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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRITH, n. [L. freetum; Gr. from to pass over, or to pass; properly, a passage, a narrow channel that is passable or passed.]
1. A narrow passage of the sea; a strait. It is used for the opening of a river into the sea; as the frith of Forth, or of Clyde.
2. A kind of wear for catching fish.
FRITH, n.
1. A forest; a woody place.
2. A small field taken out of a common.
[Not used in America.]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century archaic estuary

Oxford Reference Dictionary

var. of FIRTH.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frith Frith, n. [OE. firth, Icel. fj["o]r?r; akin to Sw. fj["a]rd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. [root]78. See Ford, n., and cf. Firth, Fiord, Fret a frith, Port a harbor.] 1. (Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. 2. A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] --Carew.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frith Frith, n. [OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. fri? peace; akin to freno? peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel. fri?r, and from the root of E. free, friend. See Free, a., and cf. Affray, Defray.] 1. A forest; a woody place. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. [Obs.] --Sir J. Wynne.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Strait. 2. Estuary, inlet, firth, fiord, creek, arm of the sea.

Moby Thesaurus

arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, boscage, bosket, brake, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, coppice, copse, copsewood, cove, covert, creek, estuary, euripus, fjord, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, motte, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straits, thicket, thickset, underbrush, undergrowth, undershrubs, underwood