frig (frig)

i.; pret. and pp. frigged, ppr. frig ging. [Early mod. E. frigge, perhaps (with sonant g for surd k ) frigate (frig'at), n. [Formerly also frig at, frigot; = D. fregat = G. fregatte = Dan. fregat = Sw. fregatt, Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 7. Under those verie bridges he left certain spaces betweene, from whence the light pinnaces and frigats might make out to charge and recharge the enemie, and retire themselves thither againe in safetie. Holland , tr. of Livy, p. 745. We tooke a frigate of tenne tunne, comming from Gwathanelo laden with hides and ginger. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 289. 2. Among ships of war of the old style, a ve el larger than a sloop or a brig, and smaller than a ship ship of the line, usually carrying her (which varied in number from about thirty to fifty or sixty) on the main-deck and on a guns (which raised quarter-deck and forecastle, or having two decks. Such ships were often fast sailers, and were much used as cruisers in the great wars of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century. Since the introduction of iron-clad ve els the term frigate has been applied to war-ships of this kind having high speed and great fighting power. He [Commi ioner Pett].. invented that excellent and new ornament of the navy which we call frigate , formidable to our enemies, to us most useful and safe. Evelyn, Memoirs, I. 671. On the third day of May the admiral [Ru ell] sail'd from St. Helens with the combined squadrons of England and Holland, amounting to ninety ships of the line, besides frig ates , fire-ships, and tenders. Smollett , Hist. Eng., an. 1693. 3. Same as frigate - bird . - Double-banked frigate, or double - banker , a frigate which carried guns on two decks, and had a flush upper deck. frigate-bird (frig'at-berd), n . A large marine bird, the Fregata aquila or Tachypetes aquilus and other species of the same genus, belonging to the family Fregatidæ or Tachypetidæ and order Steganopodes or Tot i palm at a , noted for IMG:content-1863.jpg:[graphic][merged small][subsumed] sweating when the grain of the hide is inclined to be tender and has the appearance of being scraped off. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 239. II. a . Made of the napped or shaggy cloth called frieze. A Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, [to] goe in a pounced dublet and a paire of embrodered hosen, in the Citie to weare a frise lerkin and a paire of leather breeches. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 238. Woven after the manner of deep, frieze rugges. Holland , tr. of Pliny, viii. 48. He wore a frieze coat, and breakfasted upon toast and ale. Steele, Guardian, No. 34. near land on most of the warmer seas of the globe. It has long pointed wings with a great sweep, a long forficate tail, extremely small totipalmate feet, a long, strong, hooked bill, a gular pouch, and dark coloration. Also called frigate, frigate - pelican, and man-of war bird.