Chiefly Sc. [f. FRECK a. + -LY2.] a. Voraciously, greedily. b. Eagerly, with spirit, promptly, lustily.
a. c. 1205. Lay., 31771.
| He æt of ane uisce | |
| urechliche swiðe. |
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VII. 165.
| And thai rostit in hy thair met, | |
| And fell rycht frakly for till et. |
c. 1440. York Myst., xi. 393.
| Do charge oure charyottis swithe, | |
| And frekly folowes me. |
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VIII. vii. 164.
| Wonder frakly thai | |
| Onto thair labour can thaim all addres, | |
| Assignand every man his part expres. |
1600. J. Melvill, Diary (1842), 362. The gentilmen offerit tham selves verie fraclie for resistance.
a. 1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), III. 669. How fracklie, as a perjured and man-sworne person, he past fordward, putting daylie in practice all things that might hinder the truthe.
