▸ adjective: Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish. ▸ adjective: Weak; infirm. ▸ adjective: (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly. ▸ adjective: Mentally fragile. ▸ adjective: Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste. ▸ noun: (dated, slang) A girl. ▸ verb: To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail. ▸ noun: A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins. ▸ noun: The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail. ▸ noun: A rush for weaving baskets. ▸ noun: Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”) ▸ noun: (England, dialectal, obsolete) Synonym of flail.
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