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What does "frail" mean?

Frail: The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
  2. 3.Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm. That I may know how frail I am. Ps. xxxix.
  3. 4.An old bent man, worn and frail. Lowell.
  4. 5.Tender. [Obs.] Deep indignation and compassion. Spenser.
  5. 6.Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jer. Taylor.

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