Crossword clues for frith
frith
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frith \Frith\, n. [OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. fri[eth] peace; akin to freno[eth] peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel. fri[eth]r, and from the root of E. free, friend. See Free, a., and cf. Affray, Defray.]
A forest; a woody place. [Obs.]
--Drayton.A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. [Obs.]
--Sir J. Wynne.
Frith \Frith\ (fr[i^]th), n. [OE. firth, Icel. fj["o]r[eth]r; akin to Sw. fj["a]rd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. [root]78. See Ford, n., and cf. Firth, Fiord, Fret a frith, Port a harbor.]
(Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. Also called firth.
A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.]
--Carew.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context rare or archaic English) peace; security. 2 (context obsolete English) sanctuary, asylum. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To protect; guard. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To inclose; fence in, as a forest or park. Etymology 3
n. a wood, woodland, forest; undergrowth, brushwood Etymology 4
n. 1 (alternative form of firth English) 2 (context UK English) A kind of weir for catching fish.
Wikipedia
Frith is an Old English word meaning "peace; freedom from molestation, protection; safety, security".
Frith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Benjamin Frith, British pianist
- Billy Frith, English football club manager
- Clifford Brodie Frith, Australian ornithologist
- Chris Frith, British psychologist
- David Frith, British cricket writer
- Dawn Whyatt Frith, Australian ornithologist
- Doug Frith, Canadian politician
- Francis Frith, British photographer
- Fred Frith, British musician
- Freddie Frith, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion
- Harold James Frith, Australian ornithologist
- Heather Frith, Bermudian singer-songwriter and poet Heather Nova
- Hezekiah Frith, 1763-1848, Bermudian, "Gentleman" Privateer and British Ship Owner, engaged in Piracy in the 1890s
- John Frith, English Protestant martyr
- Mark Frith, British journalist
- Mary Frith, English pickpocket
- Michael K. Frith, Bermudian, former Executive Vice President and Creative Director for Jim Henson Productions, Close Friend and Editor of Dr. Seuss' books, Editor and Art Director of Sesame Street Books,
- Royce Frith (1923–2005), Canadian diplomat and politician
- Simon Frith, British musicologist
- Uta Frith, British developmental psychologist
- William Powell Frith, British artist
- William Silver Frith, British sculptor
Frith is an obsolete English word.
Frith may also refer to:
- Frith (surname), a surname
- Frith (Scots Gaelic: "divinatory incantation"), a Celtic divination practice addressed in the Carmina Gadelica
- Frith van der Merwe (born 1964), South African athlete
- Frith, the Sun-god in the legends of the rabbits of Watership Down.
- Frith Street
- The town of Frith in Montserrat
Usage examples of "frith".
Cowal is that portion of Argyllshire bordering the Frith of Clyde, and extending inland to the margin of Lochfine.
Soho his village because he has his breakfast croissant and cappuccino at Patisserie Valerie in Old Compton Street and buys his charcuterie and cheese from Fratelli Camisa in Berwick Street and his coffee beans from Angelucci in Frith Street.
He had observed that the island is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland.
It comprehended all England, Wales, and the Lowlands of Scotland, as far as the Friths of Dumbarton and Edinburgh.
He had so many wives that there was no counting them, and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them, and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover, and El-ahrairah was the father of them all.
No company had he but his foal by friths and downs, nor nobody but God to talk with by the way.
Even apart from the impiety, which Mother Frith would punish, who of his huscarls would risk his honor to stand beside a man who would do such a thing?
Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak apples, like robins' pincushions on the wild rose.