† conreyn.

Etymology: < Old French conrei (also conreid , -roi , -roy , corroi , courroy ) orderly preparation, outfit, equipage, company of troops, especially of horse, ordinance, provision, supplies, food = Provençal conre , conrei equipage, provision, food, Spanish correo , Portuguese correia , provision for letters, courier, post, Italian corredo equipage, outfit, furniture, medieval Latin conrēdum equipage, outfit, conrēdium provision for maintenance, etc.; all going back to an early Romance *conrēdo , < con- + *rēdo (Old French rei , rai , roi ) preparation, making ready, order: see array n. and corrody n. The primary sense was ‘making ready, equipment, equipage’: of the great variety of senses which thence arose in Old French, only fragments have survived in modern French, English, and the other languages.