Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Frisk

Frisk , adjective

[Old French frieque, compare Old High German frise lively, brisk, fresh, Danish & Swedish frisk, Icelandic friskr. See Fresh, a.]

Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obsolete] — Bp. Hall

Frisk , adjective

A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. — Johnson

Frisk , intransitive verb

To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
The frisking satyrs on the summits danced. — Addison

frisk (frisk) , transitive verb

To search (a person) for concealed weapons or other objects, by patting the clothing to detect objects underneath; as, the police pulled the car over and frisked the occupants.