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usion; a hurry. Leaving the king, who had hustled along the floor with his dress worfully arrayed. Sir W. Scott.

t resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude; as, an indigested array of facts. In hot reformations . . . the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested. Burke. This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time. South.

In. [Obs.] And eke in what array that they were inne. Chaucer.

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

rials casts a constant heat. Jer. Taylor. When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array. Addison. Their named alone would make a just volume. Burton.

ompact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture. With horse and chariots ranked in loose array. Milton.

cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force. March them again in fair array. Prior.

Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

To spread out in array. [Obs.] And now they outray to your fleet. Chapman.

gard. Please you that I may pass This doing. Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. Dryden.

Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union. At present they formed a united phalanx. Macaulay. The sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, All huddling into phalanx, stood and gazed. Cowper.

ormed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue. Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Milton.

To array. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green. The sage Chaldeans robed in white appeared. Pope. Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. Wirt.…

uff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. Tennyson. In silken samite she was light arrayed. Spenser.

s abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.

pplied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. "Neat and spruce array." Remedy of Love.

strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. And strippen her out of her rude array. Chaucer. They stripped Joseph out of his coat. Gen. xxxvii. 23. Opinions which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay.

ter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. Of which I shall tell all the array. Chaucer. And not a man appears to tell their fate. Pope.

en written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.