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Beray vs Deray - What's the difference?

beray | deray |

As a verb beray

is to make foul; befoul; soil.

As a noun deray is

(obsolete) disorder.

beray

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make foul; befoul; soil.
  • * 1652 , ,
    • Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.

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    deray

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) disorder
  • (obsolete) merriment
    • (Webster 1913)