taffray

t. (pa. par. affrayed, afraied ). (Fr. affrayer to frighten, especially with sudden noise as of something crashing; Low Lat. exfrido to disturb the peace, from Teut. fridh = peace.] [AFFRAYED, AFRAID.] 1. To rouse out of a sleep or swoon. IMG:content-0243.png:[blocks in formation] "Who lived ever in swiche delite o' day, That him ne meved other conscience, Or iro, or talent, or som kin affray." Chaucer: C. Т., 5,537. 2. A fight between two or more persons, whether it take place in public or private. More generally written FRAY. II. Subjectively : Fear, fright, terror; the result of such commotion or fray. ( Scotch .) "Stonayit sa gretly than thai war, Throw the force of that fyrst a ay, That thai war in till gret affray." Barbour, ix. 605, MS. (Jamie son.) B. Technically : Law : A fight between two or more persons which takes place in public. When in private it is called an a ault. "Affrays (from affraier , to terrify) are the fighting of two or more persons in some public place, to the terror of his Majesty's subjects: for, if the fighting be in private, it is no affray , but an a ault. -Black stone : Comment ., bk. iv., ch, xí. "Little affrays, such as, at every great pageant, almost inevitably take place between those who are eager to see the show and those whose busine it is to keep the communications clear, were exaggerated with all the artifices of rhetoric."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng ., ch. xi. *af-frayed', *af-frāyd', * af-fraid'e, pa. par. [AFFRAY, AFRAID.] "Thei remeived from the sege and were affrayed."Wark worth: Chron., p. 2. "With that the darts which his right hande did straine, Full dreadfully he shook that all did quake, And clapt on hye his coulourd wingés twain, That all his his many it affraide did did make." Spenser: F. Q., IIL. xii. 28. af-fray-er, af-fray-or, s. [AFFRAY.] One who takes part as a principal in an affray. "Every private man being present before or in and during the time of an affray ought to stay the affrayors, tyors, and to part them, and to put them in sunder, but may not hurt them if they resist him; neither may he imprison them, for that he is but a private man."- Dalton : Country Justice (1629).