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See 1st Frith.

est Indies and Southern United States. -- Guinea-hen flower (Bot.), a liliaceous flower (Fritillaria Meleagris) with petals spotted like the feathers of the Guinea hen. -- Guinea peach. See under Peach. -- Guinea pepper (Bot.), the pods of the Xylopia aromatica, a tree of the order Anonaceæ, found in tropical West A…

use to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores. Thomson. To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. -- To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by…

o diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Cowper.

Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

To reveal. [Obs.] Frith. Barnes.

A suffriticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.

A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc. [Written also strocal, strocle, strokal.]

To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. "We trifle time." Shak.

Abounding with tufts. Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell. Drayton.