noun

• (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
• (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
• (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
• (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  "All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze."

verb

• (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
  "I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own."
• (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
• (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."

verb

• (obsolete) To arrange.
• (now rare) To dress, array (someone).
• (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 […]."

noun

• (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
  "spoyling all her geares and goodly ray"