se ravoir, v.r., to recover one’s strength, to recruit, to pick up, to pick up one’s crumbs.
rayé, -e, part., striped, streaked; (artil.) rifled, grooved; scratched, scratched out, crossed out. Vaisselle —e; scratched plate. Des mots —s; words crossed out. Canon —; rifled cannon.
rayer, v.a., to scratch (plate, dishes, etc.), to scratch out; to cross or strike out, to erase, to expunge, to streak, to stripe; (artil.) to rifle, to groove. — une étoffe; to stripe a stuff. Rayez cela de vos papiers; strike that out of your book; (fig.) look upon it as a bad debt. — d’une liste; to strike off a list. — du papier; to rule paper. — le canon d’un fusil; to rifle a gun-barrel.
rayère, n.f., loop-hole (in towers).
rayeur, n.m., ruler (instr.).
ray-grass, n.m., (n.p.) (bot.) rye-grass.
rayon, n.m., ray, beam, gleam; (geom.) radius; spoke (of a wheel); (ich.) ray; (agri.) furrow; shelf; comb (of honey). — de lumière; ray of light. Faisceau de —s; (opt.) pencil of rays. Un — d’espérance; a ray of hope. À dix lieues de —, dans un — de dix lieues; within a radius of ten leagues. Une étoile à cinq —s; a star with five rays. — de miel; honey-comb.
rayonnant, -e, adj., radiant, shining, sparkling, beaming. — de lumière; beaming with light.
rayonné, -e, adj., radiated, stellated; (of rooms) shelved.
rayonné, n.m., (zoöl.) radiary. pl., radiata.