Fraying

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fray \Fray\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frayed} (fr[=a]d); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Fraying}.] [See 1st {Fray}, and cf. {Affray}.]
     To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. --I. Taylor.
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           What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed?


                                                    --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fraying \Fray"ing\, n. (Zool.)
     The skin which a deer frays from his horns. --B. Jonson.
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