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• sting-ray

  A fish, Trygon pastinaca, which wounds with a serrate bone, lying in a sheath on the upper side of i...

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• Sting

  ·vt A goad; incitement. II. Sting ·vt The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying. III. Stin...

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• Ray

  ·vi To shine, as with rays. II. Ray ·vt To <<Array>>. III. Ray ·noun Array; order; arrangement; dr...

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• ray

  A line of sight. Also, a flat rhomboidal fish with a rough skin; genus, Raia. ...

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• sting-moth

  n. an Australian moth, Doratifera vulnerans. The larva has at each endof the body four tubercles be...

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• Half-ray

  ·noun A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, ...

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• Ray grass

  ·- A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); — called also rye grass, and red darnel. ·see <<Dar...

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• Rontgen ray

  ·add. ·- Any of the rays produced when cathode rays strike upon surface of a solid (as the wall of t...

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• Ray, John

  (1627-1705) Naturalist, s. of a blacksmith at Black Notley, Essex, was at Camb., where he became a ...

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• eagle-ray

  n. name belonging to any large Ray of the family Myliobatidae; the New Zealandspecies is Myliobatis...

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• horn-ray

  n. a New Zealand and Australian Ray, the fish Rhinobatus banksii, Mull and Heule.In this genus of R...

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• whip-ray

  A ray with a long tail ending in a very fine point. It is armed with a dangerous serrated spine, jag...

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• X-ray tube

  ·add. ·- A vacuum tube suitable for producing Rontgen rays. ...

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