frail

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Physically weak; delicate: an invalid's frail body.
2. adj. Not strong or substantial; slight: evidence too frail to stand up in court.
3. adj. Easily broken or destroyed; fragile.
4. adj. Easily led astray; morally weak. See Synonyms at weak.
5. n. A rush basket for holding fruit, especially dried fruit.
6. n. The quantity of fruit, such as raisins or figs, that such a basket can hold.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Easily broken or destroyed: fragile; hence, weak in any way; likely to fail and decay; perishable; infirm in constitution or condition.
2. Specifically, weak in moral principle or resolution; not strong to resist temptation to evil; so weak as to be in danger of falling, or to have fallen, from virtue; of infirm virtue.
3. Weak-minded.
4. Tender in sentiment.
5. Synonyms Fragile, Frail (see fragile); brittle, slight.
6. To make frail.
7. n. A flexible basket made of rushes, and used, especially in commerce, for containing fruits, particularly dried fruits, as dates, figs, or raisins.
8. n. [Here is] a frail of figs, which I send to yourself (in the barrel of raisins).
9. n. A rush used for weaving baskets.
10. n. A certain quantity of raisins, about 75 pounds, contained in a frail.
11. n. A wooden carrier or crate used by glaziers to carry sheets of glass.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
2. adj. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
3. n. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
4. n. The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
5. n. A rush for weaving baskets.
6. n. dated, slang A girl.
7. v. To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
2. n. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
3. n. A rush for weaving baskets.
4. adj. Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
5. adj. obsolete Tender.
6. adj. Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. physically weak
2. adj. easily broken or damaged or destroyed
3. n. the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
4. adj. wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
5. n. a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)