A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm. That I may know how frail I am. Ps. xxxix. 4. An old bent man, worn and frail. Lowell.
Tender. [Obs.] Deep indignation and compassion. Spenser.
Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jer. Taylor.
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