Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Phrase \Phrase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Phrased}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Phrasing}.] [Cf. F. phraser.]
   To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
   ``These suns -- for so they phrase 'em.'' --Shak.