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Ray; beam. [Obs.] Spenser.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.

To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

To deny; to disown. [Obs.]

To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak.

Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.

The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor.

A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages. Shak.

Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.

See Rokelay. [Scot.]

A short cloak. [Written also rockelay, rocklay, etc.] [Scot.]

A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

Any of the rays produced when cathode rays strike upon surface of a solid (as the wall of the vacuum tube). Röntgen rays are noted for their penetration of many opaque substances, as wood and flesh, their action on photographic plates, and their fluorescent effects. They were called X rays by their discoverer, W. K. Rö…

the oleander. [Obs.]

See Rondeau, and Rondel.

Either of the feasts of the Holy Cross, occuring on May 3 and September 14, annually.

One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive. Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled Shak.

The channel of a stream.