Friend (A).
“Mr. Baillie was to have acted as Disraeli’s friend, if there had been a duel between that statesman and Daniel OʹConnell.”—Newspaper paragraph (December, 1885).
Better kinde frend than fremd kinde (motto of the Waterton family) means “better kind friend (i.e. neighbour) than a kinsman who dwells in foreign parts.” Probably it is Prov. xxvii. 10, “Better is a neighbour that is near, than a brother far off.” In which case fremd would be = stranger. Better a kind friend than a kinsman who is a stranger.
