fray

Though they did not know the reason for the dispute, they did not hesitate to leap into the fray.

It is the chafing of the lion, and the stirring of the viper, that aggravates the danger; the first blow makes the wrong, but the second makes the fray; and they that will endure no kind of abuse in state or church, are many times more dangerous than that abuse which they oppose.

Where window is open, cat maketh a fray, / yet wilde cat with two legs is worse by my fay.

Thus that fray vvas over, and vve came aſhore again: recovered of the fright vve had been in.