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A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Obs.]

To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Wandering; straying from the right way.

To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

To betray; to show. Etym: [L.] Sir P. Sidney.

ld, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.

Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to…

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

sinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton.

ackwards and forwards; to and fro. -- To go back on, to turn back from; to abandon; to betray; as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's professions. [Colloq.]

kgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together, each tray containing two "tables".

y beggary. [Obs.] Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

To expose; to reveal; to disclose; to betray. [Obs. or Archaic] The murder being once done, he is in less fear, and in more hope that the deed shall not be bewrayed or known. Robynson (More's Utopia. ) Thy speech bewrayeth thee. Matt. xxvi. 73.

Betrayal. [R.]

A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is cal…

ther's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.