Hypertext Webster Gateway: "friendly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Friendly \Friend"ly\, n.
A friendly person; -- usually applied to natives friendly to
foreign settlers or invaders.
These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who
attacked the small force before them in fine style.
--E. N.
Bennett.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Friendly \Friend"ly\, a. [AS. fre['e]ndl[imac]ce.]
1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to
promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting
friends; amicable.
In friendly relations with his moderate opponents.
--Macaulay.
3. Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
4. Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious;
serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.
On the first friendly bank he throws him down.
--Addison.
Syn: Amicable; kind; conciliatory; propitious; favorable. See
{Amicable}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Friendly \Friend"ly\, adv.
In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends. [Obs.]
--Shak.
In whom all graces that can perfect beauty Are friendly
met. --Beau. & Fl.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
friendly
adj 1: characteristic or or befitting a friend; "friendly advice";
"a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person
here"; "a friendly host and hostess" [ant: {unfriendly}]
2: favorably disposed; not antagonistic or hostile; "a
government friendly to our interests"; "an amicable
agreement"
3: (in combination) easy to understand or use; "user-friendly
computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a
reader-friendly novel" [ant: {unfriendly}]
4: of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an
ally; "in friendly territory"; "he was accidentally killed
by friendly fire" [ant: {hostile}]
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