Definition of Freindship

Definition of Freindship

Friend"ship, n. [AS. freóndscipe. See Friend, and -ship.] 1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.

There is little friendship in the world.

Bacon.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Rambler.

Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency.

Spenser.

2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.]

Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.

Shak.

3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [Obs.]

Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other.

Dryden.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but
only one in foul.

The sea was calm and the sky was blue;
Merrily, merrily sailed we two.
(High barometer maketh glad.)
On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout,
The tempest descended and we fell out.
(O the walking is nasty bad!)

Armit Huff Bettle

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

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The condition of being friends
A friendly relationship
Good will

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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