Obs. [a. OF. frique (13th c.), regarded by some scholars as the earlier form of frisque (see FRISK a.); it is perh. a. Teut. *freko- FRECK a. In ME. the adjs. frike and freck seem to have been somewhat confused.]

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  1.  Lusty, strong, vigorous.

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13[?].  Festivals Church, in Legends of the Holy Rood (1871), 221. Þe Egle is frikest fowle in flye.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 2204. My floures bene fallen, & my frike age.

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c. 1400.  The Sowdone of Babyloyne, 104. Barons Admyralls and Dukes frike.

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c. 1430.  Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy), 230.

        When thou art fryke and in thy flowres,
  Thou werest purpure, perreye, ore palle.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 179/1. Fryke, or craske, or yn grete helthe, crassus.

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c. 1475.  The Romans of Partenay, 2803. The body welle made, frike in ioly plite.

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  2.  Joyful.

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c. 1430.  Hymns Virg. (1867), 23.

        Loue is hetter þan þe cole
To hem þat of it is fayn & frike [rime lijke].

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  Hence † Frickly adv., † Frikeness.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 6120.

        Lest þi friknes so furse, in þi fell hert,
Brynge þe to bale for þi bold dedys.
    Ibid., 9880.
All ffrickly his fos fled at the last.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 179/1. Frykenesse, crassitudo.

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