 
That city, though the capital of a duchy, made so frip- 
pery an appearance, that, instead of spending some days 
there, as had been intended, we only dined, and went on 
to Parma. Gray, To his Mother. 
The King gave her a gold watch and chain the next day. 
She says, " the manner was all" and indeed so it was, 
for I never saw a more frippery present. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 191. 
, , frisk (frisk), v. [= Sw. friska (upp), refresh, 
, Fanc.es, 1.1. reshen) exhilarate, = ODan. friske, freshen! 
Dan. friske op, refresh, revive ; from the adj.] 
1. intrans. 1. To leap, skip, prance, or gambol, 
as in frolic. 
One/mis and sings, and cries, A flagon more 
To drench dry cares. Quarlcs, Emblems, i. 8. 
Nor/rrs&inr? heifers bound about the place, 
To spurn the dew-drops off. 
Addiion, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 
The truant turned a deaf ear, and kept frisking on the 
top of the rising ground like a goblin by moonlight. 
Scott, Kenilworth, ix. 
2. To freshen, as the wind. Hamersly. 
II. trans. To squander idly; dissipate in 
sport : with away. 
If not advis'd, thou art drawn in beyond a retreat, or at 
least to frisk away much of thy time and estate. 
A Cap, tfcc. (quoted in Nares). 
contemptible; friskalt (fris'kal), . Same asfriskle. 
frisker (fris'kfer), . One who frisks or gam- 
bols ; an inconstant or frivolous person. 
Now I am a/mfor, all men on me looke, 
What I should doe but set cocke on the hoope? 
Dr. Bourd, in Camden's Remains, Inhabitants. 
(fris'ket), . [F. frisquette : see frisk.] 
In printing, a thin framework of iron hinged 
to the top of the tympan of a hand-press. For 
use, a sheet of paper is stretched and pasted over the 
frisket, and from this paper spaces are cut out to permit 
contact between the type and the sheet to be printed, 
which it serves to hold in place when the frisket is fold- 
ed down upon the tympau, and to keep clean in the parts 
not printed. 
[< frisk + -ful.-] Brisk; 
frisadot, frizadot (fri-za'do), n. [Also friezea- 
dow and frcastidotce ; < Sp. frisado, silk plush _ _ 
or shag: see frieze**, frizz.] A fine kind of friskful (frisk'ful), a. 
frieze. lively; frolicsome. 
In winter your vpper garment must be of cotton or His sportive lambs 
friezeadow. llabees Book (E E T S ) p 249 1 his way and that convolv d in /rurt/uZ glee 
A patent was grantedtin 1567] to Charles Hastings, Esq.; Their frolics play ' Thomson, Spring, 1. 837. 
that in consideration that he brought in the skill of mak- friskily (fns ki-li), adv. [= ODan. friskelig.'] 
iK frlmilues as they were made at Harlem and Amster- In a frisky manner; briskly, 
dam, being not used in England, that therefore he should friclrint t IV frialr 4- n-\; 1 A r,n^ 
have the sole trade thereof for divers years, etc. inSKint, . |_> J"SK -t- -(A,Jw.J A gay, 
A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 23. person. Dames. 
friscolt, n. See friskle. 
friseHi An obsolete form of frieze^. 
frise 2 t, n. An obsolete form of frieze 2 . 
frise :J (frez), n. Same as chevaux-de-frise. 
frisesomorum (fris // e-so-m6'rum), n. The 
mnemonic name of an indirect mood of the first 
Sir Q. I gave thee this chain, manly Tucca. 
Tiic. Ay, say'st thou so,friskinl Dekker, Satiromastix. 
friskiness (fris'ki-nes), n. The state or quality 
of being frisky ; briskness ; liveliness ; frolic. 
Lambs in the spring show us that the friskiness of one 
is a cause of friskiness ii those near it if one leaps, 
figure of syllogism. The following is an example : others lea P' U - ft*"" 1 . p ""- of Psychol., 506. 
s,,me prophecies come true ; but no scientific prediction frisking (fris'king), n. [Verbal n. of frisk, v 1 
is prophecy ; hence, some things that come true are not niu.eiHno- : fVnlinsmnn mirt.V, 
scientific predictions. Three of the vowels and four of 
Uie e.msonants of this name, which is one of those given 
I'.v I'etrus Hispamis (sue Imrbnru), are significant. / in- 
dieates that the major premise is a particular affirmative ; 
. that the minor premise is a universal negative; o, that 
tile conclusion is a particular negative ; /, that the mood is 
to he reduced tn.frn'ii; the two s's, that the premises are 
both to he simply converted in the reduction; and the 
first m, that the premises are to be transposed. Friseso- 
Capering ; frolicsome mirth. 
One delighteth in mirth, and the frisking* of an airy 
soul. Feltham, Resolves, i. 59. 
nis/riHn0 was at ev'ning hours, 
For then he lost his fear. 
Coipper, Epitaph on a Hare. 
friskingly (fris'king-li), adv. In a frisking or 
frisky manner. 
frith 
frisklet (fris'kl), n. [Also friskal, friscol; < 
frixl.; c.J A frisk or curvet, as of a horse. 
But he is rare for/r/.vro/.v ; na\ -. \\ hut's worse, 
He treads a measure like a miller's hone. 
Bold, Poems (1664), p. 136. 
And sayinu so, he gave two or three friskb'x in the air 
with very great .signs of conienliiirnt. and presently went 
to horotea. llitt. l>n (juix<:/e (167S), fol. 74. 
frisky (fris'ki), a. [< frisk, n., + -y*.] Gaily 
active; lively; frolicsome; engaging or done 
in sport. 
He was too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey. 
[The horses] by no means intending to put their heels 
tbrongh the dasher, or to address the driver rudely, but 
feeling, to use a familiar vmn\, frisky. 
O. W. Holmes, The Professor, i. 
frislet (friz'let), n. [< frizzle, frizz (F. friser) 
+ -et.~] Anything frizzled, curled, or puffed; a 
small ruffle or the like. 
fristt (frist), n. [< ME. "frist, frest, first, ferst, 
furst, < AS. first, fierst, fyrst, a space of time, = 
OS. frist = OFries. ferst, first, frist = OD. rerst, 
D. rerste, vorste = MLG. verst = OHG. frist, 
MHG. rrist, G. frist = Icel. frest, n. pi., mod. 
usually frestr, m., delay, = Sw. Dan. frist, res- 
pite, delay.] A certain space of time ; respite. 
Hi criez him merci bothe suithe 
That he glue hem/rf of Hue. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 69. 
fristt (frist), v. t. [< ME. *fristen, frysten, fres- 
ten, firsten, fersten (AS. "fyrstan, not authen- 
ticated) = OFries. fersta = MLG. LG. versten 
= OHG. fristan, MHG. vristen, G. fristen = 
Icel. fresta, defer, delay, put off, = Dan. friste, 
sustain, support (life, nature), experience, etc. ; 
< frist, n., a. certain space of time. The par- 
ticular use of frist is prob. Scand.; cf. Icel. 
selja a frest, sell on credit.] To sell upon cred- 
it, as goods. [Bare.] 
Keep and save and thou schalle have ; 
Frest and leue [read lene, i. e., lend] and thou schall crave. 
Reliquiae Antique, I. 316. 
frisure (fri-zur'), [Also/K?re; <F.frisure, 
< friser, curl: see frizz.] Hair-dressing. 
His hair was of a dark brown ; ... it had not received 
the fashionable frizure. Graves, Spiritual Quixote, v. 6. 
frit (frit), n. [Also spelled fritt, fritte; < F. 
fritte, < It. fritta, frit, fern. (= F. frite) offritto 
(= F. frit) (< L. frictus), pp. of friggere = F. 
frire, < L. frigere, roast, parch, fry: see/ryl.] 
1. The material of which glass is made as pre- 
pared for complete fusion by a previous calci- 
nation carried to a point where the silica begins 
to act on the bases, forming an imperfectly 
melted or fritted mass. 2. The composition 
from which artificial soft or tender porcelain 
and other partly verifiable mixtures are made. 
See soft porcelain, under porcelain. 
This French pate tendre, or artificial porcelain, as it is 
sometimes called, is composed of alkaline frittes and car- 
bonate of lime, covered with a lead glaze analogous in 
nature to flint-glass. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 657. 
Flit body, in ceram., a body the materials of which are 
first mixed, then fired, and lastly ground up with clay. 
The result is a vitrified appearance throughout. Frit 
porcelain, a name given to the artificial soft-paste Eng- 
lish porcelain, from its vitreous nature, the paste pre- 
pared for it being a frit not unlike that of the glass- 
makers. This name was given to it by the first makers of 
hard-paste or true porcelain in England. See false porce- 
lain, under porcelain. 
frit (frit), v. t.; pret. and pp. fritted, ppr. frit- 
ting. [< frit, n.] To decompose and fuse par- 
tially, as the ingredients mixed for making glass, 
before completely fusing at a much higher tem- 
perature. 
frith 1 (frith), n. [< ME. frith, also spelled 
fryth, fretli, and transposed firth, peace, secu- 
rity, protection; more common m concrete 
sense, protected or inclosed land, a park or 
forest for game, a forest in general; < AS. 
frith, m. and n., in poetry fritliu, fritho, freothv, 
freotlio, friotho, f., peace, security, protection, 
in concrete sense in comp. detfr-frith, a deer- 
park (cf.frith-geard, an inclosed space, = OSw. 
frithgcermi, a cattle-yard), = OS. fritlni = 
OFries. fretho, frede, ferd = D. vrcde = MLG. 
vrede, LG. frede, free, = OHG. fridu, MHG. 
vride, G. friede, m., = Icel. fridlir = Sw. Dan. 
fred, peace, = Goth, 'frithus (inferred from de- 
riv. Frithareiks = G. Friedrich, E. Frederick, lit. 
prince of peace, gracious prince ; gafritlion, rec- 
oncile, conciliate, gafrithons, reconciliation), 
with suffix -th, Goth, -thus (as in death, Goth. 
danlhus), < Teut. //"> show favor to, love. 
The same root appears in free and friend, q. v. 
The word frith appears disguised in belfry, and 
ult. in affray, /.yl, q. v. The Celtic forms, W. 
ffridd, a park, a forest, = Ir. frith, a park, a 
