powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays
capable of seeing to a great distance
any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
a column of light (as from a beacon)
extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center