Obs. [ad. L. frūment-um corn, f. frugv- root of fruī to enjoy.]
1. Corn.
c. 1440. Lydg., St. Albon (1534), A iij. Grayne of this frument was this man Albon.
c. 1510. Barclay, The Mirrour of Good Manners (1570), C iij.
| If thou wilt be counted gentle and liberall, | |
| Folowe fulsome fieldes habundaunt of frument. |
1601. Holland, Pliny, XVIII. vii. 560. When the Bruers haue steeped their wheat or frument in water.
2. = FRUMENTY 1.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 599. Frument with venyson.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. III. 173. Bread, and Fruments [orig. pultes] and Wine.
