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▪ I. rayed, ppl. a.1|reɪd|
[f. ray n.1 or v.1]
1. a. That has or consists of rays; arranged radially.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxv. (1856) 322 The rayed prolongations stretched nearly across the sky. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 31 Dark paper having some fine perforations, cross lines or a rayed star cut out of it.
b. Having rays of a specified number or kind.
1748Sir J. Hill Hist. Fossils 654 Some have one of the rays bifid, so as to emulate the figure of a six-ray'd kind. 1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 130 Of the barren-rayed [Dahlia],..of the fertile-rayed species. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 156 Umbels compound, few-rayed. Ibid. 158 Umbels rather irregular, many-rayed.
c. Zool. = radiate A. 1.
1841Penny Cycl. XIX. 319/1 Rayed or Radiated Animals. 1851Richardson Geol. viii. (1855) 224 In the rayed families, the organs of locomotion are disposed around a central axis.
2. = irradiated ppl. a. 1 c.
1921Science 23 Sept. 277/2 Wild type (red-eyed) females..were X-rayed... Sisters of the rayed females were used as controls. 1938Hevesy & Paneth Man. Radioactivity xxiv. 245 The rayed rock-salt assumes a blue-violet colour.
▪ II. † rayed, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. ray v.2 + -ed1.]
Drawn up, arranged, dressed, etc.
1382Wyclif Esther i. 6 Also goldene setis and siluerene, vp on the raied pament [1388 pawment arayede with] smaragd and pario stones, weren disposid. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 535 Throu Gyan land in rayid battaill thai raid. 1513Douglas æneis vi. xiv. 62 Pompey..With rayit hostis of the orient. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 271 The Earle of Huntlie and the lord of Home standand in ane rayit battell.
▪ III. rayed, ppl. a.3 Obs. exc. arch. or poet.
[ad. OF. raié in same sense: see ray n.4]
Striped, streaked.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 252, I woll yeue him a feather bed, Raied with gold. c1400Mandeville (1839) xviii. 198 Theise Cocodrilles ben Serpentes, ȝalowe and rayed aboven, and han 4 Feet. 1481Caxton Myrr. ii. vi. 78 Ther ben the basylicocks,..he is whyte rayed here and there. 1598Stow Surv. (1603) 539 In the year 1516..it was agreed..that the Shiriffes of London should..giue yearely Reyed Gownes, to the Recorder, Chamberlaine [etc.]. [1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 578 The rayed, or variegated cloth being the cheaper.] 1905W. Holman Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. 163 From the depth of this rayed region we ascended to the further margin of the mist lake into the crystal air. 1918W. Stevens in Others Dec. 11 We hang like warty squashes, streaked and rayed. |