2. To make full; to fill. [Obs.]

With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite.

Milton.

Fre*quent"a*ble (?), a. Accessible. [R.] Sidney.

Fre*quent"age (?), n. The practice or habit of frequenting. [R.]

Southey.

Fre"quen*ta"tion (?), n. [L. frequentatio a crowding together,

frequency: cf. F. frÈquentation.] The act or habit of frequenting or

visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.

Fre*quent"a*tive (?), a. [L. frequentativus: cf. F. frÈquentatif.]

(Gram.) Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a

frequentative verb. -- n. A frequentative verb.

Fre*quent*er (?), n. One who frequents; one who often visits, or

resorts to customarily.

Fre*quent*ly (?), adv. At frequent or short intervals; many times;

often; repeatedly; commonly.

Fre"quent*ness, n. The quality of being frequent.

||FrËre (?), n. [F. See Friar.] A friar. Chaucer.

Fres"cade (?), n. [See Fresco, Fresh, a.] A cool walk; shady place.

[R.] Maunder.

Fres"co (?), n.; pl. Frescoes or Frescos (#). [It., fr. fresco fresh;

of German origin. See Fresh, a.]

1. A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.

[R.] Prior.

2. (Fine Arts) (a) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster,

before it dries. (b) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to

painting on plaster in any manner. (c) A painting on plaster in either

of senses a and b.

Fres"co, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frescoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Frescoing.]

To paint in fresco, as walls.

Fresh (frsh), a. [Compar. Fresher (-r); superl. Freshest.] [OE. fresch,

AS. fersc; akin to D. versch, G. frisch, OHG. frisc, Sw. frisk, Dan.

frisk, fersk, Icel. frskr frisky, brisk, ferskr fresh; cf. It. fresco,

OF. fres, freis, fem. freske, fresche, F. frais, fem. fraÓche, which

are of German origin. Cf. Fraischeur, Fresco, Frisk.] 1. Possessed of

original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.

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