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11,617 words match “AY”

See Faitour. [Obs.] Spenser.

To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.

One who strips off the skin.

FLYAWAY a. 4 definitions

Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n.

FLYAWAY GRASS n.

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

A passage for pedestrians only.

FORAY n. 2 definitions

ar incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. Tennyson.

One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.

FORELAY v. 2 definitions

To lay down beforehand. These grounds being forelaid and understood. Mede.

To foretell. [Obs.] Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. Fairfax.

A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.

To lie in wait for; to ambush. An ambushed thief forlays a traveler. Dryden.

FORRAY v. 2 definitions

To foray; to ravage; to pillage. For they that morn had forrayed all the land. Fairfax.

To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny. [Obs.] Spenser.

One of the great military roads constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.

Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve. Francis. Four-way cock, a cock connected with four pipes or ports, and having two or more passages in the plug, by which the adjacent pipes or ports may be made to communicate; formerly used as a valve in the steam engine, and now for various…

FRAY n. 7 definitions

Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.

The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.

The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.

. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained. Shak.