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Stray   /streɪ/   Listen
Stray

adjective
1.
Not close together in time.  Synonym: isolated.  "A few stray crumbs"
2.
(of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home.  "A stray dog"
verb
(past & past part. strayed; pres. part. straying)
1.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.  Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander.  "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"
2.
Wander from a direct course or at random.  Synonyms: drift, err.  "Don't drift from the set course"
3.
Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking.  Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander.  "Her mind wanders" , "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
noun
1.
An animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal).



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"Stray" Quotes from Famous Books



... young patrician, as one might see for many days, even if he searched for rascals, as the philosopher did for an honest man, by lanthorn's light at noon. He has been following our steps, by my head!—to pick up our stray words, and weave ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) • Henry William Herbert
... handkerchiefs with borders; cards painted by the artists of the family; palm-leaf fans covered with real flowers, or painted with imitation ones; sunflowers made of pasteboard, with portfolios behind them; pretty little parasols of flowers; Little Red Riding-hood, officiating as a receptacle for stray pennies; Japanese teapots, with the "cozy" made at home; little doyleys wrought with delightful designs from "Pretty Peggy," and numberless other ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... work, as is singularly illustrated by the case of Andrew Ransom, a stray Englishman captured near St. Augustine in the late 1600's. He was condemned to death. The executional device failed, however, and the padres in attendance took it as an act of God and led Ransom to sanctuary at the friary. Meanwhile, ...
— Artillery Through the Ages - A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America • Albert Manucy
... took both risks—with contagions in a field hospital hard by the cemetery, and with shells and stray balls when she fled at moments from the stinking wards to find good air and to commune with her heart's desires and designs. There was one hazard beside which foul air and stray shots were negligible, a siege within this siege. To be insured against the mere mathematical risk ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable
... to stray I feel would come Though Italy were all fair skies to me, Though France's fields went mad with flowery foam And Blanc put on a special majesty. Not all could match the growing thought of home Nor tempt to exile. Look I not on ROME— This ancient, ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall


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