Friendship \Friend"ship\, n. [AS. fre['o]ndscipe. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)