Obs. exc. Sc. Also 4–5 frusche, 4–6 frusshe, (5 frushe, 9 arch. frusch). [a. OF. fruis, frois, n. of action f. fruissier, froissier: see FRUSH v.]
† 1. A rush, charge, onset, collision. Obs.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XIII. 292. He and all his cumpany … In-till a frusche all tuk the flycht.
c. 1400. Melayne, 268.
| Righte at þe firste frusche þay felde | |
| Fyve thowsande knyghtis trewly telde. |
1412–20. Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, II. xxi.
| All in a frushe in all the hast they may, | |
| They ran yfere and their speres bracke. |
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, cxxx. 474. So they aprochyd, and al at a frusshe of both partyes dasshed together.
b. The noise caused by this; the crash of breaking weapons, etc.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XII. 545. Men mycht her, that had beyn by, A gret frusche of the speres that brast.
1805. Southey, Modoc, II. xix. With horrible uproar and frush Of rocks that meet in battle.
1875. J. Veitch, Tweed, 144. Of mingling spears a shivering frusch.
2. collect. Fragments, splinters.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. (Arb.), 18. Al the frushe and leauings of Greeks.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 190. Some brak in sma’ The carvit wark … Sending the glory o’ the wa’ In fritter’t frush about.
