Fray: alternatives and connections

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.

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To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.

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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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of Fight

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Same as Weir.

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To startle from quiet; to alarm.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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See 1st Frith.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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