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estray

noun
/ə.stɹeɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English astrai, from Anglo-Norman estray, from the Old French verb estraier. Etymological doublet with stray.

  1. derived from estray
  2. inherited from astrai

Definitions

  1. An animal that has escaped from its owner

    An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.

  2. Stray.

    • [...] All the day / Had been a dreary one at best, and dim / Was settling to its close, yet shot one grim / Red leer to see the plain catch its estray.

  3. To stray.

    • With other Maids to fiſh upon the Shoar; Estrays apart, and leaves her Company

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at estray. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at estray. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at estray

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA