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▪ I. estray, n. and a.|ɪˈstreɪ|
[a. AF. estray, vbl. n. (taken concr.) f. estraier to stray: see astray.]
A. n.
a. Law. A stray animal; ‘any beast not wild, found within any Lordship, and not owned by any man’ (Cowell).
[1292Britton i. xviii. § 3 Weyf ou estray nent chalengez de eynz le an et le jour si soit al seignur de la fraunchise.] 1594West Symbol. ii. Chancerie §37 The like is it of an Estray or a Deodand. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 334 All such Estrays and Cumelings as..should be taken or found upon the Abbots demesnes. 1714Scroggs Courts-leet (ed. 3) 105 The Estray shall be proclaimed in the two next Market Towns. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 298 Any beast may be an estray, that is by nature tame or reclaimable. 1776in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 145 The Lord's Bailiff, or receiver of estrays. 1850Longfellow By Fireside, Pegasus in Pound vi, The..village crier..proclaiming there was an estray to sell.
b. transf.
1581Lambarde Eiren. (1602) 589 Many things haue escaped me vnseen..and it shall not bee harde for him that meeteth with such Estrais to take and lodge them in their right Titles here. 1741Richardson Pamela 1824 I. lxxvii. 432 This happy estray, thus restored, begs leave by me to acknowledge its lovely owner. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxviii (1856) 350 This poor little wanderer was an estray from his fellows. 1881E. C. Stedman in Scribn. Mag. Oct. 817 How he seizes on some promising estray.
B. adj. Of an animal: That is astray. Also transf. Chiefly U.S.
1789Kentucky Gaz. (Lexington, Ky.) 28 Mar. 1/3 All persons shall have access to the Estray-book, without paying any fee therefor. 1865Nichols Britton I. 216 Things found, which do not belong to anybody, as wreck of sea, beasts estray [orig. estravagauntes] rabbits, hares, etc. 1876Rep. Vermont Board Agric. III. 426 Many..of these new varieties of grain are not new... They are old varieties estray..from remote quarters..of the globe. 1889Harper's Mag. June 158/2 A farmer living near a middle Georgia town, one day found an estray cow in his pasture.
▪ II. estray, v. arch.|ɪˈstreɪ|
[ad. OF. estrai-er: see astray v.]
intr. To stray. lit. and fig.
1572R. H. tr. Lauaterus' Ghostes (1596) 199 If the auncient Fathers had so doone, they had not estrayed so farre from the Apostles simplicitie. 1600Tourneur Transf. Met. I. The lambes that sometime did estray. 1602Daniel Hymen's Tri. iv. iii, This nymph one day..Estrays apart, and leaves her Company. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. Relig. ii. ix. 289 How could it be that men should so prodigiously neglect the glory of God, unless they were estrayed from their end, since they were made for it? 1855Singleton Virgil I. 44 One of the sisters led Gallus estraying by Permessus' streams To th' Aon mountains. a1864Hawthorne Eng. Note-bk. (1879) I. 261 Just estraying a little way.
Hence eˈstrayed ppl. a., that has strayed. eˈstraying vbl. n.
1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 7 §5 Estraied cattell claimed and proued by the owners. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1622) 310 The sweete touch of that hand seemed to his estrayed powers so heauenly a thing, etc. 1598Yong Diana 318 But euermore despaire..From former course of minde doth cause estraying. 1620J. Wilkinson Cor. & Sheriffs, Crt. Leets 140 b, And likewise you shall present all such cattel estraied as shall usually come within your office. 1883W. R. Williams in Butler's Bible-Wk. I. 366 The shepherd seeking his estrayed sheep. |