*frie*

n. [ Back, n. or adv. + friend. ] A secret enemy. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Befriended; p. pr. & vb. n. Befriending. ] To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the darkness befriended. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of befriending. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small rent paid to the lord paramount. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Clamjamphrie. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. confrère. See Friar. ] A confrère. [ Obs. ] Weever. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Fried in fat or oil deep enough to cover the object.
Syn. -- fried. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. pl. Strips of potatoes, usually cut with a rectangular cross-section, cooked by immersing in hot fat or oil. [ PJC ]

imp. & p. p. of Fry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small cake fried in deep fat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Friended; p. pr. & vb. n. Friending. ] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune friends the bold. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. frend, freond, AS. freónd, prop. p. pr. of freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frijōnds friend, frijōn to love. √83. See Free, and cf. Fiend. ] 1. One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friend, how camest thou in hither? Matt. xxii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. [ 1913 Webster ]

America was first visited by Friends in 1656. T. Chase. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A paramour of either sex. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A friend at court or
A friend in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. --
To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. “He's . . . friends with Cæsar.” Shak. --
To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. “Having now made friends with the Athenians.” Jowett (Thucyd.). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having friends; [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to love; well-disposed. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Friendliness. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. freóndleás. ] Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- Friend"less*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

adv. In a friendly manner. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to foreign settlers or invaders.

These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style. E. N. Bennett. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Mil.) A member of one's own military forces, or of allied forces. [ PJC ]

a. [ AS. freéndlīce. ] 1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. [ 1913 Webster ]

In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the first friendly bank he throws him down. Addison.

Syn. -- Amicable; kind; conciliatory; propitious; favorable. See Amicable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In whom all graces that can perfect beauty
Are friendly met. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) Weapons fire{ 9 }, such as artillery or aerial bombardment, from one's own forces; -- used mostly when troops do damage or cause casualties among their own forces; as, the tank was hit by friendly fire. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. freóndscipe. See Friend, and -ship. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some friendship will it [ a hovel ] lend you gainst the tempest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who fries. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. same as fryer. [ PJC ]

n. Same as Friesic, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the northern part of the Netherlands. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of Germany and Denmark. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Friesic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. the same word as frieze a, kind of cloth. Cf. Friz. ] (Arch.) (a) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. (b) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. frise, perh. originally a woolen cloth or stuff from Friesland (F. Frise); cf. LL. frisii panni and frissatus pannus, a shaggy woolen cloth, F. friser to friz, curl. Cf. Friz. ] A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. “Robes of frieze.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friezing machine, a machine for friezing cloth; a friezing machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any female friend; as, Mary and her girlfriend organized the party. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; as, his girlfriend kicked him out. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- girl, lady friend. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A breed of dairy cattle from North Holland and Friesland; they have a black and white color to their fur.
Syn. -- Friesian, Holstein. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person one comes to know by by frequent friendly correspondence; a pen pal.
Syn. -- pen pal, pen-pal, penfriend. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One not a friend; an enemy. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un*friend"li*ness n. [1913 Webster]