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▪ I. † frese, n. Obs. north. dial.
Also fres(se.
[Of obscure origin.
Stratmann compares OS. frêsa str. fem. (MDu. vrêse, Du. vrees), OHG. freisa, fear, danger. The sense is not inappropriate, but the exact OE. equivalent of these words would be *frás, yielding *frase in northern ME.]
In phr. no frese = ‘no doubt’.
a1400Pistill of Susan (Vernon) 43 To fonge flourus and fruit þouȝt þei no fresse. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 30 So wold mo, no frese..Of wifes..For the life that thay leyd, Wold thase husbandes were dede. Ibid. 291 Putt thi hand in my syde, no fres, ther Longeus put his spere.
▪ II. † frese, v. Obs. rare—1.
trans.
c1510Robin Hood iv. 42 in Flügel Lesebuch 178 Make glad chere sayd lytell Johan And frese our bowes of ewe.
▪ III. frese
obs. form of freeze. |