·vi To shine, as with rays.
II. Ray ·vt To Array.
III. Ray ·noun Array; order; arrangement; dress.
IV. Ray ·noun To mark with long lines; to Streak.
V. Ray ·noun To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
VI. Ray ·noun One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
VII. Ray ·vt To mark, stain, or soil; to Streak; to Defile.
VIII. Ray ·noun Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, ·etc.
IX. Ray ·noun One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an Ophiuran.
X. Ray ·noun One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.
XI. Ray ·noun In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. ·see Skate.
XII. Ray ·noun Sight; perception; vision;
— from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
XIII. Ray ·noun One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. ·see Half-ray.
XIV. Ray ·noun A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.
XV. Ray ·noun One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. ·see ·Illust. under Light.
XVI. Ray ·noun A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. ·see Radius.