"freet" meaning in English

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    },
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      "expansion": "Norwegian",
      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "frain",
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      "expansion": "English frain (“to question”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English frete (“superstition”), from Old Norse frétt (“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”), from Proto-Germanic *frihtiz (“news, report, message, question, prophecy”), related to Icelandic frétt (“news”), Icelandic frétta (“to review”), Danish and Norwegian fritte (“to question, interrogate”), English frain (“to question”). More at frain.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1824, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 263:",
          "text": "If the old “freet” be true “ that those who fall when at the handspake aneath the corpse, will soon be the corpse themsell,\" there would soon be a good few corspes; for at these \"druken\" concerns, the bearers are falling some of them every now and then.",
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        "A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition."
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          "superstitious",
          "superstitious"
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        [
          "notion",
          "notion"
        ],
        [
          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
        [
          "omen",
          "omen"
        ],
        [
          "superstition",
          "superstition"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1903, Samual Ferguson, The Fairy Well of Lagnanay:",
          "text": "Oh, sister Ellen, sister sweet, Come with me to the hill I pray, And I will prove that blessed freet!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A superstitious rite, observance, wont, or practise."
      ],
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          "rite",
          "rite"
        ],
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          "observance",
          "observance"
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          "wont",
          "wont"
        ],
        [
          "practise",
          "practise"
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      "glosses": [
        "A charm."
      ],
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          "charm",
          "charm"
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    {
      "ipa": "/fɹiːt/"
    }
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      "word": "freit"
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      "name": "cog"
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      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
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      "name": "cog"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English frete (“superstition”), from Old Norse frétt (“news, intelligence, inquiry, inquiry about the future”), from Proto-Germanic *frihtiz (“news, report, message, question, prophecy”), related to Icelandic frétt (“news”), Icelandic frétta (“to review”), Danish and Norwegian fritte (“to question, interrogate”), English frain (“to question”). More at frain.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1824, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 263:",
          "text": "If the old “freet” be true “ that those who fall when at the handspake aneath the corpse, will soon be the corpse themsell,\" there would soon be a good few corspes; for at these \"druken\" concerns, the bearers are falling some of them every now and then.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A superstitious notion or belief with respect to any action or event as a good or a bad omen; a superstition."
      ],
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          "superstitious"
        ],
        [
          "notion",
          "notion"
        ],
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          "belief",
          "belief"
        ],
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          "omen",
          "omen"
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          "superstition",
          "superstition"
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        {
          "ref": "1903, Samual Ferguson, The Fairy Well of Lagnanay:",
          "text": "Oh, sister Ellen, sister sweet, Come with me to the hill I pray, And I will prove that blessed freet!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "A superstitious rite, observance, wont, or practise."
      ],
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          "rite",
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        [
          "observance",
          "observance"
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          "wont",
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          "practise",
          "practise"
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      "glosses": [
        "A charm."
      ],
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          "charm",
          "charm"
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    {
      "ipa": "/fɹiːt/"
    }
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    {
      "word": "fret"
    },
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      "word": "freit"
    }
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