Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
ray .
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Examples
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"Keep them off me as much as you can and I'll attend to that delta-ray outfit myself."
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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His intensely dynamic personality fairly radiated blueness-not the gentle blue of an Earthly sky, not the sweetly innocuous blue of an Earthly flower, but the keenly merciless blue of a delta-ray, the cold and bitter blue of a Polar iceberg, the unyielding, inflexible blue of quenched and drawn tungsten-chromium steel.
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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The helmet flew apart like an eggshell, blood and brains gushed out in nauseous blobs, but the delta-ray projector was so jammed that it would not soon again become a threat.
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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