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Definition of Frayings
1. fraying [n] - See also: fraying
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frayings
Literary usage of Frayings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"... or to cause the pills, or frayings, of her new horns to come off. See Ben
Jonson, vi. 255. (3) To attack; to quarrel. Also an attack or affray. North. ..."
2. The Animal-lore of Shakespeare's Time: Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles by Emma Phipson (1883)
"The slot of a deer is the print of his feet in the ground ; entries are places
through which the deer has lately passed, which indicate his size ; frayings ..."
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