ray | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A beam of light or radiation.
- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.
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.

1.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.
2.To emit something as if in rays.
- 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.
3.To radiate as if in rays.

Rare· #4957

Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”).

Doublet of radius.