| array | noun (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array. |
| | noun (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers. |
| | noun (n.) An imposing series of things. |
| | noun (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel. |
| | noun (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause. |
| | noun (n.) The panel itself. |
| | noun (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court. |
| | noun (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal. |
| | noun (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. |
| | noun (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man. |
| bray | noun (n.) The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound. |
| | noun (n.) A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine. |
| | verb (v. i.) To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound. |
| fray | noun (n.) Affray; broil; contest; combat. |
| | noun (n.) A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing. |
| | verb (v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bear the expense of; to defray. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head. |
| | verb (v. i.) To rub. |
| | verb (v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly. |
| gray | noun (n.) A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint. |
| | noun (n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon. |
| | superlative (superl.) White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. |
| | superlative (superl.) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. |
| | superlative (superl.) Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames. |
| ray | noun (n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes. |
| | noun (n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) 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. |
| | noun (n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen. |
| | noun (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray. |
| | noun (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak. |
| | noun (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc. |
| | noun (n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To array. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. |
| | verb (v. i.) To shine, as with rays. |
| spray | noun (n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig. |
| | noun (n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray. |
| | noun (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold. |
| | noun (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches. |
| | verb (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer. |
| | verb (v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer. |
| | verb (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray. |
| | verb (v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid. |
| stray | noun (n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively. |
| | noun (n.) The act of wandering or going astray. |
| | adjective (a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. |
| | adjective (a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray. |
| | adjective (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to stray. |
| | verb (v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep. |
| tray | noun (n.) A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver. |
| | noun (n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles. |
| | verb (v. t.) To betray; to deceive. |
| nurse | noun (n.) One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. |
| | noun (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. |
| | noun (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. |
| | noun (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. |
| | noun (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks. |
| | verb (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster |
| | verb (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. |
| | verb (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. |
| | verb (v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. |
| nursery | noun (n.) The act of nursing. |
| | noun (n.) The place where nursing is carried on |
| | noun (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children. |
| | noun (n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees. |
| | noun (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. |
| | noun (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen. |
| | noun (n.) That which is nursed. |
