free, adv., arowes ifedred fre, III, 69, 275; 70, 288: in handsome style. ring she brake so free, I, 470, 26: generously (cf. II, 450, 64).
freely, adj., freely feed, I, 309, B 1: of noble birth, or beautiful.
freely (naked), I, 508, 10: entirely.
freits, III, 434, 23: superstitious notions concerning omens.
freke, freck, freake, freyke, III, 298, 58; 308, 30; 309, 32, 47: bold man, man. (A. S. freca.)
frem, foreign.
frembde, adv., frembde bested, III, 63, 138: in the position of a stranger (other readings, frend, friend).
frese, frese your, our, bowes of ewe, III, 67, 215; 80, 215: seems to be corrupt. The interpretation in Donaldson’s Supplement to Jamieson, where “to frese a bow” (cited as if a phrase in full use) is said to mean unbend, slack, would be entirely inappropriate here, since three men are to make a desperate attack on two hundred and fifty (bende your bowes, st. 218). f, g have, bend we, the required sense. Chese will not do; they have but one bow each. leese==loose is possible, or dress, or even, free.
frichtit, frighted.
frienged, fringed, gray, III, 481, 7; IV, 2, 5: referring to mane and fetlocks, or perhaps to long fetlocks only.