Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
Weak; infirm.
Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.
In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
A girl.
She was the roughest, toughest frail, but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.
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Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).