Friend"ship, n. [AS.
freóndscipe. See Friend, and -ship.]
1. The state of being friends; friendly
relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection
arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good
will.
There is little friendship in the
world.
Bacon.
There can be no friendship without confidence,
and no confidence without integrity.
Rambler.
Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by
sufficiency.
Spenser.
2. Kindly aid; help; assistance,
[Obs.]
Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you
gainst the tempest.
Shak.
3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity;
harmony; correspondence. [Obs.]
Those colors . . . have a friendship with each
other.
Dryden.