noun

• (rare, archaic, poetic) Peace; security.
  "Thus the king declares that he wants to see his peace or 'frith' extended to his people and that moots are urged to frith all that the king wills to be frithed"
• (obsolete) Sanctuary, asylum.

verb

• (transitive, obsolete) To protect; guard.
  "This monument and the Cairns themselves have been purchast by the State, and are now therefore "frithed", protected and national property."
• (transitive, obsolete) To enclose; fence in, as a forest or park.
  "On the other of these improvements, the base of the mound was six feet, its height five feet, and breadth at the top nearly the same; this, with the side-drains or ditches on each side, made the whole scite of the fence about 12 feet; cost of raising the mound and frithing, 4s . per perch."

noun

• (British, dialectal) Land with mostly undergrowth and few trees; also, land in between forests or woods; pastureland which is not in use.
• (obsolete) A kind of weir made from wattled branches for catching fish.

noun

• (archaic) Alternative form of firth (“an arm or inlet of the sea”).
  "He [Agricola] had observed, that the island [Britannia; now Great Britain] is almost divided into two unequal parts by the opposite gulfs, or, as they are now called, the Friths of Scotland."