FRECKEN.

FRECKEN.
II. 3
Eve put on
her sweetest shroud
Fre'cken,
dial.
exc.
Obs.
Forms
.
xfiix
Freckling
+ -ING
t
(
ment High overhead.
18.. O. W. HOLMES Good Time Going, This
transf.
'Tis but a freckle: never
little speck, the British Isles?
!
A
Obs.
wrinkle.
169 b.
i'ltlg.
vp theyr frekyllys
fille
:
;
are fairer.
1844
To wonder
HOOD
Discov. in Astron.
*
ii,
Lord,
upon the sun I'll tell you
what he's done Freckled himselfI'
b. intr. To appear in spots or patches.
1821 GLARE Vill. Minstr, I. 207 The sunbeams, filtering
master
..
so at spots
!
Ibid, II. 201
small, Freckling through the brandies fall.
Where the sunshine freckles on the eye Through the halfclothed branches in the woods.
To become marked with freckles.
THACKKRAY Ifitz-Boodlcs COM/. Wks. 1869 XXII. 220
2. intr.
1842
Those fair complexions, they
Pariah I. iv, You know I never
Freckled
-
freckle
[f.
1889 ANSTLIY
so.
freckle.
(fre k'ld), ///. a.
5 y-freklet, fraculd.
Also 4 y-fracled,
FRECKLE
sb.
+-ED 2 .]
Marked with
freckles.
1602 MARSTON Ant. fy Mel. iv.
1440
1680 Lond.
Wks. 1856 I. 50 She hath a freckled face.
Gaz. No. 1532/4 With pock-holes in his face, and freckled.
1751 GORDON Another Cordial for Low Spirits II. 138 One
of the Barkin-Tribe, with weather-beaten Countenance and
freckl'd Fist.
1885 RUNCIMAN Skippers fy Sh. 232 The
freckled children looked hard and healthy.
1.
[see
FRKCKNY],
2. Spotted; dappled; variegated.
whit
.-1380 Sir Ferumb. 3659 Is stetle, Al y-fracled wyb
&
1422 tr. Secreta Secret.^ Priv. Priv. (E. E. T. S.) 233
Eyen. .whit y-freklet, or I-sprotid. c 1614 DRAYTON Quest
of Cynthia Wks. (.1748) 227 We'll angle in the brook, The
freckled trout to take.
1674 N. Cox Gentl. Retreat, i.
(1677) 41 Their [Hounds'] Legs freckled with red and black.
1821 CLAHK Vill. Miustr. I. 140 Freckled cowslips are
gilding the plain.
1876 ROCK Text. Fabr. 63 Velvet..
freckled with gold thread sprouting up like loops.
!
f 3. Resembling a freckle. Obs~
1611 BIBLK Lev. xiii. 39 It is a freckled spot that groweth
rede.
in the skin.
4. Comb.)
ws,
freckled-faced adj.
1611 SI-EKD Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 107/2 When a stout
faced King should passe over that ford, then the
frecled
+
-Y
the labour of free men fin contradistinction to that
of slaves).
1856 OLMSTED Slave States 100 He is satisfied that at
present free-labor is more profitable than slave-labor.
En2. Of a state, its citizens, institutions, etc.
'.]
.
full
-v
.-
'
of small Spots.
In 5
t Fre'ddon,
fridoun.
[ad.
:
[f.
existing under a government
which is not arbitrary or despotic, and does not
encroach upon individual rights. Also, not sul ject
to foreign dominion.
1375 HARBOUR Bnue I. 219 Al[a)s that folk, that t-uir wes
War tretyt than sa wykkytly. 1383 WYCLIF i Mace.
fre
xi. 31 And Jerusalem be holy and free, with his coostis.
1611 SHAKS. Cyntb. m. i. 49 Till the injurious Romans did
extort This Tribute from vs, we were free.
1667 MILTON
frakny.
intr.
Hence t Fri'ddoning
We
To hum,
.
vbl. sb.
f 3. Noble, honourable, of gentle
Slae vii 'in otwrgfWVfX Comfy
pleitly, mair sweitly, Scho fndound flat and schairp.
Forms
v.
t Frede,
2-4 frede(n also I 36:
frtidan, 3-4
wk.
f.
vt).,
fruotan.]
with direct
frod wise;
obj.
&
;
[OE. (ff)fredan
woolen, Olid.
=MDu.
To
be sensible of, feel, perceive
Also re/1.
or with sentence as obj.
traits.
Often
a stock epithet of compliment.
ing. In
in alliterative phr. fair and free. Obs.
a 1000 Cxiimon's Gen. 1642 iGr.) Da wearfc Seme suna
dohtra. .worn afeded, frepra bearna. c 1000 Ags. I's. lvi[ij. 9
Ic }?e on folcum frine Drihten ecne andete. f 1190 S. Eng.
Leg. 1. 109/100 f>e Amirales doubter. -|?at was so fair and fre.
1297 R. GLOUC. 11724) 420 Of fayrost fourme & maners, &
mest Jentyl & fre. 111300 Cursor M. 8121 Als milk |>air
[Ethiopians'] hide becom sa quite And o fre blod bai had be
heu. 13.. E. E. Allit. P. A. 795
joy, my blys, my
lemman fre. ? a 1366 CHAUCER Rom. Rose 633 Mirthe, that
H. 1-amc I. 442 His fader
c 1384
is so fair and free,
Anchises the free, c 1460 Tmvneley Myst. (Surtees) 125 For
c 1489 CAXTON Sonnes of
to wyrship that chyld so fre.
.
ivrede.n.
bivth and breed-
ME.
Lord 207 Douce friddoning
16.
MONTGOMERY Cherrie
south,
.
industry.
1584 SOI:THERSE in Puttenham Eng. Poesie III. xxii. (Arb.)
I will freddon in thine honour.
1588 A. HUME Triumph
of flutes.
[see FIRDON.]
1599
260,
[
.
'
world. xSoa Wonnsw., Sonn., It is not to be thought of
must be free or die, who speak the
that the flood \
That
Shakspeare spake. 1817-18 COBBETT Resid.
tongue
U. S. (18^2) 21 Is it not a mockery to call a man free, who
no more dares turn out his tallow into candles for his own
1867 SMILES
use, than he dares rob upon the highway?
became the chief
Huguenots Eng. xi. (1880) 187 Holland
European centre of free thought, free religion, and free
[f.
Also 6 firdon, friddon,
Obs.
;
!
.
;
Fr. freilonner."]
civil liberty
joying
b.
'
v.
fre
;
My
(-888 K. .-ELFHKD Roeth. xli.
4 Sio Jefrednes hine nia;^
ciooo /ELKBIC
jegrapian & zefredan ba;t hit lichoma bib.
Horn. I. 544 Hi swurdes ece ne jefreddon. c 1000 At^s.
1160 llatton
on
hire
v.
Heo
Mark
[c
sefredde
29
Gosp.
11205 LAY.
fredde] Szt heo of 3am wile ^ehiuled WH.-S.
c 1275
he
losede.
men
his
herm
ivredde
Ah
he
he}e
27138
Sinners He-vare 107 in O E. Misc. 78 Bute we vs bi-rede
:
They
and stretche abrode theyr skyn with tetanother.
4. Comb., us freckle-water freckle-faced a'lj.
1688 Lond.Gaz. 1*0.2380/4 Charles Vine, .freckle Fac'd
..Run away from his Master. 1856 ANNE MANNING Tasso
to the Barber-surgeon's to buy
fr Leonora 100, I am off
some freckle-water for Madania Leonora. 1884 Harper's
were
freckle-faced.
You
Mag. Jan. 307/1
Freckle (**'!), *> [f- the sb.]
1. trans. To cover with fre^kle>s or spots.
1613 CHAPMAN Revenge Hussy (PAmbois Plays 1873 II. 107
The "blond She so much thirsts for, freckling hands and
face. 1823 J. HAUCOCK Dom. Atmtsem, 68 Persons naturally
with brown skins, are blistered or freckled less than those
who
sb.
+
pale and
tentigi(n)osits.
BORDE
1519
FRECKLE
sb.
Freckled.
---Sw. fraknig.~\
1440 rromf'. Pan'. 176/1 Frakny, or fraculde (F. frekenyj
s/>.
warble, quaver.
Introd. Kncnvl. i. (1870) 127 If a man doth
cast a cupe. .in the well, it wyll be full of droppes or frakils.
Mills.
K. n. i. 13 In their [Cowslips'] gold coats,
1590 SHAKS.
spots you see, Those be Rubies, Fairie fauors. In those
freckles, line their sauors. 1693 EVELYN De la Quint. Conipl.
Gard. 3 One would take them at first but for little reddish
Frecles and Spots.
1784 COWHKR Task VI. 241 Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his
unrivalled pencil. 1813 T. FORSTEK A linos, i'kxnom. 11815)
1832 BOWLES
78 A sort of cirrostratus like little freckles.
St. Jt'/in in Fiitiif,** v. 57 Not a freckle stained the firma-
06s.-
a.
Fre'ckny,
FBECKKX
wt the frekell of negligence.
2. Any small spot or discoloration.
?
viii. 36 Gif forSon sunu iow
cizoo Trin. Coll. Honi. 101
of be deules ^raKipe.
1513
DOUGLAS sneis x. iii. 84 Of the fatis fre [orig. libera ftiti\
1610 SHAKS. Temp. Epil. 20 As you from crimes would
pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free. 1611 ]>IBLE
Gal. v. i. 1643 DENHAM Cooper's Hill 130 Who .. free
from Conscience, is a slave to Fame. 1695 LD. PKESTON
Boeth. IV. 194 Everything is by so much the freer from
Fate.
Free labour:
c. Of or belonging to free men.
He hadde maked hem
spirit, promptly, lustily.
a. r 1205 LAY. 31772 He a:t of ane uisce urechliche swiSe.
1375 HAKEIOUR Bruce vii. 166 Thai rostit in hy thair met,
And fell rycht frakly for till et.
b- <~ 1440 York Myst. xi. 393 Do charge oure charyottis
switlie And frekly folowes me.
1513 DOUGLAS sEneis VIM.
vii. 164 Wonder frakly thai ( )nto thair labour can thaim all
addres. 1600 J. MELVII.L Diary (1842) 362 The gentilmen
a 1651 CALDERWOOD Hist.
offerit thain selves verie fraclie.
Kirk (\Vodrow Soc.) III. 669 How fracklie, as a perjured
and nvin-sworne person he went forward.
-le,
FKECKKN.]
HOKMAN
[f.
..
iii.
to sin).
975 R'tsfav. Gosp. John
Xefrioo so31ice frio ^e bioSon.
Eagerly, with
'fre-k'l),
fl
it
[f.
t Fre-ckly, fra-cldy, adv. Chiefly Sc.
FRECK a. + -LY -.] a. \ Graciously, greedily,
to be produced by exposure to the sun and wind.
c 1400 [.anfranc's Cirurg. 189 Of cloob bat is clepid fraclis
or goute roset.
1544 PHAER Kegim. Lyfe 11553) B va, Lac
1612 WOOUALL
virginis. .taketh awaie frekles of y visage.
Surf. Mate Wks. (1653) 163 The legs and thighes discoloured into frekels. 1700 DRYDKN Palamoil -V A. m. 76
Some sprinkled freckles on his face were seen, Whose dusk
set off the whiteness of the skin.
1775 SHERIDAN l>i<i-nn(i
Her skin .. spangled here and there with a golden
li.
ii,
freckle.
1881 HKSAXT & RICE Chapl. Fleet I. 5 She was
running about without thinking of freckles.
fig. a 1535 MORE Wks. 7 He semed somwhat besprent
t 3.
,
Diet., SarpnllidO) freckly, motly, or
whole parish that was
A yellowish or light-brown spot in the skin, said
mind
FRECKLE
1
.
sb.
Forms: 5-6 fracel,
6 frekell e, -le, -yll, 6-7
[Alterafreck-(e)l, 7'freele, -lie, 6- freckle.
1547
rare-
(fre-kli), a.
Freckly
'
1.
v.
Full of spots or freckles.
a 1704 T. BROWN Highlander 14 He
plumps his Freckly
Checks with stinking Weed [Tobacco]. 1740 PINEDA Span.
T. O'Brien 230 A
freckened beyant all tellinV 1894 HALL CAINE Manxman
May be it was myself she was freckened of.'
}47
tion of
FRECKLE
[f.
freckled.
1692 Lond. Gaz. No. 2800 '4 Timothy Phillips
frecklish. .went away, .with a. .Sum of Money.
To
-il,
vbl. $b.
uncommon.
Fre'cklish, a.
Somewhat
-I8H.]
[mis(fre'ken}, v. Anglo-Irish, etc.
frighten.
pronunciation of FRIGHTEN.] trans.
Freckle
not
is
Freckeii
-le, frakel,
'.]
t
.
'
(fre-klirj),
The
In
action of the verb FUECKLE.
Also
quots. <\\\o.?>\-concr. a mark like a freckle.
collect., a marking with freckles.
1820 K HATS Lamia i. 159 A deep Volcaman yellow. .Made
gloom of all her frecklings, streaks and bars. 1882 Gar-den
28 Jan. 68^3 A white variety without the external freckling
A
freckle.
e 1386 CHAUCER A'/.V T. 1311 A fewe freknes in his face
in
Wr.-Wiilcker
.Vom.
680/3 Hec lenticula,
y-spreynd. 14.
a frakyn. 1545 RAYNOLD Byrth Mankynde iv. vi. (1634)200
often
Frekens. .may be taken away by
anoynting them with
1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. ill. ii. vi. iii.
the oyle of Tartar.
(1651)562 Reddestreeks, frechons, hairs, warts. rtiSzsFoRBY
Voc. E. Anglia, Freckens, freckles.
Hence Fre'ckened ppl. a., marked with freckles.
?,i 1400 Merle Arth. 1081 His forhevede alle was it over,
As \K felle of a froske, and fraknede it semede. c 1440
I'romp. fan'. 176/1 Fraknyd, idem quod Frakny. 1877 in
N. H'. Line. Gloss.
Also with of.
1847 LE KANL-
red-headed, freckled -faced lassie.
the state of being freckled.
COTGR., Caneiille. .the frecklednes.se of a face.
little
Hence Pre-ckledness,
4
frekne, 5 frakyn(e, 5-6frakene, 6 fracin, frackfreehon.
-in,
[a. O^.frekmir pi.
7
ne, freken,
(Sw./raitne, Y>a. fregne).}
The
ii,
:
The bonde man, and he
that is fre from his
19
master. 1606 SHAKS. Ant. ff Cl. iv. xiv. 81 When I did
ii.
thee
free.
1610
I.
make
Temp.
442 Delicate Ariel, I'll
set thee free for this.
1657 R. LIGON Barbadoes (1673) 16
the badge of their
and
wear..
These are free Negroes,
freedom. 1841 LANE A rab. Nis. 1.65 Itsometimes happens,
as
slaves.
though rarely, that free girls are sold
b. fig. (esf. in a spiritual sense = not in bondage
DALE Job
power of the Welshmen should be brought under, 1687
Lond. Gaz. No. 2256/4 They were taken away by a Fellow
.swarthy and freckled Faced. 1885 BLACK White Heather
Freck'd with white
. .
and purple cloud. 1869 LOWELL Catherlr. Poet. Wks. (1870)
25 The painted windows, frecking [ed. 1890 IV. 47 freaking]
gloom with glow.
sb.
FREE.
520
.
1-1315 SHOREHAM 22 }ef that je
fredeth }ou, That he ne be nau}t di^ne For te be housled.
Sruvn
c 1320
Sng. (W.) 1514 His wife lai warme abedde
And solas' of hire lemman fredde. 1390 COWER Can/. II.
her ledde.
374 If that I her fredde, Whan I toward offring
pe
gost hit schal ivrede.
nonce-wd.
Frederize,
Frederick
[f.
+
'Allegro i.
(4. Hence in regard to character and conduct:
Noble, honourable, generous, magnanimous. Obs.
a 1300 Cursor M. 25524 pat ilk time bou mistred be, Suet
!
wit hert sa fre, To maria magdalene. c 1400 Destr.
'
'
Troy 525 Now frynd ', quod bat faire, as ye bene fre
1559
holden, Will ye suffer me to say, and the sothe telle ?
Vertuous
Mirr. Mag., Salisbury xviii,
life, fre hart and
lowly mind. 1594 H. WILLOBIE in Shaks. C. Praise 10
You must be secret, constant, free. 1604 SHAKS. Oth. III.
iii. 199, I would not have your free and noble nature, Out of
self-bounty, be abused.
-IZE.]
iesu
intr. To take the part of the Emperor Frederick.
1618 DANIEL Coll. Hist. Eng., Hen. III. (an. 12461 138 Vpon
the Popes dispising the Kings message (who, he said, began
.
'
.
to Frederize*.
Fredon. Obs. [Fr. frtdtn in similar sense.]
particular sequence of cards see quot.
1798 Sporting Mag. XII. 142 The fredon which is four
II
A
:
Fred-stole
:
see
Free
(fr*)> "
fri. frtf, fri?;,
FMTHSTOOL.
Forms: I frio,
i
frgo, freoh,
in
the
compound
Du. vrij l.tOFIG. frt (MHG. vrt, mod.
exc. in the compound
Gcr./>r/', ON. *frFr post
(Alsoyf^-.l
free, let go free, Ac.
free
1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 206/2 And ii yere he was in
kepyng and disputed ayenst the Jewes. 1585 T. WASHINGset them at
TON tr. .\iitu>lay's I'ov. r. xx. 24 b, He wold
1608 SHAKS. I'er. IV. vi. 107 O that the
free deliverance.
1720
gods Would set me free from this unhallow'd place
DE FOE Capt. Singleton xvi. (1840) 269 We would let them
Set
an
disarmed
PRIOR
Love
a
free,
25
1711
go
fi-i-lik;
'
free-necked ', free the moj.lcel.
from Ger.
fri, S\v., Da., fri are adopted
jQGoth.
/m-*: OTeut. *frijo- freej: OAryan *friyo-, reWelsh rhyctd free,
presented by Skr. priyA dear,
endear
f. root
*pri to love (Ski, prt to delight,
OS1. prijatelt friend, jTToth. frijfm, OK. fn'on to
love, whence FKIKND).
the Germanic
The primary sense of the adj. is dear
and Celtic sense comes of its having been applied as the
who
household
of
the
members
of
those
distinctive epithet
were connected by ties of kindred with the head, as opposed
of
sense-development
to the slaves. The converse process
appears in Lat. Uteri children ', literally the free members
frials :-*frt-/ials
.
:
;
pris'ner free,
'
'
Not bound or subject as a slave
1. Of persons
is to his master ; enjoying personal rights and
or state.
liberty of action as a member of a society
2 Gif hwylc swibe rice
888 K. ALFRED Rocth. xli.
cyning..na:f<le nscnne fryne [MS. Call, freone] mon on
eallon his rice, ac wjeron calle beowe. c 1000 /ELKKIC Exott,
xxi. 2peowie he six Jer and beo him freoh on )>am seofooan. a 1300 Cursor M. 6708 (Gtitt.) Qua-so smytes vie his
He sal him make fre and iiuite. 1535 COVERthrales eye
:
,
. .
ne'er intended
II 'its.
harm
unhappy
1824 Svi>.
with un-
to thee.
We
b. Oi animals:
Not kept in confinement, at
liberty
to range abroad.
foulcs and tills free
1393 I.ASI;] /'. I'l. C, xil. 250 Codes
1697 DRVDEN .-Eneiii vi. 889 Their Steeds around,
Free from their Harness, gra/e the flow'ry Ground. 1844
A. B. WELBV Poems (18671 35 'l' he round blue heaven is all
thine own, O free and happy bird
1849 MACAULAV Hist.
Eng. I. 312 Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered
.
bestes.
'
of the household.]
I. Not in bondage to another.
Who
use no compulsion
(1859) II. 37/2
You are free as air till you are found guilty.
tried prisoners.
.set free all those souls.
2
Calvin,
MOKLKV
I'oltaire
1871
SMITH
;
'
.
!
|
;
'
tr.
not kept in confinement or custody,
f fret tecping - L. libera cusloJia. Also, released from conFhr. to set
finement or imprisonment, liberated.
:
recorded only -as- sb. and
b.
1422
sholde
2-3 fri(e, 3 4 freo, (3 south.
frioh,
vreo , 4 fry, frey, south, vry, vri. 6 frye, 6-7
free. ([Com. Teut.
(chiefly Sc.) frie, 2-6 fre, 4to OFris. fri, OS.
OE./ri'iJ, frio,fr{& corresponds
frt
Of
studies : Liberal ; =-= L. ingemm (artes}.
Secreta Secret., frili. /'riv. (E. E. T. S.) 150 He
make his chyldryn to lerne fre Sciencis of Clergi.
II. Released, loose, unrestricted.
5. At liberty; allowed to go where one wishes,
f
tens, four aces, four nines, etc.
!
j
there by thousands.
6. Released from ties, obligations, or constraints
one's action.
1596 SHAKS. 7 'am. Shr. I. i. 142 Till by helping Baptista's
to a husband we set his youngest free for a
eldest daughter
"
husband. a 1605 MoNKJOMKini: Ctwincntt. oj Love i, I
rather far be fast nor frie, Albeit I micht my mynd remove.
He's
1606 SHAKS. Ant. f, Cl. ll. v. 57 Free, madam no
bound unto Octavia. a 1731 I'moK Song, Phillis, since
upon
!
'
. .