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To frighten; to scare. [Obs.] Spenser.

To brighten. [Obs.]

make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an.

Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n.

Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton.

. Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor

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.

The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

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.

To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.

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

Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.

To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

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.

To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster. Thy smile irradiates yon blue fields. Sir W. Jones.

To sharpen; to make cold. [R.] Cold winter keens the brightening flood. Thomson.