ray
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Is ray a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
2. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
3. (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
4. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.Examples: "All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze."obsolete
5. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.Examples: "I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own."transitive
2. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.intransitive
3. (transitive) To expose to radiation.Examples: "Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly."transitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To arrange.obsolete
2. (now rare) To dress, array (someone).archaic
3. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.Examples: "From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […]."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.Examples: "spoyling all her geares and goodly ray"obsoleteuncountable
noun (English)
1. (music) Alternative form of re.alt-ofalternative
name (English)
1. (historical) A region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert; Rhagiana.historical
Definition source: Wiktionary