n. An affray; a battle; an assault; a quarrel with violence.n. A brawl; a riot; a mêlée.n. A chase; a hunt.n. Synonyms Mêlée, Brawl, etc. See quarrel, n.To put in fear; terrify; frighten; deter by fear.To maltreat; misuse.To contend; combat; fight.To rub; grate.To rub away the surface of; fret, as cloth by wearing, or the skin by friction; especially, to ravel out the edge of, as a piece of stuff, by drawing out threads of the warp so that the threads of the weft make a kind of fringe: in this sense usually with out.To rub against something.To yield to rubbing or fretting; ravel out, as cloth.n. A fret or chafe in cloth, a cord, etc.; a place injured or weakened by rubbing: as, a fray in an angler's line.