† conrey Obs.
Also 3–4 conrai, 4 curreye, korray.
[a. OF. conrei (also conreid, -roi, -roy, corroi, courroy) orderly preparation, outfit, equipage, company of troops, esp. of horse, ordinance, provision, supplies, food = Pr. conre, conrei equipage, provision, food, Sp. correo, Pg. correia, provision for letters, courier, post, It. corredo equipage, outfit, furniture, med.L. conrēdum equipage, outfit, conrēdium provision for maintenance, etc.; all going back to an early Rom. *conrēdo, f. con- + *rēdo (OF. rei, rai, roi) preparation, making ready, order: see array and corrody. The primary sense was ‘making ready, equipment, equipage’: of the great variety of senses which thence arose in OF., only fragments have survived in mod.F., Eng., and the other langs.]
1. Equipment, outfit.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 11513 (Cott.) Fair þai did þair conrai dight. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3345 Wel armed in ilke a conreye [v.r. armed were in all conrey]. |
2. A company equipped for fight; a detachment, armament, battalion.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 5118 No man ne couthe areden The nombre..Ne of the kynges curreye, That lasteth twenty mylen weye. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 304 Þer formast conrey, þer bakkis togidere sette. c 1330 ― Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4693 Alle þat were of his conrey Hyed þem faste, & wente þer wey. Ibid. 13375 Eyghte batailles of gode array..Sire Agusel hadde þe first bataille..A-child of Denmark þe þrydde conreye [v.r. correie]. |