fraist
Verb
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Verb
fraist (fraists, present participle fraisting; past and past participle fraisted)
- (obsolete, ambitransitive, UK dialectal) To try; test; prove; put to the proof; make trial (of).
- 1540, Destruction of Troy ↗
- Þen found he no frekes to fraist on his strenght.
- 1540, Destruction of Troy ↗
- (obsolete, transitive, UK dialectal) To learn by trial; experience.
- (transitive, obsolete) To seek to learn; ask; inquire.
- (transitive, obsolete) To seek; be eager for; desire.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go forth on an expedition; sally forth.
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