Obs. Also 5 fray-, freyry; and see FRIARY. [a. OF. frairie, frerie, f. frere brother.]
1. A brotherhood, fraternity.
13[?]. Seynt Katerine, in Leg. Kath. (1840), 196.
| He hath me to his frari cald | |
| That schal be bot of mi bale. |
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems, 171.
| Swiche a frary requyrithe Goddis curs, | |
| And I be shrewe al suche counsaillours, | |
| Can kisse withe Judas and kut a mans purs, | |
| Further a netle and cast out rose floures. |
c. 1450. Cuckold’s Dance, 215, in Hazl., E. P. P., I. 47.
| We be all off a freyry; | |
| I ame your awne brother. |
a. 1500[?]. Mankind (Brandl), 45/143.
| Gode brynge yow, mastur, and blyssyde mary, | |
| To þe numbur of þe demonycall frayry. |
1505. Will of T. Prowde (Somerset Ho.). I bequeth to seynt Chadde frary.
2. = FRIARY.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (Camden), 40. All their qwarters with their heddes was burryd at Pardone church yerde in the frary.
attrib. 1514. Grant, in Wright, Prov. Dict., s.v. Frary.… Edmund shall souffer my frary clark of London and Middx. to have a key [etc.].
