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frough, frow, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 3 frouh, 4 frouȝ, 5 frogh, 5, 6, 9 Sc. freuch, (6 frewch, 8 freugh), 4, 7– frow, 8 frowe, 5, 7– frough.
[Of obscure origin: the forms point back to OE. *fróh, or possibly *þróh; a word of the latter form is represented by þróᵹum ‘rancidis’, þrón ‘rancida’ (Napier OE. Gll. vii. 193, 210); for the meaning cf. froughy.]
1. Liable to break or give way, not to be depended on, frail, brittle. lit. and fig.
c1275Luue Ron 44 in O.E. Misc. (1872) 94 Hit is fals and mereuh and frouh. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2305 Þoghe þe prest be fals or frow. c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 671 Ek thike ysowe is frough [L. sectilis] And rare ysowe is heded grete & tough. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 525 Oft fair foullis ar fundin faynt, and als freuch. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. vii, Quha suld haue firm esperance in this, Whilk is alace sa ffreuch and variant? 1568Bannatyne Poems (1770) 185 This warld is verry frewch. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 18 Timber..which grows in Gravel is subject to be Frow (as they term it) and brittle. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 28 Frough, loose, spungy. Frough wood, brittle. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 37 The arms of an ash-tree are commonly put in if they be not too frowe. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Frough-wood, brittle wood. 1785Jrnl. fr. Lond. in Poems Buchan Dial. 5 The swingle-trees flew in flinders, as gin they had been as freugh as kail-castacks. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Frough, loose, spungy, easily broken.
2. Crisp or ‘short’ to the taste.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 662 To make hem frough, kitte of the bladys longe.
3. Sc. (See quot.)
1808–80Jamieson, Freuch..2. dry; applied to corn, that has recovered from the effects of rain in the time of harvest. |
