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Mad; frantic. [R.] They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.

To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.

Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Fraying, and Ereyja.]

friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray. cf. F. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.

der, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.

The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written also friburgh and fribourg.] Burril.

To rub; to fray. [Obs.] Sterne.

The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

[Fraise a kind of defense; also Friz.) A kind of small ruffle. Halliwell.

A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters. Hudibras. Corn fritter. See under Corn.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

A kind of pancake. See 1st Fraise. [Written also fraise.]

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

Abounding in fragments. [R.]

The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.

An elongated body or frame of an aëroplane or flying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

A tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.

An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement.

A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.