English-Thai Dictionary

affray

N การทะเลาะวิวาท  การ ปะทะคารม  การ ตะลุมบอน  quarrel brawl kan-tha-lo-wi-wad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AFFRAY, AFFRAYMENT

n. 1. In law, the fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. A fighting in private is not, in a legal sense, an affray.
2. In popular language, fray is used to express any fighting of two or more persons; buy the word is now deemed inelegant.
3. Tumult; disturbance.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

AFFRAY

Af *fray ", v. t. [p. p. Affrayed.] Etym: [OE. afraien, affraien, OF. effreer, esfreer, F. effrayer, orig. to disquiet, put out of peace, fr. L. ex + OHG. fridu peace (akin to E. free ). Cf. Afraid, Fray, Frith inclosure. ] [Archaic ]

 

1. To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed ] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

 

2. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us affray. Shak.

 

AFFRAY

Af *fray ", n. Etym: [OE. afrai, affrai, OF. esfrei, F. effroi, fr. OF. esfreer. See Affray, v. t.]

 

1. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack. [Obs. ]

 

2. Alarm; terror; fright. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

3. A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray. " Motley.

 

4. (Law )

 

Defn: The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. Blackstone.

 

Note: A fighting in private is not, in a legal sense, an affray.

 

Syn. -- Quarrel; brawl; scuffle; encounter; fight; contest; feud; tumult; disturbance.

 

AFFRAYER

AFFRAYER Af *fray "er, n.

 

Defn: One engaged in an affray.

 

AFFRAYMENT

AFFRAYMENT Af *fray "ment, n.

 

Defn: Affray. [Obs. ] Spenser.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

affray

af fray |əˈfrā əˈfreɪ | ▶noun Law, dated an instance of fighting in a public place that disturbs the peace: Lowe was charged with causing an affray | a person guilty of affray. ORIGIN Middle English (in the general sense ‘disturbance, fray ’): from Anglo-Norman French afrayer ‘disturb, startle, ’ based on an element of Germanic origin related to Old English frithu ‘peace, safety ’ (compare with German Friede ‘peace ’).

 

Oxford Dictionary

affray

af ¦fray |əˈfreɪ | ▶noun Law, dated an instance of group fighting in a public place that disturbs the peace: Lowe was charged with causing an affray | [ mass noun ] : a person guilty of affray. ORIGIN Middle English (in the general sense ‘disturbance, fray ’): from Anglo-Norman French afrayer ‘disturb, startle ’, based on an element of Germanic origin related to Old English frithu ‘peace, safety ’ (compare with German Friede ‘peace ’).

 

Oxford Thesaurus

affray

affray noun his men became involved in a violent affray with a band of archers: fight, brawl, battle, engagement, encounter, confrontation, melee, clash, skirmish, scuffle, tussle, fracas, altercation; disturbance, commotion, breach of the peace, riot; informal scrap, dust-up, punch-up, set-to, shindy, shindig, free-for-all.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

affray

af fray /əfréɪ /名詞 複 ～s C U ｟かたく ｠〖通例単数形で 〗〘法 〙(公共の場での )乱闘, 騒動 .