friendlya.[AS. frendlce.]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.)()adv. In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.(Shak.)In whom all graces that can perfect beauty
Are friendly met. (Beau. & Fl.)n.1. 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.)2. (Mil.) A member of one's own military forces, or of allied forces.()