† ˈfrument Obs.
[ad. L. frūment-um corn, f. frugv- root of fruī to enjoy.]
1. Corn.
| c 1440 Lydg. St. Albon (1534) A iij, Grayne of this frument was this man Albon. c 1510 Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) C iij, Fulsome fieldes habundaunt of frument. 1601 Holland Pliny xviii. vii. 560 When the Bruers steep their wheat or frument in water. |
2. = frumenty 1.
| 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. 599 Frument with venyson. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 173 Bread, and Fruments [orig. pultes] and Wine. |