noun
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A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
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The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
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A rush for weaving baskets.
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A girl.
verb
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To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
adjective
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Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish
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Weak; infirm.
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Mentally fragile.
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Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
Examples of frail in a Sentence
Dean noticed her frail form near the front, seated alone.
He gave the frail woman a hug and described the reason for his visit.
She felt somehow drawn to the picture of a frail looking girl with dark eyes that looked out hauntingly from a delicately beautiful face.
Lana smiled, amused at such hardcore words from a woman whose frail frame would struggle under the weight of a laser shotgun.
Daniel was a frail but clever child, and his family made great sacrifices to give him and his elder brother Ezekiel a good education.
She was far too frail.
Though he discharged his civic duties in spite of a frail physique, he emphasized the sorrows of life; and yet he advocated no hopeless resignation, but rather the remedy of work, and took as his model Heracles, the embodiment of virile activity.
They know that Man is weakened, become frail.
While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to.
In a volume entitled Taine, historien de la Revolution frail gaise (1908), Aulard has submitted the method of the eminent philosopher to a criticism, severe, perhaps even unjust, but certainly well-informed.
He laboured still, in mingled hope and apprehension, "to prop the frail and worthless fabric,"7 but for its spiritual content of democracy he had no understanding, and even in its nationalism he had little hope.
Glockenspiel, strings, reeds, world percussion and programming combine to create classy, intelligent, frail and melancholy pieces.
He looks frail, with a bony shoulder poking out of his faded Batman T-shirt.
Betsy was alone on the porch but as we approached, Martha opened the screen door, her arm around a frail looking man, about five-seven, who wore an off-center toupee and a fragile smile.
As old and frail as I am, I still wish to fight the barbarians, but my advisor warns me I'll soon follow the path of my mad father.
But Edward's title had been expressly sanctioned by act of parliament, so that there was no more room for election in his case than in that of George I., and the real motive of the changes was to shorten the weary ceremony for the frail child.
Lowell's mother meanwhile was living, sometimes at home, sometimes at a neighbouring hospital, with clouded mind, and his wife was in frail health.
Amid many sufferings, however, and frequent attacks of sickness, he manfully pursued his course; nor was it till his frail body, torn by many and painful diseases - fever, asthma, stone, and gout, the fruits for the most part of his sedentary habits and unceasing activity - had, as it were, fallen to pieces around him, that his indomitable spirit relinquished the conflict.
The project uses state-of-the art " smart technologies ", which help frail elderly people to live independently in their own homes.
A good posture and breathing exercises and huffing technique will also help with expectorating if the patient is not too frail.
Age Concern Buckinghamshire runs two Rural Day Centers to help overcome the major problem of isolation for those who are mentally frail.
Western House provides care for elderly women who are physically frail mainly from the East Herts area.
Gillian has hurt her foot, and W is quite frail and stiff.
I notice you did not call in the vet for Fergie and if she got or gets very frail would you put her down?
As the tempers grow frail, a war might break out; and both countries have nuclear capability.
Day 3 Sunday finds most of us feeling fairly frail.
And Neil Young, tho he has had a recent brush with mortality, no longer appears frail, but robust and hearty.
On arrival at Boxy House, we found the door open and a frail old lady cowering behind it.
Her performance is more sure-footed and after a fall leaves the frail pensioner on the floor and reflecting on her life and cleaning routine.
His eyes sparkled with moisture which seemed to mock the frail dryness of his skin.
We are but four frail spinsters, and unschooled in the harsh arts of survival out here on the steppe.
His family sitting beside his bedside holding his now frail hand, feeling so useless as they watched his young life slipping away.
A similar judgment may be passed upon those Paulician, Albigensian, Paterine and Epicurean dissenters from the Catholic creed who opposed the phalanxes of orthodoxy with frail imaginative weapons, and alarmed established orders in the state by the audacity of their communistic opinions.
Sue is a stipendiary minister of the United Reformed Church in Edinburgh, working particularly in ministry with the frail elderly.
This disabled and frail subsection of the older population deserves better services than it gets.
What a terrible situation for our travelers, to be thus overtaken by a tempest in a frail bark which they could not manage !
In the years following that 2002 hit, Bosworth grew increasingly thin and frail.
During that broadcast, she was frail and very thin, weighing only 65 pounds.
In 2003, the band released Frail Words Collapse on Metal Blade Records.
Many seniors with day-to-day limitations are not frail enough to require nursing homes, though they clearly need assistance.
Senior companions-as a part of the Senior Corps group, senior companions accompany frail, aged individuals in need.
The organization fights for the quality of care and the services provided for elderly, frail and disabled senior citizens.
The three-step program of shampoo, conditioner, and styling products is suitable for different hair textures, including very fine or frail hair, and they are also designed to work well with color-treated hair.
The frail wooden ploughs with a lance-headed share that only scratched the surface soil, were then superseded by iron ploughs; steam threshers replaced the oxen which trod out the corn, and modern implements were widely adopted.
Lane End Day Center £ 4,000.00 The organization offers day care for the frail, older people of Lane End and surrounding villages.
However, their owner is too frail to take them on the long journey to the vet.
Physically Christopher was a rather frail child who was quite small in stature.
What a terrible situation for our travelers, to be thus overtaken by a tempest in a frail bark which they could not manage!
What are the pros and cons of using warfarin in a frail elderly person tenuously hanging on to an independent existence?
Although born in New York, Mr Roosevelt spent much of his boyhood at Oyster Bay, the country home of his father, on Long Island Sound, where he began with a distinct purpose, unusual among boys of his age, to build up a naturally frail physique by rowing and swimming in the waters of Long Island Sound, and by riding over the hills and tramping through the woods of Long Island.