transitive. To drive; to drive off or away; to make (one) run, put to flight; to frighten away. Often with away. Also to feeze about. Obsolete.

transitive. To terrify, frighten (away or from the way). Cf. ashunch, v.

To scare, frighten away.

With pregnant sense. To drive away by fear, frighten away, scare (esp. birds or animals). Chiefly with away. Obsolete.

To frighten away, drive off. Now chiefly with adverb, except with reference to keeping off birds from corn, etc.

transitive. To startle into running away; to scare off; to frighten or drive away from. Obsolete.

To frighten or scare away. Also to fray away, to fray off, or to fray out. Cf. affray, v. 4. Obsolete exc. archaic.

With complement: To scare away, etc.

transitive. To scare or bewilder (a person). Cf. low bell, n. 1b. Obsolete.

To render timid or shy; to frighten off.