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_Wallace._
FREE, _adj._
1. Brittle, S. B.
2. Applied to corn which is so ripe as to be easily shaken, S. B.
_To_ FREESK, _v. a._ To scratch, to curry, Ang.
~Freesk~, _s._ A hasty rub; metaph. any work done expeditiously, Ang.
FREFF, _adj._ Shy, reserved, Roxb.
FREIK, FREKE, FRICK, _s._
1. A strong man.
_Wallace._
Su. G. _fraeck_, strenuus.
2. A petulant young man.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _fraeck_, tumidus, insolens.
FREIRIS, _s._ A friary.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
O. Fr. _frairies_, id.
_To_ FREITH, FRETH, _v. a._ To protect.
A. S. _frith-ian_, id.
_Douglas._
_To_ FREITH, _v. a._ To liberate.
_Wallace._
A. S. _ge-frith-ian_, id.
FREIT, FREET, FRET, _s._ A superst.i.tious notion, with respect to any thing as a good or bad omen, S.
_Wyntown._
2. A superst.i.tious observance, a charm, S.
_K. Ja. VI._
3. Any act of wors.h.i.+p, proceeding from superst.i.tion.
_More._
4. _To stand on frets_, to stickle at trifles, S. B.
_Ross._
Isl. _fraett_, _frett_, an omen or oracle.
~Freitty~, ~Fretty~, _adj._ Superst.i.tious, S.
FRELAGE, _s._ Freedom.
_Douglas._
Germ. _frilatz_, free.
FRELY, _Frely fute_, n.o.ble woman.
V. ~Fode~.
A. S. _freolic_, liberalis.
_Barbour._
~Frely~, _s._ A beautiful woman; the _adj._ used as a _s._
_Wallace._
FRELY, FREELY, _adv._ Entirely, S.
_Dunbar._
