See fley in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1860, James Phillips Kay, Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border:",
"text": "The Jack O'Lanthron was among the reeds again last night, and some of my neighbours are sore fleyed.",
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"To frighten."
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"(obsolete, transitive) To frighten."
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"To be frightened."
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"(obsolete, intransitive) To be frightened."
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"(obsolete, transitive) To frighten."
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