What does "freak" mean?

Freak: To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.] Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. She is restless and peevish, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. Spectator. See Whim.

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