[f. FREAK sb.1; the word (in sense 1) seems to have been formed by Milton.]
1. trans. To fleck or streak whimsically or capriciously; to variegate. Usually in pa. pple.
1637. Milton, Lycidas, 144. The pansy freaked with jet.
1726–46. Thomson, Winter, 823.
| And dark-embrown’d, | |
| Or beauteous freakt with many a mingled Hue. |
1834. Beckford, Italy, I. 80. Collecting dianthi freaked with beautifully varied colours.
1880. Swinburne, Studies in Song, 15.
| The very dawn was dashed with stormy dew | |
| And freaked with fire. |
fig. 1803. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XVI. Oct., 221/1. And surely the sprinkled Syriasms, the oriental profusion of fanciful illustration, the conscious display of expressional skill, and the anxious elaboration of a style freaked with allusions, indicated uniformly the hand of some accomplished Barbarian exulting in his Greek.
2. intr. To practise freaks; to sport, gambol, frolic.
1663. [see FREAKING ppl. a.].
a. 1820. J. R. Drake, Culprit Fay, xxvi. 1836.
| Then glad they left their covert lair, | |
| And freaked about in the midnight air. |
