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<hw>Fraun"ho*fer lines`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Physics.)</fld> <def>The lines of the spectrun; especially and properly, the dark lines of the solar spectrum, so called because first accurately observed and interpreted by <i>Fraunhofer</i>, a German physicist.</def>

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<hw>Frax"in</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Fraxinus</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A colorless crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and found in the bark of the ash (<spn>Fraxinus</spn>) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also <altname>paviin</altname>.</def>

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<hw>Frax"i*nus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., the ash tree.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.</def>

<note>&hand; <spn>Fraxinus excelsior</spn> is the European ash; <spn>F. Americana</spn>, the white ash; <spn>F. sambucifolia</spn>, the black ash or water ash.</note>

<h1>Fray</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fray</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Abbreviated from <ets>affray</ets>.]</ety> <def>Affray; broil; contest; combat.</def>

<blockquote>Who began this bloody <b>fray</b>? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Fray</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Frayed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fraying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See 1st <er>Fray</er>, and cf. <er>Affray</er>.]</ety> <def>To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.</def>

<i>I. Taylor.</i>

<blockquote>What <b>frays</b> ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed? <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Fray</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>fraier</ets>. See <er>Defray</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To bear the expense of; to defray.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The charge of my most curious and costly ingredients <b>frayed</b>, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied. <i>Massinger.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Fray</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>freier</ets>, <ets>fraier</ets>, <ets>froier</ets>, to rub. L. <ets>fricare</ets>; cf. <ets>friare</ets> to crumble, E. <ets>friable</ets>; perh. akin to Gr. <?/ to anoint, <?/ an anointing, Skr. <ets>gh<?/sh</ets> to rub, scratch. Cf. <er>Friction</er>.]</ety> <def>To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; <as>as, a deer is said to <ex>fray</ex> her head</as>.</def>

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<hw>Fray</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To rub.</def>

<blockquote>We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers <b>frayed</b>. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; <as>as, the cloth <ex>frays</ex> badly</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A suit of <b>frayed</b> magnificience. <i>tennyson.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Fray</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.</def>

<h1>Fraying</h1> <Xpage=593>

<hw>Fray"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The skin which a deer frays from his horns.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>