Definition of ray

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Ray (n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate..

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Bray :: Bray (n.) The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound..
Satyr :: Satyr (n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns..
Pigwidgeon :: Pigwidgeon (n.) A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy.
Neuvaines :: Neuvaines (n. pl.) Prayers offered up for nine successive days.
Morpho :: Morpho (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots..
Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman..
Prithee :: Prithee (interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I..
Hornbeam :: Hornbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech..
Betrayment :: Betrayment (n.) Betrayal.
Thermochrosy :: Thermochrosy (n.) The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances..
Betrayal :: Betrayal (n.) The act or the result of betraying.
Offer :: Offer (v. t.) To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up..
Battalion :: Battalion (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
Tidytips :: Tidytips (n.) A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white..
Stray :: Stray (a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray..
Hoary :: Hoary (a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent..
Diverge :: Diverge (v. i.) To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun..
Tray-trip :: Tray-trip (n.) An old game played with dice.
Friar :: Friar (n.) A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary..
Beadroll :: Beadroll (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general..
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