2. Verb. (third-person singular of frail) ¹
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Definition of Frails
1. frail [n] - See also: frail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frails
Literary usage of Frails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk by Francis Blomefield, Charles Parkin (1808)
"•In/in Tomison compounded for his first frails in April, 1640, and ejected for
his loyalty, father of Archbishop Tenison. ..."
2. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"Then they take off all the frails, except the eight or ten lower, on each pedestal,
and stirring the pulp in one of the frails taken off, replace it again ..."
3. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"they set the press a-working, first lifting up the screw end, and so the other
end of the beam, sinking upon the hinder pile of frails, and pressing them, ..."
4. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1882)
"I conclude, therefore, that the sort was three frails of fruit, generally of
raisins and figs; though sometimes, as in 1490, 1491, and in 1494, the sort is, ..."
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