Obs. Also frees. (See quots.) Also freeze-water, water used for diluting wine.

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16[?].  Songs Lond. Prentices (Percy Soc.), 155.

        First let me have but a touch of your ale,
’Twill steel me ’gainst cold weather,
Or tinkers frees,
Or vintners lees,
Or tobacco, chuse you whether.

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1658.  trans. Porta’s Nat. Magick, XVIII. vi. 382. For freeze-water [orig. has aqua only] is thinner than new wine, and lighter, it causeth the Apple to sink.

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1698.  In Vino Veritas, 8. A Liquid nick-named Freeze, which is … but a hungry, thin, sorry kind of Cyder, which does us a … kindness in lowering our Wines.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, III. 104.

        When at the last they had fetched their Frees,
And mired their Stomachs quite up to their Knees
      In Claret and good Cheer.

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