1605. Jonson, Volpone, or the Fox, iv., 3. Well, wise Sir Pol., since you have practised thus, Upon my freshmanship, I’ll try your salt-head With what proof it is against a counter-plot. Freshman’s Bible, subs. phr. (University).—The University Calendar. Freshman’s Church, subs. phr. (University).—The Pitt Press at Cambridge. [From its ecclesiastical architecture.] Freshman’s Landmark, subs. phr. (University).—King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. [From the situation.] Freshwater Mariner (or Seaman), subs. phr. (old).—A beggar shamming sailor; a turnpike sailor (q.v.). 1567. Harman, Caveat (1869), p. 48. These freshwater mariners, their shipes were drowned in the playne of Salisbury. These kynde ... counterfet great losses on the sea. 1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Freshwater seamen, that have never been on the Salt, or made any Voyage, meer Land-Men. Freshwater Soldier, subs. phr. (old).—A raw recruit. 1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, Biancone. A goodly, great milke-soppe, a fresh water soldier. 1603. Knolles, Hist. of the Turkes. The nobility, as freshwater soldiers, which had never seen but some slight skirmishes, made light account of the Turks. 1696. Nomenclator. Bachelier aux armes, nouveau ou jeune soudard. A freshwater souldier: a young souldier: a novice: one that is trayned up to serve in the field. Fret, To fret one’s gizzard, guts, giblets, kidneys, cream, etc., verb. phr. (common).—To get harassed and worried about trifles; to tear one’s shirt (q.v.). Friar, subs. (printers’).—A pale spot in a printed sheet. Fr., un moine (= monk). Frib, subs. (old).—A stick. For synonyms, see Toko. 1754. Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 43. A Jacob and frib; a ladder and stick. Fribble, subs. (old).—A trifler; a contemptible fop. [From the character in Garrick’s Miss in her Teens (1747)]. 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. 1860. Thackeray, Four Georges. George IV. That fribble, the leader of such men as Fox and Burke! Friday-face, subs. (old).—A gloomy, dejected-looking man or woman. [Probably from Friday being, ecclesiastically, the banyan day of the week.] Fr., figure de carême. 1592. Greene, Groatsworth of Wit, in wks. xii., 120. The Foxe made a Friday-face, counterfeiting sorrow. 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulg. Tongue, s.v. 1889. Gentleman’s Mag., June, p. 593. Friday-face is a term still occasionally applied to a sour-visaged person; it was formerly in very common use. Friday-faced, adj. (old).—Mortified; melancholy; ‘sour-featured’ (Scott). 1592. John Day, Blind Beggar, Act iii., Sc. 2, p. 57. Can. No, you Friday-fac’d frying-pan, it was to save us all from whipping or a worse shame. 1606. Wily Beguiled (Hawkins Eng. Dr., iii., 356). Marry, out upon him! What a Friday-fac’d slave it is! I think in my conscience his face never keeps holiday.