fley
Americanverb
verb
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to be afraid or cause to be afraid
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(tr) to frighten away; scare
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fley
1175–1225; Middle English flaien, fleien, Old English -flīgan (in ā-flȳgan ); cognate with Old Norse fleygia to cause to fly. Cf. fly 2
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Let's hope you're a better guide than constable, young man, or, as that old fellow said in the road this morning, we'll fley the bird and not grip him.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
Sigrun asks Helge: Hverir lata fljota fley vid backa, hvar hermegir heima eigud?
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
“It will hae been some callant trying to fley us, that’s a’.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
Waefu' Want and Hunger fley me, Glowrin' by the hallan en'; Sair I fecht them at the door, But aye I'm eerie they come ben.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Have you not reason to waye that whatsoever ether Virgil did write of his gnatt or Ovid of his fley was all covertly to declare abuse?...
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
An' then she was unco fleyed when she found I didna haud wi' the Athanasian creed.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
I’m fleyed to face The road again, alone.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
Aw'm noan fleyed ov him, but aw met not be able to keep mo howd ov him.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George
“Dinna be fleyed, my bonny burdy,” she said, addressing the unbonnetted young lady, who was still apparently dozing in the corner.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert
O I sleep saft, and I wake aft; It's lang since sleeping was fleyed frae me!
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
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