freind

freind

1. Misspelling of friend.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 50:

     If he [Pope Stephen II] were a freind herein to Monarchy I know not, but to the Monarch I need not aske what he was. Having thus made Pepin [the Short] his faſt freind, he cals him into Italy againſt Aiſtulphus the Lombard, […]

   • [1787–1790], [Jane Austen], “Frederic & Elfrida: a novel”, in Volume the First, chapter I, page 2:

     They were exceedingly handsome and so much alike, that it was not every one who knew them apart.—Nay even their most intimate freinds had nothing to distinguish them by, but the shape of the face, the colour of the Eye, the length of the Nose & the difference of the complexion. Elfrida had an intimate freind to whom, being on a visit to an Aunt, she wrote the following Letter.

freind

1. alternative form of frend