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frist

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A certain space of time; respite.
  • To sell upon credit, as goods.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To sell upon credit, as goods.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A certain space or period of time; respite.
  • noun A delay; respite.
  • noun Credit; trust.
  • verb transitive To sell (goods) on trust or credit.
  • verb To grant respite.
  • verb To give a debtor credit or time for payment.
  • verb transitive, intransitive To defer; postpone.

Etymologies

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From Middle English *frist, frest, first, furst, from Old English fyrst, fierst, first ("period, space of time, time, respite, truce"), from Proto-Germanic *fristaz, *fristan (“date, appointed time”), from Proto-Indo-European *pres-, *per- (“forward, forth, over, beyond”). Cognate with North Frisian ferst, frest ("period, time"), German Frist ("period, deadline, term"), Swedish frist ("deadline, respite, reprieve, time-limit"), Icelandic frestur ("period"). See also first.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English *fristen, frysten, fresten, firsten, from Old English *fyrstan ("to defer, delay, put off"), from fyrst, fierst, first ("period, space of time, time, respite, truce"). See Etymology 1. Cognate with Low German versten, German fristen ("to eke out"), Danish friste ("to sustain, support, experience, tempt"), Icelandic fresta ("to delay").

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  2. colleagues'
  3. fekk
  4. foglamp
  5. hundre
  6. if
  7. irm
  8. journalists'
  9. million-plus
  10. motiv
  11. mwyn
  12. naut
  13. out-of-this-world
  14. satte
  15. seven-digit
  16. sigler
  17. stubb
  18. tekst
  19. thegn
  20. tilbage
  21. vort

rhymes (35)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Liszt
  2. assist
  3. cist
  4. coexist
  5. consist
  6. cyst
  7. delist
  8. desist
  9. dismissed
  10. enlist
  11. exist
  12. fist
  13. gist
  14. grist
  15. hissed
  16. insist
  17. kissed
  18. kist
  19. list
  20. midst
  21. missed
  22. mist
  23. persist
  24. pissed
  25. preexist
  26. quist
  27. reminisced
  28. resist
  29. rist
  30. schist
  31. subsist
  32. tryst
  33. twist
  34. wist
  35. wrist

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