| 单词 | to take a or the fray |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a or the fray 1. A feeling of fear; alarm, fright, terror. Also in phrase to take a or the fray. Cf. affray n. 1. Obsolete exc. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > fright caused by alarm frighta1325 affrayc1380 fray1398 gloppeninga1400 alarma1460 scare1548 affright1566 affrightment1593 aghastment1594 surprise1609 gastc1686 gliff1732 stew1806 stink1819 feeze1825 startlement1927 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xxix. (Tollem. MS.) It [the stone Crisolitus]..helpeþ nyȝte frayes and dredes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4775 Whenne iacob was moost in fray God him coumfortide. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 243 That theire hertes scholde not be in fray or feere to beholde bloode. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xii. 51 Al suddanly the Latynis tuke ane fray..and fled away. 1559–66 Hist. Estate Scot. in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) 61 The Friers takeing the fray—begane to dispose the best of their goods. a1649 W. Drummond Sonn. viii Nor shepherd hastes (when frays of wolves arise) So fast to fold. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. vii. 148 Thus that fray was over, and we came ashore again: recovered of the fright we had been in. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 157 Whan the hail Hellespont reboundit And ky on Ida's taps confoundit Ran down the hills for fray. < as lemmas |
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