Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fraying \Fray"ing\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   The skin which a deer frays from his horns. --B. Jonson.

Fray \Fray\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frayed} (fr[=a]d); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Fraying}.] [See 1st {Fray}, and cf. {Affray}.]
   To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. --I. Taylor.

         What frays ye, that were wont to comfort me affrayed?
                                                  --Spenser.