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<cs><col>Frit brick</col>, <cd>a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.</cd></cs>

<h1>Frit</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frit</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fritted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fritting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.</def>

<i>Ure.</i>

<h1>Frit</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frit</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To fritter; -- with away.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Ld. Lytton.</i>

<h1>Frith</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frith</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>firth</ets>, Icel. <ets>fj\'94r<?/r</ets>; akin to Sw. <ets>fj\'84rd</ets>, Dan. <ets>fiord</ets>, E. <ets>ford</ets>. &root;78. See <er>Ford</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. <er>Firth</er>, <er>Fiord</er>, <er>Fret</er> a frith, <er>Port</er> a harbor.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Geog.)</fld> <def>A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; <as>as, the <ex>Frith</ex> of Forth</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A kind of weir for catching fish.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<i>Carew.</i>

<h1>Frith</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frith</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>frith</ets> peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. <ets>fri<?/</ets> peace; akin to <ets>freno<?/</ets> peace, protection, asylum, G. <ets>friede</ets> peace, Icel. <ets>fri<?/r</ets>, and from the root of E. free, friend. See <er>Free</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, and cf. <er>Affray</er>, <er>Defray</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A forest; a woody place.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir J. Wynne.</i>

<h1>Frithy</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frith"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Woody.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Skelton.</i>

<h1>Fritillaria</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frit"il*la`ri*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>fritillus</ets> dicebox: cf. F. <ets>fritillaire</ets>. So named from the checkered markings of the petals.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (<spn>Fritillaria imperialis</spn>) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (<spn>F. Meleagris</spn>) another. See <er>Crown-imperial</er>.</def>

<h1>Fritillary</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frit"il*la*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See <er>Fritillaria</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of several species of butterflies belonging to <spn>Argynnis</spn> and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common <spn>Fritillaria</spn>. See <er>Aphrodite</er>.</def>

<h1>Fritinancy</h1> <Xpage=597>

<hw>Frit"i*nan*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fritinnire</ets> to twitter.] <def>A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> </def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>