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brace. -- Fra*ter"nal*ly, adv. An abhorred, a cursed, a fraternal war. Milton. Fraternal love and friendship. Addison.

right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

freckles; spotted. "The freckled trout." Dryden. The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. Shak.

Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. Milton.

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Milton. Freely we serve Because we freely love. Milton.

The daughter of Njörd, aud goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]

Iuclined to love; well-disposed. [Obs.] Shak.

us Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.

The golden plover.

Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

pacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. "You fur your gloves with reason." Shak.

Stealthily by theft. Lover.

A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. "There I throw my gage." Shak.

To sing. [Obs.] "Can he cry and gale." Court of Love.

One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer. Addison.

use, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. -- Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock. -- Game laws, laws regulating the seasons…

A glove. See Gauntlet.

mell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.