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2,533 words match “RAY”

DISARRAY v. 4 definitions
To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton.
DISARRAYMENT n.
Disorder. [R.] Feltham.
DISRAY n.
of Disarray. [Obs.] Holland.
DRAY n. 3 definitions
A kind of sledge or sled. Halliwell. Dray cart, a dray. -- Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.
DRAYAGE n. 2 definitions
Use of a dray.
DRAYMAN n.
A man who attends a dray.
EFFRAY v.
To frighten; to scare. [Obs.] Spenser.
EFFRAYABLE a.
Frightful. [Obs.] Harvey.
ESTRAY v. 2 definitions
To stray. [Obs.] Daniel.
FAUSSE-BRAYE n.
A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
FORAY n. 2 definitions
lar incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. Tennyson.
FORAYER n.
One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.
FORRAY v. 2 definitions
To foray; to ravage; to pillage. For they that morn had forrayed all the land. Fairfax.
FRAY n. 7 definitions
Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.
FRAYING n.
The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.
GAMMA RAYS n.
Very penetrating rays not appreciably deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances. The prevailing view is that they are non-periodic ether pulses differing from Röntgen rays only in being more penetrating.
GRAY a. 5 definitions
lt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Sir I. Newton.
GRAYBACK n. 4 definitions
The California gray whale.
GRAYBEARD n.
An old man. Shak.
GRAYFLY n.
The trumpet fly. Milton.
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