Word Finder - stray

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Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.

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One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.

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The act of wandering or going astray.

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An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"

Megan pushed a stray curl away from her forehead and smiled.

Jaguars occasionally stray into Arizona from Mexico.

The only cat we had was a stray and it was allowed to stay around because it killed mice.

He brushed stray hairs from her face and replaced his hand on her stomach.

He contemplated the stray thought as he moved around the facility.

She wiped away a few stray tears, hands quivering.

He managed to catch a few stray rats for food, but they tasted different.

He had spoken only a few words, however, when the insurgents, hearing some shots, and fancying they were betrayed, opened fire upon the national guard, and the archbishop fell, struck by a stray bullet.

The offspring of some stray, I guess.

Like I'm some sort of stray dog?

But a stray bullet struck the king, and the Abyssinians decided to retire.

Of this period we have only a few fragmentary anecdotes and a stray reference or two.

Zaid may easily have overlooked a few stray fragments, but that he purposely omitted anything which he believed to belong to the Koran is very unlikely.

Back on the pavement, Dean pedaled past Tom, a well-known wild turkey who'd in past months adopted a location on the highway from which he never seemed to stray more than a few hundred yards.

Heidi was back and he wasn't going to give her any reason to stray in the future.

She was only a stray anyway – an unwelcome pet at the time.

For the processes of the paper manufacturer esparto is used in the dry state, and without cutting; roots and flowers and stray weeds are first removed, and the material is then boiled with caustic soda, washed, and bleached with chlorine solution.

The wooded hills are well stocked with deer, and a stray wolf occasionally finds its way from the forests of the Ardennes into those of the Hunsriick.

Whether a stray shot preceded the first volley, and from which side it came, are questions which have never been determined.

Some stray parts of the collection, including the MSS.

The Russians might fall on his left wing, might break through his center, he himself might be killed by a stray cannon ball.

Dean was glad to see Fred's line of reasoning stray away from the Dawkinses.

Anyway, she's just a stray that wandered up one day and attached herself to us.

She fell to the floor and Alex glanced at her, allowing his attention to stray from Josh for a second.

Nearly 20 more are properly Palaearctic, but occasionally occur in America, and about 50 are Nearctic, which from time to time stray to Europe or Asia.

When the bunting at the end of the stray line passes his hand, he calls to his assistant to turn the glass, and allows the line to pay out freely.

Stray Feathers, an ornithological journal for India and its dependencies, contains many interesting and some valuable papers.

A common called the Stray, of 200 acres, secured by act of parliament from ever being built upon, stretches in front of the main line of houses, and on this account Harrogate, notwithstanding its rapid increase, has retained much of its rural charm.

The corporation owns the Stray, and also the Spa concert rooms and grounds, Harlow Moor, Crescent Gardens, Royal Bath gardens and other large open spaces, as well as Royal Baths, Victoria Baths and Starbeck Baths.

His more important books, of which English translations have been published, are the poems Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1913), The Crescent Moon (1913), The Gardener (1913), Songs of Kabir (1915), Fruit Gathering (1916), Stray Birds (1917), The Lover's Gift and the Crossing (1918); the plays Chitra (1914), The King of the Dark Chamber (1914), The Post Office (1914),.

But All These Variants Together Are Mere Stray Curios Among The Crowding Souvenirs Of The Old Home Over Sea.

Praevaricare meant literally to walk with the legs very wide apart, to straddle, hence to walk crookedly, to stray from the direct road, varicus, straddling, being derived from varus, bow-legged, a word which has been connected etymologically with German quer, transverse, across, and English "queer."

The upper end of the quartz fibre is rotated by a torsion head, and a metal cover serves to screen the instrument from stray electrostatic fields.

It is probable that it still lingers in the wastes of Kirwan in eastern Persia, whence examples may occasionally stray northward to those of Turkestan, 2 even near the Lower Oxus; but the assertion, often repeated, as to its former occurrence in Baluchistan or Sind seems to rest on testimony too slender for acceptance.

But these seemed very great difficulties, and I have almost thought them insuperable, when I further considered, that every irregularity in a reflecting superficies makes the rays stray 5 or 6 times more out of their due course, than the like irregularities in a refracting one; so that a much greater curiosity would be here requisite, than in figuring glasses for Refraction.

On the 1st of April it rained and melted the ice, and in the early part of the day, which was very foggy, I heard a stray goose groping about over the pond and cackling as if lost, or like the spirit of the fog.

The stray dog looked hungry and cold.

A small paintbrush can help clean up any stray particles.

Children should be told not to play with stray cats or make cats angry.

Some companies have stray terms, such as requiring deposits to remain in the account for several months after you close it.

For the most normal look, don't stray too far from your natural lip size or shape.

From smoothing foundation, to plucking stray eyebrow hairs, a lighted cosmetic mirror with a high level of magnification is a must for every woman's beauty toolbox.

From cosmetic application to tweezing stray eyebrow hairs and more, a lighted makeup mirror is one of a woman's most essential beauty tools, and the vintage style and functional appeal of the Clairol makeup mirror is appealing to many.

If you or your subject has long hair, you'll need a hair tie to keep stray strands from interfering with your ghoulish masterpiece.

Reach for a softly colored brown or a clear mascara to add the finishing touch, and remember to clear up any stray hairs that may mar the brows.

In between visits, tweeze the stray hair.

From stray grays to stray brow hairs, tweezers certainly pay for themselves over time.

Bushy eyebrows with stray hairs can also age the face.

The eye shadow and contour brushes pack the color on beautifully and evenly, while the blush, powder and fan brushes never leave stray hairs behind (a personal pet peeve that I can't stand).

For example, a Donald layout could include individual photos of your kids with the funny duck, as well as his autograph and a stray feather or two.