fraymakert (frama ker)

One who causes a fray or fight. [Rare.] Constables may by the law disarme and imprison peace breakers, fray - makers , rioters, and others, to prevent bloodshed, quarrels, and preserve the public peace. Prynne, Treachery and Disloyalty, iv. 28. fraymentt, n. [ fray1 + -ment.] A fight. Nares. Also spelled fraiment . Or Pan, who wyth hys sodayne fraiments and tumults bringeth age over all things. Chaloner, tr. of Moriæ Encomium, sig. C. fraynet, v. t. A Middle English form of fra in1 . Berners , tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. xvi. frazil (fra-zil'), n. [A Canadian-F. term. of ob- scure origin; perhaps a particular use of F. fra i- sil , cinders, culm, slack; or fraise , a col- Shak ., R. and J., iii. 1. lar, ruff, in allusion to the way in which the Prin. Where are the vile beginners of this fray ? Ben. O noble prince, I can discover all The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. frazil anchor-ice clings around the boulders at the bottom of a stream.] Anchor-ice. [Canada.] It has been suggested that it may be due to the accumulation of frazil or anchor-ice. The Gazette (Montreal), March 17, 1888. fret, a. A Middle English form of free . freak1 (frēk), n. [Early mod. E. freake = Sc. freik, freke , frick ; freke , freike , a bold man, a warrior, a man, freca , a bold man, a warrior, frec , greedy, eager, bold (cf. guth- frec , eager for battle): see freck1 , frack1 . Cf. freak2.] 1. A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. Godus frend may the freke frely be called. Alex. and Dindimus (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), 1. 1004. As a freke that fre were, forth gan I walke. A Freake , gigantulus. Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 2. Levins, Manip. Vocab. (E. E. T. S.), p. 206. 2. A fellow; more commonly, a petulant young man. Jamie son. [Scotch.] IMG:content-1812.png:[blocks in formation] She is so exquisitely restle and peevish that she quarrels with all about her, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. Steele , Spectator, No. 427. If a man's action did not represent his character, but an arbitrary freak of some unaccountable power of unmotived willing, why should he be ashamed of it or reproach himself with it? T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 110. 2366 Visited Sir J. Minnes, who continues ill, but he told me what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been, and is, and once at Antwerp was really mad Pepys , Diary, Jan. 25, 1664.