Word Finder - strays

definition

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

definition

One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.

definition

The act of wandering or going astray.

definition

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

definition

To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

definition

To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.

definition

To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

definition

To cause to stray.

It cares not only for waifs and strays, but for cripples and delicate children.

All these have greatly declined in numbers, being profitably replaced by sheep. Land-birds are few in kind, and are mostly strays from South America.

The glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus, found throughout the West Indies, Central and the south-eastern part of North America, as well as in many parts of Europe (whence it not unfrequently strays to the British Islands), Africa, Asia and Australia.

From the Conquest or even earlier they had, besides various lesser rights - (1) exemption from tax and tallage; (2) soc and sac, or full cognizance of all criminal and civil cases within their liberties; (3) tol and team, or the right of receiving toll and the right of compelling the person in whose hands stolen property was found to name the person from whom he received it; (4) blodwit and fledwit, or the right to punish shedders of blood and those who were seized in an attempt to escape from justice; (5) pillory and tumbrel; (6) infangentheof and r L outfangentheof, or power to imprison and execute felons; (7) mundbryce (the breaking into or violation of a man's mund or property in order to erect banks or dikes as a defence against the sea); (8) waives and strays, or the right to appropriate lost property or cattle not claimed within a year and a day; (9) the right to seize all flotsam, jetsam, or ligan, or, in other words, whatever of value was cast ashore by the sea; (10) the privilege of being a gild with power to impose taxes for the common weal; and (11) the right of assembling in portmote or parliament at Shepway or Shepway Cross, a few miles west of Hythe (but afterwards at Dover), the parliament being empowered to make by-laws for the Cinque Ports, to regulate the Yarmouth fishery, to hear appeals from the local courts, and to give decision in all cases of treason, sedition, illegal coining or concealment of treasure trove.

It is only occasionally found near the shore; its real home is the Atlantic, especially near Madeira and the Azores, but many captures are recorded from Great Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia; it strays as far north as Iceland and Newfoundland, and probably southwards to the latitudes of the coast of Guinea.

The Group also occasionally strays outside mathematics and formal methods to game playing (bridge, go ), uncertainty and configuration problems.

It is open to cats rescued as strays by their current owner or felines adopted from any animal welfare organization.

And, on occasion, when thought strays from the ordinary monsters come scrabbling up out of this well of darkness.

But when Warne strays onto leg stump, Flintoff can resist no longer and slog sweeps him over mid wicket for six !

No luck so far - Jones strays onto leg stump and is clipped to fine leg for four.

The Group also occasionally strays outside mathematics and formal methods to game playing (bridge, go), uncertainty and configuration problems.

Of course, he never strays too far from you, but he is reveling in each new skill that he learns.

The largest populations of cats in pounds and rescue facilities are strays born on the street of at least one parent who has a home.

A woman discovered two short-legged strays under her car and noticed that one of the kittens born from the strays had short legs as well.

On prom day, tweeze strays early in the morning, ice any redness away and use a brow gel (if your brows are unruly) to keep them in place.

The only dry ingredient that strays from this method is brown sugar.

One of the great pulls of beachside vows is how far it strays from traditional church or courthouse weddings.

Unfortunately, these two strays don't seem to be going anywhere, anytime soon.

This does not include those canines found as strays or taken from owners who may have kept the animals in unsanitary or inhumane conditions.

They may have been strays that were found on the street.

With more than 60 million pet dogs in the United States, plus thousands of strays, it is not surprising that an estimated 4.7 million Americans a year are bitten by a dog.

Like most animal shelters, the Anoka County Humane Society is responsible for finding new homes for animals that are abandoned, given up by their owners or found as strays.

The designer never strays from this tried-and-true formula, which more than hints at mod influence and shows a strong appreciation for bold color.

While the plot is similar to past Superman movies, with villains working toward draining him of his powers, Return strays a bit from the "I'm an alien and trying to fit in" to one that most of us are more familiar with.

In this hypothesis, the human brain strays from the regular transition into unconsciousness combined with physical paralysis into sleep and then into deep REM sleep.