frisking (frisking)

[Verbal n. of frisk, v.] Capering; frolicsome mirth. One delight eth in mirth, and the friskings of an airy soul. Feltham, Resolves, i 59. His frisking was at ev'ning hours, For then he lost his fear. Cowper , Epitaph on a Hare. Hi criez him merc i bot he suithe That he ziue hem furst of line. King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 69. frist (frist), v. t. [ Keep and save and thou schalle have; Frest and leue [read lene , i. e., lend) and thou schall crave. Reliquiæ Antiquæ , I. 316.