ignifies to fret; as cloth or stuff does by rubbing, or over-much wearing.

Among hunters a deer is said to fray his head, when he rubs it against a tree, to cause the skin of his new horns to come off.

FREYA, or Frigg, the wife of Odin, was, next to him, the most revered divinity among the Heathen Saxons, Danes, and other northern nations. As Odin was believed to be the father, Freya was esteemed the mother of all the other gods. In the most ancient times, Freya was the same with the goddess Hecate, or Earth, who was so devoutly worshipped by the Angli and other German nations. But when Odin, the conqueror of the north, usurped the honours due only to the true Odin, his wife Freya usurped those which had been formerly paid to mother Earth. She was worshipped as the goddess of love and pleasure, who bestowed on her votaries a variety of delights, particularly happy marriages and easy child-births. To Freya the fifth day of the week was consecrated, which still bears her name.