next friend
noun
Closest friend or relative; (later, Law ) a person acting for an infant, for someone lacking the mental capability to act for themselves, or for a married woman.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in King Alfred (c848–899), king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons.
- break ship
- break someone in
- break someone's fall
- break someone's heart
- break (someone's) serve (or service)
- break someone up
- break something down
- break something in
- break something off
- break something open
- break something out
- break something up
- Breakspear, Nicholas
- break step
- break sweat (or break a sweat)
- break the back of
- break the bank
- break the ice
- break the mould
- break through
- breakthrough
- breakthrough bleeding
- breakthrough pain
- break up
- breakwater