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

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

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

One engaged in an affray.

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

de for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher.

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

One who pays off expenses.

Payment of charges.

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

Frightful. [Obs.] Harvey.

The osprey. [Obs.] Holland.

See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. [Obs.] Cranmer.

ompose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies. When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

ns unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.

-- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly…

A skirmishing. "Frays and bickerings." Milton.

Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance- medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray. Burrill.