Ray

noun rays

1. A beam of light or radiation. I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
2. A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
3. One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
4. 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.
5. obsolete Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen. All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
6. A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

verb rays · raying · rayed

1. transitive To emit something as if in rays. He was one of the unthanked benefactors of his race, who was patiently teaching and serving mankind, whilst they were shrinking from his coldness, or mocking his peculiarities. He could not sing for them a sweet song, or create a “thing of beauty” which should be “a joy for ever,” or touch their hea
2. intransitive To radiate as if in rays.
3. transitive To expose to radiation. Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.

noun rays

1. Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.

verb rays · raying · rayed

1. obsolete To arrange.
2. archaic To dress, array (someone).
3. obsolete To stain or soil; to defile. From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].

noun

1. obsolete, uncountable Array; order; arrangement; dress. spoyling all her geares and goodly ray

noun rays

1. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

noun rays

1. alternative Alternative form of re.re

proper noun

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A diminutive of the male given names Raymond, Rayane, and Rayan, also used as a formal given name. -, or Raymond if it happened to be a boy, choosing it in the hope that a name like Ray would make a boy's life easier.
3. A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, more often spelled Rae. 'Rachel told me―' 'Call her Ray. She hates Rachel.'
4. A census-designated place in Coosa County, Alabama.
5. A ghost town in Pinal County, Arizona.
6. An unincorporated community in Fremont Township, Steuben County, Indiana and Branch County, Michigan.
7. A township in Macomb County, Michigan.
8. An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota.
9. A minor city in Williams County, North Dakota.
10. A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which joins the River Cherwell.
11. A river in north Wiltshire, England, which joins the Thames.

proper noun Rey · Rai · Rhay · Rhey · Shahr-e-Rey · Shahr-e-Ray

1. A city near Tehran, Iran.
2. historical A region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert; Rhagiana.

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