Word Meanings - AFFRIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To frighten. "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

TALESMAN
A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. Wharton.
FRIGHTEN
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. More frightened than hurt. Old Proverb. (more info) Etym:
AFFRIGHTEN
To frighten. "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.
TALES
Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. syntactically sing.
VESTALES
A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.