v. Also FRIG. [App. onomatopœic; cf. FIDGE, FIG.]
† 1. intr. To move restlessly (about or up and down); to fidget. Cf. FIDGE v. Obs.
a. 1550. Hye way to Spyttel-ho., 395, in Hazl., E. P. P., IV. 44.
| At euery doore there they foot and frydge, | |
| And say they come fro Oxford or Cambrydge. |
1607. Markham, Cavelarice, V. 22. Whilst you currie your Horse, if hee keepe a fridging vp and downe, or offer to bite, strike, or bee impatient, that then it is a signe your Currie combe is too sharpe.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. ii. III. xxii.
| So must it be upstretch’d unto the skie | |
| And rub against the Stars, surround the Sun | |
| And her own parts to every part apply, | |
| Then swiftly fridge about the pallid Moon. |
1681. Hallywell, Melampronoea, 3–4. A thing much more worthy of laughter and the character of folly, and all one as if a man should go about to perswade that the little Motes or Atoms that fridge and play in the Beams of the Sun shining through a Crany, should by a common consent unite themselves into a living heap, and speak and act either ludicrously or mischievously with the standers by.
† 2. To chafe, rub, scrape (against or upon). Obs.
1617. Markham, Caval., III. 70. His spurres also must needes fridge vpon his sides, which doth not onely trouble, but moue affright in the horse.
1651. H. More, Second Lash (1655), II. 213. You putting the body that is under your operation into a perpetuall motion, so that the parts fridge one against another uncessantly.
3. trans. To rub, fray, chafe; to wear away by rubbing. Also with off. Now chiefly dial.
1617. [see the vbl. sb.]
1761. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. iv. You might have rumpled and crumpled, and doubled and creased, and fretted and fridged the outside of them all to pieces.
1781. J. Hutton, Tour to Caves, Gloss., Fridge, to rub in pieces.
1788. Marshall, Rural Econ., E. Yorks. (E.D.S.), To Fridge, to chafe; to frict; to wear or injure by friction.
1848. A. B. Evans, Leicestersh. Words, etc., Fridge, To fray, chafe, or ‘rough up:’ to discompose by friction, to irritate the skin, to fret. ‘These stockings wo’nt fridge you so much as coarse ones.’
1857. Mrs. Gatty, Parables fr. Nat. (1859), II. 33. It was only when the Spruce-fir next him had come so close that its branches fridged off little pieces of his delicate paper-like bark, whenever the wind was high, that his attention was attracted to the subject.
† 4. ? To jerk or scrape out. Obs.–1
1676. H. More, Remarks, xxxiii. 132. The immersion of the Tube may be made so obliquely and leasurely as neither to press out nor fridge out any mercurial effluvia.
Hence Fridging vbl. sb.
1607. Markham, Cavelarice, II. 70. Yet when you strike, to strike freely, & soundly, for the tickling or fridging of a horse with the spurre is a grosse fault, and doth breed manifold disorders.
1668. H. More, Divine Dialogues, I. x. (1713), 19. My the mutual fridging of those Particles one against another.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 831. The meer Fridging up and down, of the Parts of an Extended Substance, changing their Place and Distance.
1737. H. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 333. For when by the Fridging, &c. in Riding, the Serum or watery Part of the Blood is gathered between the two Skins, it is then too late to prevent a sore Backside.
