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To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. I. Taylor. What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed Spenser.

Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. [Obs.] See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne.

To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley. To funk out, to back out in a cowardly fashion. [Colloq.] To funk right out o' political strife. Lowell (Biglow Papers).

Worried; flurried; frightened. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To frighten; to worry. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

Moody; silent; sullen. I frighten people by my glun face. Thackeray.

Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

A bell used in fowling at night, to frighten birds, and, with a sudden light, to make them fly into a net. The fowler's lowbell robs the lark of sleep. King.

Frightened into madness; raving. [Obs.]

Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.

r upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." C. Kingsley.

A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.

To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden.

Frightened at or by one's self. Shak.

Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird. The horses of the army . . . were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting. Swift.

Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt. "A restiff, skittish jade." L'Estrange.