Associations to the word «Estray»

Wiktionary

ESTRAY, noun. (legal) An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.
ESTRAY, noun. (archaic) Stray.
ESTRAY, verb. (archaic) To stray.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley