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Answer for the clue "Shaft of light ", 3 letters:
ray

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Word definitions for ray in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ray \Ray\ (r[=a]), v. t. [An aphetic form of array; cf. Beray .] To array. [Obs.] --Sir T. More. To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. [Obs.] ``The filth that did it ray.'' --Spenser.

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Population (2000): 23354 Housing Units (2000): 9371 Land area (2000): 569.465468 sq. miles (1474.908728 sq. km) Water area (2000): 4.108651 sq. miles (10.641357 sq. km) Total area (2000): 573.574119 sq. miles (1485.550085 sq. km) Located within: Missouri ...

Usage examples of ray.

He looked down on her still, white face and bright hair, and he felt his heart contract with pain to see them darken ever so faintly and beautifully under the brilliant operating light, rich in actinic rays.

Even though Ray, Ake, and the dogs would experience--would live the three minutes they would be in hyperspace--The Spirit of St.

With few wasted motions, Ake tied Ray to his line and then began towing him back toward the hatch.

Ray asked Ake, the two of them sitting in the cockpit nursing drinks with Beowulf and Frodo lying at their feet.

As Ray and the other dogs rushed to join the melee, Ake slowly got out of the hovercraft, stretched his legs, and waved knowingly at a figure standing and watching all the commotion from a respectful distance.

After Ray, Ake, and Skerchock had gone to bed, the dogs gathered around the embers of the dying fire.

Ray and Ake, surrounded by the rest of the team, walked down the steep incline, careful not to lose their footing.

Neither Ray nor Ake could see what sort of expression or signal may have crossed his face.

Ray saw Keene set his jaw and knew what he was thinking: no one could mix grandiosity and arrogance like Fredrick Van Alman and, yes, sometimes you wanted to punch out his lights.

The rays even penetrated into the apse, and the sepulchral crypts were brightened up by them.

Over all this hushed desolation played a hideous leaden light as the declining afternoon sun sent its rays through the strange, half-blackened panes of the great apsidal windows.

But though the experiments which I have made on the decomposition of vapors by light might be numbered by the thousand, I have, to my regret, encountered no fact which prove that free aqueous vapor is decomposed by the solar rays, or that the sun is reheated by the combination of gases, in the severance of which it had previously sacrificed its heat.

Only her nipples and areoles were pink, topping the rise of her breasts like the last rays of sunset hitting the tips of twin mountains.

Half of his ray was already swallowed, and the force on the arquebus was making him lean back.

It was more agreeable to his temper, as well as to his policy, to reign under the venerable names of ancient magistracy, and artfully to collect, in his own person, all the scattered rays of civil jurisdiction.