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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: frush

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#*: And than they '''fruyshed''' forth all at onys, of the bourelyest knyghtes that ever brake brede, with mo than fyve hondred at the formyst frunte [...].

  

#*: And than they '''fruyshed''' forth all at onys, of the bourelyest knyghtes that ever brake brede, with mo than fyve hondred at the formyst frunte [...].
 

# {{historical|transitive}} To [[straighten]] up (the feathers on an arrow).

  

# {{historical|transitive}} To [[straighten]] up (the feathers on an arrow).
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# Easily broken; brittle; crisp.
   
 

===Etymology 2===

  

===Etymology 2===

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French fruissier, froissier ( > French froisser), from Vulgar Latin *frustiāre, from Latin frustum ("fragment").

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Verb

frush (third-person singular simple present frushes, present participle frushing, simple past and past participle frushed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To break up, smash.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To charge, rush violently.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
      And than they fruyshed forth all at onys, of the bourelyest knyghtes that ever brake brede, with mo than fyve hondred at the formyst frunte [...].
  3. (historical, transitive) To straighten up (the feathers on an arrow).

[edit] Adjective

frush (comparative more frush, superlative most frush)

  1. Easily broken; brittle; crisp.

[edit] Etymology 2

Compare Old English frosch, frosk, a frog (the animal), German Frosch ("frog (the animal)").

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

frush (plural frushes)

  1. The frog of a horse's foot.
  2. A discharge of a foetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot; thrush.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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