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extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiates spines in all directions"

emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"

cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish

a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiates spines in all directions"

emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"

cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish

a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

To array.

To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.

Array; order; arrangement; dress.

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.

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.

One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

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.

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.

One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.

To mark with long lines; to streak.

To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.

To shine, as with rays.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

Sight; perception; vision; - from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

To array.

To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.

Array; order; arrangement; dress.

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.

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.

One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

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.

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.

One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.

To mark with long lines; to streak.

To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.

To shine, as with rays.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

Sight; perception; vision; - from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

A line of light streaming from a bright center or source; any line along which radiant energy, or streams of energy issuing from a central source, exerts its force; as, a ray of heat, or an X ray; one of a number of thin lines spreading from a center; a beam of mental light; as, a ray of intelligence; the petals of certain flowers, as of a daisy; one of the rods which support the fin of a fish; one of the radiating arms of a starfish, etc.; any one of various fishes having a flat body and thin tail.

To send forth, as a beam of light.

A line of light, heat, or other form of radioactivity. The rays from radium and other radioactive substances are produced by a spontaneous disintegration of the atom; they are material particles, electrically charged, or ethereal waves of the nature of those of sunlight.

A line of light or heat proceeding from a point: intellectual light: apprehension.

A class of fishes including the skate, thornback, and torpedo.

A beam of light; family of flat fishes.

To provide with rays; send or go out as rays.

A narrow beam of light; anything radiating from an object, as a spine of a fish's fin or a ray - like flower.

Rayless.

A fish having the body depressed into the form of a flat disk; a torpedo.

A line of light, or the right line supposed to be described by a particle of light; light; a beam of intellectual light; a radius; the outer part of a compound radiate flower; a spine in a tin.

A genus of cartilaginous fishes, including the skate, thorn back, stingray, &c.

To shoot forth.

A line of light; something that shoots forth as from a centre; a gleam of intellectual light; in bot., the outer flowers in umbels, when differently formed from the inner; a fiat fish, so named from the structure of the pectoral fins, which resemble the rays of a fan.

To shoot forth in lines; to streak.

One of the bony spines supporting fins ; a division of a radiate animal, as an arm of an Asteroid.

A line of light or heat.

A radiating line, especially a line of light.

n. [Latin] One of a number of lines diverging from a common point or centre;-a radiating part of a flower or plant ;-one of the radiating bony spines of fishes ;- a line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point ; hence, a beam of intellectual light ; perception ; apprehension.

n. A genus of fishes including the skate, the thornback, and the torpedo.

n. A disease of sheep attended with extreme itching; -also called rubbers.