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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Frith \Frith\, noun [OE. frith peace, protection, land inclosed for hunting, park, forest, AS. fri[eth] peace; akin to freno[eth] peace, protection, asylum, G. friede peace, Icel. fri[eth]r, and from the root of E. free, friend. See {Free}, a., and cf. {Affray}, {Defray}.]
1. A forest; a woody place. [Obs.] --Drayton.
2. A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. [Obs.] --Sir J. Wynne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Frith \Frith\ (fr[i^]th), noun [OE. firth, Icel. fj["o]r[eth]r; akin to Sw. fj["a]rd, Dan. fiord, E. ford. [root]78. See {Ford}, noun, and cf. {Firth}, {Fiord}, {Fret} a frith, {Port} a harbor.]
1. (Geog.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth. Also called {firth}.
2. A kind of weir for catching fish. [Eng.] --Carew.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "frith": arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, boscage, bosket, brake, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, coppice, copse, copsewood, cove, covert, creek, estuary, euripus, fjord, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, motte, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straits, thicket, thickset, underbrush, undergrowth, undershrubs, underwood
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