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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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519 words match “FRIEND”

FRIEND n. 6 definitions

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.

FRIENDED a. 2 definitions

Having friends; [Obs.]

Friendliness. [Obs.] Shak.

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

FRIENDLILY adv.

In a friendly manner. Pope.

FRIENDLINESS n.

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

FRIENDLY a. 5 definitions

Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

FRIENDSHIP n. 3 definitions

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler.…

Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] "Deadly foes . . . affriended." Spenser.

A secret enemy. [Obs.] South.

To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.

BEFRIENDMENT n.

Act of befriending. [R.]

One not a friend; an enemy. [R.] Carlyle.

Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott.

UNFRIENDLY a. 2 definitions

Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.

UNFRIENDSHIP n.

The state or quality of being unfriendly; unfriendliness; enmity. An act of unfriendship to my sovereign person. Sir W. Scott.

renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak.

with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.

with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.