Meaning

(rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security.
2. (obsolete) Sanctuary, asylum.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To protect; guard.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.
5. A forest or wood; woodland generally.
6. (British, dialectal) Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
7. Brushwood or undergrowth, sometimes in the form of a hedge.
8. A hedge, especially one made from brushwood which has been wattled; also, a movable frame made from wattled branches, a hurdle.

Example Sentences

Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to frith all that the king wills to be frithed

This monument and the Cairns themselves have been purchast by the State, and are now therefore "frithed", protected and national property.

Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to 'frith all that the king wills to be frithed

On the other of these improvements, the base of the mound was six feet, its height five feet, and breadth at the top nearly the same; this, with the side-drains or ditches on each side, made the whole scite of the fence about 12 feet; cost of raising the mound and frithing, 4s . per perch.

In the halfe circle enclosed between the flood-gate and the compasse frith, there is digged a round pit, of three foot diameter, and foure foot depth, frithed on the sides, which is continually fedde with the water soaking from the sayd flood-gate, and serueth to keepe any fish aliue, that you haue before taken, and so to saue ouer often drawing.

During the same period, Mr. Davis has also enclosed open copse-woods of oak, on the south of the Teivy 90 acres, on the north of the teivy, 100 acres: all fenced with a foss and mound, planted on the top with quicks, which are "frithed" or guarded on the outside by a hedge of wattled trouse.

As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell; [...]

He [Agricola] had observed, that the island [Britannia; now Great Britain] is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland.

Word Forms

• friths
• frithing
• frithed
• freath

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