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 skins of his new horns to come off.

FREJA, or Frigga, 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, Freja was esteemed the mother of all the other gods. In the most ancient times, Freja was the same with the goddess Hertbos, 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 Freja 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 childbirths. To Freja the sixth day of the week was consecrated, which still bears her name.