*frien*

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 ]

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. 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 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]