Obs. Also 6–7 friscol, -oil, 7 friskal, -kle. [f. FRISK sb. or FRISCO; perh. on the analogy of caracole.] = FRISCO.
c. 1570. Marr. Wit & Science, IV. ii. D ij. These friscoles shal not serue your tourne for al your vauntes so braue.
1611. Coryat’s Crudities, Panegyricke Verses.
| Whilst sweaty he with antick skips did hop it, | |
| His treadings were but friscals of a poppet. |
1612. Shelton, Quixote, I. IV. iii. 315. And saying so, he gaue two or three friskles in the ayre with very great signes of contentment.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., 11. 175. For now their mattresses were a quilting, and their beds a making, wherein they were like to take but little rest; and fetch more friscals in the aire, than when they tost me in the blanket.
transf. 1613. Wither, Epithal., Juvenilia (1633), 360. Comets and Meteors … shew their fiery Friscoils in the ayre.
