Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Friendship

Friendship , noun

[Anglo-Saxon freóndscipe. See Friend, and -ship.]

1.
The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.
There is little friendship in the world. — Bacon
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. — Rambler
Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. — Spenser
2.
Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obsolete]
Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. — Shakespeare
3.
Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [Obsolete]
Those colors... have a friendship with each other. — Dryden