"fraisten" meaning in Middle English

{
  "etymology_text": "See fraist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fraistes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fraisted",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "third-person singular simple present",
        "4": "fraistes",
        "5": "first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle",
        "6": "fraisted",
        "7": ""
      },
      "expansion": "fraisten (third-person singular simple present fraistes, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle fraisted)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To test, put to the test."
      ],
      "id": "en-fraisten-enm-verb-aytTNy2i",
      "links": [
        [
          "test",
          "test"
        ],
        [
          "put to the test",
          "put to the test"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "His friend tried with all his might to raise him quickly up again",
          "roman": "His felow fraisted with al his mayn / To raise him smertly up ogayn;",
          "text": "Early 14th c. Anonymous, \"Ywain and Gawain\", in MS Cotton Galba E ix. Transcribed and reprinted in 1995, Braswell, Mary Flowers (ed.), Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain, Medieval Institute Publications, →ISBN, p. 167, l. 3253–3254."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try, attempt; to find out by trying."
      ],
      "id": "en-fraisten-enm-verb-Uu1T58Mp",
      "links": [
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "attempt",
          "attempt"
        ],
        [
          "find out",
          "find out"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "34 3 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To seek out; ask, inquire"
      ],
      "id": "en-fraisten-enm-verb-8g65LmSW",
      "links": [
        [
          "seek out",
          "seek out"
        ],
        [
          "ask",
          "ask"
        ],
        [
          "inquire",
          "inquire"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fraisten"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See fraist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fraistes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fraisted",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "third-person singular simple present",
        "4": "fraistes",
        "5": "first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle",
        "6": "fraisted",
        "7": ""
      },
      "expansion": "fraisten (third-person singular simple present fraistes, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle fraisted)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To test, put to the test."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "test",
          "test"
        ],
        [
          "put to the test",
          "put to the test"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "His friend tried with all his might to raise him quickly up again",
          "roman": "His felow fraisted with al his mayn / To raise him smertly up ogayn;",
          "text": "Early 14th c. Anonymous, \"Ywain and Gawain\", in MS Cotton Galba E ix. Transcribed and reprinted in 1995, Braswell, Mary Flowers (ed.), Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain, Medieval Institute Publications, →ISBN, p. 167, l. 3253–3254."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try, attempt; to find out by trying."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "try",
          "try"
        ],
        [
          "attempt",
          "attempt"
        ],
        [
          "find out",
          "find out"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To seek out; ask, inquire"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seek out",
          "seek out"
        ],
        [
          "ask",
          "ask"
        ],
        [
          "inquire",
          "inquire"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fraisten"
}