Stray

Noun

 * 1) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.  Used also figuratively.
 * 2) The act of wandering or going astray.
 * 3)  An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "The Stray"

Related terms

 * astray
 * estray

Verb

 * 1) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
 * 2) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
 * 3) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

Adjective

 * 1) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

Adverbs for Stray
ostensibly; widely; irrationally; idiotically; adventurously; lustfully; senselessly.

Thesaurus
Arab, abandoned, aberrant, aberrative, abnormal, accidental, aimless, amorphous, anomalistic, anomalous, bat around, be absent, be in error, be mistaken, be wrong, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, casual, causeless, chance, circuitous, count ties, daydream, depart, departing, derelict, designless, desultory, deviant, deviate, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, different, digress, digressive, discursive, divagate, diverge, divergent, dogie, dream, drift, driftless, dysteleological, eccentric, err, errant, erratic, excurse, excursive, fall into error, fantasy, flit, formless, freak, gad, gad about, gallivant, gamin, gamine, get sidetracked, go about, go adrift, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go the rounds, go woolgathering, go wrong, guttersnipe, haphazard, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, homeless, homeless waif, idler, indirect, indiscriminate, inexplicable, intimation, irregular, isolated, jaunt, knock about, knock around, labyrinthine, landloper, lapse, lazzarone, loafer, lone, losel, lost, maunder, mazy, meander, meandering, mindless, misbelieve, miscalculate, mooch, moon, mudlark, muse, nomadize, odd, out-of-the-way, peregrinate, pererrate, piker, pipe-dream, planetary, promiscuous, prowl, purposeless, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramble, rambling, random, range, roam, roaming, rounder, rove, roving, run about, saunter, separated, serpentine, serve Mammon, shade, shapeless, shifting, single, singular, ski bum, slip, slip up, snake, snaky, sporadic, stargaze, stiff, stochastic, straggle, straggler, strain, straying, streak, street Arab, street urchin, stroll, stumble, subnormal, suggestion, sundowner, surf bum, suspicion, swagman, swagsman, swerving, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, traipse, tramp, trip, turn aside, turning, turnpiker, twist, twist and turn, twisting, unaccountable, undirected, unexpected, unmotivated, unnatural, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagabondize, vagrant, veering, waif, waifs and strays, walk the tracks, wander, wandering, wastrel, wayfare, wind, winding, zigzag

Etymology
From, from estrayer: (also ), and strey:,  from  estraié:, from  via strata, paved road.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Finnish: karkulainen
 * French:
 * German: Streuner


 * Greek: αδέσποτο
 * Portuguese: desgarrado
 * Russian: бездомный
 * Spanish: callejero


 * Albanian:
 * Finnish: harhailu (wandering); karkaaminen (going astray)


 * French: errance
 * Kurdish:


 * Finnish: yhteislaidun

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:


 * German: irren, streunen
 * Russian: сворачивать
 * Spanish: errar, divagar, callejear, vagabundear


 * Finnish:
 * German: sich verlaufen, vorloren gehen


 * Spanish: extraviarse, perderse, descaminarse, descarriarse


 * Finnish:

Synonyms

 * deviate

Adjective

 * Finnish: karannut,
 * French:, égaré


 * German: streunend
 * Romanian: rătăcit, rătăcită, răzlețit

Anagrams

 * artsy
 * satyr
 * trays, T-rays