Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To radiate forth; flash out, as a ray.
  • To go beyond limits; advance as in invasion or attack; spread out.
  • To pass beyond usual, established, or rational limits; hence, to be extravagant or mad.
  • To go beyond; surpass; overcome; defeat.
  • To throw out rays.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To outshine.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To spread out in array.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To spread out in array.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

out- +‎ ray

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