frieseite (frezit)

[After F. M. von Friese.] A sulphid of silver and iron from Joachimsthal, Bohemia. It is allied to sternbergite. Friesian, Frisian (frēzian, friz'ian), a. and [ n. people of Fries land, or to their language. II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Fries land; a Friese; one of the Low German people who were the ancestors of the present inhabitants of Fries land. - 2. The language spoken in Fries land or by Friesians. See Friesic . Friesic (frēzik), a. and n. [Formerly also Frisic, Frisick; II. n. The language of the Friesians. Friesic , in its oldest form specifically called Old is a Low German dialectomely spoken in the northern part of Germany in the district which includes the present Fries land. Old Friesic, with Old Saxon and Anglo-Saxon, constituted the main part of what is collectively called Old Low German, of which the present modern Friesic in its local variations, North, East, and West Friesic, and Dutch, Flemish, and Low German in its restricted sense (Platt Deutsch) are the modern continental remains. Friesish (frēzish), a. and n. [ II. n. Same as Friesic . [Little used.] friezel (frēz), n. [Formerly also freeze , frize, frise (= D. fries = G. fries = Dan. frise = Sw. fris ); frise , frize , F. frise = Sp. Pg. fri so = It. fregio , frieze; a particular use of OF. freze , fraise , F. fraise , a ruff, = OSp. freso , a fringe, = OIt. frigio , fri so , fregio , mod. fregio , fringe, lace, border, ornament, prob. phrygium , frigium, phrysum, frisium , frisum , an embroidered border, lit. Phrygian work, neut. of Phrygius , Phrygian: see Phrygian , and cf. auriphrygia , fregiatura. Otherwise supposed to be connected with frieze2 , frizz , frizzle , etc., or with Friese, Friesic , etc.] In arch ., that part of an entablature which is between the architrave and the cornice; also, any longitudinal decorative feature or band of extended length, occupying 2380 a position, in architecture or decoration, more or le similar to that of the frieze in an entablature. The frieze in its simplest form is flat and plain; but in the Doric style it is divided into triglyphs Frieze. Left-hand side of stairway of the great altar at Pergamon. and metopes, and in other styles, and even in the Doric when not over columns, it frequently bears a continuous series of figures sculptured in relief, as the Panathenaic frieze around the cella of the Par the non. Such a frieze is sometimes called a zophoros. See entablature, and cuts under column and gigantomachy. Here he learns to mount His curious Stairs, there finds he Frise and Cornish, And other Places other Peeces furnish. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. No jutty, frieze , Buttre , nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle. Shak., Macbeth, i, 6. Cornice or frieze with bo y sculptures graven. Milton, P. L., i. 716. The encircling friezes [on a silver-gilt bowl] are full of groups and symbols which have evidently been adapted by a Phœnician artist from Egyptian prototypes. C. T. Newton , Art and Archæol., p. 316.