Estray

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stray.
  • verb-intransitive. To stray.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. Stray.
  • v. To stray.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To stray.
  • n. Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To stray.
  • n. A tame beast, or valuable animal, as a horse, ox, or sheep, which is found wandering or without an owner; a beast supposed to have strayed from the power or the inclosure of its owner.
  • n. Figuratively, anything which has strayed away from its owner.
    • Word Usage
    "They soon stocked it from the "estray" animals in the street."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stray    stra   
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