raying

Verb (1)

ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)

1. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
   • He was one of the unthanked benefactors of his race, who was patiently teaching and serving mankind, whilst they were shrinking from his coldness, or mocking his peculiarities. He could not sing for them a sweet song, or create a “thing of beauty” which should be “a joy for ever,” or touch their...1851, George Wilson, The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish, page 186
2. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
3. (transitive) To expose to radiation.
   • Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.1928, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, page 219

Verb (2)

ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)

1. (obsolete) To arrange.
2. (archaic) To dress, array (someone).
3. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
   • From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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