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RAY v. 16 definitions

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

Lolium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass. Italian ray, or rye, grass. See Darnel, and Grass.

A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax. [Turkey.]

Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.

Ray; beam. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

See Abraid. [Obs.] Spenser.

AFFRAY v. 6 definitions

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

One engaged in an affray.

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

Rays of relatively low penetrating power emitted by radium and other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

ARRAIMENT; ARRAYMENT n.

Clothes; raiment. [Obs.]

ARRAY n. 10 definitions

rangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array. Wedged together in the closest array. Gibbon.

One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.

BECQUEREL RAYS n.

rking with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.

Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).…

BETRAY v. 7 definitions

fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt. xvii. 22.

The act or the result of betraying.