Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AR-RAY'
AR-RAY', v.t.
- To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle.
- To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; it is applied especially to dress of a splendid kind. Array thyself with glory. – Job xl. Pharaoh arrayed Joseph with fine linen. – Gen. xli.
- To set a jury in order for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man. – Blackstone. Cowel.
- To envelop. In gelid caves with horrid glooms arrayed. – Trumbull.
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