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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



... any ears I would have pricked them up at this, for I was very fond of fowl, and I never got any at the Morrises', unless it might be a stray bone ...
— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders
... appear generally to inhabit the N.W. interior. The present was a very large specimen, with a beautifully soft skin, and as it was the only one noticed during a residence of nearly six months at the same place, it was in all probability a stray animal. ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt
... momentum of the whale—modifying its direction as he struck the surface—involuntarily launched him along it, to a little distance from the centre of the destruction he had made; and with his back to it, he now lay for a moment slowly feeling with his flukes from side to side; and whenever a stray oar, bit of plank, the least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea. But soon, as if satisfied that his work for that time was done, he pushed ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... me sing for little children, Before their footsteps stray, Sweet anthems of love and duty, To float o'er ...
— Poems • Frances E. W. Harper
... English; Painter's 'Palace of Pleasure' being a treasure-house of Italian works of fiction. Thomas Hoby translated Castiglione's 'Courtier' in 1561. As a proof of the extent to which Italian books were read in England at the end of the sixteenth century, we may take a stray sentence from a letter of Harvey, in which he disparages the works of Robert Greene:—'Even Guicciardine's silver histories and Ariosto's golden cantos grow out of request: and the Countess of Pembroke's "Arcadia" is not green enough ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds


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