c1290 Beket 1348 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 145 ‘Certes, beu frere’ quat þe pope: ‘I-nelle nouȝt take on so’.

c1290 St. Brendan 121 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 223 ‘Beau freres’ quaþ seint brendan: ‘ȝe neþore noþing drede’.

c1330 Amis & Amil. 17 How yong the[y] become frere, In courte whereas thei were.

c1530 Hickscorner E ij What Frewyll myne owne frere Arte thou out of thy minde.

1821 J. Baillie Lady G. Baillie in Metrical Legends xix Her jealous Frere, oft on her gazing.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 41 To Kateryne Druy my best gay cuppe of erthe kevvryd, or ellys oon of the frerys, to chese of bothe.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 48 The long flye called a Frier..which is counted poysonsome.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 123 The frier [named in a list of fish].

1889 Cent. Dict. Friar, a fish of the family Atherinidæ. An Irish name of the angler, Lophius piscatorius.

1892 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Friar, a name for the silversides, a North American fish, Chirostoma notatum.

1798 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales 615 Vocab. Wirg-an, Bird named by us the Friar.

1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. IV. pl. 58 Tropidorhynchus Corniculatus..Friar Bird.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 377 Fryer, When the Balls do not Take, the Un-taking part of the Balls that touches the Form will be left White, or if the Press-men Skip over any part of the Form, and touch it not with the Balls, though they do Take, yet in both these cases the White place is cal'd a Fryer.

1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 524 That corner untouched by the ball [of printer's ink]..is technically termed a friar.

1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 176/2 Friars, light patches caused by imperfect inking of the form.

1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 22 If the Cork be musty, or White Fryers in your Liquor.

1753 W. Lewis New Dispensatory 427/2 Balsamum commendatoris... This balsam has been inserted..in some foreign pharmacopœias..under the titles of..Balsam of Berne, Wade's balsam, Friar's balsam, Jesuit's drops, &c.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xxiv. 160 Bob Tench..had always a little phial of Fryars Balsam in his pocket, some..court-plaister, as well as his cork-screw and mohock.

1831 R. Cox Adventures Columbia River vi. 78 The wound was dressed with friar's balsam and lint.

1844 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. (ed. 2) Friars' balsam.

1959 W. Golding Free Fall i. 30 Then they realized of course that they had given him poison instead of friar's balsam... They had pulled and pulled but the spoon wouldn't come out [of his mouth].

1963 Brit. Pharmaceut. Codex 1261 Tincture of benzoin, compound...Friar's balsam.

1967 Listener 28 Sept. 419/2 For congested noses, Friar's Balsam... You inhale this—remember that nostalgic paraphernalia of cloths and steam?

1830 Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 7) (Brit. & H.) Friars caps.

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 46 Monk's-hood, Aconitum Napellus..Had the old names of Helmet-flower and Friar's-cap.

1782 J. Sinclair Observ. Sc. Dial. iii. 150 Fried chickens, (properly) Friars chickens. A dish invented by that luxurious body of men.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 178 I gae a look to making the friar's chicken mysell, and to the crappit-heads too.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 686 Of Friers Coule, or hooded Cuckowpint.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 90 Wake Robin or Cuckow Pintle..is of some called Friers Coule, because of the hooding of the Pestle, when it is springing forth.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 990 The downe Thistle..is thought of diuers to be that..report[ed] to be called Corona fratrum, or Friers Crowne.

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 23 Idlers & wanderers were wont to be called friers flees [L. fratres muscas], y^t are doing no good.

1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 62 Another British species, Eryngium Campestre, called by John Ray Friar's Goose.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xiii. 202 As one familie is not abridged of libertie to be clothed in fryers gray, for that another doth weare clay-colour; so neither are all Churches bound to the selfe same indifferent Ceremonies which it liketh sundry to vse.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 686 Friers hood is of two sorts, the one broad leafed, the other narrow leafed.

1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 83 A chenȝe of gold maid in fassone of frere knottis.

1529 M. Parr in Wills Doct. Comm. (Camden) 18 xviij. diamontes sett with fryers knottes.

1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 34 And he by Friars Lanthorn led Tells how [etc.].

1811 P. Neill in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 1 553 Sharp-nosed Ray..Friar-skate.

?1516 T. More Mery Gest His herte for pryde Lepte in his syde, to se how well he frered.

1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. vii. 22 A rich Boors Son, whom his Father had sent abroad a Fryring, that is, a Shroving in our Language.

1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 232 There remaines nothing for a Iew converted, but to bee Friered.