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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Zool.)

The skin which a deer frays from his horns.

B. Jonson.

ppr.

Frightening; terrifying; rubbing.

Noun.

Peel of a deer's horn.

fraying

fraying ‎(plural frayings)

The skin which a deer frays from its horns.
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