fripper, friperie

& a. [Fr. friperie, from fripier =a fripper (q. v.).] A. As substantive: *1. A shop where old clothes, somewhat cleaned and otherwise renewed, were offered for sale. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, frise 2. Old or cast-off clothes or dre es; clothes thrown aside after wearing. 8. The act of trading or trafficking in old clothes. 4. Usele things; trifles. B. As adj.: Contemptible, mean, usele . *frîse, s. [FRIEZE.] *friş-eur', s. [Fr., from friser =to curl.] A hairdre er. Fris'-ian, s. & a. A. As subst.: A native or inhabitant of Fries land; the language spoken in Fries land. B. Asadj.: Relating or pertaining to Fries land. frisk, *friske, *fryske, v. i. [FRISK, a.] 1. To leap, to skip, to start up. "Put water into a gla , and wet your finger, and draw it round about the lip of the gla , pre ing it somewhat hard; and after drawing it some few times about, it will make the water frisk and sprinkle up in a fine dew." Bacon : Natural History. 2. To dance, skip, leap, or gambol about in gayety; to frolic. "And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore." Goldsmith: The Traveler. *3. To start or rise up suddenly and at odd times. "Whether every one hath experimented this troublesome intrusion of some frisking ideas, which thus importune the understanding, and hinder it from being better employed, I know not." -Locke. 1931