Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Friesland; one of the Friesian race; a Friesian.
- noun The language spoken in Friesland or by Friesians. See
Friesic . - Pertaining to the Friesians or to their language.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
friesic , n.
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Examples
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Yes the Tim friese-green producer is related to william and claude.
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V., "on a table of green friese," which A.E. B. selects, I presume, as being especially absurd, I think "the old corrector" right; although I had frequently cited Theobald's correction as particularly happy, and therefore the new version was at first to me very distasteful.
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Such an object was a large mansion house, built of wood with four large Doric columns and friese to correspond, situated in the center of a spacious inclosure, which even then in its deserted condition gave token of having been at a time not far removed, the homestead of some man of exceptional taste and wealth.
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NEW YORK -- As the sun set over the famed friese on a warm, breezy June night at Yankee
New York Yankees News Bryan Horowitz 2010
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Not earth; for her high thoghts more heauenly are, not water; for her loue doth burne like fyre: not ayre; for she is not so light or rare, not fyre; for she doth friese with faint desire.
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In the extremitie of Winter, if you holde a pewter dish or pot in your hand, or any other metall (except in some chamber where their warme stoaues bee) your fingers will friese fast vnto it, and drawe off the skinne at the parting.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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PlanetJava 2009
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(except in some chamber where their warme stoaues bee) your fingers will friese fast vnto it, and drawe off the skinne at the parting.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Kurt Friese: Failure to Cultivate: A Response to Caitlin Flanagan on School Gardens 2010
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Kurt Friese: Failure to Cultivate: A Response to Caitlin Flanagan on School Gardens 2010
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