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l being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon. Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while. Milton. O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. Pope.

Full of fiendish spirit or arts. Marlowe. -- Fiend"ful*ly, adv.

Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- Fiend"ish*ly, adv. -- Fiend"ish*ness, n.

Fiendish; diabolical. Longfellow.

Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend. God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history. Landor. It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty. I. Taylor.

See Forhend. [Obs.]

See Forlend. [Obs.] As if that life to losse they had forelent. Spenser.

See Legislature.

To go before. [Obs.] Spenser.

To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. [Archaic] Which peril heaven forefend! Shak.

To seize upon. [Obs.]

To give up wholly. [Obs.]

One who entertains for another suo Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24.

Having friends; [Obs.]

Friendliness. [Obs.] Shak.

Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- Friend"less*ness, n.

In a friendly manner. Pope.

The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.