Friend (or Little Friend), subs.—The menstrual flux or domestic afflictions (q.v.), whose appearance is sometimes announced by the formula ‘My little friend has come.’ Conventionalisms are queer; poorly; changes (Irish); ‘the Captain’s at home’ (Grose). See Flag. To go and see a sick friend, verb. phr. (venery).—To go on the loose. See Greens. Friend Charles. See Charles his friend. Friendly Lead, subs. phr. (thieves’).—An entertainment (as a sing-song) got up to assist a companion in trouble (q.v.), or to raise money for the wife and children of a ‘quodded pal.’ 1871. Daily Telegraph, 4 Dec. This was the secret business, the tremendous conspiracy, to compass which it was deemed necessary to act with infinitely more caution than the friends of Bill Sikes feel called on to exercise when they distribute tickets for a friendly lead for the benefit of Bill, who is ‘just out of his trouble.’ 1889. Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 5 Jan. The men frequently club together in a friendly lead to help a brother in distress. 1892. Ally Sloper, 2 Apr., p. 106, col. 3. My father takes the chair at friendly leads. Friends in Need, subs. phr. (common).—Lice. For synonyms, see Chates. Frig, verb trans. and refl. (venery).—To masturbate. Also subs. = an act of masturbation. Known sometimes as keeping down the census. [Latin, fricare = to rub.] English Synonyms.—To bob; to box the Jesuit [‘St. Omer’s lewdness,’ Marston, ‘Scourge’ (1598)]; to chuff; to chuffer; to claw (Florio); to digitate (of women); to eat (or get) cock-roaches; to bring up (or off) by hand; to fight one’s turkey (Texan); to finger or finger-fuck (of women); to friggle (Florio); to fuck one’s fist (of men); to fetch mettle (Grose); to handle; to indorse; to jerk, play, pump, toss, or work off; to lark; to milk; to mount a corporal and four; to mess, or pull about; to play with (schoolboys’), to rub up; to shag; to tickle one’s crack (of women); to dash one’s doodle; to touch up; to play paw-paw tricks (Grose); to wriggle (old). For foreign synonyms, see Wriggle. 1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Fricciare ... to frig, to wriggle, to tickle. 1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie. Branler la pique, To Frig. 1728. Bailey, Dict., s.v. Frig, to rub. c. 1716–1746. Robertson of Struan. Poems, 83. So to a House of office ... a School-Boy does repair, To ... fr—— his P—— there. 1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. Frigate, subs. (common).—A woman. 1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Friggat well rigg’d, a woman well drest and gentile. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue. A well-rigg’d frigate, a well-dressed wench. Frigging, subs. (venery).—1. The act of masturbation; the ‘cynick friction’ (Marston, Scourge); otherwise simple infanticide. 2. (old).—Trifling [Grose, 1785.]