Definition of "rayed" [rayed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of ray. (verb)

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• "The open chicory flower and the pollen grain are both polygonal and rayed from the centre."
• "She slept with her head on his pillow and her hair spread out, 'rayed' out, was how he put it, 'like the sun in splendour'."
• "At the broad landing at the top the altar was about waist-high, and now for the first time they made out that at the back there was a big sitting figure, whose breast seemed to be covered with a kind of rayed shield; but everything was indistinct in the flickering light, and the figure was absolutely clothed in dust."