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▪ I. † frike, a. Obs.
[a. OF. frique (13th c.), regarded by some scholars as the earlier form of frisque (see frisk a.); it is perh. a. Teut. *freko- freck a. In ME. the adjs. frike and freck seem to have been somewhat confused.]
1. Lusty, strong, vigorous.
13..Fest. Church in Holy Rood 221 The egle is frikest fowle in flye. c1400Destr. Troy 2204 My floures bene fallen, & my frike age. c1400Sowdone Bab. 104 Barons, Admyralls, and Dukes frike. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy) 230 When thou art fryke and in thy flowres, Thou werest purpure, perreye, ore palle. c1440Promp. Parv. 179/1 Fryke, or craske, or yn grete helthe, crassus. c1475Partenay 2803 The body welle made, frike in ioly plite.
2. Joyful.
c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 23 Loue is hetter þan þe cole To hem þat of it is fayn & frike [rime lijke].
Hence † ˈfrickly adv., † ˈfrikeness.
c1400Destr. Troy 6120 Lest þi friknes so furse..Brynge þe to bale. Ibid. 9880 All ffrickly his fos fled at the last. c1440Promp. Parv. 179/1 Frykenesse, crassitudo.
▪ II. † frike, v. Obs. rare.
[OE. frícian (only once).]
intr. To dance, move briskly.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xi. 17 We sungun eow & ᵹe ne fricudun [c 1175 Hatton Gosp. fricodon]. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 211 Al hit is idel þat me at pleȝe bihalt..þih and shonkes and fet oppieð..armes and hondes frikieð. |
