Definition of stray

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Stray (n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively..

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Forwander :: Forwander (v. i.) To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
Aberr :: Aberr (v. i.) To wander; to stray.
Strayer :: Stray (n.) The act of wandering or going astray.
Stray :: Stray (a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray..
Misleading :: Misleading (a.) Leading astray; delusive.
Undirected :: Undirected (a.) Misdirected; misled; led astray.
Amiss :: Amiss (adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
Hallucinate :: Hallucinate (v. i.) To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.
Stray :: Stray (n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively..
Entice :: Entice (v. t.) To draw on, by exciting hope or desire; to allure; to attract; as, the bait enticed the fishes. Often in a bad sense: To lead astray; to induce to evil; to tempt; as, the sirens enticed them to listen..
Stray :: Stray (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err..
Misguide :: Misguide (v. t.) To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding..
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals..
Ranger :: Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc..
Mislight :: Mislight (v. t.) To deceive or lead astray with a false light.
Pervert :: Pervert (v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words..
Divagation :: Divagation (n.) A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Hopple :: Hopple (v. t.) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse..
Deviate :: Deviate (v. i.) To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
Err :: Err (v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin..
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