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Pronunciation : Fray
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Abbreviated from affray.]
Definition : Defn: Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fray
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [See 1st Fray, and cf. Affray.]
Definition : Defn: To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. I. Taylor. What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed Spenser.

t. [imp. & p. p. Frayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraying.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fray
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. OF. fraier. See Defray, v. t.]
Definition : Defn: To bear the expense of; to defray. [Obs.] The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied. Massinger.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fray
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OF. freier, fraier, froier, to rub. L. fricare; cf. friare to crumble, E. friable; perh. akin to Gr. gh to rub, scratch. Cf. Friction.]
Definition : Defn: To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fray
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To rub. We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. Sir W. Scott.

2. To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. A suit of frayed magnificience. tennyson.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fray
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913