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  • English Word Ray Definition To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
  • English Word Ray Definition Array; order; arrangement; dress.
  • English Word Ray Definition One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.
  • English Word Ray Definition A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.
  • English Word Ray Definition One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
  • English Word Ray Definition One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  • English Word Ray Definition A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.
  • English Word Ray Definition One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.
  • English Word Ray Definition Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  • English Word Ray Definition One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
  • English Word Ray Definition To mark with long lines; to streak.
  • English Word Ray Definition To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
  • English Word Ray Definition To shine, as with rays.
  • English Word Ray Definition Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
  • English Word Ray Definition In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.
  • English Word Ray grass Definition A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass.
  • English Word Rayah Definition A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.
  • English Word Rayed Definition of Ray
  • English Word Raying Definition of Ray
  • English Word Rayless Definition Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
  • English Word Rayon Definition Ray; beam.
  • English Word Rayonnant Definition Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
  • English Word Raze Definition A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
  • English Word Raze Definition To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
  • English Word Raze Definition To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
  • English Word Razed Definition of Raze
  • English Word Razed Definition Slashed or striped in patterns.
  • English Word Razee Definition An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
  • English Word Razee Definition To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.
  • English Word Razeed Definition of Razee