Definitions
1.nounAny domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
2.nounOne who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
3.nounThe act of wandering or going astray.
4.nounAn area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"