Fair friend, good friend (esp. as a form of address).

= brother, n. int., in figurative applications; esp. in Old French phrase beu frere ‘fair brother’. Obsolete.

A particularly close or dear friend, associate, or follower. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).

A relative or a close friend. Obsolete. rare.

A close friend or associate; a person whom one knows well.

a very close friend, a bosom friend; also figurative.

= gossip, n. 2. See also goss, n.1, gossy, n.

slang. A special friend; a favourite; a sweetheart. Now rare.

†(a) a close companion, an intimate; (b) a workmate, a colleague.

A best or extremely close friend. Cf. cock, n.1 int.compounds 1c.

An intimate private friend or confidant; spec. the favourite of a ruler.

A specially intimate or beloved friend.

Frequently with possessive. More generally: a close and intimate friend. Now rare.

A close or dear friend. Frequently as a term of affection. Obsolete.

An intimate or familiar acquaintance: = intimate, n. (Cf. 3a) Obsolete.

A young male associate whose company or friendship one values greatly; a good fellow; a good friend. Also (U.S.) bully boy with a glass eye, in the…

? a piece of attire covering the bosom; figurative a bosom friend.

An intimate or familiar associate.

a bosom friend.

A person with whom one is intimate; a very close friend or associate.

An intimate friend or associate; a ‘chum’.

= intimate, n. 2.

One who shares apartments with another or others, one who lodges or resides in the same room or rooms: ‘a chamber-fellow, a term used in the…

figurative. The breast considered as the seat of thoughts and feelings. Cf. heart, n. int.adv. The repository of secret thoughts and counsels: hence…

colloquial. A close friend, a partner, an accomplice. Now rare and chiefly historical. Cf. left bower, n. 1.

fancifully used by (and after) Coleridge for ‘intimate acquaintance’.

An assistant or confederate of a lower grade, as a bricklayer's labourer (dialect); a familiar, ‘chum’.

= chum, n.1

Navy slang. A close friend. Now rare.

elliptical for bosom friend, n.

a close male friend (cf. sense A. 4c); (also) used as a form of address and term of endearment.

A close friend. Cf. ace boon coon n. at ace, n.1 adj.1compounds.

A close friend; a lover. Also main mellow.

A close friend, esp. a girlfriend or lover; a sweetheart. Cf. main, adj.2 slang (chiefly North American).

a close female friend; (also) used as a form of address and term of endearment.