frote

present singular third person frotes · participle present froting · participle past froted · past froted

1. obsoleteTo rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.

   She smelles, she kisseth, and her corps She loves exceedingly; She tufts her heare , she frotes her face

   1577, Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes

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   Let a man ſweat once a weeke in a Hothouſe, and be well rubd and froted with a good plumpe juicie wench, and ſweet linnen, he ſhall ne’re ha’ the Poxe.

   1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, signature [L iiij], verso