2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.]

Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.

Shak.

3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.

[Obs.]

Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other.

Dryden.

Fri"er (?), n. One who fries.

Friese (?), n. Same as Friesic, n.

Fries"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Friesland, a province in the

northern part of the Netherlands.

Fries"ic, n. The language of the Frisians, a Teutonic people formerly

occupying a large part of the coast of Holland and Northwestern

Germany. The modern dialects of Friesic are spoken chiefly in the

province of Friesland, and on some of the islands near the coast of

Germany and Denmark.

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