Noah Webster
Affray
AFFRA'Y,
AFFRA'YMENT, noun
1. In law, the fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. A fighting in private is not, in a legal sense, an affray
2. In popular language, fray is used to express any fighting of two or more persons; buy the word is now deemed inelegant.
3. Tumult; disturbance.