Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make foul; befoul; soil.
From be- + ray (“to defile”), from Middle English rayen, an aphetic form of array.
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- Derivation mentionrayenenm
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