() R, the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, and 250-254.

() A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-.

(n.) A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.

(n.) A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

(v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk.

(n.) A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.

(v. t.)To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

(v. t.)To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.

(n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, f

(n.) Same as Rabbet joint, below.

(n.) Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.

(n.) The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins.

(adv.) In a rabbinical manner; after the manner of the rabbins.

(n.) A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.

(n.) The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.

(n.) One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.

(n.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Aust

(n.) A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.

(v. t.)To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.

(v. t.)To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.

(v. t.)To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.

(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.

(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.

(n.) A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.

(n.) A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

(n.) A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

(n.) The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones.

(n.) Divination by means of rods or wands.

(n.) Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.

(n.) Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.

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Term	Definition
R	() R, the eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178, 179, and 250-254.
Ra-	() A prefix, from the Latin re and ad combined, coming to us through the French and Italian. See Re-, and Ad-.
Ra	(n.) A roe; a deer.
Raash	(n.) The electric catfish.
Rab	(n.) A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.
Rabat	(n.) A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
Rabate	(v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk.
Rabatine	(n.) A collar or cape.
Rabato	(n.) A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.
Rabbate	(v. t.)To abate or diminish.
Rabbate	(n.) Abatement.
Rabbet	(v. t.)To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.
Rabbet	(v. t.)To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.
Rabbet	(n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, f
Rabbet	(n.) Same as Rabbet joint, below.
Rabbeted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rabbet
Rabbeting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rabbet
Rabbi	(n.) Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.
Rabbies	(pl. ) of Rabbi
Rabbin	(n.) Same as Rabbi.
Rabbinic	(a.) Alt. of Rabbinical
Rabbinic	(n.) The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.
Rabbinical	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins.
Rabbinically	(adv.) In a rabbinical manner; after the manner of the rabbins.
Rabbinism	(n.) A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.
Rabbinism	(n.) The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.
Rabbinist	(n.) One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.
Rabbinite	(n.) Same as Rabbinist.
Rabbis	(pl. ) of Rabbi
Rabbit	(n.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Aust
Rabbiting	(n.) The hunting of rabbits.
Rabbitry	(n.) A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.
Rabble	(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
Rabble	(v. t.)To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
Rabble	(v. t.)To rumple; to crumple.
Rabble	(v. t.)To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
Rabble	(v. t.)To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
Rabble	(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
Rabble	(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
Rabble	(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
Rabble	(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
Rabbled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rabble
Rabblement	(n.) A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.
Rabbler	(n.) A scraping tool for smoothing metal.
Rabble-rout	(n.) A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.
Rabbling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rabble
Rabdoidal	(a.) See Sagittal.
Rabdology	(n.) The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones.
Rabdomancy	(n.) Divination by means of rods or wands.
Rabid	(n.) Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.
Rabid	(n.) Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.
Rabid	(n.) Furious; raging; extremely violent.
Rabid	(n.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.
Rabidity	(n.) Rabidness; furiousness.
Rabidly	(adv.) In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
Rabidness	(n.) The quality or state of being rabid.
Rabies	(n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.
Rabinet	(n.) A kind of small ordnance formerly in use.
Rabious	(a.) Fierce.
Rabot	(n.) A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.
Raca	(a.) A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless."
Racahout	(n.) A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
Raccoon	(n.) A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.
Race	(v. t.)To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
Race	(v. t.)To raze.
Race	(v. t.)To run a race with.
Race	(n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
Race	(n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
Race	(n.) A root.
Race	(n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
Race	(n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
Race	(n.) Company; herd; breed.
Race	(n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
Race	(n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
Race	(n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
Race	(n.) Hence
Race	(n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
Race	(n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
Race	(n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
Race	(v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
Race	(v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
Raced	(imp. & p. p.) of Race
Racemate	(n.) A salt of racemic acid.
Racemation	(n.) A cluster or bunch, as of grapes.
Racemation	(n.) Cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes.
Raceme	(n.) A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
Racemed	(a.) Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.
Racemic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of
Racemiferous	(a.) Bearing racemes, as the currant.
Racemiform	(a.) Having the form of a raceme.
Racemose	(a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.
Racemous	(a.) See Racemose.
Racemule	(n.) A little raceme.
Racemulose	(a.) Growing in very small racemes.
Racer	(n.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.
Racer	(n.) One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.
Racer	(n.) The common American black snake.
Rach	(n.) Alt. of Rache
Rache	(n.) A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.
Rachialgia	(n.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.
Rachides	(pl. ) of Rachis
Rachidian	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
Rachilla	(n.) Same as Rhachilla.
Rachiodont	(a.) Same as Rhachiodont.
Rachis	(n.) Same as Rhachis.
Rachis	(n.) The spine; the vertebral column.
Rachises	(pl. ) of Rachis
Rachitic	(a.) Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.
Rachitis	(n.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds.
Rachitis	(n.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.
Rachitome	(n.) A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.
Racial	(a.) Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.
Racily	(adv.) In a racy manner.
Raciness	(n.) The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.
Racing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Race
Racing	() a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i.
Rack	(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
Rack	(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
Rack	(a.) A distaff.
Rack	(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
Rack	(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
Rack	(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
Rack	(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
Rack	(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.
Rack	(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
Rack	(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
Rack	(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.
Rack	(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
Rack	(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.
Rack	(v. t.)To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
Rack	(v. t.)To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
Rack	(v. t.)To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
Rack	(v. t.)To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
Rack	(v. t.)To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
Rack	(v. t.)To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
Rack	(n.) A fast amble.
Rack	(n.) A wreck; destruction.
Rack	(n.) Same as Arrack.
Rack	(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
Rack	(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
Rack	(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
Rackabones	(n.) A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
Racked	(imp. & p. p.) of Rack
Racker	(n.) A horse that has a racking gait.
Racker	(n.) One who racks.
Racket	(v. t.)To strike with, or as with, a racket.
Racket	(n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
Racket	(n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
Racket	(n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
Racket	(n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
Racket	(n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
Racket	(n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
Racket	(v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.
Racket	(v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
Racket	(v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.
Racketed	(imp. & p. p.) of Racket
Racketer	(n.) One who makes, or engages in, a racket.
Racketing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Racket
Rackett	(n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
Racket-tail	(n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped.
Racket-tailed	(a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
Rackety	(a.) Making a tumultuous noise.
Racking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rack
Racking	(n.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.
Rack-rent	(v. t.)To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.
Rack-rent	(n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent.
Rack-renter	(n.) One who exacts rack-rent.
Rack-renter	(n.) One who is subjected to paying rack-rent.
Racktail	(n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.
Rackwork	(n.) Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.
Racle	(a.) See Rakel.
Racleness	(n.) See Rakelness.
Raconteur	(n.) A relater; a storyteller.
Racoonda	(n.) The coypu.
Racovian	(n.) One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.
Racquet	(n.) See Racket.
Racy	(superl.) Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.
Racy	(superl.) Hence
Rad	() imp. & p. p. of Read, Rede.
Radde	() imp. of Read, Rede.
Raddle	(v. t.)To interweave or twist together.
Raddle	(v. t.)To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.
Raddle	(n.) A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also raddle hedge.
Raddle	(n.) A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
Raddle	(n.) A red pigment used in marking sheep, and in some mechanical processes; ruddle.
Raddle	(n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
Raddock	(n.) The ruddock.
Rade	(n.) A raid.
Radeau	(n.) A float; a raft.
Radial	(a.) Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.
Radiale	(n.) Radial plates in the calyx of a crinoid.
Radiale	(n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.
Radialia	(pl. ) of Radiale
Radially	(adv.) In a radial manner.
Radian	(n.) An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.
Radiance	(n.) Alt. of Radiancy
Radiancy	(n.) The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.
Radiant	(a.) Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.
Radiant	(a.) Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.
Radiant	(a.) Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.
Radiant	(a.) Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.
Radiant	(a.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
Radiant	(n.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
Radiant	(n.) The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
Radiant	(n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.
Radiantly	(adv.) In a radiant manner; with glittering splendor.
Radiary	(n.) A radiate.
Radiata	(n. pl.) An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.
Radiate	(a.) Belonging to the Radiata.
Radiate	(a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
Radiate	(a.) Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal.
Radiate	(v. t.)To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.
Radiate	(v. t.)To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.
Radiate	(n.) One of the Radiata.
Radiate	(v. i.) To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
Radiate	(v. i.) To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.
Radiated	(a.) Belonging to the Radiata.
Radiated	(a.) Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat.
Radiated	(a.) Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals.
Radiated	(imp. & p. p.) of Radiate
Radiately	(adv.) In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.
Radiate-veined	(a.) Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.
Radiatiform	(a.) Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower.
Radiating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Radiate
Radiation	(n.) The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.
Radiation	(n.) The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.
Radiative	(a.) Capable of radiating; acting by radiation.
Radiator	(n.) That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a steam radiator.
Radical	(a.) A radical vessel. See under Radical, a.
Radical	(a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the root of a plant; as, radical tubers or hairs.
Radical	(a.) Hence
Radical	(a.) Of or pertaining to a radix or root; as, a radical quantity; a radical sign. See below.
Radical	(a.) Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.
Radical	(a.) Proceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.
Radical	(a.) Relating, or belonging, to the root, or ultimate source of derivation; as, a radical verbal form.
Radical	(n.) A characteristic, essential, and fundamental constituent of any compound; hence, sometimes, an atom.
Radical	(n.) A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.
Radical	(n.) A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon.
Radical	(n.) A radical quantity. See under Radical, a.
Radical	(n.) One who advocates radical changes in government or social institutions, especially such changes as are intended to level class inequalities; -- opposed to conservative.
Radical	(n.) Specifically, a group of two or more atoms, not completely saturated, which are so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. C
Radicalism	(n.) The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.
Radicality	(n.) Germinal principle; source; origination.
Radicality	(n.) Radicalness; relation to a root in essential nature or principle.
Radically	(adv.) In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.
Radically	(adv.) Without derivation; primitively; essentially.
Radicalness	(n.) Quality or state of being radical.
Radicant	(a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.
Radicate	(a.) Radicated.
Radicate	(v. t.)To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.
Radicate	(v. i.) To take root; to become rooted.
Radicated	(a.) Having rootlike organs for attachment.
Radicated	(a.) Having roots, or possessing a well-developed root.
Radicated	(a.) Rooted
Radicated	(imp. & p. p.) of Radicate
Radicating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Radicate
Radication	(n.) The disposition of the roots of a plant.
Radication	(n.) The process of taking root, or state of being rooted; as, the radication of habits.
Radicel	(n.) A small branch of a root; a rootlet.
Radices	(pl. ) of Radix
Radiciflorous	(a.) Rhizanthous.
Radiciform	(a.) Having the nature or appearance of a radix or root.
Radicle	(n.) A rootlet; a radicel.
Radicle	(n.) The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle.
Radicular	(a.) Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant.
Radicule	(n.) A radicle.
Radiculose	(a.) Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.
Radii	(pl. ) of Radius
Radii	(n.) pl. of Radius.
Radio-	() A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, a radius or ray; specifically (Anat.), with the radius of the forearm; as, radio-ulnar, radio-muscular, radio-carpal.
Radio-flagellata	(n. pl.) A group of Protozoa having both flagella and pseudopodia.
Radiograph	(n.) A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.
Radiolaria	(n. pl.) Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina.
Radiolarian	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.
Radiolarian	(n.) One of the Radiolaria.
Radioli	(n. pl.) The barbs of the radii of a feather; barbules.
Radiolite	(n.) A hippurite.
Radiometer	(n.) A forestaff.
Radiometer	(n.) An instrument designed for measuring the mechanical effect of radiant energy.
Radiomicrometer	(n.) A very sensitive modification or application of the thermopile, used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat, or temperature.
Radiophone	(n.) An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.
Radiophony	(n.) The art or practice of using the radiophone.
Radious	(a.) Consisting of rays, as light.
Radious	(a.) Radiating; radiant.
Radish	(n.) The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.
Radius vector	() A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See
Radius vector	(n.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite.
Radius	(n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
Radius	(n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
Radius	(n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
Radius	(n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.
Radius	(n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
Radius	(n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
Radiuses	(pl. ) of Radius
Radix	(n.) A finite expression, from which a series is derived.
Radix	(n.) A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration.
Radix	(n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon.
Radix	(n.) The root of a plant.
Radixes	(pl. ) of Radix
Radula	(n.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.
Radulae	(pl. ) of Radula
Raduliform	(a.) Rasplike; as, raduliform teeth.
Raff	(v. t.)To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.
Raff	(n.) A low fellow; a churl.
Raff	(n.) A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
Raff	(n.) The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.
Raffaelesque	(a.) Raphaelesque.
Raffed	(imp. & p. p.) of Raff
Raffia	(n.) A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia.
Raffing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raff
Raffinose	(n.) A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.
Raffish	(a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
Raffle	(v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
Raffle	(v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
Raffle	(v. t.)To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.
Raffle	(v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
Raffled	(imp. & p. p.) of Raffle
Raffler	(n.) One who raffles.
Rafflesia	(n.) A genus of stemless, leafless plants, living parasitically upon the roots and stems of grapevines in Malaysia. The flowers have a carrionlike odor, and are very large, in one species (Rafflesia Arnoldi) having a diameter of two or three feet.
Raffling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raffle
Raft	(v. t.)To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.
Raft	() imp. & p. p. of Reave.
Raft	() of Reave
Raft	(n.) A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.
Raft	(n.) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.
Raft	(n.) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.
Rafte	() imp. of Reave.
Rafted	(imp. & p. p.) of Raft
Rafter	(v. t.)To furnish with rafters, as a house.
Rafter	(v. t.)To make into rafters, as timber.
Rafter	(v. t.)To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
Rafter	(n.) A raftsman.
Rafter	(n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
Rafting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raft
Rafting	(n.) The business of making or managing rafts.
Raftsman	(n.) A man engaged in rafting.
Raftsmen	(pl. ) of Raftsman
Rafty	(a.) Damp; musty.
Rag	(v. t.)To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
Rag	(v. t.)To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
Rag	(v. t.)To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
Rag	(n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
Rag	(n.) A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
Rag	(n.) A ragged edge.
Rag	(n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
Rag	(n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
Rag	(n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
Rag	(v. i.) To become tattered.
Ragabash	(n.) Alt. of Ragabrash
Ragabrash	(n.) An idle, ragged person.
Ragamuffin	(n.) A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean wretch.
Ragamuffin	(n.) A person who wears ragged clothing.
Ragamuffin	(n.) The long-tailed titmouse.
Rage	(v. t.)To enrage.
Rage	(n.) A violent or raging wind.
Rage	(n.) Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
Rage	(n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
Rage	(n.) To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
Rage	(n.) To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
Rage	(n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
Rage	(n.) To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
Rage	(n.) Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
Raged	(imp. & p. p.) of Rage
Rageful	(a.) Full of rage; expressing rage.
Ragery	(n.) Wantonness.
Ragged	(imp. & p. p.) of Rag
Ragged	(n.) Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.
Ragged	(n.) Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.
Ragged	(n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.
Ragged	(n.) Rough; shaggy; rugged.
Ragged	(n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.
Raggie	(a.) Alt. of Raggy
Ragging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rag
Ragguled	(a.) Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
Raggy	(a.) Ragged; rough.
Raghuvansa	(n.) A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
Raging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rage
Raging	() a. & n. from Rage, v. i.
Ragious	(a.) Raging; furious; rageful.
Raglan	(n.) A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
Ragman	(n.) A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull.
Ragman	(n.) A man who collects, or deals in, rags.
Ragman's roll	() The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296.
Ragmen	(pl. ) of Ragman
Ragout	(n.) A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.
Ragpicker	(n.) One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
Raguled	(a.) Alt. of Ragguled
Ragweed	(n.) A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.
Ragwork	(n.) A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.
Ragwort	(n.) A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.
Raia	(n.) A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.
Raiae	(n. pl.) The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.
Raid	(v. t.)To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.
Raid	(n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
Raid	(n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
Raided	(imp. & p. p.) of Raid
Raider	(n.) One who engages in a raid.
Raiding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raid
Rail	(v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
Rail	(v. t.)To inclose with rails or a railing.
Rail	(v. t.)To move or influence by railing.
Rail	(v. t.)To rail at.
Rail	(v. t.)To range in a line.
Rail	(n.) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.
Rail	(n.) A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.
Rail	(n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.
Rail	(n.) An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
Rail	(n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.
Rail	(n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.
Rail	(v. i.) To flow forth; to roll out; to course.
Rail	(v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.
Railed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rail
Railer	(n.) One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
Railing	(a.) Expressing reproach; insulting.
Railing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rail
Railing	(n.) A barrier made of a rail or of rails.
Railing	(n.) Rails in general; also, material for making rails.
Railingly	(adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Raillery	(n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
Railleur	(n.) A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
Railroad	(n.) Alt. of Railway
Railroading	(n.) The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.
Railway	(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
Railway	(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.
Raiment	(n.) An article of dress.
Raiment	(n.) Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.
Rain	(n. & v.) .Reign.
Rain	(v. t.)To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.
Rain	(v. t.)To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.
Rain	(n.) To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.
Rain	(n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.
Rain	(n.) Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.
Rainbow	(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
Rainbowed	(a.) Formed with or like a rainbow.
Raindeer	(n.) See Reindeer.
Raindrop	(n.) A drop of rain.
Rained	(imp. & p. p.) of Rain
Rainfall	(n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.
Raininess	(n.) The state of being rainy.
Raining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rain
Rainless	(a.) Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.
Rain-tight	(a.) So tight as to exclude rain; as, a rain-tight roof.
Rainy	(a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Raip	(n.) A rope; also, a measure equal to a rod.
Rais	(n.) Same as 2d Reis.
Raisable	(a.) Capable of being raised.
Raise	(v. t.)To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
Raise	(v. t.)To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, an
Raise	(v. t.)To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
Raise	(v. t.)To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
Raise	(v. t.)To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
Raise	(v. t.)To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
Raise	(v. t.)To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
Raise	(v. t.)To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
Raise	(v. t.)To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
Raise	(v. t.)To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
Raise	(v. t.)To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
Raise	(v. t.)To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
Raise	(v. t.)To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
Raise	(v. t.)To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
Raise	(v. t.)To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
Raise	(v. t.)To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
Raise	(v. t.)To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
Raise	(v. t.)To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
Raise	(v. t.)To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
Raise	(v. t.)To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
Raised	(a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.
Raised	(a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.
Raised	(imp. & p. p.) of Raise
Raiser	(n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).
Raisin	(n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.
Raisin	(n.) A grape, or a bunch of grapes.
Raising	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raise
Raising	(n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
Raising	(n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
Raising	(n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Raisonne	(a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.
Raivel	(n.) A separator.
Raj	(n.) Reign; rule.
Raja	(n.) Same as Rajah.
Rajah	(a.) A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.
Rajahship	(n.) The office or dignity of a rajah.
Rajpoot	(n.) Alt. of Rajput
Rajput	(n.) A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.
Rake	(v. t.)To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
Rake	(v. t.)To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
Rake	(v. t.)To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
Rake	(v. t.)To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
Rake	(v. t.)To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
Rake	(v. t.)To search through; to scour; to ransack.
Rake	(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
Rake	(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
Rake	(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
Rake	(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
Rake	(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
Rake	(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
Rake	(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Rake	(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
Rake	(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Rake	(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
Rake	(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
Raked	(imp. & p. p.) of Rake
Rakehell	(a.) Alt. of Rakehelly
Rakehell	(n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.
Rakehelly	(a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.
Rakel	(a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.
Raker	(n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
Raker	(n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
Raker	(n.) A person who uses a rake.
Raker	(n.) One who, or that which, rakes
Raker	(n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.
Rakery	(n.) Debauchery; lewdness.
Rakeshame	(n.) A vile, dissolute wretch.
Rakestale	(n.) The handle of a rake.
Rake-vein	(n.) See Rake, a mineral vein.
Raking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rake
Raking	(n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
Raking	(n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
Rakish	(a.) Dissolute; lewd; debauched.
Rakish	(a.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.
Rakishly	(adv.) In a rakish manner.
Rakishness	(n.) The quality or state of being rakish.
Raku ware	() A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color.
Rale	(n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.
Rallentando	(a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
Ralliance	(n.) The act of rallying.
Rallied	(imp. & p. p.) of Rally
Rallier	(n.) One who rallies.
Rallies	(pl. ) of Rally
Ralline	(a.) Pertaining to the rails.
Rally	(v. t.)To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
Rally	(v. t.)To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
Rally	(n.) A political mass meeting.
Rally	(n.) Good-humored raillery.
Rally	(n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
Rally	(v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
Rally	(v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
Rally	(v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
Rally	(v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
Rallying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rally
Ralph	(n.) A name sometimes given to the raven.
Ralstonite	(n.) A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.
Ram	(v. t.)To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
Ram	(v. t.)To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
Ram	(n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
Ram	(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
Ram	(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
Ram	(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
Ram	(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
Ram	(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
Ram	(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
Ram	(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Ram	(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
Ramadan	(n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.
Ramadan	(n.) The ninth Mohammedan month.
Ramage	(a.) Wild; untamed.
Ramage	(n.) Boughs or branches.
Ramage	(n.) Warbling of birds in trees.
Ramagious	(a.) Wild; not tame.
Ramal	(a.) Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.
Ramayana	(n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.
Ramberge	(n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley.
Ramble	(n.) A bed of shale over the seam.
Ramble	(n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
Ramble	(v. i.) To extend or grow at random.
Ramble	(v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
Ramble	(v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
Rambled	(imp. & p. p.) of Ramble
Rambler	(n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
Rambling	(a.) Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
Rambling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramble
Ramblingly	(adv.) In a rambling manner.
Rambooze	(n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.
Rambutan	(n.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.
Rameal	(a.) Same as Ramal.
Ramean	(n.) A Ramist.
Ramed	(a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.
Ramee	(n.) See Ramie.
Ramekin	(n.) See Ramequin.
Rament	(n.) A scraping; a shaving.
Rament	(n.) Ramenta.
Ramenta	(n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
Ramentaceous	(a.) Covered with ramenta.
Rameous	(a.) Ramal.
Ramequin	(n.) A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.
Rami	(pl. ) of Ramus
Ramie	(n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
Ramification	(n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
Ramification	(n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
Ramification	(n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
Ramification	(n.) The production of branchlike figures.
Ramified	(imp. & p. p.) of Ramify
Ramiflorous	(a.) Flowering on the branches.
Ramiform	(a.) Having the form of a branch.
Ramify	(v. t.)To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Ramify	(v. i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
Ramify	(v. i.) To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
Ramifying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramify
Ramigerous	(a.) Bearing branches; branched.
Ramiparous	(a.) Producing branches; ramigerous.
Ramist	(n.) A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.
Ramline	(n.) A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.
Rammed	(imp. & p. p.) of Ram
Rammel	(n.) Refuse matter.
Rammer	(n.) A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod
Rammer	(n.) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.
Rammer	(n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity
Rammer	(n.) One who, or that which, rams or drives.
Ramming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ram
Rammish	(a.) Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.
Rammishness	(n.) The quality of being rammish.
Rammy	(a.) Like a ram; rammish.
Ramollescence	(n.) A softening or mollifying.
Ramoon	(n.) A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.
Ramose	(a.) Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.
Ramous	(a.) Ramose.
Ramp	(n.) A highwayman; a robber.
Ramp	(n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.
Ramp	(n.) A romping woman; a prostitute.
Ramp	(n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.
Ramp	(n.) An inclined plane serving as a communication between different interior levels.
Ramp	(n.) Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase.
Ramp	(v. i.) To climb, as a plant; to creep up.
Ramp	(v. i.) To move by leaps, or as by leaps; hence, to move swiftly or with violence.
Ramp	(v. i.) To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
Rampacious	(a.) High-spirited; rampageous.
Rampage	(v.) Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.
Rampage	(v. i.) To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.
Rampageous	(a.) Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.
Rampallian	(n.) A mean wretch.
Rampancy	(n.) The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.
Rampant	(v.) Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.
Rampant	(v.) Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.
Rampant	(v.) Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.
Rampantly	(adv.) In a rampant manner.
Rampart	(v. t.)To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Rampart	(n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
Rampart	(n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
Ramparted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rampart
Ramparting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rampart
Rampe	(n.) The cuckoopint.
Ramped	(imp. & p. p.) of Ramp
Rampier	(n.) See Rampart.
Ramping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramp
Rampion	(n.) A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.
Rampire	(v. t.)To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.
Rampire	(n.) A rampart.
Rampler	(a.) Roving; rambling.
Rampler	(n.) A rambler.
Ramrod	(n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Ramshackle	(a.) Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair.
Ramshackle	(v. t.)To search or ransack; to rummage.
Ramson	(n.) A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.
Ramsted	(n.) A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.
Ramuli	(pl. ) of Ramulus
Ramulose	(a.) Having many small branches, or ramuli.
Ramulous	(a.) Ramulose.
Ramulus	(n.) A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.
Ramus	(n.) A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.
Ramuscule	(n.) A small ramus, or branch.
Ran	(imp.) of Run
Ran	() imp. of Run.
Ran	(n.) Open robbery.
Ran	(n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
Rana	(n.) A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.
Ranal	(a.) Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.
Rance	(n.) A prop or shore.
Rance	(n.) A round between the legs of a chair.
Rancescent	(a.) Becoming rancid or sour.
Ranch	(v. t.)To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.
Ranch	(n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.
Ranchero	(n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
Ranchero	(n.) The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.
Rancheros	(pl. ) of Ranchero
Ranchman	(n.) An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.
Ranchmen	(pl. ) of Ranchman
Rancho	(n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
Rancho	(n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.
Ranchos	(pl. ) of Rancho
Rancid	(a.) Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.
Rancidity	(n.) The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil.
Rancidly	(adv.) In a rancid manner.
Rancidness	(n.) The quality of being rancid.
Rancor	(n.) The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
Rancorous	(a.) Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.
Rancorously	(adv.) In a rancorous manner.
Rand	(n.) A border; edge; margin.
Rand	(n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
Rand	(n.) A thin inner sole for a shoe; also, a leveling slip of leather applied to the sole before attaching the heel.
Rand	(v. i.) To rant; to storm.
Randall grass	() The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass.
Randan	(n.) A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
Randan	(n.) The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
Randing	(n.) A kind of basket work used in gabions.
Randing	(n.) The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.
Random	(a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.
Random	(n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
Random	(n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.
Random	(n.) Force; violence.
Random	(n.) The direction of a rake-vein.
Randomly	(adv.) In a random manner.
Randon	(n.) Random.
Randon	(v. i.) To go or stray at random.
Ranedeer	(n.) See Reindeer.
Ranee	(n.) Same as Rani.
Ranforce	(n.) See Re/nforce.
Rang	(imp.) of Ring
Rang	() imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.
Range	(v.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
Range	(v.) A kitchen grate.
Range	(v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.
Range	(v.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.
Range	(v.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
Range	(v.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
Range	(v.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.
Range	(v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.
Range	(v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.
Range	(v.) See Range of cable, below.
Range	(v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.
Range	(v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.
Range	(v.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.
Range	(v.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.
Range	(v.) The step of a ladder; a rung.
Range	(n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.
Range	(n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.
Range	(n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
Range	(n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.
Range	(n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.
Range	(n.) To separate into parts; to sift.
Range	(n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
Range	(v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
Range	(v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
Range	(v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.
Range	(v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the sho
Range	(v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
Ranged	(imp. & p. p.) of Range
Rangement	(n.) Arrangement.
Ranger	(n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
Ranger	(n.) One of a body of mounted troops, formerly armed with short muskets, who range over the country, and often fight on foot.
Ranger	(n.) One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
Ranger	(n.) That which separates or arranges; specifically, a sieve.
Ranger	(n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses
Rangership	(n.) The office of the keeper of a forest or park.
Ranging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Range
Rangle	(v. i.) To range about in an irregular manner.
Rani	(n.) A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.
Ranine	(a.) Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.
Ranine	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a swelling under the tongue; also, pertaining to the region where the swelling occurs; -- applied especially to branches of the lingual artery and lingual vein.
Rank	(n. & v.) .A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
Rank	(n. & v.) .A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
Rank	(n. & v.) .An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
Rank	(n. & v.) .Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
Rank	(n. & v.) .Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
Rank	(n. & v.) .Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
Rank	(superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
Rank	(superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
Rank	(superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
Rank	(superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
Rank	(superl.) Strong to the taste.
Rank	(superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
Rank	(v. t.)To place abreast, or in a line.
Rank	(v. t.)To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
Rank	(v. t.)To take rank of; to outrank.
Rank	(adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
Rank	(v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
Rank	(v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
Ranked	(imp. & p. p.) of Rank
Ranker	(n.) One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.
Ranking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rank
Rankle	(a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
Rankle	(a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
Rankle	(v. t.)To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.
Rankled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rankle
Rankling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rankle
Rankly	(adv.) With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.
Rankness	(n.) The condition or quality of being rank.
Rannel	(n.) A prostitute.
Ranny	(n.) The erd shrew.
Ransack	(v. t.)To plunder; to pillage completely.
Ransack	(v. t.)To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
Ransack	(v. t.)To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
Ransack	(n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
Ransack	(v. i.) To make a thorough search.
Ransacked	(imp. & p. p.) of Ransack
Ransacking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransack
Ransom	(n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
Ransom	(n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
Ransom	(n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
Ransom	(n.) To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
Ransom	(n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
Ransomable	(a.) Such as can be ransomed.
Ransomed	(imp. & p. p.) of Ransom
Ransomer	(n.) One who ransoms or redeems.
Ransoming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ransom
Ransomless	(a.) Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
Rant	(n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
Rant	(v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
Ranted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rant
Ranter	(n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
Ranter	(n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
Ranter	(n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Ranterism	(n.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.
Ranting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rant
Rantingly	(adv.) In a ranting manner.
Rantipole	(a.) Wild; roving; rakish.
Rantipole	(n.) A wild, romping young person.
Rantipole	(v. i.) To act like a rantipole.
Rantism	(n.) Ranterism.
Ranty	(a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous.
Ranula	(n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.
Ranunculaceous	(a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.
Ranunculi	(pl. ) of Ranunculus
Ranunculus	(n.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.
Ranunculuses	(pl. ) of Ranunculus
Ranz des vaches	() The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
Rap	(v.) To exchange; to truck.
Rap	(v.) To hasten.
Rap	(v.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
Rap	(v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
Rap	(v. t.)To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rap	(v. t.)To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
Rap	(n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Rap	(n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Rap	(n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rap	(v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
Rapaces	(n. pl.) Same as Accipitres.
Rapacious	(a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
Rapacious	(a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
Rapacious	(a.) Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
Rapacity	(n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Rapacity	(n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
Raparee	(n.) See Rapparee.
Rape	(v. t.)To commit rape upon; to ravish.
Rape	(n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rape	(n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
Rape	(n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
Rape	(n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Rape	(n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
Rape	(n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Rape	(n.) That which is snatched away.
Rape	(n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
Rape	(n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
Rape	(v. i.) To rob; to pillage.
Rapeful	(a.) Given to the commission of rape.
Rapeful	(a.) Violent.
Rapfully	(adv.) Violently.
Raphaelesque	(a.) Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
Raphaelism	(n.) The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.
Raphaelite	(n.) One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.
Raphany	(n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is n
Raphe	(n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.
Raphe	(n.) Same as Rhaphe.
Raphides	(n. pl.) See Rhaphides.
Rapid	(a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
Rapid	(a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
Rapid	(a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
Rapid	(a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Rapidity	(n.) The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
Rapidly	(adv.) In a rapid manner.
Rapidness	(n.) Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
Rapier	(n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
Rapiered	(a.) Wearing a rapier.
Rapilli	(n. pl.) Lapilli.
Rapine	(v. t.)To plunder.
Rapine	(n.) Ravishment; rape.
Rapine	(n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
Rapinous	(a.) Given to rapine.
Rappage	(n.) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.
Rapparee	(n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.
Rapped	(imp. & p. p.) of Rap
Rapped	(imp. & p. p.) of Rap
Rapped	() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rapped	() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.
Rappee	(v.) A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
Rappel	(n.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Rapper	(n.) A forcible oath or lie.
Rapper	(n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
Rapping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap
Rapping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap
Rapport	(n.) Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.
Rapscallion	(n.) A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow.
Rapt	(a.) An ecstasy; a trance.
Rapt	(a.) Rapidity.
Rapt	(a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Rapt	(a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
Rapt	(a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
Rapt	(v. t.)To carry away by force.
Rapt	(v. t.)To transport or ravish.
Rapt	() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rapt	() of Rap
Rapter	(n.) A raptor.
Raptor	(n.) A ravisher; a plunderer.
Raptores	(n. pl.) Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.
Raptorial	(a.) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.
Raptorial	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves.
Raptorial	(a.) Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.
Raptorious	(a.) Raptorial.
Rapture	(v. t.)To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
Rapture	(n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
Rapture	(n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Rapture	(n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
Raptured	(imp. & p. p.) of Rapture
Rapturing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rapture
Rapturist	(n.) An enthusiast.
Rapturize	(v. t. & i.) To put, or be put, in a state of rapture.
Rapturous	(a.) Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.
Rapturously	(adv.) In a rapturous manner.
Rare	(superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
Rare	(superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
Rare	(superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
Rare	(superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
Rare	(superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
Rare	(a.) Early.
Rarebit	(n.) A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.
Raree-show	(n.) A show carried about in a box; a peep show.
Rarefaction	(n.) The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.
Rarefiable	(a.) Capable of being rarefied.
Rarefied	(imp. & p. p.) of Rarefy
Rarefy	(v. t.)To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
Rarefy	(v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.
Rarefying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rarefy
Rarely	(adv.) Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2.
Rarely	(adv.) In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.
Rareness	(n.) The state or quality of being rare.
Rareripe	(a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
Rareripe	(n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
Rarification	(n.) See Rarefaction.
Rarities	(pl. ) of Rarity
Rarity	(n.) That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.
Rarity	(n.) The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
Ras	(n.) See 2d Reis.
Rasante	(a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.
Rascal	(v.) A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
Rascal	(v.) One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
Rascal	(a.) Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.
Rascaldom	(n.) State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively.
Rascaless	(n.) A female rascal.
Rascalities	(pl. ) of Rascality
Rascality	(n.) The poorer and lower classes of people.
Rascality	(n.) The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.
Rascallion	(n.) A low, mean wretch.
Rascally	(a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.
Rase	(v. t.)To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
Rase	(v. t.)To rub along the surface of; to graze.
Rase	(v. t.)To rub or scratch out; to erase.
Rase	(n.) A scratching out, or erasure.
Rase	(n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
Rase	(n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
Rase	(v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
Rased	(imp. & p. p.) of Rase
Rash	(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
Rash	(superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
Rash	(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
Rash	(superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
Rash	(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
Rash	(v. t.)To prepare with haste.
Rash	(v. t.)To pull off or pluck violently.
Rash	(v. t.)To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
Rash	(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
Rash	(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
Rasher	(n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).
Rasher	(n.) A thin slice of bacon.
Rashful	(a.) Rash; hasty; precipitate.
Rashling	(n.) A rash person.
Rashly	(adv.) In a rash manner; with precipitation.
Rashness	(n.) The quality or state of being rash.
Rasing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rase
Raskolnik	(n.) One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia.
Rasores	(v. t.)An order of birds; the Gallinae.
Rasorial	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.
Rasour	(n.) Razor.
Rasp	(v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
Rasp	(v.) The raspberry.
Rasp	(v. t.)Hence, figuratively
Rasp	(v. t.)To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
Raspatorium	(n.) See Raspatory.
Raspatory	(v.) A surgeon's rasp.
Raspberry	(n.) The shrub bearing this fruit.
Raspberry	(n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
Rasped	(imp. & p. p.) of Rasp
Rasper	(n.) One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.
Rasping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rasp
Raspis	(n.) The raspberry.
Raspy	(a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.
Rasse	(n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.
Rasure	(v.) A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.
Rasure	(v.) The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
Rat	(n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
Rat	(n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). T
Rat	(n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
Rat	(v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
Rat	(v. i.) To catch or kill rats.
Rata	(n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.
Ratability	(n.) The quality or state of being ratable.
Ratable	(a.) Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.
Ratable	(a.) Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.
Ratable	(a.) Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.
Ratafia	(n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc.
Ratan	(n.) See Rattan.
Ratany	(n.) Same as Rhatany.
Rataplan	(n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.
Ratch	(n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works.
Ratch	(n.) Same as Rotche.
Ratchel	(n.) Gravelly stone.
Ratchet	(n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
Ratchet	(n.) A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
Rate	(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
Rate	(v. t.)To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
Rate	(v. t.)To ratify.
Rate	(v. t.)To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
Rate	(v. t.)To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
Rate	(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
Rate	(n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
Rate	(n.) Order; arrangement.
Rate	(n.) Ratification; approval.
Rate	(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
Rate	(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
Rate	(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
Rate	(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
Rate	(n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
Rate	(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
Rate	(v. i.) To make an estimate.
Rateable	(a.) See Ratable.
Rated	(imp. & p. p.) of Rate
Ratel	(n.) Any carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.
Ratepayer	(n.) One who pays rates or taxes.
Rater	(n.) One who rates or estimates.
Rater	(n.) One who rates or scolds.
Ratfish	(n.) Same as Rat-tail.
Rath	(a.) Alt. of Rathe
Rath	(adv.) Alt. of Rathe
Rath	(n.) A hill or mound.
Rath	(n.) A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.
Rathe	(a.) Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.
Rathe	(adv.) Early; soon; betimes.
Rather	(a.) Earlier; sooner; before.
Rather	(a.) In some degree; somewhat; as, the day is rather warm; the house is rather damp.
Rather	(a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
Rather	(a.) More readily or willingly; preferably.
Rather	(a.) Of two alternatives conceived of, this by preference to, or as more likely than, the other; somewhat.
Rather	(a.) On the other hand; to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead.
Rather	(a.) Prior; earlier; former.
Rathripe	(a.) Rareripe, or early ripe.
Rathripe	(n.) A rareripe.
Ratification	(n.) The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.
Ratified	(imp. & p. p.) of Ratify
Ratifier	(n.) One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer.
Ratify	(n.) To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination.
Ratifying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ratify
Ratihabition	(n.) Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract.
Rating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rate
Ratio	(n.) Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress.
Ratio	(n.) The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by / or /; of a to b by a/b; or (less commonly) the secon
Ratiocinate	(v. i.) To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.
Ratiocination	(n.) The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
Ratiocinative	(a.) Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process.
Ratiocinatory	(a.) Ratiocinative.
Ration	(v. t.)To supply with rations, as a regiment.
Ration	(n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
Ration	(n.) Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
Rational	(a.) Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
Rational	(a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
Rational	(a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
Rational	(a.) Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
Rational	(n.) A rational being.
Rationale	(a.) An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.
Rationalism	(n.) The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.
Rationalism	(n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.
Rationalist	(n.) One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
Rationalistic	(a.) Alt. of Rationalistical
Rationalistical	(a.) Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism.
Rationality	(n.) The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
Rationalization	(n.) The act or process of rationalizing.
Rationalize	(v. t.)To form a rational conception of.
Rationalize	(v. t.)To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.
Rationalize	(v. t.)To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.
Rationalize	(v. t.)To render rational; to free from radical signs or quantities.
Rationalize	(v. i.) To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory, belief, etc., especially in matters of religion
Rationally	(adv.) In a rational manner.
Rationalness	(n.) The quality or state of being rational; rationality.
Ratitae	(n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.
Ratitate	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
Ratite	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
Ratite	(n.) One of the Ratitae.
Ratlines	(n. pl.) Alt. of Ratlins
Ratlins	(n. pl.) The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder.
Raton	(n.) A small rat.
Ratoon	(n.) A rattan cane.
Ratoon	(n.) Same as Rattoon, n.
Ratoon	(v. i.) Same as Rattoon, v. i.
Ratsbane	(n.) Rat poison; white arsenic.
Ratsbaned	(a.) Poisoned by ratsbane.
Rat-tail	(a.) Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.
Rat-tail	(n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
Rat-tail	(n.) Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.
Rat-tail	(n.) The California chimaera. See Chimaera.
Rat-tailed	(a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
Rattan	(n.) One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs,
Ratted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rat
Ratteen	(n.) A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.
Ratten	(v. t.)To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.
Ratter	(n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.
Ratter	(n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
Rattinet	(n.) A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.
Ratting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rat
Ratting	(n.) The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1.
Ratting	(v. i.) The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.
Rattle	(v. t.)Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
Rattle	(v. t.)To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
Rattle	(v. t.)To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
Rattle	(v. t.)To scold; to rail at.
Rattle	(n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
Rattle	(n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
Rattle	(n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
Rattle	(n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
Rattle	(n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
Rattle	(n.) Noisy, rapid talk.
Rattle	(n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
Rattle	(v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
Rattle	(v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
Rattle	(v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
Rattlebox	(n.) A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle.
Rattlebox	(n.) An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.
Rattlebox	(n.) Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
Rattle-brained	(a.) Giddy; rattle-headed.
Rattled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rattle
Rattlehead	(n.) An empty, noisy talker.
Rattle-headed	(a.) Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
Rattlemouse	(n.) A bat.
Rattlepate	(n.) A rattlehead.
Rattle-pated	(a.) Rattle-headed.
Rattler	(n.) One who, or that which, rattles.
Rattlesnake	(n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common ratt
Rattletrap	(n.) Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly.
Rattleweed	(n.) Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
Rattlewings	(n.) The golden-eye.
Rattlewort	(n.) Same as Rattlebox.
Rattling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rattle
Rattlings	(n. pl.) Ratlines.
Rattoon	(n.) One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.
Rattoon	(v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting.
Rattooned	(imp. & p. p.) of Rattoon
Rattooning	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rattoon
Raucid	(a.) Hoarse; raucous.
Raucity	(n.) Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.
Raucous	(a.) Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.
Raught	() imp. & p. p. of Reach.
Raught	() imp. & p. p. of Reck.
Raught	() of Reach
Raunch	(v. t.)See Ranch.
Raunsoun	(n.) Ransom.
Ravage	(n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.
Ravage	(n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Ravaged	(imp. & p. p.) of Ravage
Ravager	(n.) One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
Ravaging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravage
Rave	(v. t.)To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
Rave	() imp. of Rive.
Rave	(n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
Rave	(v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.
Rave	(v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
Rave	(v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
Raved	(imp. & p. p.) of Rave
Ravehook	(n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.
Ravel	(v. t.)To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
Ravel	(v. t.)To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
Ravel	(v. t.)To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
Ravel	(v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
Ravel	(v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
Ravel	(v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
Raveled	(imp. & p. p.) of Ravel
Raveler	(n.) One who ravels.
Ravelin	(n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.
Raveling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravel
Raveling	(n.) That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
Raveling	(n.) The act of untwisting or of disentangling.
Ravelled	() of Ravel
Ravelling	() of Ravel
Raven	(a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
Raven	(v. t.)To devour with great eagerness.
Raven	(v. t.)To obtain or seize by violence.
Raven	(n.) A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
Raven	(n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Raven	(n.) Rapine; rapacity.
Raven	(v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Ravenala	(n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.
Ravened	(imp. & p. p.) of Raven
Ravener	(n.) A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture.
Ravener	(n.) One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
Ravening	(a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.
Ravening	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raven
Ravening	(n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Ravenous	(a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
Ravenous	(a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.
Raven's-duck	(n.) A fine quality of sailcloth.
Raver	(n.) One who raves.
Ravin	(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Ravine
Ravin	(a.) Ravenous.
Ravin	(n.) Alt. of Ravine
Ravine	(v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i.
Ravine	(n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
Ravine	(n.) A torrent of water.
Ravine	(n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
Raving	(a.) Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic.
Raving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rave
Ravish	(v. t.)To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Ravish	(v. t.)To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
Ravish	(v. t.)To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
Ravished	(imp. & p. p.) of Ravish
Ravisher	(n.) One who ravishes (in any sense).
Ravishing	(a.) Rapturous; transporting.
Ravishing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravish
Ravishingly	(adv.) In a ravishing manner.
Ravishment	(n.) The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.
Ravishment	(n.) The act of ravishing a woman; rape.
Ravishment	(n.) The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy.
Ravissant	(a.) In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.
Raw	(superl.) Bald.
Raw	(superl.) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
Raw	(superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
Raw	(superl.) Hence
Raw	(superl.) Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.
Raw	(superl.) Not covered; bare.
Raw	(superl.) Not distilled; as, raw water
Raw	(superl.) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits
Raw	(superl.) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
Raw	(superl.) Not tanned; as, raw hides
Raw	(superl.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow
Raw	(superl.) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
Raw	(superl.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
Raw	(superl.) Sore, as if by being galled.
Raw	(n.) A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.
Rawbone	(a.) Rawboned.
Rawboned	(a.) Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.
Rawhead	(n.) A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.
Rawhide	(n.) A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.
Rawish	(a.) Somewhat raw.
Rawly	(adv.) In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience.
Rawly	(adv.) Without proper preparation or provision.
Rawness	(n.) The quality or state of being raw.
Ray grass	() A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass.
Ray	(v. t.)To array.
Ray	(v. t.)To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
Ray	(n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.
Ray	(n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.
Ray	(n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
Ray	(n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
Ray	(n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.
Ray	(n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.
Ray	(n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
Ray	(n.) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.
Ray	(n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
Ray	(n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
Ray	(n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
Ray	(n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
Ray	(n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
Ray	(v. i.) To shine, as with rays.
Rayah	(n.) A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.
Rayed	(imp. & p. p.) of Ray
Raying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ray
Rayless	(a.) Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
Rayon	(n.) Ray; beam.
Rayonnant	(a.) Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
Raze	(v. t.)To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Raze	(v. t.)To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
Raze	(n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
Razed	(a.) Slashed or striped in patterns.
Razed	(imp. & p. p.) of Raze
Razee	(v. t.)An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
Razee	(v. t.)To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.
Razeed	(imp. & p. p.) of Razee
Razeeing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Razee
Razing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raze
Razor	(v. t.)A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head.
Razor	(v. t.)A tusk of a wild boar.
Razorable	(a.) Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved.
Razorback	(n.) The rorqual.
Razor-backed	(a.) Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.
Razorbill	(n.) A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.
Razorbill	(n.) See Cutwater, 3.
Razure	(n.) An erasure; a change made by erasing.
Razure	(n.) The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.
Razzia	(n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.
Re coverance	(n.) Recovery.
Re proval	(n.) Reproof.
Re sign	(n.) Resignation.
Re-	() A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinati
Re	() A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.
Reabsorb	(v. t.)To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.
Reabsorption	(n.) The act or process of reabsorbing.
Reaccess	(n.) A second access or approach; a return.
Reaccuse	(v. t.)To accuse again.
Reach	(v. t.)Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
Reach	(v. t.)Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
Reach	(v. t.)To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
Reach	(v. t.)To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
Reach	(v. t.)To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
Reach	(v. t.)To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
Reach	(v. t.)To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
Reach	(v. t.)To overreach; to deceive.
Reach	(v. t.)To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
Reach	(v. t.)To understand; to comprehend.
Reach	(n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
Reach	(n.) An effort to vomit.
Reach	(n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
Reach	(n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
Reach	(n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
Reach	(n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
Reach	(n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
Reach	(v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
Reach	(v. i.) To retch.
Reach	(v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
Reach	(v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
Reach	(v. i.) To stretch out the hand.
Reachable	(a.) Being within reach.
Reached	(imp. & p. p.) of Reach
Reacher	(n.) An exaggeration.
Reacher	(n.) One who reaches.
Reaching	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reach
Reachless	(a.) Being beyond reach; lofty.
React	(v. t.)To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
React	(v. i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
React	(v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
Reaction	(n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
Reaction	(n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
Reaction	(n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
Reaction	(n.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
Reaction	(n.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of
Reactionaries	(pl. ) of Reactionary
Reactionary	(a.) Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
Reactionary	(n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
Reactionist	(n.) A reactionary.
Reactive	(a.) Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.
Read	(v.) Reading.
Read	(a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
Read	(imp. & p. p.) of Read
Read	(v. t.)Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
Read	(v. t.)Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
Read	(v. t.)To advise; to counsel.
Read	(v. t.)To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
Read	(v. t.)To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of a
Read	(v. t.)To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
Read	(v. t.)To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
Read	(v. t.)To tell; to declare; to recite.
Read	() imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
Read	(n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed.
Read	(v. i.) To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
Read	(v. i.) To give advice or counsel.
Read	(v. i.) To learn by reading.
Read	(v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
Read	(v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
Read	(v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
Read	(v. i.) To tell; to declare.
Readability	(n.) The state of being readable; readableness.
Readable	(a.) Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.
Readdress	(v. t.)To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.
Readept	(v. t.)To regain; to recover.
Readeption	(n.) A regaining; recovery of something lost.
Reader	(n.) A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.
Reader	(n.) A proof reader.
Reader	(n.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.
Reader	(n.) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
Reader	(n.) One who reads much; one who is studious.
Reader	(n.) One who reads.
Reader	(n.) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.
Readership	(n.) The office of reader.
Readily	(adv.) In a ready manner; quickly; promptly.
Readily	(adv.) Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully.
Readiness	(n.) The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.
Reading	(a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
Reading	(a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
Reading	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read
Reading	(n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.
Reading	(n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
Reading	(n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
Reading	(n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
Reading	(n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
Reading	(n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
Readjourn	(v. t.)To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.
Readjournment	(n.) The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.
Readjust	(v. t.)To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
Readjuster	(n.) One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.
Readjustment	(n.) A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
Readmission	(n.) The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
Readmit	(v. t.)To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.
Readmittance	(n.) Allowance to enter again; a second admission.
Readopt	(v. t.)To adopt again.
Readorn	(v. t.)To adorn again or anew.
Readvance	(v. i.) To advance again.
Readvertency	(n.) The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing.
Ready	(superl.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.
Ready	(superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.
Ready	(superl.) Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman.
Ready	(superl.) Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy.
Ready	(superl.) On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive.
Ready	(superl.) Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey.
Ready	(superl.) Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.
Ready	(v. t.)To dispose in order.
Ready	(adv.) In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.
Ready	(n.) Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready.
Ready-made	(a.) Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
Ready-witted	(a.) Having ready wit.
Reaffirm	(v. t.)To affirm again.
Reaffirmance	(n.) Alt. of Reaffirmation
Reaffirmation	(n.) A second affirmation.
Reafforest	(v. t.)To convert again into a forest, as a region of country.
Reafforestation	(n.) The act or process of converting again into a forest.
Reagent	(n.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.
Reaggravation	(n.) The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.
Reagree	(v. i.) To agree again.
Reak	(n.) A prank.
Reak	(n.) A rush.
Real	(a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
Real	(a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
Real	(a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
Real	(a.) Relating to things, not to persons.
Real	(a.) Royal; regal; kingly.
Real	(a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
Real	(n.) A realist.
Real	(n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
Realgar	(n.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.
Realism	(n.) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.
Realism	(n.) As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).
Realism	(n.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
Realist	(n.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.
Realist	(n.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
Realistic	(a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
Realistically	(adv.) In a realistic manner.
Realities	(pl. ) of Reality
Reality	(n.) Loyalty; devotion.
Reality	(n.) See 2d Realty, 2.
Reality	(n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.
Reality	(n.) The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
Realizable	(a.) Capable of being realized.
Realization	(n.) The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.
Realize	(v. t.)To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.
Realize	(v. t.)To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
Realize	(v. t.)To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
Realize	(v. t.)To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.
Realize	(v. t.)To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.
Realize	(v. i.) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.
Realized	(imp. & p. p.) of Realize
Realizer	(n.) One who realizes.
Realizing	(a.) Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.
Realizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Realize
Reallege	(v. t.)To allege again.
Realliance	(n.) A renewed alliance.
Re-ally	(v. t.)To bring together again; to compose or form anew.
Really	(adv.) In a real manner; with or in reality; actually; in truth.
Really	(adv.) Royally.
Realm	(n.) A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
Realm	(n.) Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.
Realmless	(a.) Destitute of a realm.
Realness	(n.) The quality or condition of being real; reality.
Realty	(n.) Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.
Realty	(n.) Loyalty; faithfulness.
Realty	(n.) Real estate; a piece of real property.
Realty	(n.) Reality.
Realty	(n.) Royalty.
Ream	(v. t.)To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.
Ream	(v. t.)To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
Ream	(n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
Ream	(n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
Ream	(v. i.) To cream; to mantle.
Reame	(n.) Realm.
Reamed	(imp. & p. p.) of Ream
Reamer	(n.) One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.
Reaming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ream
Reamputation	(n.) The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.
Reanimate	(v. t.)To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.
Reanimation	(n.) The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
Reannex	(v. t.)To annex again or anew; to reunite.
Reannexation	(n.) Act of reannexing.
Reanswer	(v. t. & i.) To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
Reap	(v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
Reap	(v. t.)To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.
Reap	(v. t.)To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
Reap	(v. t.)To deprive of the beard; to shave.
Reap	(v. t.)To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.
Reap	(v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.
Reaped	(imp. & p. p.) of Reap
Reaper	(n.) A reaping machine.
Reaper	(n.) One who reaps.
Reaping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reap
Reapparel	(v. t.)To clothe again.
Reappear	(v. i.) To appear again.
Reappearance	(n.) A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
Reapplication	(n.) The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
Reapply	(v. t. & i.) To apply again.
Reappoint	(v. t.)To appoint again.
Reappointment	(n.) The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.
Reapportion	(v. t.)To apportion again.
Reapportionment	(n.) A second or a new apportionment.
Reapproach	(v. i. & t.) To approach again or anew.
Rear	(a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
Rear	(v. t.)To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
Rear	(v. t.)To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
Rear	(v. t.)To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
Rear	(v. t.)To lift and take up.
Rear	(v. t.)To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
Rear	(v. t.)To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
Rear	(v. t.)To rouse; to stir up.
Rear	(adv.) Early; soon.
Rear	(n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
Rear	(n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
Rear	(v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
Reardorse	(n.) Alt. of Reardoss
Reardoss	(n.) A reredos.
Reared	(imp. & p. p.) of Rear
Rearer	(n.) One who, or that which, rears.
Reargue	(v. t.)To argue anew or again.
Reargument	(n.) An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
Rear-horse	(n.) A mantis.
Rearing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rear
Rearly	(adv.) Early.
Rearmost	(a.) Farthest in the rear; last.
Rearmouse	(n.) Alt. of Reremouse
Rearrange	(v. t.)To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.
Rearrangement	(n.) The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.
Rearward	(a. & adv.) At or toward the rear.
Rearward	(n.) The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively.
Reascend	(v. t.)To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.
Reascend	(v. i.) To rise, mount, or climb again.
Reascension	(n.) The act of reascending; a remounting.
Reascent	(n.) A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity.
Reason	(v. t.)To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.
Reason	(v. t.)To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.
Reason	(v. t.)To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion.
Reason	(v. t.)To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.
Reason	(v. t.)To support with reasons, as a request.
Reason	(n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an
Reason	(n.) Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by t
Reason	(n.) Hence
Reason	(n.) Ratio; proportion.
Reason	(n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and
Reason	(n.) To converse; to compare opinions.
Reason	(n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
Reasonable	(adv.) Reasonably; tolerably.
Reasonable	(n.) Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
Reasonable	(n.) Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
Reasonable	(n.) Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
Reasonableness	(n.) Quality of being reasonable.
Reasonably	(adv.) In a reasonable manner.
Reasonably	(adv.) Moderately; tolerably.
Reasoned	(imp. & p. p.) of Reason
Reasoner	(n.) One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.
Reasoning	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reason
Reasoning	(n.) That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.
Reasoning	(n.) The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.
Reasonist	(n.) A rationalist.
Reasonless	(a.) Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.
Reasonless	(a.) Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable.
Reassemblage	(n.) Assemblage a second time or again.
Reassemble	(v. t. & i.) To assemble again.
Reassert	(v. t.)To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.
Reassertion	(n.) A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.
Reassessment	(n.) A renewed or second assessment.
Reassign	(v. t.)To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.
Reassignment	(n.) The act of reassigning.
Reassimilate	(v. t. & i.) To assimilate again.
Reassociate	(v. t. & i.) To associate again; to bring again into close relations.
Reassume	(v. t.)To assume again or anew; to resume.
Reassurance	(n.) Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated.
Reassurance	(n.) Same as Reinsurance.
Reassure	(v. t.)To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
Reassure	(v. t.)To reinsure.
Reassurer	(n.) One who reassures.
Reasty	(a.) Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat.
Reata	(n.) A lariat.
Reattach	(v. t.)To attach again.
Reattachment	(n.) The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
Reattain	(v. t.)To attain again.
Reattainment	(n.) The act of reattaining.
Reattempt	(v. t.)To attempt again.
Reaume	(n.) Realm.
Reaumur	(a.) Of or pertaining to Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by Reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.
Reaumur	(n.) A Reaumur thermometer or scale.
Reave	(v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]
Reaved	(imp. & p. p.) of Reave
Reaver	(n.) One who reaves.
Reaving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reave
Reawake	(v. i.) To awake again.
Rebanish	(v. t.)To banish again.
Rebaptism	(n.) A second baptism.
Rebaptization	(n.) A second baptism.
Rebaptize	(v. t.)To baptize again or a second time.
Rebaptizer	(n.) One who rebaptizes.
Rebarbarize	(v. t.)To reduce again to barbarism.
Rebate	(v. t.)To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
Rebate	(v. t.)To cut a rebate in. See Rabbet, v.
Rebate	(v. t.)To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.
Rebate	(n.) A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
Rebate	(n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
Rebate	(n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
Rebate	(n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
Rebate	(n.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.
Rebate	(n.) Diminution.
Rebate	(v. i.) To abate; to withdraw.
Rebatement	(n.) Same as 3d Rebate.
Rebato	(n.) Same as Rabato.
Rebec	(n.) A contemptuous term applied to an old woman.
Rebec	(n.) An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow.
Rebel	(n.) One who rebels.
Rebel	(v. i.) Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.
Rebel	(v. i.) To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
Rebel	(v. i.) To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
Rebeldom	(n.) A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels.
Rebelled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rebel
Rebeller	(n.) One who rebels; a rebel.
Rebelling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebel
Rebellion	(v. i.) Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
Rebellion	(v. i.) The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for
Rebellious	(a.) Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
Rebellow	(v. i.) To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow.
Rebiting	(n.) The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.
Rebloom	(v. i.) To bloom again.
Reblossom	(v. i.) To blossom again.
Reboant	(a.) Rebellowing; resounding loudly.
Reboation	(n.) Repetition of a bellow.
Reboil	(v. t. & i.) Fig.
Reboil	(v. t. & i.) To boil, or to cause to boil, again.
Reborn	(p. p.) Born again.
Rebound	(v. t.)To send back; to reverberate.
Rebound	(n.) The act of rebounding; resilience.
Rebound	(v. i.) To bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.
Rebound	(v. i.) To give back an echo.
Rebound	(v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.
Rebrace	(v. t.)To brace again.
Rebreathe	(v. t.)To breathe again.
Rebucous	(a.) Rebuking.
Rebuff	(v. t.)To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
Rebuff	(n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
Rebuff	(n.) Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
Rebuffed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rebuff
Rebuffing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebuff
Rebuild	(v. t.)To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
Rebuilder	(n.) One who rebuilds.
Rebukable	(a.) Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible.
Rebuke	(v. t.)To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
Rebuke	(n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
Rebuke	(n.) Check; rebuff.
Rebuked	(imp. & p. p.) of Rebuke
Rebukeful	(a.) Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke.
Rebuker	(n.) One who rebukes.
Rebuking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebuke
Rebukingly	(adv.) By way of rebuke.
Rebullition	(n.) The act of boiling up or effervescing.
Rebury	(v. t.)To bury again.
Rebus	(v. t.)To mark or indicate by a rebus.
Rebus	(n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representati
Rebus	(n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
Rebuses	(pl. ) of Rebus
Rebut	(v. t.)To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
Rebut	(v. t.)To drive or beat back; to repulse.
Rebut	(v. i.) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
Rebut	(v. i.) To retire; to recoil.
Rebuttable	(a.) Capable of being rebutted.
Rebuttal	(n.) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.
Rebutted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rebut
Rebutter	(n.) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
Rebutting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rebut
Recadency	(n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.
Recalcitrant	(a.) Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.
Recalcitrate	(v. t.)To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.
Recalcitrate	(v. i.) To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition.
Recalcitration	(n.) A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.
Recall	(v. t.)To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.
Recall	(v. t.)To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
Recall	(v. t.)To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
Recall	(n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
Recall	(n.) A calling back; a revocation.
Recallable	(a.) Capable of being recalled.
Recallment	(n.) Recall.
Recant	(v. t.)To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
Recant	(v. i.) To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.
Recantation	(n.) The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
Recanted	(imp. & p. p.) of Recant
Recanter	(n.) One who recants.
Recanting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recant
Recapacitate	(v. t.)To qualify again; to confer capacity on again.
Recapitulate	(v. t.)To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
Recapitulate	(v. i.) To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
Recapitulation	(n.) The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
Recapitulator	(n.) One who recapitulates.
Recapitulatory	(a.) Of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.
Recapper	(n.) A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
Recaption	(n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them.
Recaptor	(n.) One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.
Recapture	(v. t.)To capture again; to retake.
Recapture	(n.) That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
Recapture	(n.) The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
Recarbonize	(v. t.)To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.
Recarnify	(v. t.)To convert again into flesh.
Recarriage	(n.) Act of carrying back.
Recarry	(v. t.)To carry back.
Recast	(v. t.)To compute, or cast up, a second time.
Recast	(v. t.)To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
Recast	(v. t.)To throw again.
Recche	(v. i.) To reck.
Reccheles	(a.) Reckless.
Recede	(v. i.) To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
Recede	(v. i.) To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
Recede	(v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.
Receded	(imp. & p. p.) of Recede
Receding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recede
Receipt	(v. t.)To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.
Receipt	(v. t.)To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.
Receipt	(n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.
Receipt	(n.) A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.
Receipt	(n.) Capability of receiving; capacity.
Receipt	(n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place.
Receipt	(n.) Place of receiving.
Receipt	(n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
Receipt	(n.) That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.
Receipt	(n.) The act of receiving; reception.
Receipt	(v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.
Receipted	(imp. & p. p.) of Receipt
Receipting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Receipt
Receiptment	(n.) The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony.
Receiptor	(n.) One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.
Receit	(n.) Receipt.
Receivability	(n.) The quality of being receivable; receivableness.
Receivable	(a.) Capable of being received.
Receive	(v. t.)Hence
Receive	(v. t.)To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
Receive	(v. t.)To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
Receive	(v. t.)To bat back (the ball) when served.
Receive	(v. t.)To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
Receive	(v. t.)To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
Receive	(v. t.)To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
Receive	(v. t.)To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
Receive	(v. i.) To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
Receive	(v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
Received	(imp. & p. p.) of Receive
Receivedness	(n.) The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.
Receiver	(n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
Receiver	(n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts
Receiver	(n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
Receiver	(n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
Receiver	(n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
Receiver	(n.) One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
Receiver	(n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.
Receiver	(n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
Receiver	(n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.
Receivership	(n.) The state or office of a receiver.
Receiving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Receive
Recelebrate	(v. t.)To celebrate again, or anew.
Recency	(n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
Recense	(v. t.)To review; to revise.
Recension	(n.) Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.
Recension	(n.) The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.
Recension	(n.) The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.
Recensionist	(n.) One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.
Recent	(a.) Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.
Recent	(a.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.
Recenter	(v. t.)To center again; to restore to the center.
Recently	(adv.) Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.
Recentness	(n.) Quality or state of being recent.
Receptacle	(n.) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
Receptacle	(n.) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.
Receptacle	(n.) That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
Receptacle	(n.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
Receptacle	(n.) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.
Receptacula	(pl. ) of Receptaculum
Receptacular	(a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.
Receptaculum	(n.) A receptacle; as, the receptaculum of the chyle.
Receptary	(a.) Generally or popularly admitted or received.
Receptary	(n.) That which is received.
Receptibility	(n.) A receptible thing.
Receptibility	(n.) The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness.
Receptible	(a.) Such as may be received; receivable.
Reception	(n.) A retaking; a recovery.
Reception	(n.) Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.
Reception	(n.) The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.
Reception	(n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.
Reception	(n.) The state of being received.
Receptive	(a.) Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.
Receptiveness	(n.) The quality of being receptive.
Receptivity	(n.) The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.
Receptivity	(n.) The state or quality of being receptive.
Receptory	(n.) Receptacle.
Recess	(v. t.)To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
Recess	(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recess	(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Recess	(n.) A sinus.
Recess	(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
Recess	(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
Recess	(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
Recess	(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
Recess	(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Recessed	(a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.
Recessed	(a.) Withdrawn; secluded.
Recessed	(imp. & p. p.) of Recess
Recessing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recess
Recession	(n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.
Recession	(n.) The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.
Recessional	(a.) Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.
Recessive	(a.) Going back; receding.
Rechabite	(n.) One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers fro
Rechange	(v. t. & i.) To change again, or change back.
Recharge	(v. t. & i.) To attack again; to attack anew.
Recharge	(v. t. & i.) To charge or accuse in return.
Recharter	(v. t.)To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.
Recharter	(n.) A second charter; a renewal of a charter.
Rechase	(v. t.)To chase again; to chase or drive back.
Recheat	(n.) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.
Recheat	(v. i.) To blow the recheat.
Recherche	(a.) Sought out with care; choice. Hence
Rechless	(a.) Reckless.
Rechoose	(v. t.)To choose again.
Recidivate	(v. i.) To backslide; to fall again.
Recidivation	(n.) A falling back; a backsliding.
Recidivous	(a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
Recipe	(n.) A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.
Recipes	(pl. ) of Recipe
Recipiangle	(n.) An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.
Recipience	(n.) Alt. of Recipiency
Recipiency	(n.) The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness.
Recipient	(a.) Receiving; receptive.
Recipient	(n.) A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
Reciprocal	(a.) Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.
Reciprocal	(a.) Mutually interchangeable.
Reciprocal	(a.) Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
Reciprocal	(a.) Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.
Reciprocal	(a.) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. See the Phrases below.
Reciprocal	(n.) That which is reciprocal to another thing.
Reciprocal	(n.) The quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus, / is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of a + b. The reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.
Reciprocality	(n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness.
Reciprocally	(adv.) In a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.
Reciprocally	(adv.) In the manner of reciprocals.
Reciprocalness	(n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
Reciprocate	(v. t.)To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.
Reciprocate	(v. i.) To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
Reciprocated	(imp. & p. p.) of Reciprocate
Reciprocating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reciprocate
Reciprocation	(n.) Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.
Reciprocation	(n.) The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.
Reciprocity	(n.) Mutual action and reaction.
Reciprocity	(n.) Reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation.
Reciprocornous	(a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram.
Reciprocous	(a.) Reciprocal.
Reciprok	(a.) Reciprocal.
Reciproque	(a. & n.) Reciprocal.
Recision	(n.) The act of cutting off.
Recital	(n.) A telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.
Recital	(n.) A vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.
Recital	(n.) That which is recited; a story; a narration.
Recital	(n.) The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
Recital	(n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation.
Recitation	(n.) The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
Recitation	(n.) The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.
Recitation	(n.) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.
Recitative	(a.) Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.
Recitative	(n.) A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.
Recitativo	(n.) Recitative.
Recite	(v. t.)To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.
Recite	(v. t.)To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.
Recite	(v. t.)To state in or as a recital. See Recital, 5.
Recite	(v. t.)To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.
Recite	(n.) A recital.
Recite	(v. i.) To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.
Recited	(imp. & p. p.) of Recite
Reciter	(n.) One who recites; also, a book of extracts for recitation.
Reciting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recite
Reck	(v. t.)To concern; -- used impersonally.
Reck	(v. t.)To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.
Reck	(v. i.) To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.
Recked	(imp. & p. p.) of Reck
Recking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reck
Reckless	(a.) Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.
Reckless	(a.) Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.
Reckling	(a.) Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child.
Reckling	(n.) A weak child or animal.
Reckon	(v. t.)To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
Reckon	(v. t.)To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again.
Reckon	(v. t.)To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
Reckon	(v. t.)To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
Reckon	(v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
Reckon	(v. i.) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
Reckoned	(imp. & p. p.) of Reckon
Reckoner	(n.) One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.
Reckoning	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reckon
Reckoning	(n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
Reckoning	(n.) An account of time
Reckoning	(n.) Esteem; account; estimation.
Reckoning	(n.) The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
Reckoning	(n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for de
Reckoning	(n.) The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
Reckoning	(n.) The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
Reclaim	(v. t.)Hence
Reclaim	(v. t.)To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
Reclaim	(v. t.)To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
Reclaim	(v. t.)To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
Reclaim	(v. t.)To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
Reclaim	(v. t.)To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
Reclaim	(v. t.)To exclaim against; to gainsay.
Reclaim	(v. t.)To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.
Reclaim	(n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
Reclaim	(v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
Reclaim	(v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
Reclaim	(v. i.) To draw back; to give way.
Reclaimable	(a.) That may be reclaimed.
Reclaimant	(n.) One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
Reclaimed	(imp. & p. p.) of Reclaim
Reclaimer	(n.) One who reclaims.
Reclaiming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reclaim
Reclaimless	(a.) That can not be reclaimed.
Reclamation	(n.) Representation made in opposition; remonstrance.
Reclamation	(n.) The act or process of reclaiming.
Reclasp	(v. i.) To clasp or unite again.
Reclinant	(a.) Bending or leaning backward.
Reclinate	(a.) Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
Reclination	(n.) The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.
Reclination	(n.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
Reclination	(n.) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
Recline	(v. t.)Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.
Recline	(v. t.)To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
Recline	(v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.
Recline	(v. i.) To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
Reclined	(a.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate.
Reclined	(imp. & p. p.) of Recline
Recliner	(n.) One who, or that which, reclines.
Reclining	(a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
Reclining	(a.) Recumbent.
Reclining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recline
Reclose	(v. t.)To close again.
Reclothe	(v. t.)To clothe again.
Reclude	(v. t.)To open; to unclose.
Recluse	(a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.
Recluse	(a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
Recluse	(a.) The place where a recluse dwells.
Recluse	(v. t.)To shut up; to seclude.
Reclusely	(adv.) In a recluse or solitary manner.
Recluseness	(n.) Quality or state of being recluse.
Reclusion	(n.) A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.
Reclusive	(a.) Affording retirement from society.
Reclusory	(n.) The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.
Recoct	(v. t.)To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.
Recoction	(n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.
Recognition	(n.) The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
Recognitor	(n.) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Recognitory	(a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
Recognizability	(n.) The quality or condition of being recognizable.
Recognizable	(a.) Capable of being recognized.
Recognizance	(n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
Recognizance	(n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.
Recognizance	(n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bo
Recognizance	(n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
Recognization	(n.) Recognition.
Recognize	(v. t.)To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.
Recognize	(v. t.)To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.
Recognize	(v. t.)To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
Recognize	(v. t.)To reconnoiter.
Recognize	(v. t.)To review; to reexamine.
Recognize	(v. t.)To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial.
Recognize	(v. i.) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.
Recognized	(imp. & p. p.) of Recognize
Recognizee	(n.) The person in whose favor a recognizance is made.
Recognizer	(n.) One who recognizes; a recognizor.
Recognizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recognize
Recognizor	(n.) One who enters into a recognizance.
Recognosce	(v. t.)To recognize.
Recoil	(v. t.)To draw or go back.
Recoil	(n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
Recoil	(n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
Recoil	(n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.
Recoil	(v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
Recoil	(v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
Recoil	(v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
Recoiled	(imp. & p. p.) of Recoil
Recoiler	(n.) One who, or that which, recoils.
Recoiling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoil
Recoilingly	(adv.) In the manner of a recoil.
Recoilment	(n.) Recoil.
Recoin	(v. t.)To coin anew or again.
Recoinage	(n.) That which is coined anew.
Recoinage	(n.) The act of coining anew.
Recollect	(v. t.)Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
Re-collect	(v. t.)To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.
Recollect	(v. t.)To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
Recollect	(n.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.
Recollected	(imp. & p. p.) of Recollect
Recollecting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recollect
Recollection	(n.) That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence.
Recollection	(n.) The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
Recollection	(n.) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
Recollection	(n.) The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.
Recollective	(a.) Having the power of recollecting.
Recollet	(n.) Same as Recollect, n.
Recolonization	(n.) A second or renewed colonization.
Recolonize	(v. t.)To colonize again.
Recombination	(n.) Combination a second or additional time.
Recombine	(v. t.)To combine again.
Recomfort	(v. t.)To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to.
Recomfortless	(a.) Without comfort.
Recomforture	(n.) The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort.
Recommence	(v. t.)To commence again or anew.
Recommence	(v. i.) To begin anew to be; to act again as.
Recommence	(v. i.) To commence or begin again.
Recommencement	(n.) A commencement made anew.
Recommend	(v. t.)To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exe
Recommend	(v. t.)To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
Recommend	(v. t.)To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
Recommendable	(a.) Suitable to be recommended; worthy of praise; commendable.
Recommendation	(n.) That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.
Recommendation	(n.) The act of recommending.
Recommendation	(n.) The state of being recommended; esteem.
Recommendative	(n.) That which recommends; a recommendation.
Recommendatory	(a.) Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory.
Recommended	(imp. & p. p.) of Recommend
Recommender	(n.) One who recommends.
Recommending	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recommend
Recommission	(v. t.)To commission again; to give a new commission to.
Recommit	(v. t.)To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
Recommitment	(n.) Alt. of Recommittal
Recommittal	(n.) A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.
Recompact	(v. t.)To compact or join anew.
Recompensation	(n.) Recompense.
Recompensation	(n.) Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.
Recompense	(v. t.)To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
Recompense	(v. t.)To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
Recompense	(v. t.)To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
Recompense	(n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
Recompense	(v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
Recompensed	(imp. & p. p.) of Recompense
Recompensement	(n.) Recompense; requital.
Recompenser	(n.) One who recompenses.
Recompensing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recompense
Recompensive	(a.) Of the nature of recompense; serving to recompense.
Recompilation	(n.) A new compilation.
Recompile	(v. t.)To compile anew.
Recompilement	(n.) The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws.
Recompose	(v. t.)To compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.
Recompose	(v. t.)To restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as, to recompose the mind.
Recomposed	(imp. & p. p.) of Recompose
Recomposer	(n.) One who recomposes.
Recomposing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recompose
Recomposition	(n.) The act of recomposing.
Reconcilable	(a.) Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.
Reconcile	(v. t.)To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
Reconcile	(v. t.)To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
Reconcile	(v. t.)To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.
Reconcile	(v. t.)To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
Reconcile	(v. i.) To become reconciled.
Reconciled	(imp. & p. p.) of Reconcile
Reconcilement	(n.) Reconciliation.
Reconciler	(n.) One who reconciles.
Reconciliation	(n.) Reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.
Reconciliation	(n.) The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
Reconciliatory	(a.) Serving or tending to reconcile.
Reconciling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reconcile
Recondensation	(n.) The act or process of recondensing.
Recondense	(v. t.)To condense again.
Recondite	(a.) Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies.
Recondite	(a.) Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.
Reconditory	(n.) A repository; a storehouse.
Reconduct	(v. t.)To conduct back or again.
Reconfirm	(v. t.)To confirm anew.
Reconfort	(v. t.)To recomfort; to comfort.
Reconjoin	(v. t.)To join or conjoin anew.
Reconnaissance	(n.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work.
Reconnaissance	(n.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition.
Reconnaissance	(n.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.
Reconnaissance	(n.) The act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.
Reconnoissance	(n.) Alt. of Reconnaissance
Reconnoiter	(v. t.)Alt. of Reconnoitre
Reconnoitre	(v. t.)To examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.
Reconnoitre	(v. t.)To recognize.
Reconquer	(v. t.)To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province.
Reconquest	(n.) A second conquest.
Reconsecrate	(v. t.)To consecrate anew or again.
Reconsecration	(n.) Renewed consecration.
Reconsider	(v. t.)To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.
Reconsider	(v. t.)To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.
Reconsideration	(n.) The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.
Reconsolate	(v. t.)To console or comfort again.
Reconsolidate	(v. t.)To consolidate anew or again.
Reconsolidation	(n.) The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.
Reconstruct	(v. t.)To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
Reconstruction	(n.) The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
Reconstruction	(n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
Reconstructive	(a.) Reconstructing; tending to reconstruct; as, a reconstructive policy.
Recontinuance	(n.) The act or state of recontinuing.
Recontinue	(v. t. & i.) To continue anew.
Reconvene	(v. t. & i.) To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again.
Reconvention	(n.) A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.
Reconversion	(n.) A second conversion.
Reconvert	(v. t.)To convert again.
Reconvert	(n.) A person who has been reconverted.
Reconvertible	(a.) Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
Reconvey	(v. t.)To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods.
Reconvey	(v. t.)To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
Reconveyance	(n.) Act of reconveying.
Recopy	(v. t.)To copy again.
Record	(v. t.)A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.
Record	(v. t.)An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.
Record	(v. t.)An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Record	(v. t.)An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
Record	(v. t.)Testimony; witness; attestation.
Record	(v. t.)That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
Record	(v. t.)That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
Record	(v. t.)That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
Record	(v. t.)The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
Record	(v. t.)To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record
Record	(v. t.)To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
Record	(v. t.)To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
Record	(v. i.) To reflect; to ponder.
Record	(v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune.
Recordance	(n.) Remembrance.
Recordation	(v. t.)Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.
Recorded	(imp. & p. p.) of Record
Recorder	(n.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
Recorder	(n.) One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
Recorder	(n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.
Recordership	(n.) The office of a recorder.
Recording	(a.) Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.
Recording	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Record
Recorporification	(n.) The act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body.
Recouch	(v. i.) To retire again to a couch; to lie down again.
Recount	(v.) To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
Recount	(v. t.)To count or reckon again.
Recount	(n.) A counting again, as of votes.
Recountment	(n.) Recital.
Recoup	(v. t.)Alt. of Recoupe
Recoupe	(v. t.)To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.
Recoupe	(v. t.)To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.
Recoupe	(v. t.)To reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive.
Recouper	(n.) One who recoups.
Recoupment	(n.) The act of recouping.
Recourse	(n.) A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.
Recourse	(n.) Access; admittance.
Recourse	(n.) Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.
Recourse	(v. i.) To have recourse; to resort.
Recourse	(v. i.) To return; to recur.
Recourseful	(a.) Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.
Recover	(v. t.)To cover again.
Recover	(v. t.)To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recove
Recover	(v. t.)To gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.
Recover	(v. t.)To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.
Recover	(v. t.)To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.
Recover	(v. t.)To overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.
Recover	(v. t.)To rescue; to deliver.
Recover	(v. t.)To restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.
Recover	(n.) Recovery.
Recover	(v. i.) To make one's way; to come; to arrive.
Recover	(v. i.) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
Recover	(v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.
Recoverable	(a.) Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
Recovered	(imp. & p. p.) of Recover
Recoveree	(n.) The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
Recoverer	(n.) One who recovers.
Recovering	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recover
Recoveror	(n.) The demandant in a common recovery after judgment.
Recovery	(n.) In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.
Recovery	(n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.
Recovery	(n.) The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.
Recovery	(n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.
Recovery	(n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.
Recreance	(n.) Recreancy.
Recreancy	(n.) The quality or state of being recreant.
Recreant	(a.) Apostate; false; unfaithful.
Recreant	(a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
Recreant	(n.) One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
Re-create	(v. t.)To create or form anew.
Recreate	(v. t.)To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.
Recreate	(v. i.) To take recreation.
Recreated	(imp. & p. p.) of Recreate
Recreating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recreate
Re-creation	(n.) A forming anew; a new creation or formation.
Recreation	(n.) The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
Re-creative	(a.) Creating anew; as, re-creative power.
Recreative	(a.) Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.
Recrement	(n.) A substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it.
Recrement	(n.) Excrement.
Recrement	(n.) Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.
Recremental	(a.) Recrementitious.
Recrementitial	(a.) Of the nature of a recrement. See Recrement, 2 (b).
Recrementitious	(a.) Of or pertaining to recrement; consisting of recrement or dross.
Recriminate	(v. t.)To accuse in return.
Recriminate	(v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Recrimination	(n.) The act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.
Recriminative	(a.) Recriminatory.
Recriminator	(n.) One who recriminates.
Recriminatory	(a.) Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.
Recross	(v. t.)To cross a second time.
Recrudency	(n.) Recrudescence.
Recrudescence	(n.) Alt. of Recrudescency
Recrudescency	(n.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.
Recrudescency	(n.) The state or condition of being recrudescent.
Recrudescent	(a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.
Recrudescent	(a.) Growing raw, sore, or painful again.
Recruit	(v. t.)Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
Recruit	(v. t.)To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
Recruit	(v. t.)To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.
Recruit	(n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.
Recruit	(n.) Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
Recruit	(v. i.) To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
Recruit	(v. i.) To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.
Recruited	(imp. & p. p.) of Recruit
Recruiter	(n.) One who, or that which, recruits.
Recruiting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recruit
Recruitment	(n.) The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.
Recrystallization	(n.) The process or recrystallizing.
Recrystallize	(v. i. & t.) To crystallize again.
Rectal	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.
Rectangle	(a.) Rectangular.
Rectangle	(n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
Rectangled	(a.) Rectangular.
Rectangular	(a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.
Rectangularity	(n.) The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
Recti	(pl. ) of Rectus
Recti-	() A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved.
Rectifiable	(a.) Admitting, as a curve, of the construction of a straight l//e equal in length to any definite portion of the curve.
Rectifiable	(a.) Capable of being rectified; as, a rectifiable mistake.
Rectification	(n.) The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.
Rectification	(n.) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve.
Rectificator	(n.) That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.
Rectified	(imp. & p. p.) of Rectify
Rectifier	(n.) One who, or that which, rectifies.
Rectifier	(n.) Specifically:
Rectify	(v. t.)To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
Rectify	(v. t.)To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
Rectify	(v. t.)To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.
Rectifying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rectify
Rectilineal	(a.) Alt. of Rectilinear
Rectilinear	(a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course.
Rectilinearity	(n.) The quality or state of being rectilinear.
Rectilineous	(a.) Rectilinear.
Rectinerved	(a.) Having the veins or nerves straight; -- said of leaves.
Rection	(n.) See Government, n., 7.
Rectirostral	(a.) Having a straight beak.
Rectiserial	(a.) Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.
Rectitis	(n.) Proctitis.
Rectitude	(n.) Right judgment.
Rectitude	(n.) Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.
Rectitude	(n.) Straightness.
Recto-	() A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the rectum; as, recto-vesical.
Recto	(n.) A writ of right.
Recto	(n.) The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso.
Rector	(n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
Rector	(n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
Rector	(n.) A ruler or governor.
Rector	(n.) The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
Rector	(n.) The head master of a public school.
Rector	(n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
Rectoral	(a.) Pertaining to a rector or governor.
Rectorate	(n.) The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.
Rectoress	(n.) A governess; a rectrix.
Rectoress	(n.) The wife of a rector.
Rectorial	(a.) Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral.
Rectories	(pl. ) of Rectory
Rectorship	(n.) Government; guidance.
Rectorship	(n.) The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
Rectory	(n.) A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
Rectory	(n.) The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
Recto-uterine	(a.) Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the uterus.
Rectovaginal	(a.) Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina.
Recto-vesical	(a.) Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the bladder.
Rectress	(n.) A rectoress.
Rectrices	(pl. ) of Rectrix
Rectrix	(n.) A governess; a rectoress.
Rectrix	(n.) One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.
Rectum	(n.) The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.
Rectus	(n.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.
Recubation	(n.) Recumbence.
Recule	(n.) Alt. of Reculement
Recule	(v. i.) To recoil.
Reculement	(n.) Recoil.
Recumb	(v. i.) To lean; to recline; to repose.
Recumbence	(n.) The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
Recumbency	(n.) Recumbence.
Recumbent	(a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.
Recuperable	(a.) Recoverable.
Recuperate	(v. t.)To recover; to regain; as, to recuperate the health or strength.
Recuperate	(v. i.) To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
Recuperated::	(imp. &. p. p.) of Recuperate
Recuperating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recuperate
Recuperation	(n..) Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.
Recuperative	(a.) Alt. of Recuperatory
Recuperator	(n.) Same as Regenerator.
Recuperatory	(a.) Of or pertaining to recuperation; tending to recovery.
Recur	(v. i.) To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Recur	(v. i.) To occur at a stated interval, or according to some regular rule; as, the fever will recur to-night.
Recur	(v. i.) To resort; to have recourse; to go for help.
Recure	(v. t.)To arrive at; to reach; to attain.
Recure	(v. t.)To be a cure for; to remedy.
Recure	(v. t.)To recover; to regain; to repossess.
Recure	(v. t.)To restore, as from weariness, sickness; or the like; to repair.
Recure	(n.) Cure; remedy; recovery.
Recureless	(a.) Incapable of cure.
Recurred	(imp. & p. p.) of Recur
Recurrence	(n.) Alt. of Recurrency
Recurrency	(n.) The act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return; resort; recourse.
Recurrent	(a.) Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.
Recurrent	(a.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery.
Recurring	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recur
Recursant	(a.) Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.
Recursion	(n.) The act of recurring; return.
Recurvate	(a.) Recurved.
Recurvate	(v. t.)To bend or curve back; to recurve.
Recurvation	(n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward.
Recurve	(v. t.)To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
Recurved	(a.) Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
Recurviroster	(n.) A bird whose beak bends upward, as the avocet.
Recurvirostral	(a.) Having the beak bent upwards.
Recurvity	(n.) Recurvation.
Recurvous	(a.) Recurved.
Recusancy	(n.) The state of being recusant; nonconformity.
Recusant	(a.) Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord.
Recusant	(n.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.
Recusant	(n.) One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
Recusant	(n.) One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Recusation	(n.) Refusal.
Recusation	(n.) The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality.
Recusative	(a.) Refusing; denying; negative.
Recuse	(v. t.)To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
Recussion	(n.) The act of beating or striking back.
Red	(superl.) Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.
Red	(a.) The menses.
Red	(v. t.)To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house.
Red	() . imp. & p. p. of Read.
Red	(n.) A red pigment.
Red	(n.) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a.
Red	(n.) The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.
Redact	(v. t.)To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
Redacteur	(n.) See Redactor.
Redaction	(n.) The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
Redactor	(n.) One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.
Redan	(n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.
Redan	(n.) A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
Redargue	(v. t.)To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict.
Redargued	(imp. & p. p.) of Redargue
Redarguing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redargue
Redargution	(n.) The act of redarguing; refutation.
Redargutory	(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.
Redback	(n.) The dunlin.
Redbelly	(n.) The char.
Redbird	(n.) The cardinal bird.
Redbird	(n.) The scarlet tanager. See Tanager.
Redbird	(n.) The summer redbird (Piranga rubra).
Redbreast	(n.) The American robin. See Robin.
Redbreast	(n.) The European robin.
Redbreast	(n.) The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
Redbreast	(n.) The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish.
Redbud	(n.) A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.
Redcap	(n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland.
Redcap	(n.) The European goldfinch.
Redcoat	(n.) One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.
Redde	() obs. imp. of Read, or Rede.
Redden	(a.) To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.
Redden	(v. i.) To grow or become red; to blush.
Reddendum	(n.) A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease.
Reddened	(imp. & p. p.) of Redden
Reddening	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redden
Reddish	(a.) Somewhat red; moderately red.
Reddition	(n.) Explanation; representation.
Reddition	(n.) Restoration
Redditive	(a.) Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply; as, redditive words.
Reddle	(n.) Red chalk. See under Chalk.
Reddour	(n.) Rigor; violence.
Rede	(v. t.)To advise or counsel.
Rede	(v. t.)To interpret; to explain.
Rede	(n.) A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.
Rede	(n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion.
Redeem	(v. t.)Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Redeem	(v. t.)To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Redeem	(v. t.)To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Redeem	(v. t.)To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
Redeem	(v. t.)To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
Redeem	(v. t.)To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
Redeem	(v. t.)To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
Redeemability	(n.) Redeemableness.
Redeemable	(a.) Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.
Redeemable	(a.) Subject to an obligation of redemtion; conditioned upon a promise of redemtion; payable; due; as, bonds, promissory notes, etc. , redeemabble in gold, or in current money, or four months after date.
Redeemableness	(n.) The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.
Redeemed	(imp. & p. p.) of Redeem
Redeemer	(n.) One who redeems.
Redeemer	(n.) Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
Redeeming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redeem
Redeless	(a.) Without rede or counsel.
Redeliberate	(v. t. & i.) To deliberate again; to reconsider.
Redeliver	(v. t.)To deliver or give back; to return.
Redeliver	(v. t.)To deliver or liberate a second time or again.
Redeliver	(v. t.)To report; to deliver the answer of.
Redeliverance	(n.) A second deliverance.
Redelivery	(n.) A second or new delivery or liberation.
Redelivery	(n.) Act of delivering back.
Redemand	(v. t.)To demand back; to demand again.
Redemand	(n.) A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.
Redemise	(v. t.)To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.
Redemise	(n.) The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.
Redemonstrate	(v. t.)To demonstrate again, or anew.
Redemptible	(a.) Redeemable.
Re-demption	(n.) Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder.
Re-demption	(n.) The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
Re-demption	(n.) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the taking back of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms or conditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming and reentering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemptio
Re-demption	(n.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Redemptionary	(n.) One who is, or may be, redeemed.
Redemptioner	(n.) Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
Redemptioner	(n.) One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.
Redemptionist	(n.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.
Redemptive	(a.) Serving or tending to redeem; redeeming; as, the redemptive work of Christ.
Redemptorist	(n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglect
Redemptory	(a.) Paid for ransom; serving to redeem.
Redempture	(n.) Redemption.
Redented	(a.) Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.
Redeposit	(v. t.)To deposit again.
Redescend	(v. i.) To descend again.
Redeye	(n.) Same as Redfish (d).
Redeye	(n.) The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass.
Redeye	(n.) The rudd.
Redfin	(n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.
Redfinch	(n.) The European linnet.
Redfish	(n.) A large California labroid food fish (Trochocopus pulcher); -- called also fathead.
Redfish	(n.) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b).
Redfish	(n.) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under Drumfish.
Redfish	(n.) The rosefish.
Red-gum	(n.) A name of rust on grain. See Rust.
Red-gum	(n.) An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus.
Red-hand	(a. / adv.) Alt. of Red-handed
Red-handed	(a. / adv.) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.
Redhead	(n.) A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
Redhead	(n.) A person having red hair.
Redhead	(n.) An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.
Redhead	(n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
Redhibition	(n.) The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.
Redhibitory	(a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault.
Redhoop	(n.) The male of the European bullfinch.
Redhorn	(n.) Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennae are usually red.
Red-hot	(a.) Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.
Redia	(n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, a
Rediae	(pl. ) of Redia
Redias	(pl. ) of Redia
Redient	(a.) Returning.
Redigest	(v. t.)To digest, or reduce to form, a second time.
Rediminish	(v. t.)To diminish again.
Redingote	(n.) A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.
Redintegrate	(a.) Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.
Redintegrate	(v. t.)To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness.
Redintegration	(n.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its former nature and state.
Redintegration	(n.) Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation.
Redintegration	(n.) The law that objects which have been previously combined as part of a single mental state tend to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association of ideas.
Redirect	(a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.
Redisburse	(v. t.)To disburse anew; to give, or pay, back.
Rediscover	(v. t.)To discover again.
Redispose	(v. t.)To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange.
Redisseize	(v. t.)To disseize anew, or a second time.
Redisseizin	(n.) A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case.
Redisseizor	(n.) One who redisseizes.
Redissolve	(v. t.)To dissolve again.
Redistill	(v. t.)To distill again.
Redistrainer	(n.) One who distrains again.
Redistribute	(v. t.)To distribute again.
Redistrict	(v. t.)To divide into new districts.
Redition	(n.) Act of returning; return.
Redivide	(v. t.)To divide anew.
Redleg	(n.) Alt. of Redlegs
Redlegs	(n.) The redshank.
Redlegs	(n.) The turnstone.
Red-letter	(a.) Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters.
Redly	(adv.) In a red manner; with redness.
Redmouth	(n.) Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Haemulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
Redness	(n.) The quality or state of being red; red color.
Redolence	(n.) Alt. of Redolency
Redolency	(n.) The quality of being redolent; sweetness of scent; pleasant odor; fragrance.
Redolent	(a.) Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.
Redouble	(v. t.)To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
Redouble	(v. i.) To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.
Redoubt	(v. t.)To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.
Redoubt	(n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.
Redoubt	(n.) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin.
Redoubtable	(a.) Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.
Redoubted	(a.) Formidable; dread.
Redoubting	(n.) Reverence; honor.
Redound	(n.) Rebound; reverberation.
Redound	(n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
Redound	(v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
Redound	(v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
Redounded	(imp. & p. p.) of Redound
Redounding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redound
Redowa	(n.) A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.
Redpole	(n.) Same as Redpoll.
Redpoll	(n.) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy.
Redpoll	(n.) The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).
Redpoll	(n.) The common European linnet.
Redraft	(v. t.)To draft or draw anew.
Redraft	(n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.
Redraft	(n.) A second draft or copy.
Redraw	(v. t.)To draw again; to make a second draft or copy of; to redraft.
Redraw	(v. i.) To draw a new bill of exchange, as the holder of a protested bill, on the drawer or indorsers.
Redrawing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Redraw
Redrawn	(p. p.) of Redraw
Redress	(v. t.)To dress again.
Redress	(v. t.)To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
Redress	(v. t.)To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
Redress	(v. t.)To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
Redress	(n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
Redress	(n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
Redress	(n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
Redressal	(n.) Redress.
Redresser	(n.) One who redresses.
Redressible	(a.) Such as may be redressed.
Redressive	(a.) Tending to redress.
Redressless	(a.) Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.
Redressment	(n.) The act of redressing; redress.
Redrew	(imp.) of Redraw
Red-riband	(n.) The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.
Redroot	(n.) A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.
Redsear	(v. i.) To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.
Redshank	(n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
Redshank	(n.) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.
Redshank	(n.) The fieldfare.
Red-short	(a.) Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.
Redskin	(n.) A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.
Redstart	(n.) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd all
Redstart	(n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.
Redstreak	(n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
Redstreak	(n.) Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Redtail	(n.) The European redstart.
Redtail	(n.) The red-tailed hawk.
Red-tailed	(a.) Having a red tail.
Red-tape	(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
Red-tapism	(n.) Strict adherence to official formalities.
Red-tapist	(n.) One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.
Redthroat	(n.) A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
Redtop	(n.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
Redub	(v. t.)To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
Reduce	(n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of
Reduce	(n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Reduce	(n.) To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
Reduce	(n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
Reduce	(n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
Reduce	(n.) To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from th
Reduce	(n.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
Reduce	(n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hour
Reduce	(n.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
Reduced	(imp. & p. p.) of Reduce
Reducement	(n.) Reduction.
Reducent	(a.) Tending to reduce.
Reducent	(n.) A reducent agent.
Reducer	(n.) One who, or that which, reduces.
Reducible	(a.) Capable of being reduced.
Reducibleness	(n.) Quality of being reducible.
Reducing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reduce
Reducing	() a & n. from Reduce.
Reduct	(v. t..) To reduce.
Reductibility	(n.) The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
Reduction	(v. t.)The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
Reduction	(v. t.)The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
Reduction	(v. t.)The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
Reduction	(v. t.)The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Reduction	(v. t.)The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
Reduction	(v. t.)The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions.
Reduction	(n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a r
Reduction	(n.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
Reductive	(a.) Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.
Reductive	(n.) A reductive agent.
Reductively	(adv.) By reduction; by consequence.
Reduit	(n.) A central or retired work within any other work.
Redundance	(n.) Alt. of Redundancy
Redundancy	(n.) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Redundancy	(n.) That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.
Redundancy	(n.) The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
Redundant	(a.) Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Redundant	(a.) Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Redundantly	(adv.) In a refundant manner.
Reduplicate	(a.) Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
Reduplicate	(a.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the /stivation of certain flowers.
Reduplicate	(v. t.)To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Reduplicate	(v. t.)To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
Reduplication	(n.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
Reduplication	(n.) The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
Reduplication	(n.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Reduplicative	(a.) Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.
Reduvid	(n.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
Redweed	(n.) The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).
Redwing	(n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bor
Redwithe	(n.) A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
Redwood	(n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
Redwood	(n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
Ree	(v. t.)To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
Ree	(n.) See Rei.
Reebok	(n.) The peele.
Reecho	(v. t.)To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.
Reecho	(n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.
Reecho	(v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.
Reechy	(a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.
Reed	(a.) Red.
Reed	(v. & n.) Same as Rede.
Reed	(n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
Reed	(n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
Reed	(n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
Reed	(n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
Reed	(n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
Reed	(n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.
Reed	(n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
Reed	(n.) Same as Reeding.
Reed	(n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
Reed	(n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
Reedbird	(n.) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.
Reedbird	(n.) The bobolink.
Reedbuck	(n.) See Rietboc.
Reeded	(a.) Civered with reeds; reedy.
Reeded	(a.) Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
Reeden	(a.) Consisting of a reed or reeds.
Reedification	(n.) The act reedifying; the state of being reedified.
Reedify	(v. t.)To edify anew; to build again after destruction.
Reeding	(n.) A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.
Reeding	(n.) The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called milling.
Reedless	(a.) Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.
Reedling	(n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.
Reed-mace	(n.) The cat-tail.
Reedwork	(n.) A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.
Reedy	(a.) Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
Reedy	(a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.
Reef	(v. t.)That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind.
Reef	(v. t.)To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.
Reef	(n.) A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
Reef	(n.) A large vein of auriferous quartz; -- so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
Reef-band	(n.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.
Reefed	(imp. & p. p.) of Reef
Reefer	(n.) A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.
Reefer	(n.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen.
Reefing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reef
Reefing	(n.) The process of taking in a reef.
Reefy	(a.) Full of reefs or rocks.
Reek	(n.) A rick.
Reek	(n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
Reek	(v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
Reeked	(imp. & p. p.) of Reek
Reeking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reek
Reeky	(a.) Emitting reek.
Reeky	(a.) Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.
Reel	(v. t.)To roll.
Reel	(v. t.)To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread.
Reel	(n.) A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
Reel	(n.) A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.
Reel	(n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
Reel	(n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
Reel	(n.) The act or motion of reeling or staggering; as, a drunken reel.
Reel	(v. i.) To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
Reel	(v. i.) To incline, in walking, from one side to the other; to stagger.
Reelect	(v. t.)To elect again; as, to reelect the former governor.
Reelection	(n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.
Reeled	(imp. & p. p.) of Reel
Reeler	(n.) One who reels.
Reeler	(n.) The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note.
Reeligible	(a.) Eligible again; capable of reelection; as, reeligible to the same office.
Reeling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reel
Reem	(v. t.)To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
Reem	(n.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.
Reembark	(v. t. & i.) To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.
Reembarkation	(n.) A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.
Reembody	(v. t.)To embody again.
Reembrace	(v. i.) To embrace again.
Reemerge	(v. i.) To emerge again.
Reemergence	(n.) Act of reemerging.
Reenact	(v. t.)To enact again.
Reenaction	(n.) The act of reenacting; the state of being reenacted.
Reenactment	(n.) The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.
Reencourage	(v. t.)To encourage again.
Reendow	(v. t.)To endow again.
Reenforce	(v.) (b)
Reenforce	(v.) An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc.
Reenforce	(v.) Something which reenforces or strengthens.
Reenforce	(v.) That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon.
Reenforce	(v. t.)To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reenforce an argument; to reenforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
Reenforcement	(n.) That which reenforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.
Reenforcement	(n.) The act of reenforcing, or the state of being reenforced.
Reengage	(v. t. & i.) To engage a second time or again.
Reengagement	(n.) A renewed or repeated engagement.
Reengrave	(v. t.)To engrave anew.
Reenjoy	(v. i.) To enjoy anew.
Reenjoyment	(n.) Renewed enjoyment.
Reenkindle	(v. t.)To enkindle again.
Reenlist	(v. t. & i.) To enlist again.
Reenlistment	(n.) A renewed enlistment.
Reenslave	(v. t.)To enslave again.
Reenter	(v. t.)To cut deeper, as engraved lines on a plate of metal, when the engraving has not been deep enough, or the plate has become worn in printing.
Reenter	(v. t.)To enter again.
Reenter	(v. i.) To enter anew or again.
Reentering	(n.) The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.
Reenthrone	(v. t.)To enthrone again; to replace on a throne.
Reenthronement	(n.) A second enthroning.
Reentrance	(n.) The act entereing again; re/ntry.
Reentrant	(a.) Reentering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re/ntrant angle.
Reentry	(n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
Reentry	(n.) A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life.
Reerect	(v. t.)To erect again.
Reermouse	(n.) See Rearmouse.
Reestablish	(v. t.)To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.
Reestablisher	(n.) One who establishes again.
Reestablishment	(n.) The act reestablishing; the state of being reestablished.
Reestate	(v. t.)To reestablish.
Reeve	(v. t.)To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
Reeve	(n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.
Reeve	(n.) The female of the ruff.
Reeving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reeve
Reexaminable	(a.) Admitting of being reexamined or reconsidered.
Reexamination	(n.) A repeated examination. See under Examination.
Reexamine	(v. t.)To examine anew.
Reexchange	(v. t.)To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).
Reexchange	(n.) A renewed exchange; a reversal of an exchange.
Reexchange	(n.) The expense chargeable on a bill of exchange or draft which has been dishonored in a foreign country, and returned to the country in which it was made or indorsed, and then taken up.
Reexhibit	(v. t.)To exhibit again.
Reexpel	(v. t.)To expel again.
Reexperience	(n.) A renewed or repeated experience.
Reexport	(v. t.)To export again, as what has been imported.
Reexport	(n.) Any commodity reexported; -- chiefly in the plural.
Reexportation	(n.) The act of reexporting, or of exporting an import.
Reexpulsion	(n.) Renewed or repeated expulsion.
Reezed	(a.) Grown rank; rancid; rusty.
Refaction	(n.) Recompense; atonement; retribution.
Refar	(v. t.)To go over again; to repeat.
Refashion	(v. t.)To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.
Refashionment	(n.) The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned.
Refasten	(v. t.)To fasten again.
Refect	(v. t.)To restore after hunger or fatigue; to refresh.
Refection	(n.) Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch.
Refective	(a.) Refreshing; restoring.
Refective	(n.) That which refreshes.
Refectories	(pl. ) of Refectory
Refectory	(n.) A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.
Refel	(v. t.)To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister.
Refer	(v. t.)Hence
Refer	(v. t.)To carry or send back.
Refer	(v. t.)To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
Refer	(v. i.) To carry the mind or thought; to direct attention; as, the preacher referred to the late election.
Refer	(v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.
Refer	(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to appeal; to betake one's self; as, to refer to a dictionary.
Refer	(v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote.
Referable	(a.) Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable.
Referee	(n.) One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it.
Reference	(n.) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred.
Reference	(n.) Appeal.
Reference	(n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another.
Reference	(n.) One who, or that which, is referred to.
Reference	(n.) Relation; regard; respect.
Reference	(n.) That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
Reference	(n.) The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.
Reference	(n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision.
Reference	(n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court.
Referendary	(n.) An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
Referendary	(n.) Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees.
Referendary	(n.) One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee.
Referendum	(n.) A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
Referendum	(n.) The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature.
Referential	(a.) Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.
Re-ferment	(v. t. & i.) To ferment, or cause to ferment, again.
Referment	(n.) The act of referring; reference.
Referred	(imp. & p. p.) of Refer
Referrer	(n.) One who refers.
Referrible	(a.) Referable.
Referring	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refer
Refigure	(v. t.)To figure again.
Refill	(v. t. & i.) To fill, or become full, again.
Refind	(v. t.)To find again; to get or experience again.
Refine	(v. t.)To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
Refine	(v. t.)To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
Refine	(v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
Refine	(v. i.) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
Refine	(v. i.) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
Refined	(a.) Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
Refined	(imp. & p. p.) of Refine
Refinement	(n.) That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.
Refinement	(n.) The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
Refiner	(n.) One who, or that which, refines.
Refineries	(pl. ) of Refinery
Refinery	(n.) A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
Refinery	(n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
Refining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refine
Refit	(v. t.)To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.
Refit	(v. t.)To fit out or supply a second time.
Refit	(v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.
Refitment	(n.) The act of refitting, or the state of being refitted.
Refix	(v. t.)To fix again or anew; to establish anew.
Reflame	(v. i.) To kindle again into flame.
Reflect	(v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.
Reflect	(v.) To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
Reflect	(v. i.) To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.
Reflect	(v. i.) To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.
Reflect	(v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.
Reflect	(v. i.) To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically
Reflected	(a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
Reflected	(a.) Hence
Reflected	(a.) Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.
Reflected	(imp. & p. p.) of Reflect
Reflectent	(a.) Bending or flying back; reflected.
Reflectent	(a.) Reflecting; as, a reflectent body.
Reflectible	(a.) Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.
Reflecting	(a.) Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind.
Reflecting	(a.) Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface.
Reflecting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reflect
Reflectingly	(adv.) With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully.
Reflection	(n.) A part reflected, or turned back, at an angle; as, the reflection of a membrane.
Reflection	(n.) An image given back from a reflecting surface; a reflected counterpart.
Reflection	(n.) Censure; reproach cast.
Reflection	(n.) Result of meditation; thought or opinion after attentive consideration or contemplation; especially, thoughts suggested by truth.
Reflection	(n.) Shining; brightness, as of the sun.
Reflection	(n.) That which is produced by reflection.
Reflection	(n.) The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.
Reflection	(n.) The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below.
Reflection	(n.) The reverting of the mind to that which has already occupied it; continued consideration; meditation; contemplation; hence, also, that operation or power of the mind by which it is conscious of its own acts or states; the capacity for judging rationa
Reflection	(n.) The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex.
Reflective	(a.) Addicted to introspective or meditative habits; as, a reflective person.
Reflective	(a.) Capable of exercising thought or judgment; as, reflective reason.
Reflective	(a.) Reflexive; reciprocal.
Reflective	(a.) Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror.
Reflector	(n.) A device for reflecting sound.
Reflector	(n.) A reflecting telescope.
Reflector	(n.) One who, or that which, reflects.
Reflector	(n.) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc.
Reflex	(a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
Reflex	(a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
Reflex	(a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
Reflex	(v. t.)To bend back; to turn back.
Reflex	(v. t.)To reflect.
Reflex	(n.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
Reflex	(n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Reflexed	(a.) Bent backward or outward.
Reflexibility	(n.) The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light.
Reflexible	(a.) Capable of being reflected, or thrown back.
Reflexion	(n.) See Reflection.
Reflexity	(n.) The state or condition of being reflected.
Reflexive	(a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
Reflexive	(a.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.
Reflexive	(a.) Implying censure.
Reflexly	(adv.) In a reflex manner; reflectively.
Refloat	(n.) Reflux; ebb.
Reflorescence	(n.) A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.
Reflourish	(v. t. & i.) To flourish again.
Reflow	(v. i.) To flow back; to ebb.
Reflower	(v. i. & t.) To flower, or cause to flower, again.
Refluctuation	(n.) A flowing back; refluence.
Refluence	(n.) Alt. of Refluency
Refluency	(n.) The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.
Refluent	(a.) Flowing back; returning; ebbing.
Reflueus	(a.) Refluent.
Reflux	(a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
Reflux	(n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.
Refocillate	(v. t.)To refresh; to revive.
Refocillation	(n.) Restoration of strength by refreshment.
Refold	(v. t.)To fold again.
Refoment	(v. t.)To foment anew.
Reforestization	(n.) The act or process of reforestizing.
Reforestize	(v. t.)To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
Reforge	(v. t.)To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over.
Reforger	(n.) One who reforges.
Re-form	(v. t. & i.) To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.
Reform	(v. t.)To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
Reform	(n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
Reform	(v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
Reformable	(a.) Capable of being reformed.
Reformade	(n.) A reformado.
Reformado	(v. t.)A monk of a reformed order.
Reformado	(v. t.)An officer who, in disgrace, is deprived of his command, but retains his rank, and sometimes his pay.
Reformalize	(v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Reformation	(n.) Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
Re-formation	(n.) The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
Reformation	(n.) The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
Reformative	(a.) Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
Reformatory	(a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
Reformatory	(n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Reformed	(a.) Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
Reformed	(a.) Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiati
Reformed	(a.) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.
Re-formed	(imp. & p. p.) of Re-form
Reformer	(n.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
Reformer	(n.) One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
Re-forming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Re-form
Reformist	(n.) A reformer.
Reformly	(adv.) In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
Refortification	(n.) A fortifying anew, or a second time.
Refortify	(v. t.)To fortify anew.
Refossion	(n.) The act of digging up again.
Refound	(v. t.)To found or cast anew.
Refound	(v. t.)To found or establish again; to re/stablish.
Refound	() imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.
Refounder	(n.) One who refounds.
Refract	(n.) To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
Refract	(n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays o
Refractable	(a.) Capable of being refracted.
Refracted	(a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf.
Refracted	(a.) Turned from a direct course by refraction; as, refracted rays of light.
Refracted	(imp. & p. p.) of Refract
Refracting	(a.) Serving or tending to refract; as, a refracting medium.
Refracting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refract
Refraction	(n.) The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
Refraction	(n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astron
Refraction	(n.) The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
Refraction	(n.) The correction which is to be deducted from the apparent altitude of a heavenly body on account of atmospheric refraction, in order to obtain the true altitude.
Refractive	(a.) Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.
Refractiveness	(n.) The quality or condition of being refractive.
Refractometer	(n.) A contrivance for exhibiting and measuring the refraction of light.
Refractor	(n.) A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.
Refractor	(n.) Anything that refracts
Refractorily	(adv.) In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.
Refractoriness	(n.) The quality or condition of being refractory.
Refractory	(a.) Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
Refractory	(a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
Refractory	(n.) A refractory person.
Refractory	(n.) OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
Refractory	(n.) Refractoriness.
Refracture	(v. t.)To break again, as a bone.
Refracture	(n.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
Refragable	(a.) Capable of being refuted; refutable.
Refragate	(v. i.) To oppose.
Refrain	(v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
Refrain	(v. t.)To abstain from
Refrain	(v. t.)To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
Refrain	(v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
Refrained	(imp. & p. p.) of Refrain
Refrainer	(n.) One who refrains.
Refraining;	(p. pr. & vb/ n.) of Refrain
Refrainment	(n.) Act of refraining.
Reframe	(v. t.)To frame again or anew.
Refrangibility	(n.) The quality of being refrangible.
Refrangible	(a.) Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
Refrenation	(v. t.)The act of refraining.
Refresh	(a.) To make as if new; to repair; to restore.
Refresh	(a.) To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.
Refresh	(n.) The act of refreshing.
Refreshed	(imp. & p. p.) of Refresh
Refresher	(n.) An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted.
Refresher	(n.) One who, or that which, refreshes.
Refreshful	(a.) Full of power to refresh; refreshing.
Refreshing	(a.) Reviving; reanimating.
Refreshing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refresh
Refreshment	(n.) That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.
Refreshment	(n.) The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression.
Refret	(n.) Refrain.
Refreyd	(v. t.)To chill; to cool.
Refrication	(n.) A rubbing up afresh; a brightening.
Refrigerant	(a.) Cooling; allaying heat or fever.
Refrigerant	(n.) That which makes to be cool or cold; specifically, a medicine or an application for allaying fever, or the symptoms of fever; -- used also figuratively.
Refrigerate	(v. t.)To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.
Refrigerated	(imp. & p. p.) of Refrigerate
Refrigerating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refrigerate
Refrigeration	(n.) The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.
Refrigerative	(a.) Cooling; allaying heat.
Refrigerative	(n.) A refrigerant.
Refrigerator	(n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice.
Refrigerator	(n.) An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc.
Refrigerator	(n.) That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool.
Refrigeratory	(a.) Mitigating heat; cooling.
Refrigeratory	(n.) In distillation, a vessel filled with cold water, surrounding the worm, the vapor in which is thereby condensed.
Refrigeratory	(n.) That which refrigerates or cools.
Refrigeratory	(n.) The chamber, or tank, in which ice is formed, in an ice machine.
Refrigerium	(n.) Cooling refreshment; refrigeration.
Refringency	(n.) The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies.
Refringent	(a.) Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar.
Reft	(imp. & p. p.) Bereft.
Reft	() of Reave
Reft	(n.) A chink; a rift. See Rift.
Refuge	(v. t.)To shelter; to protect.
Refuge	(n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.
Refuge	(n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
Refuge	(n.) That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy.
Refugee	(n.) Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
Refugee	(n.) One who flees to a shelter, or place of safety.
Refulgence	(n.) Alt. of Refulgency
Refulgency	(n.) The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender; radiance.
Refulgent	(a.) Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; as, refulgent beams.
Refund	(v. t.)To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
Refund	(v. t.)To give back; to repay; to restore.
Refund	(v. t.)To pour back.
Refund	(v. t.)To supply again with funds; to reimburse.
Refunder	(n.) One who refunds.
Refundment	(n.) The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded.
Refurbish	(v. t.)To furbish anew.
Refurnish	(v. t.)To furnish again.
Refurnishment	(n.) The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished.
Refusable	(a.) Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.
Refusal	(n.) The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.
Refusal	(n.) The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.
Refuse	(a.) Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Refuse	(v. t.)To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
Refuse	(v. t.)To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
Refuse	(v. t.)To disown.
Refuse	(v. t.)To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
Refuse	(n.) Refusal.
Refuse	(n.) That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Refuse	(v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.
Refused	(imp. & p. p.) of Refuse
Refuser	(n.) One who refuses or rejects.
Refusing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refuse
Refusion	(n.) New or repeated melting, as of metals.
Refusion	(n.) Restoration.
Refut	(n.) Refuge.
Refutability	(n.) The quality of being refutable.
Refutable	(a.) Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.
Refutal	(n.) Act of refuting; refutation.
Refutation	(n.) The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.
Refutatory	(a.) Tending tu refute; refuting.
Refute	(v. t.)To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.
Refuted	(imp. & p. p.) of Refute
Refuter	(n.) One who, or that which, refutes.
Refuting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refute
Regain	(v. t.)To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Regal	(a.) Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.
Regal	(n.) A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Regale	(v. t.)A sumptuous repast; a banquet.
Regale	(v. t.)To enerta/n in a regal or sumptuous manner; to enrtertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh; as, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.
Regale	(n.) A prerogative of royalty.
Regale	(v. i.) To feast; t/ fare sumtuously.
Regaled	(imp. & p. p.) of Regale
Regalement	(n.) The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.
Regaler	(n.) One who regales.
Regalia	(n. pl.) Hence, decorations or insignia of an office or order, as of Freemasons, Odd Fellows,etc.
Regalia	(n. pl.) Sumptuous food; delicacies.
Regalia	(n. pl.) That which belongs to royalty. Specifically:
Regalia	(n.) A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.
Regalian	(a.) Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives.
Regaling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regale
Regalism	(n.) The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy.
Regality	(n.) An ensign or badge of royalty.
Regality	(n.) Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
Regally	(adv.) In a regal or royal manner.
Regard	(v. t.)A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.
Regard	(v. t.)Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice.
Regard	(v. t.)Consideration; thought; reflection; heed.
Regard	(v. t.)Hence, to look or front toward; to face.
Regard	(v. t.)Matter for consideration; account; condition.
Regard	(v. t.)Object of sight; scene; view; aspect.
Regard	(v. t.)Respect; relation; reference.
Regard	(v. t.)State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account.
Regard	(v. t.)Supervision; inspection.
Regard	(v. t.)That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural.
Regard	(v. t.)To consider and treat; to have a certain feeling toward; as, to regard one with favor or dislike.
Regard	(v. t.)To have relation to, as bearing upon; to respect; to relate to; to touch; as, an argument does not regard the question; -- often used impersonally; as, I agree with you as regards this or that.
Regard	(v. t.)To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.
Regard	(v. t.)To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly.
Regard	(v. t.)To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.
Regard	(v. t.)To pay respect to; to treat as something of peculiar value, sanctity, or the like; to care for; to esteem.
Regard	(v. t.)To take into consideration; to take account of, as a fact or condition.
Regard	(v. i.) To look attentively; to consider; to notice.
Regardable	(a.) Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable.
Regardant	(v. t.)Annexed to the land or manor; as, a villain regardant.
Regardant	(v. t.)Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant.
Regardant	(v. t.)Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.
Regarded	(imp. & p. p.) of Regard
Regarder	(n.) An officer appointed to supervise the forest.
Regarder	(n.) One who regards.
Regardful	(a.) Heedful; attentive; observant.
Regarding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regard
Regarding	(prep.) Concerning; respecting.
Regardless	(a.) Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity.
Regardless	(a.) Not regarded; slighted.
Regather	(v. t.)To gather again.
Regatta	(n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.
Regattas	(pl. ) of Regatta
Regel	(n.) See Rigel.
Regelate	(v. i.) To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.
Regelation	(n.) The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.
Regence	(n.) Rule.
Regencies	(pl. ) of Regency
Regency	(a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.
Regency	(a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.
Regency	(a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
Regeneracy	(n.) The state of being regenerated.
Regenerate	(a.) Born anew; become Christian; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state.
Regenerate	(a.) Reproduced.
Regenerate	(v. t.)Hence, to make a radical change for the better in the character or condition of; as, to regenerate society.
Regenerate	(v. t.)To cause to be spiritually born anew; to cause to become a Christian; to convert from sin to holiness; to implant holy affections in the heart of.
Regenerate	(v. t.)To generate or produce anew; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to.
Regenerateness	(n.) The quality or state of being rgenerate.
Regeneration	(n.) The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.
Regeneration	(n.) The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart.
Regeneration	(n.) The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs, and claws by spiders and crabs.
Regeneration	(n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of musc
Regeneration	(n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve.
Regenerative	(a.) Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences.
Regeneratively	(adv.) So as to regenerate.
Regenerator	(n.) A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, h
Regenerator	(n.) One who, or that which, regenerates.
Regeneratory	(a.) Having power to renew; tending to reproduce; regenerating.
Regenesis	(n.) New birth; renewal.
Regent	(a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.
Regent	(a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
Regent	(a.) Exercising vicarious authority.
Regent	(a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
Regent	(a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
Regent	(a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.
Regentess	(n.) A female regent.
Regentship	(n.) The office of a regent; regency.
Regerminate	(v. i.) To germinate again.
Regermination	(n.) A germinating again or anew.
Reges	(pl. ) of Rex
Regest	(n.) A register.
Reget	(v. t.)To get again.
Regian	(n.) An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.
Regible	(a.) Governable; tractable.
Regicidal	(a.) Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide.
Regicide	(n.) One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.
Regicide	(n.) The killing or the murder of a king.
Regild	(v. t.)To gild anew.
Regime	(n.) Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.
Regime	(n.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform regime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.
Regimen	(n.) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
Regimen	(n.) a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.
Regimen	(n.) Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
Regimen	(n.) Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
Regimen	(n.) The word or words governed.
Regiment	(v. t.)To form into a regiment or into regiments.
Regiment	(n.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.
Regiment	(n.) A region or district governed.
Regiment	(n.) Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.
Regimental	(a.) Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing.
Regimentally	(adv.) In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.
Regimentals	(n. pl.) The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense.
Regimented	(imp. & p. p.) of Regiment
Regimenting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regiment
Regiminal	(a.) Of or relating to regimen; as, regiminal rules.
Region	(n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
Region	(n.) Place; rank; station.
Region	(n.) The inhabitants of a district.
Region	(n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
Region	(n.) Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
Regional	(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
Regious	(a.) Regal; royal.
Register	(n.) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of natio
Register	(n.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.
Register	(n.) A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excludi
Register	(n.) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
Register	(n.) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.
Register	(n.) A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
Register	(n.) One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.
Register	(n.) That which registers or records.
Register	(n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.
Register	(n.) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.
Register	(n.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
Register	(n.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.
Register	(n.) To enroll; to enter in a list.
Register	(n.) To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
Register	(v. i.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
Register	(v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.
Register	(v. i.) To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the de
Register	(v. i.) To enroll one's name in a register.
Registered	(imp. & p. p.) of Register
Registering	(a.) Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
Registering	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Register
Registership	(n.) The office of a register.
Registrant	(n.) One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
Registrar	(n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.
Registrarship	(n.) The office of a registrar.
Registrary	(n.) A registrar.
Registrate	(v. t.)To register.
Registration	(v.) The act of registering; registry; enrollment.
Registration	(v.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
Registry	(n.) A record; an account; a register.
Registry	(n.) The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.
Registry	(n.) The place where a register is kept.
Regius	(a.) Of or pertaining to a king; royal.
Regive	(v. t.)To give again; to give back.
Regle	(v. t.)To rule; to govern.
Reglement	(n.) Regulation.
Reglementary	(a.) Regulative.
Reglet	(n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.
Reglet	(n.) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it m
Regma	(n.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.
Regmacarp	(n.) Any dry dehiscent fruit.
Regnal	(a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.
Regnancy	(n.) The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.
Regnant	(a.) Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.
Regnant	(a.) Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent.
Regnative	(a.) Ruling; governing.
Regne	(n. & v.) .See Reign.
Regorge	(v. t.)To swallow again; to swallow back.
Regorge	(v. t.)To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.
Regrade	(v. i.) To retire; to go back.
Regraft	(v. t.)To graft again.
Regrant	(v. t.)To grant back; to grant again or anew.
Regrant	(n.) A renewed of a grant; as, the regrant of a monopoly.
Regrant	(n.) The act of granting back to a former proprietor.
Regrate	(v. t.)To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.
Regrate	(v. t.)To offend; to shock.
Regrate	(v. t.)To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
Regrated	(imp. & p. p.) of Regrate
Regrater	(n.) One who regrates.
Regratery	(n.) The act or practice of regrating.
Regratiatory	(n.) A returning or giving of thanks.
Regrating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regrate
Regrator	(n.) One guilty of regrating.
Regrede	(v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.
Regredience	(n.) A going back; a retrogression; a return.
Regreet	(v. t.)To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet.
Regreet	(n.) A return or exchange of salutation.
Regress	(n.) The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
Regress	(n.) The power or liberty of passing back.
Regress	(v. i.) To go back; to return to a former place or state.
Regressed	(imp. & p. p.) of Regress
Regressing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regress
Regression	(n.) The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.
Regressive	(a.) Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive.
Regressive	(a.) Passing back; returning.
Regressively	(adv.) In a regressive manner.
Regret	(v.) Dislike; aversion.
Regret	(v.) Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or
Regret	(v. t.)To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.
Regretful	(a.) Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.
Regretted	(imp. & p. p.) of Regret
Regretting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regret
Regrow	(v. i. & t.) To grow again.
Regrowth	(n.) The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.
Reguardant	(a.) Same as Regardant.
Reguerdon	(v. t.)To reward.
Regulable	(a.) Capable of being regulated.
Regular	(a.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church.
Regular	(a.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Regular	(a.) Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
Regular	(a.) Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a re
Regular	(a.) Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.
Regular	(a.) Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; re
Regular	(a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
Regular	(a.) Same as Isometric.
Regular	(a.) Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.
Regularia	(n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
Regularity	(n.) The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
Regularize	(v. t.)To cause to become regular; to regulate.
Regularly	(adv.) In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.
Regularness	(n.) Regularity.
Regulate	(v. t.)To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
Regulate	(v. t.)To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
Regulate	(v. t.)To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
Regulated	(imp. & p. p.) of Regulate
Regulating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regulate
Regulation	(n.) A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.
Regulation	(n.) The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
Regulative	(a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.
Regulative	(a.) Tending to regulate; regulating.
Regulator	(n.) A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.
Regulator	(n.) A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as:
Regulator	(n.) A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes.
Regulator	(n.) One who, or that which, regulates.
Reguli	(pl. ) of Regulus
Reguline	(a.) Of or pertaining to regulus.
Regulize	(v. t.)To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.
Regulus	(n.) A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.
Regulus	(n.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.
Regulus	(n.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.
Reguluses	(pl. ) of Regulus
Regurgitate	(v. t.)To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
Regurgitate	(v. i.) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
Regurgitation	(n.) The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance
Regurgitation	(n.) The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.
Regurgitation	(n.) the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
Rehabilitate	(v. t.)To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon la
Rehabilitated	(imp. & p. p.) of Rehabilitate
Rehabilitating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rehabilitate
Rehabilitation	(n.) The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.
Rehash	(v. t.)To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.
Rehash	(n.) Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.
Rehear	(v. t.)To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.
Rehearsal	(n.) The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.
Rehearse	(v. t.)To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
Rehearse	(v. t.)To narrate; to relate; to tell.
Rehearse	(v. t.)To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
Rehearse	(v. t.)To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
Rehearse	(v. i.) To recite or repeat something for practice.
Rehearsed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rehearse
Rehearser	(n.) One who rehearses.
Rehearsing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rehearse
Reheat	(v. t.)To heat again.
Reheat	(v. t.)To revive; to cheer; to cherish.
Rehibition	(n.) The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
Rehibitory	(a.) Of or relating to rehibition; as, a rehibitory action.
Rehire	(v. t.)To hire again.
Rehypothecate	(v. t.)To hypothecate again.
Rei	(n.) A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent.
Reichsrath	(n.) The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.
Reichsstand	(n.) A free city of the former German empire.
Reichstag	(n.) The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.
Reif	(n.) Robbery; spoil.
Reigle	(v. t.)To regulate; to govern.
Reigle	(n.) A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate.
Reiglement	(n.) Rule; regulation.
Reign	(n.) Hence, to be predominant; to prevail.
Reign	(n.) Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.
Reign	(n.) The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion.
Reign	(n.) The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.
Reign	(n.) To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.
Reign	(n.) To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.
Reigned	(imp. & p. p.) of Reign
Reigner	(n.) One who reigns.
Reigning	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reign
Reillume	(v. t.)To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine.
Reilluminate	(v. t.)To enlighten again; to reillumine.
Reillumination	(n.) The act or process of enlightening again.
Reillumine	(v. t.)To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
Reim	(n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.
Reimbark	(v. t. & i.) See Reembark.
Reimbody	(v. t. & i.) To imbody again.
Reimbursable	(a.) Capable of being repaid; repayable.
Reimburse	(v. t.)To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation.
Reimburse	(v. t.)To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.
Reimbursed	(imp. & p. p.) of Reimburse
Reimbursement	(n.) The act reimbursing.
Reimburser	(n.) One who reimburses.
Reimbursing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reimburse
Reimplant	(v. t.)To implant again.
Reimport	(v. t.)To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back.
Reimportation	(n.) The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.
Reimportune	(v. t.)To importune again.
Reimpose	(v. t.)To impose anew.
Reimpregnate	(v. t.)To impregnate again or anew.
Reimpress	(v. t.)To impress anew.
Reimpression	(n.) A second or repeated impression; a reprint.
Reimprint	(v. t.)To imprint again.
Reimprison	(v. t.)To imprison again.
Reimprisonment	(n.) The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
Rein	(v. t.)To govern or direct with the reins; as, to rein a horse one way or another.
Rein	(v. t.)To restrain; to control; to check.
Rein	(n.) Hence, an instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing; government; restraint.
Rein	(n.) The strap of a bridle, fastened to the curb or snaffle on each side, by which the rider or driver governs the horse.
Rein	(v. i.) To be guided by reins.
Reinaugurate	(v. t.)To inaugurate anew.
Reincit	(v. t.)To incite again.
Reincorporate	(v. t.)To incorporate again.
Reincrease	(v. t.)To increase again.
Reincur	(v. t.)To incur again.
Reindeer	(n.) Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.
Reinduce	(v. t.)To induce again.
Reined	(imp. & p. p.) of Rein
Reinette	(n.) A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin.
Reinfect	(v. t.)To infect again.
Reinfectious	(a.) Capable of reinfecting.
Reinforce	(v. t.)See Reenforce, v. t.
Reinforce	(n.) See Reenforce, n.
Reinforcement	(n.) See Reenforcement.
Reinfund	(v. i.) To flow in anew.
Reingratiate	(v. t.)To ingratiate again or anew.
Reinhabit	(v. t.)To inhabit again.
Reining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rein
Reinless	(a.) Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.
Reins	(n. pl.) The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.
Reins	(n. pl.) The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.
Reinsert	(v. t.)To insert again.
Reinsertion	(n.) The act of reinserting.
Reinspect	(v. t.)To inspect again.
Reinspection	(n.) The act of reinspecting.
Reinspire	(v. t.)To inspire anew.
Reinspirit	(v. t.)To give fresh spirit to.
Reinstall	(v. t.)To install again.
Reinstallment	(n.) A renewed installment.
Reinstate	(v. t.)To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.
Reinstatement	(n.) The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re/stablishment.
Reinstation	(n.) Reinstatement.
Reinstruct	(v. t.)To instruct anew.
Reinsurance	(n.) A contract by which an insurer is insured wholly or in part against the risk he has incurred in insuring somebody else. See Reassurance.
Reinsurance	(n.) Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.
Reinsure	(v. t.)To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.
Reinsure	(v. t.)To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an insurance risk upon it.
Reinsurer	(n.) One who gives reinsurance.
Reintegrate	(v. t.)To renew with regard to any state or quality; to restore; to bring again together into a whole, as the parts off anything; to reestablish; as, to reintegrate a nation.
Reintegration	(n.) A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration.
Reinter	(v. t.)To inter again.
Reinterrogate	(v. t.)To interrogate again; to question repeatedly.
Reinthrone	(v. t.)See Reenthrone.
Reinthronize	(v. t.)To enthrone again.
Reintroduce	(v. t.)To introduce again.
Reinvest	(v. t.)To invest again or anew.
Reinvestigate	(v. t.)To investigate again.
Reinvestment	(n.) The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
Reinvigorate	(v. t.)To invigorate anew.
Reinvolve	(v. t.)To involve anew.
Reis	(pl. ) of Rei
Reis Effendi	() A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was chancellor of the empire, etc.
Reis	(n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.
Reis	(n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.
Reissner's membrane	() The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.
Reissuable	(a.) Capable of being reissued.
Reissue	(v. t. & i.) To issue a second time.
Reissue	(n.) A second or repeated issue.
Reit	(n.) Sedge; seaweed.
Reiter	(n.) A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Reiterant	(a.) Reiterating.
Reiterate	(a.) Reiterated; repeated.
Reiterate	(v. t.)To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat.
Reiterated	(imp. & p. p.) of Reiterate
Reiteratedly	(adv.) Repeatedly.
Reiterating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reiterate
Reiteration	(n.) The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
Reiterative	(n.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
Reiterative	(n.) A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally.
Reiver	(n.) See Reaver.
Reject	(v. t.)To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
Reject	(v. t.)To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.
Reject	(v. t.)To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
Rejectable	(a.) Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
Rejectamenta	(n. pl.) Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism.
Rejectaneous	(a.) Not chosen or received; rejected.
Rejected	(imp. & p. p.) of Reject
Rejecter	(n.) One who rejects.
Rejecting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reject
Rejection	(n.) Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
Rejectitious	(a.) Implying or requiring rejection; rejectable.
Rejective	(a.) Rejecting, or tending to reject.
Rejectment	(n.) Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away.
Rejoice	(v. t.)To enjoy.
Rejoice	(v. t.)To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.
Rejoice	(n.) The act of rejoicing.
Rejoice	(v. i.) To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.
Rejoiced	(imp. & p. p.) of Rejoice
Rejoicement	(n.) Rejoicing.
Rejoicer	(n.) One who rejoices.
Rejoicing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rejoice
Rejoicing	(n.) Joy; gladness; delight.
Rejoicing	(n.) That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy.
Rejoicing	(n.) The expression of joy or gladness.
Rejoicingly	(adv.) With joi or exultation.
Rejoin	(v. t.)To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
Rejoin	(v. t.)To join again; to unite after separation.
Rejoin	(v. t.)To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
Rejoin	(v. i.) To answer to a reply.
Rejoin	(v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
Rejoinder	(n.) An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
Rejoinder	(n.) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
Rejoinder	(v. i.) To make a rejoinder.
Rejoindure	(n.) Act of joining again.
Rejoined	(imp. & p. p.) of Rejoin
Rejoining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rejoin
Rejoint	(v. t.)Specifically (Arch.), to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather.
Rejoint	(v. t.)To reunite the joints of; to joint anew.
Rejolt	(v. t.)To jolt or shake again.
Rejolt	(n.) A reacting jolt or shock; a rebound or recoil.
Rejourn	(v. t.)To adjourn; to put off.
Rejournment	(n.) Adjournment.
Rejudge	(v. t.)To judge again; to reexamine; to review; to call to a new trial and decision.
Rejuvenate	(v. t.)To render young again.
Rejuvenation	(n.) Rejuvenescence.
Rejuvenescence	(n.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoospores, etc.
Rejuvenescence	(n.) A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.
Rejuvenescency	(n.) Rejuvenescence.
Rejuvenescent	(a.) Becoming, or causing to become, rejuvenated; rejuvenating.
Rejuvenize	(v. t.)To rejuvenate.
Rekindle	(v. t. & i.) To kindle again.
Rekne	(v. t.)To reckon.
Relade	(v. t.)To lade or load again.
Relaid	(imp. & p. p.) of Relay
Relaid	() imp. & p. p. of Relay.
Relais	(n.) A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch.
Reland	(v. t.)To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.
Reland	(v. i.) To go on shore after having embarked; to land again.
Relapse	(v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
Relapse	(v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
Relapse	(v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
Relapse	(v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- so
Relapse	(v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
Relapsed	(imp. & p. p.) of Relapse
Relapser	(n.) One who relapses.
Relapsing	(a.) Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state.
Relapsing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relapse
Relate	(v. t.)To ally by connection or kindred.
Relate	(v. t.)To bring back; to restore.
Relate	(v. t.)To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
Relate	(v. t.)To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.
Relate	(v. i.) To make reference; to take account.
Relate	(v. i.) To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.
Related	(p. p. & a.) Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.
Related	(p. p. & a.) Narrated; told.
Related	(p. p. & a.) Same as Relative, 4.
Related	(p. p. & a.) Standing in relation or connection; as, the electric and magnetic forcec are closely related.
Related	(imp. & p. p.) of Relate
Relatedness	(n.) The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity.
Relater	(n.) One who relates or narrates.
Relating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relate
Relation	(n.) A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.
Relation	(n.) Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.
Relation	(n.) Reference; respect; regard.
Relation	(n.) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun.
Relation	(n.) The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.
Relation	(n.) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation.
Relation	(n.) The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by considering it in its bearing upon something else; relative quality or condition; the being such and such with regard or respect to some other t
Relational	(a.) Having relation or kindred; related.
Relational	(a.) Indicating or specifying some relation.
Relationist	(n.) A relative; a relation.
Relationship	(n.) The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.
Relative	(a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
Relative	(a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
Relative	(a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
Relative	(a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
Relative	(n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
Relative	(n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
Relative	(n.) One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
Relatively	(adv.) In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely.
Relativeness	(n.) The state of being relative, or having relation; relativity.
Relativity	(n.) The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject.
Relator	(n.) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.
Relator	(n.) One who relates; a relater.
Relatrix	(n.) A female relator.
Relax	(a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
Relax	(n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
Relax	(n.) Relaxation.
Relax	(n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
Relax	(n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
Relax	(n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.
Relax	(v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
Relax	(v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
Relax	(v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.
Relaxable	(a.) Capable of being relaxed.
Relaxant	(n.) A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
Relaxation	(n.) Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement.
Relaxation	(n.) The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.
Relaxative	(a.) Having the quality of relaxing; laxative.
Relaxative	(n.) A relaxant.
Relaxed	(imp. & p. p.) of Relax
Relaxing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relax
Relay	(v. t.)To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
Relay	(n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
Relay	(n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
Relay	(n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
Relay	(n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.
Relay	(n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the curre
Relaying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relay
Relbun	(n.) The roots of the Chilian plant Calceolaria arachnoidea, -- used for dyeing crimson.
Releasable	(a.) That may be released.
Release	(v. t.)To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
Release	(n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.
Release	(n.) Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.
Release	(n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden.
Release	(n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
Release	(n.) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.
Release	(n.) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
Release	(n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.
Release	(n.) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.
Release	(n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.
Released	(imp. & p. p.) of Release
Releasee	(n.) One to whom a release is given.
Releasement	(n.) The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation.
Releaser	(n.) One who releases, or sets free.
Releasing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Release
Releasor	(n.) One by whom a release is given.
Relegate	(v. t.)To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
Relegated	(imp. & p. p.) of Relegate
Relegating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relegate
Relegation	(n.) The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.
Relent	(v. t.)To mollify ; to cause to be less harsh or severe.
Relent	(v. t.)To slacken; to abate.
Relent	(v. t.)To soften; to dissolve.
Relent	(n.) Stay; stop; delay.
Relent	(v. i.) To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.
Relent	(v. i.) To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, cruel, or the like; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.
Relented	(imp. & p. p.) of Relent
Relenting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relent
Relentless	(a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.
Relentment	(n.) The act or process of relenting; the state of having relented.
Relesse	(v. t.)To release.
Relessee	(n.) See Releasee.
Relessor	(n.) See Releasor.
Re-let	(v. t.)To let anew, as a house.
Relevance	(n.) Alt. of Relevancy
Relevancy	(n.) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
Relevancy	(n.) The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability.
Relevant	(a.) Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable.
Relevant	(a.) Relieving; lending aid or support.
Relevant	(a.) Sufficient to support the cause.
Relevantly	(adv.) In a relevant manner.
Relevation	(n.) A raising or lifting up.
Reliability	(n.) The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.
Reliable	(a.) Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
Reliance	(n.) Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance.
Reliance	(n.) The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.
Reliant	(a.) Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.
Relic	(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
Relic	(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.
Relic	(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
Relicly	(adv.) In the manner of relics.
Relict	(n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.
Relicted	(a.) Left uncovered, as land by recession of water.
Reliction	(n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession.
Relied	(imp. & p. p.) of Rely
Relief	(n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.
Relief	(n.) Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
Relief	(n.) That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.
Relief	(n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
Relief	(n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.
Relief	(n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country.
Relief	(n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
Relief	(n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.
Reliefful	(a.) Giving relief.
Reliefless	(a.) Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
Relier	(n.) One who relies.
Relievable	(a.) Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief.
Relieve	(v. t.)To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
Relieve	(v. t.)To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
Relieve	(v. t.)To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town.
Relieve	(v. t.)To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
Relieve	(v. t.)To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.
Relieve	(v. t.)To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
Relieve	(v. t.)To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
Relieved	(imp. & p. p.) of Relieve
Relievement	(n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
Reliever	(n.) One who, or that which, relieves.
Relieving	(a.) Serving or tending to relieve.
Relieving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relieve
Relievo	(n.) See Relief, n., 5.
Relight	(v. t.)To light or kindle anew.
Religieuse	(n. m.) Alt. of Religieux
Religieux	(n. m.) A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.
Religion	(n.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.
Religion	(n.) Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.
Religion	(n.) Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
Religion	(n.) The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhu
Religionary	(a.) Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions.
Religionary	(n.) Alt. of Religioner
Religioner	(n.) A religionist.
Religionism	(n.) Affectation or pretense of religion.
Religionism	(n.) The practice of, or devotion to, religion.
Religionist	(n.) One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.
Religionize	(v. t.)To bring under the influence of religion.
Religionless	(a.) Destitute of religion.
Religiosity	(n.) The quality of being religious; religious feeling or sentiment; religiousness.
Religious	(a.) Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
Religious	(a.) Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
Religious	(a.) Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
Religious	(a.) Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
Religious	(n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
Religiously	(adv.) In a religious manner.
Religiousness	(n.) The quality of being religious.
Relik	(n.) Relic.
Relinquent	(a.) Relinquishing.
Relinquent	(n.) One who relinquishes.
Relinquish	(v. t.)To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.
Relinquish	(v. t.)To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.
Relinquished	(imp. & p. p.) of Relinquish
Relinquisher	(n.) One who relinquishes.
Relinquishing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relinquish
Relinquishment	(n.) The act of relinquishing.
Reliquary	(n.) A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.
Relique	(n.) See Relic.
Reliquiae	(n. pl.) Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
Reliquiae	(n. pl.) Same as Induviae.
Reliquian	(a.) Of or pertaining to a relic or relics; of the nature of a relic.
Reliquidate	(v. t.)To liquidate anew; to adjust a second time.
Reliquidation	(n.) A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment.
Relish	(v. t.)To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeably.
Relish	(v. t.)To taste or eat with pleasure; to like the flavor of; to partake of with gratification; hence, to enjoy; to be pleased with or gratified by; to experience pleasure from; as, to relish food.
Relish	(n.) A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
Relish	(n.) A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
Relish	(n.) Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
Relish	(n.) That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable or to stimulate the appetite; a condiment.
Relish	(n.) The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
Relish	(v. i.) To have a pleasing or appetizing taste; to give gratification; to have a flavor.
Relishable	(a.) Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
Relished	(imp. & p. p.) of Relish
Relishing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relish
Relive	(v. t.)To recall to life; to revive.
Relive	(v. i.) To live again; to revive.
Reload	(v. t.)To load again, as a gun.
Reloan	(n.) A second lending of the same thing; a renewal of a loan.
Relocate	(v. t.)To locate again.
Relocation	(n.) A second location.
Relocation	(n.) Renewal of a lease.
Relodge	(v. t.)To lodge again.
Relove	(v. t.)To love in return.
Relucent	(a.) Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid.
Reluct	(v. i.) To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.
Reluctance	(n.) Alt. of Reluctancy
Reluctancy	(n.) The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against.
Reluctant	(a.) Proceeding from an unwilling mind; granted with reluctance; as, reluctant obedience.
Reluctant	(a.) Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.
Reluctantly	(adv.) In a reluctant manner.
Reluctate	(v. i.) To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
Reluctation	(n.) Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.
Relume	(v. t.)To rekindle; to light again.
Relumed	(imp. & p. p.) of Relume
Relumine	(v. t.)To illuminate again.
Relumine	(v. t.)To light anew; to rekindle.
Relumined	(imp. & p. p.) of Relumine
Reluming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relume
Relumining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relumine
Rely	(v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.
Relying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rely
Remade	() imp. & p. p. of Remake.
Remain	(v. t.)To await; to be left to.
Remain	(n.) State of remaining; stay.
Remain	(n.) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Remain	(n.) That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
Remain	(n.) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
Remain	(v. i.) To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
Remain	(v. i.) To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
Remainder	(a.) Remaining; left; left over; refuse.
Remainder	(n.) An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his de
Remainder	(n.) Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.
Remainder	(n.) The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction.
Remainder-man	(n.) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3.
Remainder-men	(pl. ) of Remainder-man
Remained	(imp. & p. p.) of Remain
Remaining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remain
Remake	(v. t.)To make anew.
Remand	(v. t.)To recommit; to send back.
Remand	(n.) The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.
Remanded	(imp. & p. p.) of Remand
Remanding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remand
Remandment	(n.) A remand.
Remanence	(a.) Alt. of Remanency
Remanency	(a.) The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence.
Remanent	(a.) Remaining; residual.
Remanent	(a.) That which remains; a remnant; a residue.
Remanet	(n.) A case for trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case.
Re-mark	(v. t.)To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.
Remark	(n.) Act of remarking or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
Remark	(n.) The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.
Remark	(n.) To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause; as, he remarked that it was time to go.
Remark	(n.) To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.
Remark	(n.) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker.
Remark	(v. i.) To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
Remarkable	(a.) Worthy of being remarked or noticed; noticeable; conspicuous; hence, uncommon; extraordinary.
Remarked	(imp. & p. p.) of Remark
Remarker	(n.) One who remarks.
Remarking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remark
Remarriage	(n.) A second or repeated marriage.
Remarry	(v. t. & i.) To marry again.
Remast	(v. t.)To furnish with a new mast or set of masts.
Remasticate	(v. t.)To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.
Remastication	(n.) The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
Remberge	(n.) See Ramberge.
Remblai	(n.) Earth or materials made into a bank after having been excavated.
Remble	(v. t.)To remove.
Reme	(n.) Realm.
Remean	(v. t.)To give meaning to; to explain the meaning of; to interpret.
Remeant	(a.) Coming back; returning.
Remeasure	(v. t.)To measure again; to retrace.
Remede	(n.) Remedy.
Remediable	(a.) Capable of being remedied or cured.
Remedial	(a.) Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
Remedially	(adv.) In a remedial manner.
Remediate	(a.) Remedial.
Remedied	(imp. & p. p.) of Remedy
Remedies	(pl. ) of Remedy
Remediless	(a.) Not admitting of a remedy; incapable of being restored or corrected; incurable; irreparable; as, a remediless mistake or loss.
Remediless	(a.) Not answering as a remedy; ineffectual.
Remedy	(n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
Remedy	(n.) That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
Remedy	(n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
Remedy	(n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
Remedying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remedy
Remelt	(v. t.)To melt again.
Remember	(v. t.)To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind; to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with gratitude, affection, respect, or any other emotion.
Remember	(v. t.)To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his child
Remember	(v. t.)To mention.
Remember	(v. t.)To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and impersonally.
Remember	(v. t.)To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered to you, etc.
Remember	(v. i.) To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember better than others.
Rememberable	(a.) Capable or worthy of being remembered.
Remembered	(imp. & p. p.) of Remember
Rememberer	(n.) One who remembers.
Remembering	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remember
Remembrance	(n.) Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
Remembrance	(n.) Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
Remembrance	(n.) Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni//on; instruction.
Remembrance	(n.) That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
Remembrance	(n.) The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
Remembrance	(n.) The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
Remembrancer	(n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time.
Remembrancer	(n.) One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.
Rememorate	(v. i.) To recall something by means of memory; to remember.
Rememoration	(n.) A recalling by the faculty of memory; remembrance.
Rememorative	(a.) Tending or serving to remind.
Remenant	(n.) A remnant.
Remercie	(v. t.)Alt. of Remercy
Remercy	(v. t.)To thank.
Remerge	(v. i.) To merge again.
Remeve	(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Remewe
Remewe	(v. t. & i.) To remove.
Remiform	(a.) Shaped like an oar.
Remiges	(n. pl.) The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.
Remigrate	(v. i.) To migrate again; to go back; to return.
Remigration	(n.) Migration back to the place from which one came.
Remind	(v. t.)To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).
Reminder	(n.) One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
Remindful	(a.) Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind.
Reminiscence	(n.) That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection; as, pleasing or painful reminiscences.
Reminiscence	(n.) The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.
Reminiscency	(n.) Reminiscence.
Reminiscent	(a.) Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having remembrance; reminding one of something.
Reminiscent	(n.) One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
Reminiscential	(a.) Of or pertaining to reminiscence, or remembrance.
Remiped	(a.) Having feet or legs that are used as oars; -- said of certain crustaceans and insects.
Remiped	(n.) An animal having limbs like oars, especially one of certain crustaceans.
Remiped	(n.) One of a group of aquatic beetles having tarsi adapted for swimming. See Water beetle.
Remise	(v. t.)To send, give, or grant back; to release a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return.
Remise	(n.) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim.
Remised	(imp. & p. p.) of Remise
Remising	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remise
Remiss	(a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
Remiss	(n.) The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.
Remissful	(a.) Inclined to remit punishment; lenient; clement.
Remissibility	(n.) The state or quality of being remissible.
Remissible	(a.) Capable of being remitted or forgiven.
Remission	(n.) A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
Remission	(n.) Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
Remission	(n.) Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
Remission	(n.) Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc.
Remission	(n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
Remission	(n.) The act of sending back.
Remissive	(a.) Remitting; forgiving; abating.
Remissly	(adv.) In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
Remissness	(n.) Quality or state of being remiss.
Remissory	(a.) Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive.
Remit	(v. t.)To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
Remit	(v. t.)To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
Remit	(v. t.)To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
Remit	(v. t.)To restore.
Remit	(v. t.)To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
Remit	(v. t.)To send off or away; hence:
Remit	(v. t.)To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
Remit	(v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
Remit	(v. i.) To send money, as in payment.
Remitment	(n.) The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission.
Remittal	(n.) A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits.
Remittance	(n.) The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.
Remittance	(n.) The sum or thing remitted.
Remitted	(imp. & p. p.) of Remit
Remittee	(n.) One to whom a remittance is sent.
Remittent	(a.) Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions.
Remitter	(n.) One who makes remittance.
Remitter	(n.) One who pardons.
Remitter	(n.) One who remits.
Remitter	(n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into p
Remitting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remit
Remittitur	(n.) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.
Remittitur	(n.) A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court.
Remittor	(n.) One who makes a remittance; a remitter.
Remix	(v. t.)To mix again or repeatedly.
Remnant	(a.) A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap.
Remnant	(a.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Remnant	(a.) Remaining; yet left.
Remnant	(a.) That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue.
Remodel	(v. t.)To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.
Remodification	(n.) The act of remodifying; the state of being remodified.
Remodify	(v. t.)To modify again or anew; to reshape.
Remolade	(n.) Alt. of Remoulad
Remold	(v. t.)Alt. of Remould
Remollient	(a.) Mollifying; softening.
Remonetization	(n.) The act of remonetizing.
Remonetize	(v. t.)To restore to use as money; as, to remonetize silver.
Remonstrance	(n.) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration.
Remonstrance	(n.) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.
Remonstrance	(n.) Same as Monstrance.
Remonstrance	(n.) The act of remonstrating
Remonstrant	(a.) Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.
Remonstrant	(n.) one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618. See Arminian.
Remonstrant	(n.) One who remonstrates
Remonstrantly	(adv.) In a remonstrant manner.
Remonstrate	(v. t.)To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
Remonstrate	(v. i.) To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation.
Remonstrated	(imp. & p. p.) of Remonstrate
Remonstrating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remonstrate
Remonstration	(n.) The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.
Remonstrative	(a.) Having the character of a remonstrance; expressing remonstrance.
Remonstrator	(n.) One who remonstrates; a remonsrant.
Remontant	(a.) Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.
Remontoir	(n.) See under Escapement.
Remora	(n.) An instrument formerly in use, intended to retain parts in their places.
Remora	(n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Echeneis, Remora, and allied genera. Called also sucking fish.
Remora	(n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance.
Remorate	(v. t.)To hinder; to delay.
Remord	(v. t.)To excite to remorse; to rebuke.
Remord	(v. i.) To feel remorse.
Remordency	(n.) Remorse; compunction; compassion.
Remorse	(n.) Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.
Remorse	(n.) The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.
Remorsed	(a.) Feeling remorse.
Remorseful	(a.) Compassionate; feeling tenderly.
Remorseful	(a.) Exciting pity; pitiable.
Remorseful	(a.) Full of remorse.
Remorseless	(a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless.
Remote	(superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
Remote	(superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
Remote	(superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
Remote	(superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
Remote	(superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
Remote	(superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Remote	(superl.) Separate; abstracted.
Remote	(superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
Remotion	(n.) The act of removing; removal.
Remotion	(n.) The state of being remote; remoteness.
Remoulad	(n.) A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.
Remould	(v. t.)See Remold.
Remould	(v. t.)To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.
Remount	(v. t. & i.) To mount again.
Remount	(n.) The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.
Removable	(a.) Admitting of being removed.
Removal	(n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Remove	(v. t.)To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
Remove	(v. t.)To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
Remove	(v. t.)To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Remove	(n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
Remove	(n.) The act of removing; a removal.
Remove	(n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Remove	(n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
Remove	(n.) The state of being removed.
Remove	(n.) The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
Remove	(v. i.) To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
Removed	(a.) Changed in place.
Removed	(a.) Dismissed from office.
Removed	(a.) Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed.
Removed	(a.) Distant in location; remote.
Removed	(imp. & p. p.) of Remove
Remover	(n.) One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks.
Removing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remove
Remuable	(a.) That may be removed; removable.
Remue	(v. t.)To remove.
Remugient	(a.) Rebellowing.
Remunerable	(a.) Admitting, or worthy, of remuneration.
Remunerate	(v. t.)To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.
Remunerated	(imp. & p. p.) of Remunerate
Remunerating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Remunerate
Remuneration	(n.) That which is given to remunerate; an equivalent given, as for services, loss, or sufferings.
Remuneration	(n.) The act of remunerating.
Remunerative	(a.) Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business.
Remuneratory	(a.) Remunerative.
Remurmur	(v. t. & i.) To murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs.
Ren	(v. t. & i.) See Renne.
Ren	(n.) A run.
Renable	(a.) Reasonable; also, loquacious.
Renaissance	(n.) A new birth, or revival.
Renaissance	(n.) The style of art which prevailed at this epoch.
Renaissance	(n.) The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.
Renaissant	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Renaissance.
Renal	(a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys.
Renal-portal	(a.) Both renal and portal. See Portal.
Rename	(v. t.)To give a new name to.
Renard	(n.) A fox; -- so called in fables or familiar tales, and in poetry.
Renardine	(a.) Of or pertaining to Renard, the fox, or the tales in which Renard is mentioned.
Renascence	(n.) Same as Renaissance.
Renascence	(n.) The state of being renascent.
Renascency	(n.) State of being renascent.
Renascent	(a.) See Renaissant.
Renascent	(a.) Springing or rising again into being; being born again, or reproduced.
Renascible	(a.) Capable of being reproduced; ablle to spring again into being.
Renate	(a.) Born again; regenerate; renewed.
Renavigate	(v. t.)To navigate again.
Renay	(v. t.)To deny; to disown.
Rencontre	(n.) Same as Rencounter, n.
Rencounter	(v. t.)To attack hand to hand.
Rencounter	(v. t.)To meet unexpectedly; to encounter.
Rencounter	(n.) A causal combat or action; a sudden contest or fight without premeditation, as between individuals or small parties.
Rencounter	(n.) A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meeting in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement.
Rencounter	(v. i.) To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.
Rencountered	(imp. & p. p.) of Rencounter
Rencountering;	(p. pr. & vb/ n.) of Rencounter
Rend	(v. t.)To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
Rend	(v. t.)To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
Rend	(v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
Render	(v. t.)Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
Render	(v. t.)To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
Render	(v. t.)To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
Render	(v. t.)To give up; to yield; to surrender.
Render	(v. t.)To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
Render	(v. t.)To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
Render	(v. t.)To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
Render	(v. t.)To return; to pay back; to restore.
Render	(v. t.)To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
Render	(v. t.)To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
Render	(n.) A return; a payment of rent.
Render	(n.) A surrender.
Render	(n.) An account given; a statement.
Render	(n.) One who rends.
Render	(v. i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
Render	(v. i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.
Renderable	(a.) Capable of being rendered.
Rendered	(imp. & p. p.) of Render
Renderer	(n.) A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
Renderer	(n.) One who renders.
Rendering	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Render
Rendering	(n.) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text.
Rendering	(n.) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part.
Rendering	(n.) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.
Rendering	(n.) The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered.
Rendering	(n.) The coat of plaster thus laid on.
Rendering	(n.) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat.
Rendezvous	(v. t.)To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.
Rendezvous	(n.) A meeting by appointment.
Rendezvous	(n.) A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
Rendezvous	(n.) Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
Rendezvous	(n.) Retreat; refuge.
Rendezvous	(v. i.) To assemble or meet at a particular place.
Rendezvoused::	(imp. &. p. p.) of Rendezvous
Rendezvouses	(pl. ) of Rendezvous
Rendezvousing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rendezvous
Rendible	(a.) Capable of being rent or torn.
Rendible	(a.) Capable, or admitting, of being rendered.
Rending	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rend
Rendition	(n.) The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.
Rendition	(n.) Translation; rendering; version.
Rendrock	(n.) A kind of dynamite used in blasting.
Renegade	(n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.
Renegade	(n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.
Renegade	(n.) One faithless to principle or party.
Renegade	(n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.
Renegado	(n.) See Renegade.
Renegat	(n.) A renegade.
Renegation	(n.) A denial.
Renege	(v. t.)To deny; to disown.
Renege	(v. i.) To deny.
Renege	(v. i.) To revoke.
Renerve	(v. t.)To nerve again; to give new vigor to; to reinvigorate.
Reneved	(imp. & p. p.) of Renew
Renew	(v. t.)Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.
Renew	(v. t.)To begin again; to recommence.
Renew	(v. t.)To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to re/stablish; to recreate; to rebuild.
Renew	(v. t.)To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
Renew	(v. t.)To repeat; to go over again.
Renew	(v. i.) To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.
Renewability	(n.) The quality or state of being renewable.
Renewable	(a.) Capable of being renewed; as, a lease renewable at pleasure.
Renewal	(n.) The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.
Renewedly	(adv.) Again; once more.
Renewedness	(n.) The state of being renewed.
Renewer	(n.) One who, or that which, renews.
Renewing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renew
Reneye	(v. t.)To deny; to reject; to renounce.
Reng	(n.) A rank; a row.
Reng	(n.) A rung or round of a ladder.
Renidification	(n.) The act of rebuilding a nest.
Reniform	(a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.
Renitence	(n.) Alt. of Renitency
Renitency	(n.) The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
Renitent	(a.) Persistently opposed.
Renitent	(a.) Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.
Renne	(v. t.)To plunder; -- only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.
Renne	(v. i.) To run.
Renner	(n.) A runner.
Rennet	(v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk.
Rennet	(n.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.
Renneted	(a.) Provided or treated with rennet.
Renneting	(n.) Same as 1st Rennet.
Rennin	(n.) A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme.
Renning	(n.) See 2d Rennet.
Renomee	(n.) Renown.
Renounce	(v. t.)To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
Renounce	(v. t.)To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
Renounce	(v. t.)To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
Renounce	(n.) Act of renouncing.
Renounce	(v. i.) To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters.
Renounce	(v. i.) To make renunciation.
Renounced	(imp. & p. p.) of Renounce
Renouncement	(n.) The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation.
Renouncer	(n.) One who renounces.
Renouncing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renounce
Renovate	(v. t.)To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.
Renovation	(n.) The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed.
Renovator	(n.) One who, or that which, renovates.
Renovel	(v. t.)To renew; to renovate.
Renovelance	(n.) Renewal.
Renowme	(n.) Renown.
Renowmed	(a.) Renowned.
Renown	(v.) Report of nobleness or exploits; praise.
Renown	(v.) The state of being much known and talked of; exalted reputation derived from the extensive praise of great achievements or accomplishments; fame; celebrity; -- always in a good sense.
Renown	(v. t.)To make famous; to give renown to.
Renowned	(a.) Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king.
Renownedly	(adv.) With renown.
Renowner	(n.) One who gives renown.
Renownful	(a.) Having great renown; famous.
Renownless	(a.) Without renown; inglorius.
Rensselaerite	(n.) A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.
Rent	(imp. & p. p.) of Rend
Rent	(v. t.)To tear. See Rend.
Rent	() imp. & p. p. of Rend.
Rent	(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the
Rent	(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
Rent	(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
Rent	(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
Rent	(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
Rent	(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
Rent	(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
Rent	(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Rent	(v. i.) To rant.
Rentable	(a.) Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting.
Rentage	(n.) Rent.
Rental	(n.) A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.
Rental	(n.) A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.
Rente	(n.) In France, interest payable by government on indebtedness; the bonds, shares, stocks, etc., which represent government indebtedness.
Rented	(imp. & p. p.) of Rent
Renter	(v. t.)To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.
Renter	(v. t.)To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
Renter	(n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
Rentered	(imp. & p. p.) of Renter
Renterer	(n.) One who renters.
Rentering	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Renter
Rentier	(n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.
Renting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rent
Renumerate	(v. t.)To recount.
Renunciation	(n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.
Renunciation	(n.) The act of renouncing.
Renunciatory	(a.) Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.
Renverse	(a.) Alt. of Renverse
Renverse	(a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.
Renverse	(v. t.)To reverse.
Renversement	(n.) A reversing.
Renvoy	(v. t.)To send back.
Renvoy	(n.) A sending back.
Reobtain	(v. t.)To obtain again.
Reobtainable	(a.) That may be reobtained.
Reoccupy	(v. t.)To occupy again.
Reometer	(n.) Same as Rheometer.
Reopen	(v. t. & i.) To open again.
Reoppose	(v. t.)To oppose again.
Reordain	(v. t.)To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective.
Reorder	(v. t.)To order a second time.
Reordination	(n.) A second ordination.
Reorganization	(n.) The act of reorganizing; a reorganized existence; as, reorganization of the troops.
Reorganize	(v. t. & i.) To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.
Reorient	(a.) Rising again.
Reostat	(n.) See Rheostat.
Reotrope	(n.) See Rheotrope.
Rep	(a.) Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.
Rep	(n.) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
Repace	(v. t.)To pace again; to walk over again in a contrary direction.
Repacify	(v. t.)To pacify again.
Repack	(v. t.)To pack a second time or anew; as, to repack beef; to repack a trunk.
Repacker	(n.) One who repacks.
Repaganize	(v. t.)To paganize anew; to bring back to paganism.
Repaid	(imp. & p. p.) of Repay
Repaid	() imp. & p. p. of Repay.
Repaint	(v. t.)To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
Repair	(v. t.)To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
Repair	(v. t.)To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
Repair	(n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
Repair	(n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
Repair	(n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
Repair	(n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
Repair	(v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
Repair	(v. i.) To return.
Repairable	(a.) Reparable.
Repaired	(imp. & p. p.) of Repair
Repairer	(n.) One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
Repairing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repair
Repairment	(n.) Act of repairing.
Repand	(a.) Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.
Reparability	(n.) The quality or state of being reparable.
Reparable	(a.) Capable of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.
Reparably	(adv.) In a reparable manner.
Reparation	(n.) The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity.
Reparation	(n.) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used.
Reparative	(a.) Repairing, or tending to repair.
Reparative	(n.) That which repairs.
Reparel	(n.) A change of apparel; a second or different suit.
Repartee	(n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.
Repartee	(v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.
Reparteed	(imp. & p. p.) of Repartee
Reparteeing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repartee
Repartimiento	(n.) A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes.
Repartotion	(n.) Another, or an additional, separation into parts.
Repass	(v. t.)To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
Repass	(v. i.) To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes.
Repassage	(n.) The act of repassing; passage back.
Repassant	(a.) Counterpassant.
Repast	(v. t. & i.) To supply food to; to feast; to take food.
Repast	(n.) That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment.
Repast	(n.) The act of taking food.
Repaster	(n.) One who takes a repast.
Repasture	(n.) Food; entertainment.
Repatriate	(v. t.)To restore to one's own country.
Repatriation	(n.) Restoration to one's country.
Repay	(v. t.)To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury.
Repay	(v. t.)To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt.
Repay	(v. t.)To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
Repayable	(a.) Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.
Repaying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repay
Repayment	(n.) The act of repaying; reimbursement.
Repayment	(n.) The money or other thing repaid.
Repeal	(v. t.)To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.
Repeal	(v. t.)To recall; to summon again, as persons.
Repeal	(v. t.)To suppress; to repel.
Repeal	(n.) Recall, as from exile.
Repeal	(n.) Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.
Repealability	(n.) The quality or state of being repealable.
Repealable	(a.) Capable of being repealed.
Repealed	(imp. & p. p.) of Repeal
Repealer	(n.) One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Repealing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repeal
Repealment	(n.) Recall, as from banishment.
Repeat	(v. t.)To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
Repeat	(v. t.)To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
Repeat	(v. t.)To repay or refund (an excess received).
Repeat	(n.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.
Repeat	(n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
Repeat	(n.) The act of repeating; repetition.
Repeated	(imp. & p. p.) of Repeat
Repeatedly	(adv.) More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
Repeater	(n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
Repeater	(n.) A person who votes more than once at an election.
Repeater	(n.) A repeating firearm.
Repeater	(n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
Repeater	(n.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
Repeater	(n.) One who, or that which, repeats.
Repeater	(n.) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.
Repeating	(a.) Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.
Repeating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repeat
Repedation	(n.) A stepping or going back.
Repel	(v. t.)To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Repel	(v. t.)To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument.
Repel	(v. i.) To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
Repelled	(imp. & p. p.) of Repel
Repellence	(n.) Alt. of Repellency
Repellency	(n.) The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
Repellent	(a.) Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Repellent	(n.) A kind of waterproof cloth.
Repellent	(n.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
Repellent	(n.) That which repels.
Repeller	(n.) One who, or that which, repels.
Repelling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repel
Repent	(a.) Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
Repent	(a.) Same as Reptant.
Repent	(v. t.)To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
Repent	(v. t.)To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
Repent	(v. t.)To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
Repent	(v. i.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
Repent	(v. i.) To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
Repent	(v. i.) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
Repentance	(n.) The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.
Repentant	(a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes.
Repentant	(a.) Penitent; sorry for sin.
Repentant	(n.) One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.
Repentantly	(adv.) In a repentant manner.
Repented	(imp. & p. p.) of Repent
Repenter	(n.) One who repents.
Repenting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repent
Repentingly	(adv.) With repentance; penitently.
Repentless	(a.) Unrepentant.
Repeople	(v. t.)To people anew.
Reperception	(n.) The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object.
Repercuss	(v. t.)To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.
Repercussed	(imp. & p. p.) of Repercuss
Repercussing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repercuss
Repercussion	(n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
Repercussion	(n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
Repercussion	(n.) The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
Repercussion	(n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
Repercussive	(a.) Driven back; rebounding; reverberated.
Repercussive	(a.) Repellent.
Repercussive	(a.) Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
Repercussive	(n.) A repellent.
Repertitious	(a.) Found; gained by finding.
Repertoire	(n.) A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.
Repertory	(n.) A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.
Repertory	(n.) A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse.
Repertory	(n.) Same as Repertoire.
Reperusal	(n.) A second or repeated perusal.
Reperuse	(v. t.)To peruse again.
Repetend	(n.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum
Repetition	(n.) Recital from memory; rehearsal.
Repetition	(n.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
Repetition	(n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
Repetition	(n.) The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
Repetition	(n.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Repetitional	(a.) Alt. of Repetitionary
Repetitionary	(a.) Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
Repetitioner	(n.) One who repeats.
Repetitious	(a.) Repeating; containing repetition.
Repetitive	(a.) Containing repetition; repeating.
Repetitor	(n.) A private instructor.
Repine	(n.) Vexation; mortification.
Repine	(v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
Repine	(v. i.) To fail; to wane.
Repiner	(n.) One who repines.
Repiningly	(adv.) With repening or murmuring.
Repkie	(n.) Any edible sea urchin.
Replace	(v. t.)To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
Replace	(v. t.)To put in a new or different place.
Replace	(v. t.)To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
Replace	(v. t.)To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
Replace	(v. t.)To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
Replaceability	(n.) The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.
Replaceable	(a.) Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.
Replaceable	(a.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.
Replaceable	(a.) Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
Replacement	(n.) The act of replacing.
Replacement	(n.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.
Replait	(v. t.)To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.
Replant	(v. t.)To plant again.
Replantable	(a.) That may be planted again.
Replantation	(n.) The act of planting again; a replanting.
Replead	(v. t. & i.) To plead again.
Repleader	(n.) A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again.
Replenish	(v. t.)To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.
Replenish	(v. t.)To finish; to complete; to perfect.
Replenish	(v. i.) To recover former fullness.
Replenished	(imp. & p. p.) of Replenish
Replenisher	(n.) One who replenishes.
Replenishing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Replenish
Replenishment	(n.) That which replenishes; supply.
Replenishment	(n.) The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished.
Replete	(a.) Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.
Replete	(v. t.)To fill completely, or to satiety.
Repleteness	(n.) The state of being replete.
Repletion	(n.) Fullness of blood; plethora.
Repletion	(n.) The state of being replete; superabundant fullness.
Repletive	(a.) Tending to make replete; filling.
Repletory	(a.) Repletive.
Repleviable	(a.) Capable of being replevied.
Replevied	(imp. & p. p.) of Replevy
Replevin	(v. t.)To replevy.
Replevin	(n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detentio
Replevin	(n.) The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.
Replevisable	(a.) Repleviable.
Replevy	(v. t.)To bail.
Replevy	(v. t.)To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property reple
Replevy	(n.) Replevin.
Replevying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Replevy
Replica	(v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
Replica	(v. & n.) Repetition.
Replicant	(n.) One who replies.
Replicate	(a.) Alt. of Replicated
Replicate	(v. t.)To reply.
Replicated	(a.) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.
Replication	(n.) A repetition; a copy.
Replication	(n.) An answer; a reply.
Replication	(n.) Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo.
Replication	(n.) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea.
Replied	(imp. & p. p.) of Reply
Replier	(n.) One who replies.
Replies	(pl. ) of Reply
Replum	(n.) The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off.
Reply	(v. t.)To return for an answer.
Reply	(v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
Reply	(v. i.) That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
Reply	(v. i.) To answer a defendant's plea.
Reply	(v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Replyer	(n.) See Replier.
Replying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reply
Repolish	(v. t.)To polish again.
Repone	(v. t.)To replace.
Repopulation	(n.) The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
Report	(v. t.)A sketch, or a fully written account, of a speech, debate, or the proceedings of a public meeting, legislative body, etc.
Report	(v. t.)A story or statement circulating by common talk; a rumor; hence, fame; repute; reputation.
Report	(v. t.)An account or statement of a judicial opinion or decision, or of case argued and determined in a court of law, chancery, etc.; also, in the plural, the volumes containing such reports; as, Coke's Reports.
Report	(v. t.)An account or statement of the results of examination or inquiry made by request or direction; relation.
Report	(v. t.)An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court,
Report	(v. t.)Rapport; relation; connection; reference.
Report	(v. t.)Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon.
Report	(v. t.)That which is reported.
Report	(v. t.)To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progres
Report	(v. t.)To give an account of; to relate; to tell; to circulate publicly, as a story; as, in the common phrase, it is reported.
Report	(v. t.)To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures.
Report	(v. t.)To make a statement of the conduct of, especially in an unfavorable sense; as, to report a servant to his employer.
Report	(v. t.)To make minutes of, as a speech, or the doings of a public body; to write down from the lips of a speaker.
Report	(v. t.)To refer.
Report	(v. t.)To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry.
Report	(v. t.)To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
Report	(v. t.)To write an account of for publication, as in a newspaper; as, to report a public celebration or a horse race.
Report	(v. i.) To furnish in writing an account of a speech, the proceedings at a meeting, the particulars of an occurrence, etc., for publication.
Report	(v. i.) To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; as, the committee will report at twelve o'clock.
Report	(v. i.) To present one's self, as to a superior officer, or to one to whom service is due, and to be in readiness for orders or to do service; also, to give information, as of one's address, condition, etc.; as, the officer reported to the general for dut
Reportable	(a.) Capable or admitting of being reported.
Reportage	(n.) SAme as Report.
Reported	(imp. & p. p.) of Report
Reporter	(n.) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.
Reporter	(n.) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.
Reporter	(n.) One who reports.
Reportingly	(adv.) By report or common fame.
Reportorial	(a.) Of or pertaining to a reporter or reporters; as, the reportorial staff of a newspaper.
Reposal	(n.) That on which one reposes.
Reposal	(n.) The act or state of reposing; as, the reposal of a trust.
Reposance	(n.) Reliance.
Repose	(v.) A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.
Repose	(v.) A rest; a pause.
Repose	(v.) Rest of mind; tranquillity; freedom from uneasiness; also, a composed manner or deportment.
Repose	(v.) That harmony or moderation which affords rest for the eye; -- opposed to the scattering and division of a subject into too many unconnected parts, and also to anything which is overstrained; as, a painting may want repose.
Repose	(v.) To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.
Repose	(v.) To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch.
Repose	(v.) To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust.
Repose	(v. i.) Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
Repose	(v. i.) To lie at rest; to rest.
Repose	(v. i.) To lie; to be supported; as, trap reposing on sand.
Reposed	(a.) Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest.
Reposed	(imp. & p. p.) of Repose
Reposeful	(a.) Full of repose; quiet.
Reposer	(n.) One who reposes.
Reposing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repose
Reposit	(v. t.)To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store.
Reposited	(imp. & p. p.) of Reposit
Repositing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reposit
Reposition	(n.) The act of repositing; a laying up.
Repositor	(n.) An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.
Repository	(n.) A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
Repossess	(v. t.)To possess again; as, to repossess the land.
Repossession	(n.) The act or the state of possessing again.
Reposure	(n.) Rest; quiet.
Repour	(v. t.)To pour again.
Repousse	(a.) Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal.
Repousse	(a.) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal.
Repousse	(n.) Repousse work.
Reprefe	(n.) Reproof.
Reprehend	(v. t.)To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure.
Reprehended	(imp. & p. p.) of Reprehend
Reprehender	(n.) One who reprehends.
Reprehending	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprehend
Reprehensible	(a.) Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable.
Reprehension	(n.) Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.
Reprehensive	(a.) Containing reprehension; conveying reproof.
Reprehensory	(a.) Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint.
Represent	(v. t.)To bring a sensation of into the mind or sensorium; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
Represent	(v. t.)To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe.
Represent	(v. t.)To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative, 3.
Represent	(v. t.)To portray by mimicry or action of any kind; to act the part or character of; to personate; as, to represent Hamlet.
Represent	(v. t.)To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.
Represent	(v. t.)To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
Re-present	(v. t.)To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument.
Represent	(v. t.)To serve as a sign or symbol of; as, mathematical symbols represent quantities or relations; words represent ideas or things.
Represent	(v. t.)To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represent
Representable	(a.) Capable of being represented.
Representance	(n.) Representation; likeness.
Representant	(a.) Appearing or acting for another; representing.
Representant	(n.) A representative.
Representation	(n.) A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.
Representation	(n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.
Representation	(n.) A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.
Representation	(n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.
Representation	(n.) That which represents.
Representation	(n.) The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
Re-presentation	(n.) The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
Representation	(n.) The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.
Representation	(n.) The state of being represented.
Representationary	(a.) Implying representation; representative.
Representative	(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
Representative	(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
Representative	(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
Representative	(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
Representative	(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
Representative	(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
Representative	(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
Representative	(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
Representative	(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
Representative	(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
Representative	(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
Representative	(n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
Representatively	(adv.) In a representative manner; vicariously.
Representativeness	(n.) The quality or state of being representative.
Representer	(n.) A representative.
Representer	(n.) One who shows, exhibits, or describes.
Representment	(n.) Representation.
Repress	(v. t.)Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
Repress	(v. t.)To press again.
Repress	(v. t.)To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
Repress	(n.) The act of repressing.
Represser	(n.) One who, or that which, represses.
Repressible	(a.) Capable of being repressed.
Repression	(n.) That which represses; check; restraint.
Repression	(n.) The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
Repressive	(a.) Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.
Reprevable	(a.) Reprovable.
Repreve	(v. t.)To reprove.
Repreve	(n.) Reproof.
Repriefe	(n.) Repreve.
Reprieval	(n.) Reprieve.
Reprieve	(v. t.)To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
Reprieve	(v. t.)To relieve for a time, or temporarily.
Reprieve	(n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death.
Reprieve	(n.) Interval of ease or relief; respite.
Reprieved	(imp. & p. p.) of Reprieve
Reprieving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprieve
Reprimand	(n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
Reprimand	(n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.
Reprimand	(n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
Reprimanded	(imp. & p. p.) of Reprimand
Reprimander	(n.) One who reprimands.
Reprimanding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprimand
Reprimer	(n.) A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.
Reprint	(v. t.)To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.
Reprint	(v. t.)To renew the impression of.
Reprint	(n.) A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.
Reprinter	(n.) One who reprints.
Reprisal	(n.) Any act of retaliation.
Reprisal	(n.) Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.
Reprisal	(n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity.
Reprisal	(n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.
Reprise	(v. t.)To recompense; to pay.
Reprise	(v. t.)To take again; to retake.
Reprise	(n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
Reprise	(n.) A taking by way of retaliation.
Reprise	(n.) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.
Repristinate	(v. t.)To restore to an original state.
Repristination	(n.) Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity.
Reprive	(v. t.)To reprieve.
Reprive	(v. t.)To take back or away.
Reprize	(v. t.)See Reprise.
Reprizes	(n. pl.) See Reprise, n., 2.
Reproach	(v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.
Reproach	(v.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
Reproach	(v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.
Reproach	(v. t.)To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
Reproach	(v. t.)To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.
Reproachablr	(a.) Deserving reproach; censurable.
Reproachablr	(a.) Opprobrius; scurrilous.
Reproached	(imp. & p. p.) of Reproach
Reproacher	(n.) One who reproaches.
Reproachful	(a.) Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive.
Reproachful	(a.) Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life.
Reproaching	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reproach
Reproachless	(a.) Being without reproach.
Reprobacy	(n.) Reprobation.
Reprobance	(n.) Reprobation.
Reprobate	(a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.
Reprobate	(a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
Reprobate	(a.) Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct.
Reprobate	(v. t.)To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.
Reprobate	(v. t.)To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.
Reprobate	(n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
Reprobated	(imp. & p. p.) of Reprobate
Reprobateness	(n.) The state of being reprobate.
Reprobater	(n.) One who reprobates.
Reprobating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprobate
Reprobation	(n.) The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.
Reprobation	(n.) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment.
Reprobationer	(n.) One who believes in reprobation. See Reprobation, 2.
Reprobative	(a.) Of or pertaining to reprobation; expressing reprobation.
Reprobatory	(a.) Reprobative.
Reproduce	(v. t.)To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play.
Reproduce	(v. t.)To cause to exist again.
Reproduce	(v. t.)To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.
Reproduce	(v. t.)To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.
Reproduce	(v. t.)To produce again.
Reproducer	(n.) One who, or that which, reproduces.
Reproduction	(n.) That which is reproduced.
Reproduction	(n.) The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced
Reproduction	(n.) the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.
Reproductive	(a.) Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.
Reproductory	(a.) Reproductive.
Reproof	(n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.
Reproof	(n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
Reprovable	(a.) Worthy of reproof or censure.
Reprove	(v. t.)To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
Reprove	(v. t.)To convince.
Reprove	(v. t.)To disprove; to refute.
Reprove	(v. t.)To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.
Reproved	(imp. & p. p.) of Reprove
Reprover	(n.) One who, or that which, reproves.
Reproving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reprove
Reprovingly	(adv.) In a reproving manner.
Reprune	(v. t.)To prune again or anew.
Rep-silver	(n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
Reptant	(a.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc.
Reptant	(a.) Same as Repent.
Reptantia	(n. pl.) A division of gastropods; the Pectinibranchiata.
Reptation	(n.) The act of creeping.
Reptatory	(a.) Creeping.
Reptile	(a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Reptile	(a.) Hence
Reptile	(n.) A groveling or very mean person.
Reptile	(n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.
Reptile	(n.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.
Reptilia	(n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
Reptilian	(a.) Belonging to the reptiles.
Reptilian	(n.) One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
Republic	(a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.
Republic	(a.) Common weal.
Republican	(a.) Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.
Republican	(a.) Of or pertaining to a republic.
Republican	(n.) A member of the Republican party.
Republican	(n.) A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.
Republican	(n.) One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
Republican	(n.) The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.
Republicanism	(n.) A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.
Republicanism	(n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government.
Republicanism	(n.) The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called
Republicanize	(v. t.)To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation.
Republicanized	(imp. & p. p.) of Republicanize
Republicanizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Republicanize
Republicate	(v. t.)To make public again; to republish.
Republication	(n.) A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifically, the publication in one country of a work first issued in another; a reprint.
Republish	(v. t.)To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive (a will) by re/xecution or codicil.
Republished	(imp. & p. p.) of Republish
Republisher	(n.) One who republishes.
Republishing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Republish
Repudiable	(a.) Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away.
Repudiate	(v. t.)To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Repudiate	(v. t.)To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
Repudiate	(v. t.)To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
Repudiated	(imp. & p. p.) of Repudiate
Repudiating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repudiate
Repudiation	(n.) One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt.
Repudiation	(n.) The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc.
Repudiator	(n.) One who repudiates.
Repugn	(v. t.)To fight against; to oppose; to resist.
Repugnable	(a.) Capable of being repugned or resisted.
Repugnance	(n.) Alt. of Repugnancy
Repugnancy	(n.) The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like.
Repugnant	(a.) Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repu
Repugnantly	(adv.) In a repugnant manner.
Repugnate	(v. t.)To oppose; to fight against.
Repugner	(n.) One who repugns.
Repullulate	(v. i.) To bud again.
Repullulation	(n.) The act of budding again; the state of having budded again.
Repulse	(v. t.)To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away; as, to repulse a suitor or a proffer.
Repulse	(v. t.)To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
Repulse	(n.) Figuratively
Repulse	(n.) The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
Repulsed	(imp. & p. p.) of Repulse
Repulseless	(a.) Not capable of being repulsed.
Repulser	(n.) One who repulses, or drives back.
Repulsing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repulse
Repulsion	(n.) A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
Repulsion	(n.) The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.
Repulsion	(n.) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.
Repulsive	(a.) Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners.
Repulsive	(a.) Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
Repulsory	(a.) Repulsive; driving back.
Repurchase	(v. t.)To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.
Repurchase	(n.) The act of repurchasing.
Repurify	(v. t.)To purify again.
Reputable	(a.) Having, or worthy of, good repute; held in esteem; honorable; praiseworthy; as, a reputable man or character; reputable conduct.
Reputation	(v. t.)Account; value.
Reputation	(v. t.)Specifically
Reputation	(v. t.)The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case.
Reputation	(v. t.)The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.
Reputatively	(adv.) By repute.
Repute	(v. t.)To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.
Repute	(n.) Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
Repute	(n.) Specifically
Reputed	(imp. & p. p.) of Repute
Reputedly	(adv.) In common opinion or estimation; by repute.
Reputeless	(a.) Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius.
Reputing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repute
Requere	(v. t.)To require.
Request	(v. t.)To address with a request; to ask.
Request	(v. t.)To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.
Request	(n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.
Request	(n.) That which is asked for or requested.
Request	(n.) The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
Requested	(imp. & p. p.) of Request
Requester	(n.) One who requests; a petitioner.
Requesting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Request
Requicken	(v. t.)To quicken anew; to reanimate; to give new life to.
Requiem	(n.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.
Requiem	(n.) Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.
Requiem	(n.) Rest; quiet; peace.
Requietory	(n.) A sepulcher.
Requin	(n.) The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung.
Requirable	(a.) Capable of being required; proper to be required.
Require	(v. t.)To ask as a favor; to request.
Require	(v. t.)To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.
Require	(v. t.)To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
Required	(imp. & p. p.) of Require
Requirement	(n.) That which is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need.
Requirement	(n.) The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
Requirer	(n.) One who requires.
Requiring	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Require
Requisite	(a.) Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; so needful that it can not be dispensed with; necessary; indispensable.
Requisite	(n.) That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.
Requisition	(v. t.)To make a reqisition on or for; as, to requisition a district for forage; to requisition troops.
Requisition	(v. t.)To present a requisition to; to summon request; as, to requisition a person to be a candidate.
Requisition	(n.) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc.
Requisition	(n.) A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.
Requisition	(n.) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
Requisition	(n.) A notarial demand of a debt.
Requisition	(n.) A written or normal call; an invitation; a summons; as, a reqisition for a public meeting.
Requisition	(n.) That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.
Requisition	(n.) The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.
Requisitionist	(n.) One who makes or signs a requisition.
Requisitive	(a.) Expressing or implying demand.
Requisitive	(n.) One who, or that which, makes requisition; a requisitionist.
Requisitor	(n.) One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts.
Requisitory	(a.) Sought for; demanded.
Requitable	(a.) That may be requited.
Requital	(n.) The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds.
Requite	(v. t.)To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.
Requited	(imp. & p. p.) of Requite
Requitement	(n.) Requital
Requiter	(n.) One who requites.
Requiting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Requite
Rerebrace	(n.) Armor for the upper part of the arm.
Reredemain	(n.) A backward stroke.
Reredos	(n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
Reredos	(n.) The back of a fireplace.
Reredos	(n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.
Rerefief	(n.) A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant.
Rereign	(v. i.) To reign again.
Re-reiterate	(v. t.)To reiterate many times.
Reremouse	(n.) A rearmouse.
Reremouse	(n.) The leather-winged bat (Vespertilio murinus).
Re-resolve	(v. t. & i.) To resolve again.
Rereward	(n.) The rear guard of an army.
Res	(pl. ) of Res
Res	(n.) A thing; the particular thing; a matter; a point.
Resail	(v. t. & i.) To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.
Resale	(n.) A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.
Resalgar	(n.) Realgar.
Resalute	(v. t.)To salute again.
Resaw	(v. t.)To saw again; specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.
Rescat	(v. t.)To ransom; to release; to rescue.
Rescat	(n.) Ransom; release.
Rescind	(v. t.)Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.
Rescind	(v. t.)To cut off; to abrogate; to annul.
Rescindable	(a.) Capable of being rescinded.
Rescinded	(imp. & p. p.) of Rescind
Rescinding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rescind
Rescindment	(n.) The act of rescinding; rescission.
Rescission	(n.) The act of rescinding, abrogating, annulling, or vacating; as, the rescission of a law, decree, or judgment.
Rescissory	(a.) Tending to rescind; rescinding.
Rescous	(n.) Rescue; deliverance.
Rescous	(n.) See Rescue, 2.
Rescowe	(v. t.)To rescue.
Rescribe	(v. t.)To write back; to write in reply.
Rescribe	(v. t.)To write over again.
Rescript	(v. t.)A counterpart.
Rescript	(v. t.)The answer of an emperor when formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree.
Rescript	(v. t.)The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.
Rescription	(n.) A writing back; the answering of a letter.
Rescriptive	(a.) Pertaining to, or answering the purpose of, a rescript; hence, deciding; settling; determining.
Rescriptively	(adv.) By rescript.
Rescuable	(a.) That may be rescued.
Rescue	(v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
Rescue	(v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
Rescue	(v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
Rescue	(v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
Rescue	(v. t.)To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
Rescued	(imp. & p. p.) of Rescue
Rescueless	(a.) Without rescue or release.
Rescuer	(n.) One who rescues.
Rescuing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rescue
Rescussee	(n.) The party in whose favor a rescue is made.
Rescussor	(n.) One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer.
Rese	(v. i.) To shake; to quake; to tremble.
Re-search	(v. t.)To search again; to examine anew.
Research	(v. t.)To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
Research	(n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.
Researcher	(n.) One who researches.
Researchful	(a.) Making researches; inquisitive.
Reseat	(v. t.)To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers.
Reseat	(v. t.)To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc.
Resect	(v. t.)To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.
Resected	(imp. & p. p.) of Resect
Resecting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resect
Resection	(n.) The act of cutting or paring off.
Resection	(n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.
Reseda	(n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
Reseda	(n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.
Reseek	(v. t.)To seek again.
Reseize	(v. t.)To put in possession again; to reinstate.
Reseize	(v. t.)To seize again, or a second time.
Reseize	(v. t.)To take possession of, as lands and tenements which have been disseized.
Reseizer	(n.) One who seizes again.
Reseizer	(n.) The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law.
Reseizure	(n.) A second seizure; the act of seizing again.
Resell	(v. t.)To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.
Resemblable	(a.) Admitting of being compared; like.
Resemblance	(n.) A comparison; a simile.
Resemblance	(n.) Probability; verisimilitude.
Resemblance	(n.) That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
Resemblance	(n.) The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
Resemblant	(a.) Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling.
Resemble	(v. t.)To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.
Resemble	(v. t.)To cause to imitate or be like.
Resemble	(v. t.)To counterfeit; to imitate.
Resemble	(v. t.)To liken; to compare; to represent as like.
Resembled	(imp. & p. p.) of Resemble
Resembler	(n.) One who resembles.
Resembling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resemble
Resemblingly	(adv.) So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
Reseminate	(v. t.)To produce again by means of seed.
Resend	(v. t.)To send again; as, to resend a message.
Resend	(v. t.)To send back; as, to resend a gift.
Resend	(v. t.)To send on from an intermediate station by means of a repeater.
Resent	(v. t.)In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.
Resent	(v. t.)In a good sense, to take well; to receive with satisfaction.
Resent	(v. t.)To be sensible of; to feel
Resent	(v. t.)To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts.
Resent	(v. t.)To recognize; to perceive, especially as if by smelling; -- associated in meaning with sent, the older spelling of scent to smell. See Resent, v. i.
Resent	(v. i.) To feel resentment.
Resent	(v. i.) To give forth an odor; to smell; to savor.
Resented	(imp. & p. p.) of Resent
Resenter	(n.) One who resents.
Resentful	(a.) Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.
Resentiment	(n.) Resentment.
Resenting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resent
Resentingly	(adv.) With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.
Resentingly	(adv.) With deep sense or strong perception.
Resentive	(a.) Resentful.
Resentment	(n.) In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced.
Resentment	(n.) In a good sense, satisfaction; gratitude.
Resentment	(n.) The act of resenting.
Resentment	(n.) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined to reflect upon something; a state of consciousness; conviction; feeling; impression.
Reserate	(v. t.)To unlock; to open.
Reservance	(n.) Reservation.
Reservation	(n.) A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
Reservation	(n.) A proviso.
Reservation	(n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
Reservation	(n.) A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
Reservation	(n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
Reservation	(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
Reservation	(n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
Reservation	(n.) The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
Reservative	(a.) Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
Reservatory	(v. t.)A place in which things are reserved or kept.
Reserve	(v. t.)Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain.
Reserve	(v. t.)To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose.
Reserve	(v. t.)To make an exception of; to except.
Reserve	(n.) A body of troops in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
Reserve	(n.) A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose; as, the Connecticut Reserve in Ohio, originally set apart for the school fund of Connecticut; the Clergy Reserves in Canada, for the support of the clergy.
Reserve	(n.) Funds kept on hand to meet liabilities.
Reserve	(n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
Reserve	(n.) That which is excepted; exception.
Reserve	(n.) That which is reserved, or kept back, as for future use.
Reserve	(n.) The act of reserving, or keeping back; reservation.
Reserved	(a.) Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
Reserved	(a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.
Reserved	(imp. & p. p.) of Reserve
Reservee	(n.) One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
Reserver	(n.) One who reserves.
Reserving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reserve
Reservist	(n.) A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.
Reservoir	(n.) A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.
Reservoir	(n.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
Reservor	(n.) One who reserves; a reserver.
Reset	(v. t.)To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal.
Reset	(v. t.)To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.
Reset	(n.) That which is reset; matter set up again.
Reset	(n.) The act of resetting.
Reset	(n.) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw.
Resetter	(n.) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.
Resetter	(n.) One who resets, or sets again.
Resettle	(v. t.)To settle again.
Resettle	(v. i.) To settle again, or a second time.
Resettlement	(n.) Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees.
Reshape	(v. t.)To shape again.
Reship	(v. t.)To ship again; to put on board of a vessel a second time; to send on a second voyage; as, to reship bonded merchandise.
Reship	(v. i.) To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.
Reshipment	(n.) The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshippped.
Reshipper	(n.) One who reships.
Resiance	(n.) Residence; abode.
Resiant	(a.) Resident; present in a place.
Resiant	(n.) A resident.
Reside	(v. i.) To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.
Reside	(v. i.) To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
Reside	(v. i.) To sink; to settle, as sediment.
Resided	(imp. & p. p.) of Reside
Residence	(n.) Subsidence, as of a sediment.
Residence	(n.) That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
Residence	(n.) The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.
Residence	(n.) The place where anything rests permanently.
Residence	(n.) The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.
Residence	(n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
Residency	(n.) A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies.
Residency	(n.) Residence.
Resident	(a.) Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
Resident	(a.) Fixed; stable; certain.
Resident	(n.) A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
Resident	(n.) One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
Residenter	(n.) A resident.
Residential	(a.) Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.
Residential	(a.) Residing; residentiary.
Residentiary	(a.) Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian.
Residentiary	(n.) An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.
Residentiary	(n.) One who is resident.
Residentiaryship	(n.) The office or condition of a residentiary.
Residentship	(n.) The office or condition of a resident.
Resider	(n.) One who resides in a place.
Residing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reside
Residual	(a.) Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.
Residual	(n.) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.
Residual	(n.) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula.
Residuary	(a.) Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate.
Residue	(n.) Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.
Residue	(n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.
Residue	(n.) That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.
Residue	(n.) That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.
Residuous	(a.) Remaining; residual.
Residuum	(n.) That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.
Resiege	(v. t.)To seat again; to reinstate.
Re-sign	(v. t.)To affix one's signature to, a second time; to sign again.
Resign	(v. t.)To commit to the care of; to consign.
Resign	(v. t.)To relinquish; to abandon.
Resign	(v. t.)To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.
Resignation	(n.) The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.
Resignation	(n.) The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God.
Resigned	(a.) Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.
Resigned	(imp. & p. p.) of Resign
Resignedly	(adv.) With submission.
Resignee	(n.) One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made.
Resigner	(n.) One who resigns.
Resigning	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resign
Resignment	(n.) The act of resigning.
Resile	(v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Resiled	(imp. & p. p.) of Resile
Resilience	(n.) Alt. of Resiliency
Resiliency	(n.) The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
Resiliency	(n.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.
Resilient	(a.) Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.
Resiling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resile
Resilition	(n.) Resilience.
Resin	(n.) Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (s
Resinaceous	(a.) Having the quality of resin; resinous.
Resinate	(n.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
Resinic	(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.
Resiniferous	(a.) Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.
Resiniform	(a.) Having the form of resin.
Resino-electric	(a.) Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.
Resinoid	(a.) Somewhat like resin.
Resinous	(a.) Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin.
Resinously	(adv.) By means, or in the manner, of resin.
Resinousness	(n.) The quality of being resinous.
Resiny	(a.) Like resin; resinous.
Resipiscence	(n.) Wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance.
Resist	(v. t.)To be distasteful to.
Resist	(v. t.)To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
Resist	(v. t.)To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
Resist	(v. t.)To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
Resist	(n.) A substance used to prevent a color or mordant from fixing on those parts to which it has been applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incap
Resist	(v. i.) To make opposition.
Resistance	(n.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators h
Resistance	(n.) A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
Resistance	(n.) The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
Resistance	(n.) The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it;
Resistant	(a.) Making resistance; resisting.
Resistant	(n.) One who, or that which, resists.
Resisted	(imp. & p. p.) of Resist
Resister	(n.) One who resists.
Resistful	(a.) Making much resistance.
Resistibility	(n..) The quality of being resistant; resitstance.
Resistibility	(n..) The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.
Resistible	(a.) Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.
Resisting	(a.) Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium.
Resisting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resist
Resistive	(a.) Serving to resist.
Resistless	(a.) Having no power to resist; making no opposition.
Resistless	(a.) Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
Resoluble	(a.) Admitting of being resolved; resolvable; as, bodies resoluble by fire.
Resolute	(v. t. & i.) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
Resolute	(v. t. & i.) Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
Resolute	(v. t. & i.) Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand.
Resolute	(n.) One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.
Resolute	(n.) Redelivery; repayment.
Resolutely	(adv.) In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance.
Resoluteness	(n.) The quality of being resolute.
Resolution	(n.) A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.
Resolution	(n.) That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination. Specifically
Resolution	(n.) The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.
Resolution	(n.) The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically:
Resolution	(n.) The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.
Resolution	(n.) The state of being relaxed; relaxation.
Resolution	(n.) The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.
Resolution	(n.) The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.
Resolutioner	(n.) One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century.
Resolutionist	(n.) One who makes a resolution.
Resolutive	(a.) Serving to dissolve or relax.
Resolutory	(a.) Resolutive.
Resolvability	(n.) The quality or condition of being resolvable; resolvableness.
Resolvable	(a.) Admitting of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.
Resolvableness	(n.) The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.
Resolve	(n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.
Resolve	(n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.
Resolve	(v. i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
Resolve	(v. i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
Resolve	(v. i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
Resolve	(v. i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
Resolve	(v. i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
Resolve	(v. i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
Resolve	(v. i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate n
Resolve	(v. i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
Resolve	(v. i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
Resolve	(v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
Resolve	(v. i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
Resolve	(v. i.) To relax; to lay at ease.
Resolve	(v. i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
Resolve	(v. i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
Resolved	(p. p. & a.) Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich.
Resolved	(imp. & p. p.) of Resolve
Resolvedly	(adv.) Resolutely; decidedly; firmly.
Resolvedly	(adv.) So as to resolve or clear up difficulties; clearly.
Resolvedness	(n.) Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution.
Resolvent	(a.) Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
Resolvent	(n.) An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given pproblem depends.
Resolvent	(n.) That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
Resolvent	(n.) That which has the power of resolving, or causing solution; a solvent.
Resolver	(n.) One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose.
Resolver	(n.) That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined.
Resolver	(n.) That which decomposes, or dissolves.
Resolving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resolve
Resonance	(n.) A prolongation or increase of any sound, either by reflection, as in a cavern or apartment the walls of which are not distant enough to return a distinct echo, or by the production of vibrations in other bodies, as a sounding-board, or the bodies of
Resonance	(n.) The act of resounding; the quality or state of being resonant.
Resonancy	(n.) Resonance.
Resonant	(a.) Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back.
Resonantly	(adv.) In a resonant manner.
Resonator	(n.) Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of co
Resorb	(v. t.)To swallow up.
Resorbent	(a.) Swallowing up.
Resorcin	(n.) A colorless crystalline substance of the phenol series, obtained by melting certain resins, as galbanum, asafetida, etc., with caustic potash. It is also produced artificially and used in making certain dyestuffs, as phthalein, fluorescein, and eosin
Resorcylic	(a.) Of, or pertaining to, or producing, resorcin; as, resorcylic acid.
Resorption	(n.) The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.
Resort	(v.) A place to which one betakes himself habitually; a place of frequent assembly; a haunt.
Resort	(v.) That to which one resorts or looks for help; resource; refuge.
Resort	(v.) The act of going to, or making application; a betaking one's self; the act of visiting or seeking; recourse; as, a place of popular resort; -- often figuratively; as, to have resort to force.
Resort	(n.) Active power or movement; spring.
Resort	(v. i.) To fall back; to revert.
Resort	(v. i.) To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
Resort	(v. i.) To have recourse; to apply; to one's self for help, relief, or advantage.
Resorted	(imp. & p. p.) of Resort
Resorter	(n.) One who resorts; a frequenter.
Resorting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resort
Resoun	(v. i. & t.) To resound.
Resoun	(n.) Reason.
Re-sound	(v. t. & i.) To sound again or anew.
Resound	(v. t.)To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
Resound	(v. t.)To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo; to reverberate.
Resound	(n.) Return of sound; echo.
Resound	(v. i.) To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound.
Resound	(v. i.) To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song.
Resound	(v. i.) To be mentioned much and loudly.
Resound	(v. i.) To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.
Resound	(v. i.) To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far.
Resounded	(imp. & p. p.) of Resound
Resounding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resound
Resource	(n.) Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind.
Resource	(n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
Resourceful	(a.) Full of resources.
Resourceless	(a.) Destitute of resources.
Resow	(v. t.)To sow again.
Resown	(v.) To resound.
Respeak	(v. t.)To answer; to echo.
Respeak	(v. t.)To speak or utter again.
Respect	(v.) An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another.
Respect	(v.) Consideration; motive; interest.
Respect	(v.) Esteem; regard; consideration; honor.
Respect	(v.) Particular; point regarded; point of view; as, in this respect; in any respect; in all respects.
Respect	(v.) Relation; reference; regard.
Respect	(v.) Reputation; repute.
Respect	(v.) The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution.
Respect	(v. t.)To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor.
Respect	(v. t.)To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce.
Respect	(v. t.)To look toward; to front upon or toward.
Respect	(v. t.)To regard; to consider; to deem.
Respect	(v. t.)To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.
Respectability	(n.) The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
Respectable	(a.) Moderate in degree of excellence or in number; as, a respectable performance; a respectable audience.
Respectable	(a.) Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.
Respectant	(a.) Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.
Respected	(imp. & p. p.) of Respect
Respecter	(n.) One who respects.
Respectful	(a.) Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment.
Respecting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Respect
Respecting	(prep.) With regard or relation to; regarding; concerning; as, respecting his conduct there is but one opinion.
Respection	(n.) The act of respecting; respect; regard.
Respective	(a.) Fitted to awaken respect.
Respective	(a.) Looking towardl having reference to; relative, not absolute; as, the respective connections of society.
Respective	(a.) Noticing with attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate.
Respective	(a.) Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own; as, they returned to their respective places of abode.
Respective	(a.) Rendering respect; respectful; regardful.
Respectively	(adv.) As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty.
Respectively	(adv.) Partially; with respect to private views.
Respectively	(adv.) Relatively; not absolutely.
Respectively	(adv.) With respect; regardfully.
Respectless	(a.) Having no respect; without regard; regardless.
Respectuous	(a.) Respectable.
Respectuous	(a.) Respectful; as, a respectuous silence.
Respell	(v. t.)To spell again.
Resperse	(v. t.)To sprinkle; to scatter.
Respersion	(n.) The act of sprinkling or scattering.
Respirability	(n.) The quality or state of being respirable; respirableness.
Respirable	(a.) Suitable for being breathed; adapted for respiration.
Respiration	(n.) Interval; intermission.
Respiration	(n.) Relief from toil or suffering
Respiration	(n.) The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed.
Respiration	(n.) The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.
Respirational	(a.) Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirational difficulties.
Respirative	(a.) Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirative organs.
Respirator	(n.) A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.
Respiratory	(a.) Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as, the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function; respiratory changes.
Respire	(v. t.)To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.
Respire	(v. t.)To breathe out; to exhale.
Respire	(v. i.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.
Respire	(v. i.) To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
Respired	(imp. & p. p.) of Respire
Respiring:	(p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Respire
Respite	(n.) A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
Respite	(n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay.
Respite	(n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
Respite	(n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
Respite	(n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.
Respite	(n.) To give or grant a respite to.
Respite	(n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
Respite	(n.) To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
Respited	(imp. & p. p.) of Respite
Respiteless	(a.) Without respite.
Respiting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Respite
Resplendence	(n.) Alt. of Resplendency
Resplendency	(n.) The quality or state of being resplendent; brilliant luster; vivid brightness; splendor.
Resplendent	(a.) Shining with brilliant luster; very bright.
Resplendishant	(a.) Resplendent; brilliant.
Resplendishing	(a.) Resplendent.
Resplit	(v. t. & i.) To split again.
Respond	(v. t.)To answer; to reply.
Respond	(v. t.)To suit or accord with; to correspond to.
Respond	(n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.
Respond	(n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
Respond	(n.) An answer; a response.
Respond	(v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
Respond	(v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
Respond	(v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
Responded	(imp. & p. p.) of Respond
Respondence	(n.) Alt. of Respondency
Respondency	(n.) The act of responding; the state of being respondent; an answering.
Respondent	(a.) Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
Respondent	(n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant.
Respondent	(n.) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent.
Respondent	(n.) One who responds. It corresponds in general to defendant.
Respondentia	(n.) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself.
Responding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Respond
Responsal	(a.) Answerable.
Responsal	(n.) One who is answerable or responsible.
Responsal	(n.) Response.
Response	(n.) A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office.
Response	(n.) A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below.
Response	(n.) An answer or reply.
Response	(n.) Reply to an objection in formal disputation.
Response	(n.) The act of responding.
Response	(n.) The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service.
Responseless	(a.) Giving no response.
Responsibility	(n.) Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.
Responsibility	(n.) That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power.
Responsibility	(n.) The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
Responsible	(a.) Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety.
Responsible	(a.) Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office.
Responsible	(a.) Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.
Responsion	(n.) The act of answering.
Responsion	(n.) The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a.
Responsive	(a.) Responsible.
Responsive	(a.) Suited to something else; correspondent.
Responsive	(a.) That responds; ready or inclined to respond.
Responsorial	(a.) Responsory; antiphonal.
Responsory	(a.) Containing or making answer; answering.
Responsory	(n.) A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.
Responsory	(n.) An antiphonary; a response book.
Responsory	(n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.
Rest	(v. t.)To arrest.
Rest	(v. t.)To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
Rest	(v. t.)To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
Rest	(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
Rest	(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
Rest	(n.) A set or game at tennis.
Rest	(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
Rest	(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
Rest	(n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
Rest	(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
Rest	(n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
Rest	(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
Rest	(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
Rest	(n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
Rest	(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
Rest	(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
Rest	(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
Rest	(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
Rest	(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
Rest	(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
Rest	(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
Rest	(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
Rest	(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
Rest	(v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
Restagnant	(a.) Stagnant; motionless.
Restagnate	(v. i.) To stagnate; to cease to flow.
Restagnation	(n.) Stagnation.
Restant	(a.) Persistent.
Restate	(v. t.)To state anew.
Restaurant	(n.) An eating house.
Restaurate	(v. t.)To restore.
Restaurateur	(n.) The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.
Restauration	(n.) Restoration.
Rested	(imp. & p. p.) of Rest
Restem	(v. t.)To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course.
Restem	(v. t.)To stem, or move against; as, to restem a current.
Restful	(a.) Being at rest; quiet.
Restful	(a.) Giving rest; freeing from toil, trouble, etc.
Rest-harrow	(n.) A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots.
Restiff	(a.) Restive.
Restiff	(n.) A restive or stubborn horse.
Restiffness	(n.) Restiveness.
Restiform	(a.) Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
Restily	(adv.) In a resty manner.
Restinction	(n.) Act of quenching or extingishing.
Restiness	(n.) The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness.
Resting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rest
Resting	() a. & n. from Rest, v. t. & i.
Restinguish	(v. t.)To quench or extinguish.
Restitute	(v. t.)To restore to a former state.
Restitute	(n.) That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.
Restitution	(v.) That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
Restitution	(v.) The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
Restitution	(v.) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.
Restitution	(v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
Restitutor	(n.) One who makes restitution.
Restive	(a.) Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.
Restive	(a.) Inactive; sluggish.
Restive	(a.) Uneasy; restless; averse to standing still; fidgeting about; -- applied especially to horses.
Restive	(a.) Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.
Restless	(a.) Deprived of rest or sleep.
Restless	(a.) Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.
Restless	(a.) Not affording rest; as, a restless chair.
Restless	(a.) Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects.
Restless	(a.) Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
Restorable	(a.) Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; as, restorable land.
Restoral	(n.) Restoration.
Restoration	(n.) That which is restored or renewed.
Restoration	(n.) The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restoration of friendship between enemies; the restoration of peace after war.
Restoration	(n.) The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness.
Restorationer	(n.) A Restorationist.
Restorationism	(n.) The belief or doctrines of the Restorationists.
Restorationist	(n.) One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.
Restorative	(a.) Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.
Restorative	(n.) Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative medicine.
Restoratively	(adv.) In a restorative manner.
Restorator	(n.) A restaurateur.
Restoratory	(a.) Restorative.
Restore	(v. t.)To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.
Restore	(v. t.)To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
Restore	(v. t.)To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.
Restore	(v. t.)To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.
Restore	(v. t.)To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.
Restore	(v. t.)To make good; to make amends for.
Restore	(v. t.)To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.
Re-store	(v. t.)To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.
Restore	(n.) Restoration.
Restored	(imp. & p. p.) of Restore
Restorement	(n.) Restoration.
Restorer	(n.) One who, or that which, restores.
Restoring	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restore
Restrain	(v. t.)To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
Restrain	(v. t.)To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
Restrain	(v. t.)To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
Restrain	(v. t.)To limit; to confine; to restrict.
Restrain	(v. t.)To withhold; to forbear.
Restrainable	(a.) Capable of being restrained; controllable.
Restrained	(imp. & p. p.) of Restrain
Restrainedly	(adv.) With restraint.
Restrainer	(n.) One who, or that which, restrains.
Restraining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restrain
Restrainment	(n.) The act of restraining.
Restraint	(n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.
Restraint	(n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
Restraint	(n.) The state of being restrained.
Restrengthen	(v. t.)To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
Restrict	(a.) Restricted.
Restrict	(v. t.)To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
Restricted	(imp. & p. p.) of Restrict
Restricting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restrict
Restriction	(n.) That which restricts; limitation; restraint; as, restrictions on trade.
Restriction	(n.) The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.
Restrictionary	(a.) Restrictive.
Restrictive	(a.) Astringent or styptic in effect.
Restrictive	(a.) Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
Restringe	(v. t.)To confine; to contract; to stringe.
Restringed	(imp. & p. p.) of Restringe
Restringency	(n.) Quality or state of being restringent; astringency.
Restringent	(a.) Restringing; astringent; styptic.
Restringent	(n.) A restringent medicine.
Restringing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restringe
Restrive	(v. i.) To strive anew.
Resty	(a.) Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.
Resubjection	(n.) A second subjection.
Resublime	(v. t.)To sublime again.
Resudation	(n.) Act of sweating again.
Result	(n.) A flying back; resilience.
Result	(n.) That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect; as, the result of a course of action; the result of a mathematical operation.
Result	(n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
Result	(v. i.) To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; -- followed by in; as, this measure will result in good or in evil.
Result	(v. i.) To leap back; to rebound.
Result	(v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor.
Resultance	(n.) The act of resulting; that which results; a result.
Resultant	(a.) Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.
Resultant	(n.) A reultant force or motion.
Resultant	(n.) An eliminant.
Resultant	(n.) That which results.
Resultate	(n.) A result.
Resulted	(imp. & p. p.) of Result
Resultful	(a.) HAving results or effects.
Resulting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Result
Resultive	(a.) Resultant.
Resultless	(a.) Being without result; as, resultless investigations.
Resumable	(a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed.
Resume	(v. t.)To begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
Resume	(v. t.)To enter upon, or take up again.
Resume	(v. t.)To take back.
Resume	(n.) A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
Resumed	(imp. & p. p.) of Resume
Resuming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resume
Resummon	(v. t.)To summon again.
Resummons	(n.) A second summons.
Resumption	(n.) The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.
Resumption	(n.) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.
Resumptive	(a.) Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.
Resupinate	(a.) Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.
Resupinated	(a.) Resupinate.
Resupination	(n.) The state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.
Resupine	(a.) Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless.
Resupply	(v. t.)To supply again.
Resurgence	(n.) The act of rising again; resurrection.
Resurgent	(a.) Rising again, as from the dead.
Resurgent	(n.) One who rises again, as from the dead.
Resurrect	(v. t.)To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost).
Resurrect	(v. t.)To take from the grave; to disinter.
Resurrection	(n.) A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
Resurrection	(n.) Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.
Resurrection	(n.) State of being risen from the dead; future state.
Resurrection	(n.) The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
Resurrectionist	(n.) One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection.
Resurrectionize	(v. t.)To raise from the dead.
Resurvey	(v. t.)To survey again or anew; to review.
Resurvey	(n.) A second or new survey.
Resuscitable	(a.) Capable of resuscitation; as, resuscitable plants.
Resuscitant	(n.) One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
Resuscitate	(a.) Restored to life.
Resuscitate	(v. t.)To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.
Resuscitate	(v. i.) To come to life again; to revive.
Resuscitated	(imp. & p. p.) of Resuscitate
Resuscitating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Resuscitate
Resuscitation	(n.) The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.
Resuscitative	(a.) Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.
Resuscitator	(n.) One who, or that which, resuscitates.
Ret	(v. t.)See Aret.
Ret	(v. t.)To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.
Retable	(n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.
Retail	(v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
Retail	(a.) Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
Retail	(n.) To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.
Retail	(n.) To sell at second hand.
Retail	(n.) To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.
Retailed	(imp. & p. p.) of Retail
Retailer	(n.) One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
Retailing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retail
Retailment	(n.) The act of retailing.
Retain	(v. t.)To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
Retain	(v. t.)To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
Retain	(v. t.)To restrain; to prevent.
Retain	(v. i.) To belong; to pertain.
Retain	(v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain.
Retainable	(a.) Capable of being retained.
Retainal	(n.) The act of retaining; retention.
Retained	(imp. & p. p.) of Retain
Retainer	(n.) A fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.
Retainer	(n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.
Retainer	(n.) One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.
Retainer	(n.) One who, or that which, retains.
Retainer	(n.) The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.
Retainer	(n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
Retainer	(n.) The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.
Retaining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retain
Retainment	(n.) The act of retaining; retention.
Retake	(v. t.)To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
Retake	(v. t.)To take or receive again.
Retaker	(n.) One who takes again what has been taken; a recaptor.
Retaliate	(v. t.)To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.]
Retaliate	(v. i.) To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
Retaliated	(imp. & p. p.) of Retaliate
Retaliating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retaliate
Retaliation	(n.) The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Retaliative	(a.) Same as Retaliatory.
Retaliatory	(a.) Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Retard	(v. t.)To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.
Retard	(v. t.)To put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.
Retard	(n.) Retardation; delay.
Retard	(v. i.) To stay back.
Retardation	(n.) That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
Retardation	(n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
Retardation	(n.) The extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
Retardation	(n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
Retardative	(a.) Tending, or serving, to retard.
Retarded	(imp. & p. p.) of Retard
Retarder	(n.) One who, or that which, retards.
Retarding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retard
Retardment	(n.) The act of retarding; retardation.
Retch	(v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck.
Retch	(v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
Retched	(imp. & p. p.) of Retch
Retching	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retch
Retchless	(a.) Careless; reckless.
Rete	(n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
Retecious	(a.) Resembling network; retiform.
Retection	(n.) Act of disclosing or uncovering something concealed.
Retell	(v. t.)To tell again.
Retene	(n.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.
Retent	(n.) That which is retained.
Retention	(n.) Place of custody or confinement.
Retention	(n.) That which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.
Retention	(n.) The act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.
Retention	(n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.
Retention	(n.) The power of retaining; retentiveness.
Retention	(n.) The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.
Retentive	(a.) Having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.
Retentive	(n.) That which retains or confines; a restraint.
Retentively	(adv.) In a retentive manner.
Retentiveness	(n.) The quality of being retentive.
Retentivity	(n.) The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.
Retentor	(n.) A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata.
Retepore	(n.) Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.
Retex	(v. t.)To annual, as orders.
Retexture	(n.) The act of weaving or forming again.
Rethor	(n.) A rhetorician; a careful writer.
Rethoryke	(n.) Rhetoric.
Retiarius	(n.) A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
Retiary	(a.) Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.
Retiary	(a.) Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.
Retiary	(a.) Netlike.
Retiary	(n.) A retiarius.
Retiary	(n.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.
Reticence	(n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
Reticence	(n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
Reticency	(n.) Reticence.
Reticent	(a.) Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
Reticle	(n.) A reticule. See Reticule, 2.
Reticle	(n.) A small net.
Reticula	(pl. ) of Reticulum
Reticular	(a.) Having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.
Reticular	(a.) Of or pertaining to a reticulum.
Reticularia	(n. pl.) An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.
Reticularian	(n.) One of the Reticularia.
Reticularly	(adv.) In a reticular manner.
Reticulate	(a.) Alt. of Reticulated
Reticulated	(a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.
Reticulated	(a.) Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.
Reticulation	(n.) The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net.
Reticule	(n..) A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand.
Reticule	(n..) A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.
Reticulosa	(n. pl.) Same as Reticularia.
Reticulose	(a.) Forming a network; characterized by a reticulated sructure.
Reticulum	(n.) The neuroglia.
Reticulum	(n.) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.
Retiform	(a.) Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.
Retina	(n.) The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.
Retinacula	(pl. ) of Retinaculum
Retinaculum	(n.) A connecting band; a fraenum; as, the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves.
Retinaculum	(n.) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
Retinaculum	(n.) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
Retinaculum	(n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
Retinal	(a.) Of or pertaining to the retina.
Retinalite	(n.) A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.
Retinasphalt	(n.) Alt. of Retinasphaltum
Retinasphaltum	(n.) Retinite.
Retinea	(pl. ) of Retineum
Retinerved	(a.) Having reticulated veins.
Retineum	(n.) That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate.
Retinic	(a.) Of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin; specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and hydrocarbons.
Retiniphorae	(pl. ) of Retinophora
Retinite	(n.) An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.
Retinitis	(n.) Inflammation of the retina.
Retinoid	(a.) Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such.
Retinol	(n.) A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink.
Retinophora	(n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium.
Retinophoral	(a.) Of or pertaining to retinophorae.
Retinoscopy	(n.) The study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.
Retinue	(n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.
Retinula	(n.) One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium.
Retinulae	(pl. ) of Retinula
Retinulate	(a.) Having, or characterized by, retinul/.
Retiped	(n.) A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.
Retiracy	(n.) Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.
Retirade	(n.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.
Retire	(v. t.)To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.
Retire	(v. t.)To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.
Retire	(v. t.)To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
Retire	(n.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
Retire	(n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.
Retire	(v. i.) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.
Retire	(v. i.) To go to bed; as, he usually retires early.
Retire	(v. i.) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.
Retire	(v. i.) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.
Retire	(v. i.) To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
Retired	(a.) Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.
Retired	(a.) Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.
Retired	(imp. & p. p.) of Retire
Retirement	(n.) A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
Retirement	(n.) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
Retirer	(n.) One who retires.
Retiring	(a.) Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.
Retiring	(a.) Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.
Retiring	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retire
Retistene	(n.) A white crystalline hydrocarbon produced indirectly from retene.
Retitelae	(n. pl.) A group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also Retitelariae.
Retold	() imp. & p. p. of Retell.
Retorsion	(n.) Same as Retortion.
Retort	(v. t.)A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cyl
Retort	(v. t.)The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
Retort	(n.) To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
Retort	(n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
Retort	(n.) To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
Retort	(v. i.) To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
Retorted	(imp. & p. p.) of Retort
Retorter	(n.) One who retorts.
Retorting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retort
Retortion	(v. t.)Act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.
Retortion	(v. t.)Retaliation.
Retortive	(a.) Containing retort.
Retoss	(v. t.)To toss back or again.
Retouch	(v. t.)To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.
Retouch	(v. t.)To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.
Retouch	(n.) A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
Retoucher	(n.) One who retouches.
Retrace	(v. t.)To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.
Retrace	(v. t.)To trace back, as a line.
Retrace	(v. t.)To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.
Retract	(v. t.)To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
Retract	(v. t.)To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
Retract	(v. t.)To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
Retract	(n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Retract	(v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
Retract	(v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
Retractable	(a.) Capable of being retracted; retractile.
Retractate	(v. t.)To retract; to recant.
Retractation	(n.) The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
Retracted	(imp. & p. p.) of Retract
Retractible	(a.) Retractable.
Retractile	(a.) Capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
Retracting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retract
Retraction	(n.) The act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew.
Retraction	(n.) The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.
Retraction	(n.) The act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.
Retraction	(n.) The state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
Retractive	(a.) Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.
Retractive	(n.) That which retracts, or withdraws.
Retractor	(n.) A bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation.
Retractor	(n.) A muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata.
Retractor	(n.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.
Retractor	(n.) In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
Retractor	(n.) One who, or that which, retracts.
Retraict	(n.) Retreat.
Retrait	(n.) A portrait; a likeness.
Retransform	(v. t.)To transform anew or back.
Retranslate	(v. t.)To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.
Retraxit	(n.) The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action.
Retread	(v. t. & i.) To tread again.
Retreat	(n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
Retreat	(n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
Retreat	(n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
Retreat	(n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
Retreat	(n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
Retreat	(n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
Retreat	(n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
Retreat	(v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
Retreated	(imp. & p. p.) of Retreat
Retreatful	(a.) Furnishing or serving as a retreat.
Retreating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retreat
Retreatment	(n.) The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira.
Retrench	(v. t.)To confine; to limit; to restrict.
Retrench	(v. t.)To cut off; to pare away.
Retrench	(v. t.)To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.
Retrench	(v. t.)To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.
Retrench	(v. i.) To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
Retrenched	(imp. & p. p.) of Retrench
Retrenching	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrench
Retrenchment	(n.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation.
Retrenchment	(n.) The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.
Retrial	(n.) A secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.
Retribute	(v. t.)To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal.
Retributer	(n.) One who makes retribution.
Retribution	(n.) Specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
Retribution	(n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.
Retribution	(n.) The act of retributing; repayment.
Retributive	(a.) Alt. of Retributory
Retributory	(a.) Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.
Retrievable	(a.) That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval.
Retrieval	(n.) The act retrieving.
Retrieve	(v. t.)To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
Retrieve	(v. t.)To recall; to bring back.
Retrieve	(v. t.)To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.
Retrieve	(n.) A seeking again; a discovery.
Retrieve	(n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
Retrieve	(v. i.) To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.
Retrieved	(imp. & p. p.) of Retrieve
Retrievement	(n.) Retrieval.
Retriever	(n.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.
Retriever	(n.) One who retrieves.
Retrieving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrieve
Retrim	(v. t.)To trim again.
Retriment	(n.) Refuse; dregs.
Retro-	() A prefix or combining form signifying backward, back; as, retroact, to act backward; retrospect, a looking back.
Retroact	(v. i.) To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.
Retroaction	(n.) Action returned, or action backward.
Retroaction	(n.) Operation on something past or preceding.
Retroactive	(a.) Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.
Retroactively	(adv.) In a retroactive manner.
Retrocede	(v. t.)To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.
Retrocede	(v. i.) To go back.
Retrocedent	(a.) Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.
Retrocession	(n.) Metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.
Retrocession	(n.) The act of retroceding.
Retrocession	(n.) The state of being retroceded, or granted back.
Retrochoir	(n.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
Retrocopulant	(a.) Copulating backward, or from behind.
Retrocopulation	(n.) Copulation from behind.
Retroduction	(n.) A leading or bringing back.
Retroflex	(a.) Alt. of Retroflexed
Retroflexed	(a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.
Retroflexion	(n.) The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.
Retrofract	(a.) Alt. of Retrofracted
Retrofracted	(a.) Refracted; as, a retrofract stem.
Retrogenerative	(a.) Begetting young by retrocopulation.
Retrogradation	(n.) The act of retrograding, or moving backward.
Retrogradation	(n.) The state of being retrograde; decline.
Retrograde	(a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
Retrograde	(a.) Declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.
Retrograde	(a.) Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.
Retrograde	(v. i.) Hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
Retrograde	(v. i.) To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.
Retrograded	(imp. & p. p.) of Retrograde
Retrograding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrograde
Retrogradingly	(adv.) By retrograding; so as to retrograde.
Retrogress	(n.) Retrogression.
Retrogression	(n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retr
Retrogression	(n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
Retrogressive	(a.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.
Retrogressive	(a.) Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
Retrogressively	(adv.) In a retrogressive manner.
Retromingency	(n.) The quality or state of being retromingent.
Retromingent	(a.) Organized so as to discharge the urine backward.
Retromingent	(n.) An animal that discharges its urine backward.
Retropulsive	(a.) Driving back; repelling.
Retrorse	(a.) Bent backward or downward.
Retrospect	(n.) A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
Retrospect	(v. i.) To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
Retrospection	(n.) The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.
Retrospective	(a.) Having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
Retrospective	(a.) Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.
Retrospectively	(adv.) By way of retrospect.
Retrousse	(a.) Turned up; -- said of a pug nose.
Retrovaccination	(n.) The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.
Retroversion	(n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.
Retrovert	(v. t.)To turn back.
Retroverted	(a.) In a state of retroversion.
Retroverted	(imp. & p. p.) of Retrovert
Retroverting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrovert
Retrude	(v. t.)To thrust back.
Retruded	(imp. & p. p.) of Retrude
Retruding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retrude
Retruse	(a.) Abstruse.
Retrusion	(n.) The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
Retry	(v. t.)To try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.
Rette	(v. t.)See Aret.
Rettery	(n.) A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.
Retting	(n.) A place where flax is retted; a rettery.
Retting	(n.) The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.
Retund	(v. t.)To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.
Re-turn	(v. t. & i.) To turn again.
Return	(v. t.)Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.
Return	(v. t.)To bat (the ball) back over the net.
Return	(v. t.)To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.
Return	(v. t.)To bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.
Return	(v. t.)To convey into official custody, or to a general depository.
Return	(v. t.)To give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.
Return	(v. t.)To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
Return	(v. t.)To lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.
Return	(v. t.)To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.
Return	(v. t.)To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
Return	(v. t.)To report, or bring back and make known.
Return	(v. t.)To retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.
Return	(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below.
Return	(n.) A payment; a remittance; a requital.
Return	(n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepare
Return	(n.) An answer; as, a return to one's question.
Return	(n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.
Return	(n.) That which is returned.
Return	(n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.
Return	(n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.
Return	(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.
Return	(n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west h
Return	(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.
Return	(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.
Return	(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
Return	(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
Return	(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.
Return	(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
Return	(v. i.) To revert; to pass back into possession.
Return	(v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
Return	(v. i.) To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
Returnable	(a.) Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
Returnable	(a.) Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.
Returned	(imp. & p. p.) of Return
Returner	(n.) One who returns.
Returning	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Return
Returnless	(a.) Admitting no return.
Retuse	(a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.
Reule	(n.& v.) Rule.
Reume	(n.) Realm.
Reunion	(n.) A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.
Reunion	(n.) An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed.
Reunite	(v. t. & i.) To unite again; to join after separation or variance.
Reunitedly	(adv.) In a reunited manner.
Reunition	(n.) A second uniting.
Reurge	(v. t.)To urge again.
Revaccinate	(v. t.)To vaccinate a second time or again.
Revalescence	(n.) The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent.
Revalescent	(a.) Growing well; recovering strength.
Revaluation	(n.) A second or new valuation.
Revamp	(v. t.)To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.
Reve	(v. t.)To reave.
Reve	(n.) An officer, steward, or governor.
Reveal	(v. t.)Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).
Reveal	(v. t.)To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
Reveal	(n.) A revealing; a disclosure.
Reveal	(n.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb.
Revealability	(n.) The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.
Revealable	(a.) Capable of being revealed.
Revealed	(imp. & p. p.) of Reveal
Revealer	(n.) One who, or that which, reveals.
Revealing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reveal
Revealment	(n.) Act of revealing.
Revegetate	(v. i.) To vegetate anew.
Reveille	(n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
Reveiwing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Review
Revel	(v. t.)To draw back; to retract.
Revel	(n.) See Reveal.
Revel	(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
Revel	(v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
Revel	(v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
Revelate	(v. t.)To reveal.
Revelation	(n.) Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.
Revelation	(n.) That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.
Revelation	(n.) That which is revealed.
Revelation	(n.) The act of revealing divine truth.
Revelation	(n.) The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
Revelator	(n.) One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
Reveled	(imp. & p. p.) of Revel
Reveler	(n.) One who revels.
Reveling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revel
Revelled	() of Revel
Revellent	(v. t.)Causing revulsion; revulsive.
Revellent	(n.) A revulsive medicine.
Revelling	() of Revel
Revelment	(n.) The act of reveling.
Revelous	(a.) Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling.
Revel-rout	(n.) A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.
Revel-rout	(n.) Tumultuous festivity; revelry.
Revelry	(n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.
Revendicate	(v. t.)To reclaim; to demand the restoration of.
Revendicated	(imp. & p. p.) of Revendicate
Revendicating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revendicate
Revendication	(n.) The act of revendicating.
Revenge	(v. t.)To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as di
Revenge	(v. t.)To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.
Revenge	(n.) The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.
Revenge	(n.) The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.
Revenge	(v. i.) To take vengeance; -- with
Revengeable	(a.) Capable of being revenged; as, revengeable wrong.
Revengeance	(n.) Vengeance; revenge.
Revenged	(imp. & p. p.) of Revenge
Revengeful	(a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.
Revengeless	(a.) Unrevenged.
Revengement	(n.) Revenge.
Revenger	(n.) One who revenges.
Revenging	(a.) Executing revenge; revengeful.
Revenging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revenge
Revenue	(n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.
Revenue	(n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
Revenue	(n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
Reverb	(v. t.)To echo.
Reverberant	(a.) Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.
Reverberate	(a.) Driven back, as sound; reflected.
Reverberate	(a.) Reverberant.
Reverberate	(v. t.)Hence, to fuse by reverberated heat.
Reverberate	(v. t.)To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
Reverberate	(v. t.)To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace.
Reverberate	(v. i.) To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
Reverberate	(v. i.) To resound; to echo.
Reverberated	(imp. & p. p.) of Reverberate
Reverberating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverberate
Reverberation	(n.) The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reechoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a
Reverberative	(a.) Of the nature of reverberation; tending to reverberate; reflective.
Reverberator	(n.) One who, or that which, produces reverberation.
Reverberatory	(a.) Producing reverberation; acting by reverberation; reverberative.
Reverberatory	(n.) A reverberatory furnace.
Reverdure	(v. t.)To cover again with verdure.
Revere	(v. t.)To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation.
Revered	(imp. & p. p.) of Revere
Reverence	(v. t.)To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
Reverence	(n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
Reverence	(n.) Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
Reverence	(n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
Reverence	(n.) The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
Reverenced	(imp. & p. p.) of Reverence
Reverencer	(n.) One who regards with reverence.
Reverencing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverence
Reverend	(a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Reverendly	(adv.) Reverently.
Reverent	(a.) Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples.
Reverent	(a.) Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior.
Reverential	(a.) Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.
Reverentially	(adv.) In a reverential manner.
Reverently	(adv.) In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.
Reverer	(n.) One who reveres.
Reverie	(n.) Alt. of Revery
Reveries	(pl. ) of Revery
Revering	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revere
Reversal	(a.) Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
Reversal	(n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.
Reversal	(n.) The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
Reverse	(a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
Reverse	(a.) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
Reverse	(a.) Hence, to overthrow; to subvert.
Reverse	(a.) Reversed; as, a reverse shell.
Reverse	(a.) That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.
Reverse	(a.) That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite.
Reverse	(a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.
Reverse	(a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse.
Reverse	(a.) To cause to return; to recall.
Reverse	(a.) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
Reverse	(a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree.
Reverse	(a.) To turn back; to cause to face in a contrary direction; to cause to depart.
Reverse	(a.) To turn upside down; to invert.
Reverse	(a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
Reverse	(a.) Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
Reverse	(v. i.) To become or be reversed.
Reverse	(v. i.) To return; to revert.
Reversed	(a.) Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.
Reversed	(a.) Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.
Reversed	(imp. & p. p.) of Reverse
Reversedly	(adv.) In a reversed way.
Reverseless	(a.) Irreversible.
Reversely	(adv.) In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.
Reverser	(n.) One who reverses.
Reversibility	(n.) The quality of being reversible.
Reversible	(a.) Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.
Reversible	(a.) Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics.
Reversibly	(adv.) In a reversible manner.
Reversing	(a.) Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed.
Reversing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reverse
Reversion	(n.) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person.
Reversion	(n.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism.
Reversion	(n.) Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession.
Reversion	(n.) That which reverts or returns; residue.
Reversion	(n.) The act of returning, or coming back; return.
Reversion	(n.) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termin
Reversionary	(a.) Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.
Reversionary	(n.) That which is to be received in reversion.
Reversioner	(n.) One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.
Reversis	(n.) A certain game at cards.
Revert	(v. t.)To change back. See Revert, v. i.
Revert	(v. t.)To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
Revert	(v. t.)To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
Revert	(n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
Revert	(v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.
Revert	(v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
Revert	(v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
Revert	(v. i.) To return; to come back.
Reverted	(a.) Turned back; reversed. Specifically
Reverted	(imp. & p. p.) of Revert
Revertent	(n.) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
Reverter	(n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
Reverter	(n.) Reversion.
Revertible	(a.) Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.
Reverting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revert
Revertive	(a.) Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.
Revery	(n.) A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.
Revery	(n.) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.
Revery	(n.) Same as Reverie.
Revest	(v. t.)To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.
Revest	(v. t.)To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.
Revest	(v. i.) To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner; as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.
Revestiary	(n.) The apartment, in a church or temple, where the vestments, etc., are kept; -- now contracted into vestry.
Revestry	(n.) Same as Revestiary.
Revestture	(n.) Vesture.
Revet	(v. t.)To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.
Revetment	(v. t.)A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall.
Revetted	(imp. & p. p.) of Revet
Revetting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revet
Revibrate	(v. i.) To vibrate back or in return.
Revict	(v. t.)To reconquer.
Reviction	(n.) Return to life.
Revictual	(v. t.)To victual again.
Revie	(v. t.)To meet a wager on, as on the taking of a trick, with a higher wager.
Revie	(v. t.)To vie with, or rival, in return.
Revie	(v. i.) To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing.
Revie	(v. i.) To make a retort; to bandy words.
Review/d	(imp. & p. p.) of Review
Review	(n.) A critical examination of a publication, with remarks; a criticism; a critique.
Review	(n.) A lesson studied or recited for a second time.
Review	(n.) A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc.
Review	(n.) A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life.
Review	(n.) An examination with a view to amendment or improvement; revision; as, an author's review of his works.
Review	(n.) An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.
Review	(n.) The judicial examination of the proceedings of a lower court by a higher.
Review	(n.) To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
Review	(n.) To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.
Review	(n.) To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment.
Review	(n.) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.
Review	(n.) To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one.
Review	(n.) To retrace; to go over again.
Review	(n.) To view or see again; to look back on.
Review	(v. i.) To look back; to make a review.
Reviewable	(a.) Capable of being reviewed.
Reviewal	(n.) A review.
Reviewer	(n.) One who reviews or reexamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.
Revigorate	(a.) Having new vigor or strength; invigorated anew.
Revigorate	(v. t.)To give new vigor to.
Revile	(v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.
Revile	(n.) Reproach; reviling.
Reviled	(imp. & p. p.) of Revile
Revilement	(n.) The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse.
Reviler	(n.) One who reviles.
Reviling	(a.) Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches.
Reviling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revile
Reviling	(n.) Reproach; abuse; vilification.
Revince	(v. t.)To overcome; to refute, as error.
Revindicate	(v. t.)To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back.
Revirescence	(n.) A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor.
Revisable	(a.) That may be revised.
Revisal	(n.) The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.
Revise	(v. t.)To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.
Revise	(v. t.)To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.
Revise	(v. t.)To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.
Revise	(n.) A review; a revision.
Revise	(n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
Revised	(imp. & p. p.) of Revise
Reviser	(n.) One who revises.
Revising	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revise
Revision	(n.) That which is made by revising.
Revision	(n.) The act of revising; reexamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes.
Revisional	(a.) Alt. of Revisionary
Revisionary	(a.) Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.
Revisit	(v. t.)To revise.
Revisit	(v. t.)To visit again.
Revisitation	(n.) The act of revisiting.
Revisory	(a.) Having the power or purpose to revise; revising.
Revitalize	(v. t.)To restore vitality to; to bring back to life.
Revivable	(a.) That may be revived.
Revival	(n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
Revival	(n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
Revival	(n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
Revival	(n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
Revival	(n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
Revival	(n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
Revival	(n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
Revival	(n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.
Revival	(n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
Revivalism	(n.) The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
Revivalist	(n.) A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote revivals. Also used adjectively.
Revivalistic	(a.) Pertaining to revivals.
Revive	(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
Revive	(v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
Revive	(v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension.
Revive	(v. i.) To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
Revive	(v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
Revive	(v. i.) To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Revive	(v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate.
Revive	(v. i.) To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Revived	(imp. & p. p.) of Revive
Revivement	(n.) Revival.
Reviver	(n.) One who, or that which, revives.
Revivificate	(v. t.)To revive; to recall or restore to life.
Revivification	(n.) Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.
Revivification	(n.) The reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.
Revivify	(v. t.)To cause to revive.
Reviving	(a. & n.) Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating.
Reviving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revive
Reviviscence	(n.) Alt. of Reviviscency
Reviviscency	(n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived; renewal of life.
Reviviscent	(a.) Able or disposed to revive; reviving.
Revivor	(n.) Revival of a suit which is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor.
Revocability	(n.) The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.
Revocable	(a.) Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant.
Revocate	(v. t.)To recall; to call back.
Revocation	(n.) The act by which one, having the right, annuls an act done, a power or authority given, or a license, gift, or benefit conferred; repeal; reversal; as, the revocation of an edict, a power, a will, or a license.
Revocation	(n.) The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.
Revocatory	(a.) Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.
Revoice	(v. t.)To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.
Revoke	(v. t.)Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.
Revoke	(v. t.)To call back to mind; to recollect.
Revoke	(v. t.)To call or bring back; to recall.
Revoke	(v. t.)To draw back; to withdraw.
Revoke	(v. t.)To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
Revoke	(n.) The act of revoking.
Revoke	(v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
Revoked	(imp. & p. p.) of Revoke
Revokement	(n.) Revocation.
Revoker	(n.) One who revokes.
Revoking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revoke
Revokingly	(adv.) By way of revocation.
Revolt	(v. t.)To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
Revolt	(v. t.)To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
Revolt	(n.) A revolter.
Revolt	(n.) Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
Revolt	(n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
Revolt	(n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
Revolt	(n.) To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
Revolted	(imp. & p. p.) of Revolt
Revolter	(n.) One who revolts.
Revolting	(a.) Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty.
Revolting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolt
Revoluble	(a.) Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving.
Revolute	(a.) Rolled backward or downward.
Revolution	(n.) A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.
Revolution	(n.) A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
Revolution	(n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
Revolution	(n.) The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
Revolution	(n.) The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of rev
Revolution	(n.) The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according a
Revolution	(n.) The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.
Revolutionary	(a.) Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.
Revolutionary	(n.) A revolutionist.
Revolutioner	(n.) One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.
Revolutioniezed	(imp. & p. p.) of Revolutionize
Revolutionism	(n.) The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.
Revolutionist	(n.) One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.
Revolutionize	(v. t.)To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.
Revolutionizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolutionize
Revolutive	(a.) Inclined to revolve things in the mind; meditative.
Revolvable	(a.) That may be revolved.
Revolve	(v. t.)Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
Revolve	(v. t.)To cause to turn, as on an axis.
Revolve	(v. i.) To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
Revolve	(v. i.) To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
Revolve	(v. i.) To return; to pass.
Revolve	(v. i.) To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
Revolved	(imp. & p. p.) of Revolve
Revolvement	(n.) Act of revolving.
Revolvency	(n.) The act or state of revolving; revolution.
Revolver	(n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.
Revolving	(a.) Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth.
Revolving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revolve
Revulse	(v. t.)To pull back with force.
Revulsion	(n.) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
Revulsion	(n.) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.
Revulsion	(n.) The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.
Revulsive	(a.) Causing, or tending to, revulsion.
Revulsive	(n.) That which causes revulsion; specifically (Med.), a revulsive remedy or agent.
Rew	(n.) A row.
Rewake	(v. t. & i.) To wake again.
Reward	(v. t.)To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
Reward	(n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.
Reward	(n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
Reward	(n.) Regard; respect; consideration.
Reward	(n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
Rewardable	(a.) Worthy of reward.
Rewarded	(imp. & p. p.) of Reward
Rewarder	(n.) One who rewards.
Rewardful	(a.) Yielding reward.
Rewarding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reward
Rewardless	(a.) Having, or affording, no reward.
Rewe	(v. t. & i.) To rue.
Rewel bone	() An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone.
Rewet	(n.) A gunlock.
Rewful	(a.) Rueful.
Rewin	(v. t.)To win again, or win back.
Rewle	(n. & v.) .Rule.
Rewme	(n.) Realm.
Reword	(v. t.)To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.
Reword	(v. t.)To repeat in the same words; to reecho.
Rewrite	(v. t.)To write again.
Rewth	(n.) Ruth.
Rex	(n.) A king.
Reyn	(n.) Rain or rein.
Reynard	(n.) An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.
Reyse	(v. t.)To raise.
Reyse	(v. i.) To go on a military expedition.
Rh/tian	(a & n.) Rhetain.
Rh/tic	(a.) Pertaining to, or of the same horizon as, certain Mesozoic strata of the Rhetian Alps. These strata are regarded as closing the Triassic period. See the Chart of Geology.
Rh/tizite	(n.) A variety of the mineral cyanite.
Rhabarbarate	(a.) Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.
Rhabarbarin	(n.) Alt. of Rhabarbarine
Rhabarbarine	(n.) Chrysophanic acid.
Rhabdite	(n.) A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
Rhabdite	(n.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.
Rhabdocoela	(n. pl.) A suborder of Turbellaria including those that have a simple cylindrical, or saclike, stomach, without an intestine.
Rhabdocoelous	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Rhabdocoela.
Rhabdoidal	(a.) See Sagittal.
Rhabdolith	(n.) A minute calcareous rodlike structure found both at the surface and the bottom of the ocean; -- supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
Rhabdology	(n.) Same as Rabdology.
Rhabdom	(n.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium.
Rhabdomancy	(n.) Same as Rabdomancy.
Rhabdomere	(n.) One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.
Rhabdophora	(n. pl.) An extinct division of Hydrozoa which includes the graptolities.
Rhabdopleura	(n.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
Rhabdosphere	(n.) A minute sphere composed of rhabdoliths.
Rhachialgia	(n.) See Rachialgia.
Rhachides	(pl. ) of Rhachis
Rhachidian	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rhachis; as, the rhachidian teeth of a mollusk.
Rhachiglossa	(n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Appen
Rhachilla	(n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.
Rhachiodont	(a.) Having gular teeth formed by a peculiar modification of the inferior spines of some of the vertebrae, as certain South African snakes (Dasypeltis) which swallow birds' eggs and use these gular teeth to crush them.
Rhachis	(n.) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.
Rhachis	(n.) The central cord in the stem of a crinoid.
Rhachis	(n.) The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.
Rhachis	(n.) The median part of the radula of a mollusk.
Rhachis	(n.) The principal axis in a raceme, spike, panicle, or corymb.
Rhachis	(n.) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis.
Rhachis	(n.) The spine.
Rhachises	(pl. ) of Rhachis
Rhachitis	(n.) See Rachitis.
Rhadamanthine	(a.) Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.
Rhadamanthus	(n.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.
Rhamadan	(n.) See Ramadan.
Rhamnaceous	(a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of shrubs and trees (Rhamnaceae, or Rhamneae) of which the buckthorn (Rhamnus) is the type. It includes also the New Jersey tea, the supple-jack, and one of the plants called lotus (Zizyphus).
Rhamnus	(n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.
Rhamphorhynchus	(n.) A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.
Rhamphotheca	(n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.
Rhamphothecae	(pl. ) of Rhamphotheca
Rhaphe	(n.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam.
Rhaphides	(n. pl.) Minute transparent, often needle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants.
Rhaponticine	(n.) Chrysophanic acid.
Rhapsode	(n.) A rhapsodist.
Rhapsoder	(n.) A rhapsodist.
Rhapsodic	(a.) Alt. of Rhapsodic
Rhapsodic	(a.) Of or pertaining to rhapsody; consisting of rhapsody; hence, confused; unconnected.
Rhapsodies	(pl. ) of Rhapsody
Rhapsodist	(n.) Anciently, one who recited or composed a rhapsody; especially, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Hormer and other epic poets.
Rhapsodist	(n.) Hence, one who recites or sings poems for a livelihood; one who makes and repeats verses extempore.
Rhapsodist	(n.) One who writes or speaks disconnectedly and with great excitement or affectation of feeling.
Rhapsodize	(v. t.)To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody
Rhapsodize	(v. i.) To utter rhapsodies.
Rhapsodized	(imp. & p. p.) of Rhapsodize
Rhapsodizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rhapsodize
Rhapsodomancy	(n.) Divination by means of verses.
Rhapsody	(n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."
Rhapsody	(n.) A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.
Rhapsody	(n.) A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
Rhatanhy	(n.) The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine.
Rhatany	(n.) Alt. of Rhatanhy
Rhea	(n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.
Rhea	(n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
Rheae	(n. pl.) A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.
Rheeboc	(n.) The peele.
Rheic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum).
Rhein	(n.) Chrysophanic acid.
Rheinberry	(n.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.
Rhematic	(a.) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives.
Rhematic	(n.) The doctrine of propositions or sentences.
Rhemish	(a.) Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.
Rhenish	(a.) Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine.
Rhenish	(n.) Rhine wine.
Rheochord	(n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
Rheometer	(n.) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.
Rheometer	(n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.
Rheometric	(a.) Of or pertaining to a rheometer or rheometry.
Rheometry	(n.) The calculus; fluxions.
Rheometry	(n.) The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.
Rheomotor	(n.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
Rheophore	(n.) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
Rheophore	(n.) One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
Rheoscope	(n.) An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.
Rheostat	(n.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
Rheotome	(n.) An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.
Rheotrope	(n.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
Rhesus	(n.) A monkey; the bhunder.
Rhetian	(a.) Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or Rhaetians, or to Rhaetia, their country; as, the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.
Rhetic	(a.) Same as Rhaetic.
Rhetizite	(n.) Same as Rhaetizite.
Rhetor	(n.) A rhetorician.
Rhetoric	(n.) Fig.
Rhetoric	(n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
Rhetoric	(n.) Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.
Rhetoric	(n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
Rhetorical	(a.) Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
Rhetoricate	(v. i.) To play the orator.
Rhetorication	(n.) Rhetorical amplification.
Rhetorician	(a.) Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
Rhetorician	(n.) A teacher of rhetoric.
Rhetorician	(n.) An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.
Rhetorician	(n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
Rhetorize	(v. t.)To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
Rhetorize	(v. i.) To play the orator.
Rhetorized	(imp. & p. p.) of Rhetorize
Rhetorizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rhetorize
Rheum	(n.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
Rheum	(n.) A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.
Rheumatic	(a.) Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.
Rheumatic	(a.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.
Rheumatic	(n.) One affected with rheumatism.
Rheumatism	(n.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
Rheumatismal	(a.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.
Rheumatismoid	(a.) Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.
Rheumic	(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum.
Rheumides	(n. pl.) The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.
Rheumy	(a.) Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
Rhigolene	(n.) A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.
Rhime	(n.) See Rhyme.
Rhinal	(a.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.
Rhinaster	(n.) The borele.
Rhine	(n.) A water course; a ditch.
Rhinencephala	(pl. ) of Rhinencephalon
Rhinencephalic	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.
Rhinencephalon	(n.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.
Rhinestone	(n.) A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
Rhinitis	(n.) Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.
Rhino-	() A combining form from Greek //, ///, the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.
Rhino	(n.) Gold and silver, or money.
Rhinocerial	(a.) Alt. of Rhinocerical
Rhinocerical	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn.
Rhinoceros	(n.) Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout co
Rhinocerote	(n.) A rhinoceros.
Rhinocerotic	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros.
Rhinolite	(n.) Alt. of Rhinolith
Rhinolith	(n.) A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.
Rhinological	(a.) Of or pertaining to rhinology.
Rhinologist	(n.) One skilled in rhinology.
Rhinology	(n.) The science which treats of the nose, and its diseases.
Rhinolophid	(n.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.
Rhinolophine	(a.) Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.
Rhinophore	(n.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. S
Rhinoplastic	(a.) Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.
Rhinoplasty	(n.) Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.
Rhinopome	(n.) Any old-world bat of the genus Rhinopoma. The rhinopomes have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs.
Rhinoscleroma	(n.) A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.
Rhinoscope	(n.) A small mirror for use in rhinoscopy.
Rhinoscopic	(a.) Of or pertaining to rhinoscopy.
Rhinoscopy	(n.) The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.
Rhinotheca	(n.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.
Rhinothecae	(pl. ) of Rhinotheca
Rhipidoglossa	(n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long, divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. It includes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.
Rhipipter	(n.) One of the Rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.
Rhipipteran	(n.) Same as Rhipipter.
Rhizanthous	(a.) Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.
Rhizine	(n.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
Rhizocarpous	(a.) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.
Rhizocephala	(n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.
Rhizodont	(n.) A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, as the crocodile.
Rhizogan	(a.) Prodicing roots.
Rhizogen	(n.) One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.
Rhizoid	(n.) A rootlike appendage.
Rhizoma	(n.) SAme as Rhizome.
Rhizomata	(pl. ) of Rhizoma
Rhizomatous	(a.) Having the nature or habit of a rhizome or rootstock.
Rhizome	(n.) A rootstock. See Rootstock.
Rhizophaga	(n. pl.) A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.
Rhizophagous	(a.) Feeding on roots; root-eating.
Rhizophora	(n.) A genus of trees including the mangrove. See Mangrove.
Rhizophorous	(a.) Bearing roots.
Rhizopod	(n.) One of the Rhizopoda.
Rhizopoda	(n. pl.) An extensive class of Protozoa, including those which have pseudopodia, by means of which they move about and take their food. The principal groups are Lobosa (or Am/bea), Helizoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera (or Reticularia). See Protozoa.
Rhizopodous	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rhizopods.
Rhizostomata	(n. pl.) A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.
Rhizostome	(n.) One of the Rhizostomata.
Rhizotaxis	(n.) The arrangement of the roots of plants.
Rhob	(n.) See 1st Rob.
Rhodammonium	(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.
Rhodanate	(n.) A salt of rhodanic acid; a sulphocyanate.
Rhodanic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts.
Rhodeoretin	(n.) Same as Convolvuln.
Rhodian	(a.) Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean.
Rhodian	(n.) A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.
Rhodic	(a.) Of or pertaining to rhodium; containing rhodium.
Rhodium	(n.) A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.
Rhodizonic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a colorless crystalline substance (called rhodizonic acid, and carboxylic acid) obtained from potassium carboxide and from certain quinones. It forms brilliant red, yellow, and purple salts.
Rhodochrosite	(n.) Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.
Rhodocrinite	(n.) A rose encrinite.
Rhododendron	(n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.
Rhodomontade	(n.) See Rodomontade.
Rhodomontader	(n.) See Rodomontador.
Rhodonite	(n.) Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.
Rhodophane	(n.) The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.
Rhodopsin	(n.) The visual purple. See under Visual.
Rhodosperm	(n.) Any seaweed with red spores.
Rhomb spar	() A variety of dolomite.
Rhomb	(n.) A rhombohedron.
Rhomb	(n.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a sq
Rhombic	(a.) Same as Orthorhombic.
Rhombic	(a.) Shaped like a rhomb.
Rhomboganoid	(n.) A ganoid fish having rhombic enameled scales; one of the Rhomboganoidei.
Rhomboganoidei	(n. pl.) Same as Ginglymodi.
Rhombogene	(n.) A dicyemid which produces infusorialike embryos; -- opposed to nematogene. See Dicyemata.
Rhombohedral	(a.) Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron.
Rhombohedric	(a.) Rhombohedral.
Rhombohedron	(n.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.
Rhomboid	(a.) Same as Rhomboidal.
Rhomboid	(n.) An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.
Rhomboidal	(a.) Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.
Rhomboides	(n.) A rhomboid.
Rhomboid-ovate	(a.) Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.
Rhombus	(n.) Same as Rhomb, 1.
Rhonchal	(a.) Rhonchial.
Rhonchi	(pl. ) of Rhonchus
Rhonchial	(a.) Of or pertaining to a rhonchus; produced by rhonchi.
Rhonchisonant	(a.) Making a snorting noise; snorting.
Rhonchus	(n.) An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale.
Rhopalia	(pl. ) of Rhopalium
Rhopalic	(a.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.
Rhopalium	(n.) One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Rhopalocera	(n. pl.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae.
Rhotacism	(n.) An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.
Rhubarb	(n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also pieplant.
Rhubarb	(n.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.
Rhubarb	(n.) The root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.
Rhubarby	(a.) Like rhubarb.
Rhumb	(n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic.
Rhus	(n.) A genus of shrubs and small treets. See Sumac.
Rhusma	(n.) A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.
Rhyme	(v. t.)To influence by rhyme.
Rhyme	(v. t.)To put into rhyme.
Rhyme	(n.) A word answering in sound to another word.
Rhyme	(n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
Rhyme	(n.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the
Rhyme	(n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.
Rhyme	(n.) To make rhymes, or verses.
Rhyme	(n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
Rhymed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rhyme
Rhymeless	(a.) Destitute of rhyme.
Rhymer	(n.) One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; a poor poet; a poetaster.
Rhymery	(n.) The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.
Rhymester	(n.) A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.
Rhymic	(a.) Pertaining to rhyme.
Rhyming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rhyme
Rhymist	(n.) A rhymer; a rhymester.
Rhynchobdellea	(n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type.
Rhynchocephala	(n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles.
Rhynchocoela	(n. pl.) Same as Nemertina.
Rhyncholite	(n.) A fossil cephalopod beak.
Rhynchonella	(n.) A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil.
Rhynchophora	(n. pl.) A group of Coleoptera having a snoutlike head; the snout beetles, curculios, or weevils.
Rhynchophore	(n.) One of the Rhynchophora.
Rhynchota	(n. pl.) Same as Hemiptera.
Rhyolite	(n.) A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure.
Rhyparography	(n.) In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures.
Rhysimeter	(n.) An instrument, acting on the principle of Pitot's tube, for measuring the velocity of a fluid current, the speed of a ship, etc.
Rhythm	(n.) A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
Rhythm	(n.) In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.
Rhythm	(n.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
Rhythm	(n.) The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
Rhythmer	(n.) One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter.
Rhythmic	(a.) Alt. of Rhythmical
Rhythmical	(a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm
Rhythmically	(adv.) In a rhythmical manner.
Rhythmics	(n.) The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.
Rhythming	(a.) Writing rhythm; verse making.
Rhythmless	(a.) Being without rhythm.
Rhythmometer	(n.) An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.
Rhythmus	(n.) Rhythm.
Rhytina	(n.) See Rytina.
Rial	(a.) Royal.
Rial	(n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.
Rial	(n.) A Spanish coin. See Real.
Riant	(a.) Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
Rib	(v. t.)To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.
Rib	(v. t.)To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
Rib	(n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.
Rib	(n.) A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.
Rib	(n.) A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.
Rib	(n.) A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.
Rib	(n.) A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.
Rib	(n.) An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.
Rib	(n.) Any longitudinal ridge in a plant.
Rib	(n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of
Rib	(n.) One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
Rib	(n.) One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.
Rib	(n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel.
Rib	(n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
Rib	(n.) That which resembles a rib in form or use.
Rib	(n.) The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.
Ribald	(n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.
Ribald	(a.) Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.
Ribaldish	(a.) Like a ribald.
Ribaldrous	(a.) Of a ribald quality.
Ribaldry	(n.) The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.
Riban	(n.) See Ribbon.
Riband	(n.) See Rib-band.
Riband	(n.) See Ribbon.
Ribanded	(a.) Ribboned.
Ribaud	(n.) A ribald.
Ribaudequin	(n.) A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.
Ribaudequin	(n.) An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.
Ribaudred	(a.) Alt. of Ribaudrous
Ribaudrous	(a.) Filthy; obscene; ribald.
Ribaudry	(n.) Ribaldry.
Ribaudy	(n.) Ribaldry.
Ribauld	(n.) A ribald.
Ribband	(n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework.
Ribband	(n.) A ribbon.
Ribbed	(a.) Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.
Ribbed	(a.) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal.
Ribbed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rib
Ribbing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rib
Ribbing	(n.) An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like.
Ribbon	(v. t.)To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
Ribbon	(n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
Ribbon	(n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
Ribbon	(n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
Ribbon	(n.) A silver.
Ribbon	(n.) Driving reins.
Ribbon	(n.) Same as Rib-band.
Ribboned	(imp. & p. p.) of Ribbon
Ribboning	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ribbon
Ribbonism	(n.) The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.
Ribbonman	(n.) A member of the Ribbon Society. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.
Ribbonwood	(n.) A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.
Ribes	(n.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.
Ribibe	(n.) A bawd; a prostitute.
Ribibe	(n.) A sort of stringed instrument; a rebec.
Ribibe	(n.) An old woman; -- in contempt.
Ribible	(n.) A small threestringed viol; a rebec.
Ribless	(a.) Having no ribs.
Ribroast	(v. t.)To beat soundly.
Ribwort	(n.) A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.
-ric	() A suffix signifying dominion, jurisdiction; as, bishopric, the district over which a bishop exercises authority.
Rice	(n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.
Ricebird	(n.) The bobolink.
Ricebird	(n.) The Java sparrow.
Rice-shell	(n.) Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.
Rich	(superl.) Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high-flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich p
Rich	(superl.) Abounding in beauty; gorgeous; as, a rich landscape; rich scenery.
Rich	(superl.) Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.
Rich	(superl.) Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly; as, a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents.
Rich	(superl.) Full of sweet and harmonius sounds; as, a rich voice; rich music.
Rich	(superl.) Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor.
Rich	(superl.) Hence, in general, well supplied; abounding; abundant; copious; bountiful; as, a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop.
Rich	(superl.) Not faint or delicate; vivid; as, a rich color.
Rich	(superl.) Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful; as, rich soil or land; a rich mine.
Rich	(v. t.)To enrich.
Riches	(a.) That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like.
Riches	(a.) That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence.
Richesse	(n.) Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches.
Richly	(adv.) In a rich manner.
Richness	(n.) The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).
Richweed	(n.) An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.
Ricinelaidic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric modification of ricinoleic acid obtained as a white crystalline solid.
Ricinelaidin	(n.) The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid.
Ricinic	(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly, designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
Ricinine	(n.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.
Ricinoleate	(n.) A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.
Ricinoleic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, C/H/O/ with a harsh taste. Formerly written ricinolic.
Ricinolein	(n.) The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.
Ricinolic	(a.) Ricinoleic.
Ricinus	(n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi.
Rick	(v. t.)To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
Rick	(n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
Ricker	(n.) A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.
Ricketish	(a.) Rickety.
Rickets	(n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental facul
Rickety	(a.) Affected with rickets.
Rickety	(a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
Rickrack	(n.) A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.
Rickstand	(n.) A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.
Ricochet	(v. t.)To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
Ricochet	(n.) A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
Ricochet	(v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
Ricochetted	(imp. & p. p.) of Ricochet
Ricochetting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ricochet
Rictal	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles.
Ricture	(n.) A gaping.
Rictus	(n.) The gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth.
Rid	(imp. & p. p.) of Rid
Rid	(v. t.)To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
Rid	(v. t.)To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
Rid	(v. t.)To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.
Rid	(v. t.)To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.
Rid	() imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
Rid	() of Ride
Rid	() of Ride
Ridable	(a.) Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.
Riddance	(n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
Riddance	(n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
Ridded	() of Rid
Ridden	(p. p.) of Ride
Ridden	() p. p. of Ride.
Ridder	(n.) One who, or that which, rids.
Ridding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rid
Riddle	(v. t.)To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Riddle	(v. t.)To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Riddle	(v. t.)To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
Riddle	(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Riddle	(n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
Riddle	(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
Riddle	(v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Riddled	(imp. & p. p.) of Riddle
Riddler	(n.) One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
Riddler	(n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
Riddling	(a.) Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
Riddling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riddle
Ride	(v. t.)To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
Ride	(v. t.)To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
Ride	(v. t.)To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
Ride	(v. t.)To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
Ride	(n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Ride	(n.) A saddle horse.
Ride	(n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
Ride	(v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
Ride	(v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Ride	(v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
Ride	(v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.
Ride	(v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
Ride	(v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
Rideau	(n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Riden	() imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride.
Rident	(a.) Laughing.
Rider	(n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
Rider	(n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
Rider	(n.) A robber.
Rider	(n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
Rider	(n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
Rider	(n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.
Rider	(n.) Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.
Rider	(n.) One who breaks or manages a horse.
Rider	(n.) One who, or that which, rides.
Rider	(n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
Rider	(n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
Riderless	(a.) Having no rider; as, a riderless horse.
Ridge	(v. t.)To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
Ridge	(v. t.)To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
Ridge	(v. t.)To wrinkle.
Ridge	(n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
Ridge	(n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
Ridge	(n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest.
Ridge	(n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
Ridge	(n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
Ridgeband	(n.) The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger.
Ridgebone	(n.) The backbone.
Ridged	(imp. & p. p.) of Ridge
Ridgel	(n.) Same as Ridgelling.
Ridgelet	(n.) A little ridge.
Ridgeling	(n.) A half-castrated male animal.
Ridgepiece	(n.) Alt. of Ridgeplate
Ridgeplate	(n.) See Ridgepole.
Ridgepole	(n.) The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.
Ridgerope	(n.) See Life line (a), under Life.
Ridging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ridge
Ridgingly	(adv.) So as to form ridges.
Ridgy	(a.) Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.
Ridicle	(n.) Ridicule.
Ridicule	(a.) Ridiculous.
Ridicule	(v. t.)To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
Ridicule	(n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Ridicule	(n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Ridicule	(n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
Ridiculed	(imp. & p. p.) of Ridicule
Ridiculer	(n.) One who ridicules.
Ridiculing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ridicule
Ridiculize	(v. t.)To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
Ridiculosity	(n.) The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous.
Ridiculous	(a.) Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
Ridiculous	(a.) Involving or expressing ridicule.
Riding	(a.) Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk.
Riding	(a.) Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
Riding	(a.) Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
Riding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ride
Riding	(n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.
Riding	(n.) A festival procession.
Riding	(n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding.
Riding	(n.) Same as Ride, n., 3.
Riding	(n.) The act or state of one who rides.
Ridotto	(n.) A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves.
Ridotto	(v. i.) To hold ridottos.
Rie	(n.) See Rye.
Rief	(n.) Robbery.
ries	(pl. ) of Lachrymatory
Rietboc	(n.) The reedbuck, a South African antelope (Cervicapra arundinacea); -- so called from its frequenting dry places covered with high grass or reeds. Its color is yellowish brown. Called also inghalla, and rietbok.
Rife	(a.) Having power; active; nimble.
Rife	(a.) Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.
Riffle	(n.) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
Riffler	(n.) A curved file used in carving wool and marble.
Riffraff	(n.) Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.
Rifle	(v. t.)To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
Rifle	(v. t.)To raffle.
Rifle	(v. t.)To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
Rifle	(v. t.)To strip; to rob; to pillage.
Rifle	(v. t.)To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
Rifle	(n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
Rifle	(n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
Rifle	(n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
Rifle	(v. i.) To commit robbery.
Rifle	(v. i.) To raffle.
Riflebird	(n.) Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.
Rifled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rifle
Rifleman	(pl. ) of Rifleman
Rifleman	(n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
Rifler	(n.) One who rifles; a robber.
Rifling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rifle
Rifling	(n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
Rifling	(n.) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
Rift	(v. t.)To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
Rift	() p. p. of Rive.
Rift	(n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Rift	(n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Rift	(v. i.) To belch.
Rift	(v. i.) To burst open; to split.
Rifted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rift
Rifter	(n.) A rafter.
Rifting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rift
Rig	(v. t.)To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out.
Rig	(v. t.)To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
Rig	(v. t.)To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
Rig	(n.) A blast of wind.
Rig	(n.) A ridge.
Rig	(n.) A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
Rig	(n.) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
Rig	(n.) Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.
Rig	(n.) The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Rig	(v. i.) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
Riga fir	() A species of pine (Pinus sylvestris), and its wood, which affords a valuable timber; -- called also Scotch pine, and red / yellow deal. It grows in all parts of Europe, in the Caucasus, and in Siberia.
Rigadoon	(n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France.
Rigarion	(n.) See Irrigation.
Rigel	(n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.
Rigescent	(a.) Growing stiff or numb.
Rigged	(imp. & p. p.) of Rig
Rigger	(n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
Rigger	(n.) One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
Rigging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rig
Rigging	(n.) DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
Riggish	(a.) Like a rig or wanton.
Riggle	(n.) The European lance fish.
Riggle	(v. i.) See Wriggle.
Right whale	() Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.
Right whale	() The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Right	(a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
Right	(a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
Right	(a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
Right	(a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
Right	(a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
Right	(a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
Right	(a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
Right	(a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
Right	(a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
Right	(a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the correspondin
Right	(a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
Right	(a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
Right	(a.) That to which one has a just claim.
Right	(a.) That which is right or correct.
Right	(a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
Right	(a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
Right	(a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
Right	(a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
Right	(a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
Right	(a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
Right	(a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
Right	(a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
Right	(a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
Right	(a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
Right	(adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
Right	(adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
Right	(adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
Right	(adv.) Exactly; just.
Right	(adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
Right	(adv.) In a right manner.
Right	(adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
Right	(v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
Right	(v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
Right-about	(n.) A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
Right-angled	(a.) Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
Righted	(imp. & p. p.) of Right
Righten	(v. t.)To do justice to.
Righteous	(a.) Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
Righteoused	(a.) Made righteous.
Righteously	(adv.) In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
Righteousness	(n.) A righteous act, or righteous quality.
Righteousness	(n.) The act or conduct of one who is righteous.
Righteousness	(n.) The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
Righteousness	(n.) The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of justification.
Righter	(n.) One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.
Rightful	(a.) Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority.
Rightful	(a.) Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause.
Rightful	(a.) Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king.
Rightful	(a.) Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.
Rightfully	(adv.) According to right or justice.
Rightfulness	(n.) Moral rectitude; righteousness.
Rightfulness	(n.) The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.
Right-hand	(a.) Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
Right-hand	(a.) Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
Right-handed	(a.) Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
Right-handed	(a.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.
Right-handed	(a.) Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
Right-handedness	(n.) The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.
Right-hearted	(a.) Having a right heart or disposition.
Righting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Right
Rightless	(a.) Destitute of right.
Right-lined	(a.) Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
Rightly	(adv.) According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.
Rightly	(adv.) According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly.
Rightly	(adv.) Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.
Rightly	(adv.) Straightly; directly; in front.
Right-minded	(a.) Having a right or honest mind.
Rightness	(n.) Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.
Rightness	(n.) The quality or state of being right; right relation.
Right-running	(a.) Straight; direct.
Rightward	(adv.) Toward the right.
Rightwise	(a.) Righteous.
Rightwise	(v. t.)To make righteous.
Rightwisely	(adv.) Righteously.
Rightwiseness	(n.) Righteousness.
Rigid	(a.) Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Rigid	(a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
Rigidity	(n.) Severity; rigor.
Rigidity	(n.) Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
Rigidity	(n.) The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
Rigidly	(v.) In a rigid manner; stiffly.
Rigidness	(n.) The quality or state of being rigid.
Rigidulous	(a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
Riglet	(n.) See Reglet.
Rigmarole	(a.) Consisting of rigmarole; frovolous; nonsensical; foolish.
Rigmarole	(n.) A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense.
Rigol	(n.) A circle; hence, a diadem.
Rigoll	(n.) A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.
Rigor	(n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
Rigor	(n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
Rigor	(n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
Rigor	(n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
Rigor	(n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
Rigor	(n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
Rigor	(n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
Rigor	(n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
Rigor	(n.) Violence; force; fury.
Rigorism	(n.) Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
Rigorism	(n.) Severity, as of style, or the like.
Rigorist	(n.) One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
Rigorous	(a.) Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
Rigorous	(a.) Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Rigorous	(a.) Violent.
Rigsdaler	(n.) A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.
Rig-Veda	() See Veda.
Riksdaler	(n.) A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.
Rile	(v. t.)To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
Rile	(v. t.)To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.
Riled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rile
Rilievo	(n.) Same as Relief, n., 5.
Riling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rile
Rill	(n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.
Rill	(n.) See Rille.
Rill	(v. i.) To run a small stream.
Rille	(n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
Rillet	(n.) A little rill.
Rily	(a.) Roily.
Rim	(v. t.)To furnish with a rim; to border.
Rim	(n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
Rim	(n.) The lower part of the abdomen.
Rima	(n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Rimae	(pl. ) of Rima
Rimau dahan	() The clouded tiger cat (Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Rimbase	(n.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.
Rime	(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Rime	(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Rime	(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
Rime	(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.
Rime	(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
Rime	(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Rimed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rime
Rimer	(n.) A rhymer; a versifier.
Rimer	(n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
Rimey	(v. t.)To compose in rhyme; to versify.
Riming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rime
Rimmed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rim
Rimmer	(n.) An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer.
Rimming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rim
Rimose	(a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
Rimose	(a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.
Rimosely	(adv.) In a rimose manner.
Rimosity	(n.) State of being rimose.
Rimous	(a.) Rimose.
Rimple	(v. t. & i.) To rumple; to wrinkle.
Rimple	(n.) A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.
Rimpled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rimple
Rimpling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rimple
Rimy	(a.) Abounding with rime; frosty.
Rind	(v. t.)To remove the rind of; to bark.
Rind	(n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.
Rinderpest	(n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
Rindle	(n.) A small water course or gutter.
Rindless	(a.) Destitute of a rind.
Rindy	(a.) Having a rind or skin.
Rine	(n.) See Rind.
Rined	(a.) Having a rind
Rinforzando	(a.) Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.
Ring	(v. t.)To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
Ring	(v. t.)To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
Ring	(v. t.)To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
Ring	(v. t.)To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
Ring	(v. t.)To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
Ring	(v. t.)To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
Ring	(n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
Ring	(n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
Ring	(n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
Ring	(n.) A circular group of persons.
Ring	(n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
Ring	(n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
Ring	(n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
Ring	(n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.
Ring	(n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
Ring	(n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
Ring	(n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
Ring	(n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.
Ring	(n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
Ring	(v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
Ring	(v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
Ring	(v. i.) To practice making music with bells.
Ring	(v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.
Ring	(v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
Ring	(v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
Ringbill	(n.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.
Ringbird	(n.) The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.
Ringbolt	(n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.
Ringbone	(n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones.
Ringdove	(n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.
Ringed	(a.) Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
Ringed	(a.) Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.
Ringed	(imp. & p. p.) of Ring
Ringent	(a.) Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.
Ringer	(n.) A crowbar.
Ringer	(n.) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
Ringer	(n.) One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
Ringhead	(n.) An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
Ringing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring
Ringing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring
Ringing	() a & n. from Ring, v.
Ringingly	(adv.) In a ringing manner.
Ringleader	(n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.
Ringleader	(n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
Ringlestone	(n.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover.
Ringlet	(n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
Ringlet	(n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
Ringman	(n.) The ring finger.
Ringmaster	(n.) One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
Ringmen	(pl. ) of Ringman
Ringneck	(n.) Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are com
Ringneck	(n.) The ring-necked duck.
Ring-necked	(a.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
Ringsail	(n.) See Ringtail, 2.
Ringstraked	(a.) Ring-streaked.
Ring-streaked	(a.) Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.
Ringtail	(n.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.
Ringtail	(n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Ring-tailed	(a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
Ringtoss	(n.) A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
Ringworm	(n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distingu
Rink	(n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.
Rink	(n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.
Rinker	(n.) One who skates at a rink.
Rinking	(n.) Skating in a rink.
Rinse	(v. t.)To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.
Rinse	(v. t.)To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
Rinse	(n.) The act of rinsing.
Rinsed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rinse
Rinser	(n.) One who, or that which, rinses.
Rinsing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rinse
Riot	(v. t.)To spend or pass in riot.
Riot	(n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
Riot	(n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Riot	(n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
Riot	(v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
Riot	(v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
Rioted	(imp. & p. p.) of Riot
Rioter	(n.) One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3.
Rioter	(n.) One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer.
Rioting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riot
Riotise	(n.) Excess; tumult; revelry.
Riotour	(n.) A rioter.
Riotous	(a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
Riotous	(a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
Riotry	(n.) The act or practice of rioting; riot.
Rip	(v. t.)To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open,
Rip	(v. t.)To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
Rip	(v. t.)To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
Rip	(v. t.)To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
Rip	(n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Rip	(n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
Rip	(n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
Rip	(n.) A wicker fish basket.
Riparian	(a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.
Riparious	(a.) Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
Ripe	(superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
Ripe	(superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
Ripe	(superl.) Intoxicated.
Ripe	(superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
Ripe	(superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
Ripe	(superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
Ripe	(superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
Ripe	(v. t.)To mature; to ripen.
Ripe	(n.) The bank of a river.
Ripe	(v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
Ripely	(adv.) Maturely; at the fit time.
Ripen	(v. t.)To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
Ripen	(v. t.)To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
Ripen	(v. i.) To approach or come to perfection.
Ripen	(v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
Ripened	(imp. & p. p.) of Ripen
Ripeness	(n.) The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.
Ripening	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripen
Ripidolite	(n.) A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore.
Ripienist	(n.) A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.
Ripieno	(a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.
Ripler	(n.) Alt. of Ripper
Ripost	(n.) A quick and sharp refort; a repartee.
Ripost	(n.) In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.
Ripped	(imp. & p. p.) of Rip
Ripper	(n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Ripper	(n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.
Ripper	(n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
Ripper	(n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
Ripping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rip
Ripple	(v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
Ripple	(v. t.)Hence, to scratch or tear.
Ripple	(v. t.)To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.
Ripple	(v. t.)To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
Ripple	(n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
Ripple	(n.) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.
Ripple	(n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
Ripple	(n.) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.
Ripple	(v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.
Ripple	(v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
Rippled	(imp. & p. p.) of Ripple
Ripple-marked	(a.) Having ripple marks.
Ripplet	(n.) A small ripple.
Rippling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripple
Ripplingly	(adv.) In a rippling manner.
Ripply	(a.) Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.
Riprap	(v. t.)To form a riprap in or upon.
Riprap	(n.) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.
Riprapped	(imp. & p. p.) of Riprap
Riprapping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riprap
Ripsaw	(v. t.)A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw.
Riptowel	(n.) A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.
Ris	(n.) A bough or branch; a twig.
Rise	(v.) In various figurative senses.
Rise	(v.) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.
Rise	(v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
Rise	(v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
Rise	(v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
Rise	(v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
Rise	(v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
Rise	(v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.
Rise	(v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
Rise	(v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
Rise	(v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
Rise	(v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
Rise	(v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.
Rise	(v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price.
Rise	(v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
Rise	(v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
Rise	(v.) To come; to offer itself.
Rise	(v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
Rise	(v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
Rise	(v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising.
Rise	(v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
Rise	(v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.
Rise	(v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.
Rise	(v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.
Rise	(v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
Rise	(v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically
Rise	(v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
Rise	(v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.
Rise	(v.) To retire; to give up a siege.
Rise	(v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.
Rise	(v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Rise	(v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
Rise	(v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
Rise	(n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.
Rise	(n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
Rise	(n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.
Rise	(n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
Rise	(n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
Rise	(n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.
Rise	(n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen.
Rise	(n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.
Rise	(n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
Risen	(p. p. & a.) Obs. imp. pl. of Rise.
Risen	(p. p.) of Rise
Risen	() p. p. & a. from Rise.
Riser	(n.) A feed head. See under Feed, n.
Riser	(n.) A shaft excavated from below upward.
Riser	(n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.
Riser	(n.) One who rises; as, an early riser.
Riser	(n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread.
Rish	(n.) A rush (the plant).
Risibility	(n.) The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species.
Risible	(a.) Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing.
Risible	(a.) Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.
Risible	(a.) Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles.
Rising	(a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.
Rising	(a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.
Rising	(a.) Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.
Rising	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rise
Rising	(n.) That which rises; a tumor; a boil.
Rising	(n.) The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
Rising	(prep.) More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age.
Risk	(n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
Risk	(n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
Risk	(n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
Risk	(n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.
Risked	(imp. & p. p.) of Risk
Risker	(n.) One who risks or hazards.
Riskful	(a.) Risky.
Risking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Risk
Risky	(a.) Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.
Risorial	(a.) Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.
Risotto	(n.) A kind of pottage.
Risse	() imp. of Rise.
Rissoid	(n.) Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water.
Rissole	(n.) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.
Rist	() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.
Rit	() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth.
Ritardando	(a.) Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.
Rite	(n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.
Ritenuto	(a.) Held back; holding back; ritardando.
Ritornelle	(n.) Alt. of Ritornello
Ritornello	(n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude.
Ritornello	(n.) A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song.
Ritratto	(n.) A picture.
Ritual	(a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.
Ritual	(n.) A book containing the rites to be observed.
Ritual	(n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.
Ritual	(n.) Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.
Ritualism	(n.) A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
Ritualism	(n.) Specifically ::(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharisti
Ritualist	(n.) One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
Ritualistic	(a.) Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
Ritually	(adv.) By rites, or by a particular rite.
Rivage	(n.) A bank, shore, or coast.
Rivage	(n.) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
Rival	(a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
Rival	(v. t.)To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.
Rival	(v. t.)To strive to equal or exel; to emulate.
Rival	(n.) A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
Rival	(n.) One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown.
Rival	(v. i.) To be in rivalry.
Rivaled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rival
Rivaless	(n.) A female rival.
Rivaling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rival
Rivality	(n.) Equality, as of right or rank.
Rivality	(n.) Rivalry; competition.
Rivalled	() of Rival
Rivalling	() of Rival
Rivalries	(pl. ) of Rivalry
Rivalry	(n.) The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition.
Rivalship	(n.) Rivalry.
Rive	(v. t.)To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.
Rive	(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Rive	(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.
Rived	(imp.) of Rive
Rived	(p. p.) of Rive
Rivel	(v. t.)To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.
Rivel	(n.) A wrinkle; a rimple.
Riveled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rivel
Riveling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rivel
Riven	() of Rive
Riven	() p. p. & a. from Rive.
River	(n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
River	(n.) Fig.
River	(n.) One who rives or splits.
River	(v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
Rivered	(a.) Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
Riveret	(n.) A rivulet.
Riverhood	(n.) The quality or state of being a river.
Riverling	(n.) A rivulet.
Riverside	(n.) The side or bank of a river.
Rivery	(a.) Having rivers; as, a rivery country.
Rivet	(v. t.)Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
Rivet	(v. t.)To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
Rivet	(v. t.)To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.
Rivet	(n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at bot
Riveted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rivet
Riveter	(n.) One who rivets.
Riveting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rivet
Riveting	(n.) The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.
Riveting	(n.) The whole set of rivets, collectively.
Riving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rive
Rivose	(a.) Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.
Rivulet	(n.) A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
Rixation	(n.) A brawl or quarrel.
Rixatrix	(n.) A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold.
Rixdaler	(n.) A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00.
Rix-dollar	(n.) A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler
Rizzar	(v. t.)To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock.
Roach	(v. t.)To cause to arch.
Roach	(v. t.)To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
Roach	(n.) A cockroach.
Roach	(n.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
Roach	(n.) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
Roach	(n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
Roach	(n.) The redfin, or shiner.
Roach-backed	(a.) Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.
Road	(n.) A journey, or stage of a journey.
Road	(n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
Road	(n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
Road	(n.) An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
Roadbed	(n.) In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
Roadless	(a.) Destitute of roads.
Roadmaker	(n.) One who makes roads.
Roadside	(n.) Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
Roadstead	(n.) An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4.
Roadster	(n.) A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track.
Roadster	(n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
Roadster	(n.) A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads.
Roadster	(n.) A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country.
Roadster	(n.) One who drives much; a coach driver.
Roadway	(n.) A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.
Roam	(v. t.)To range or wander over.
Roam	(n.) The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.
Roam	(v. i.) To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
Roamed	(imp. & p. p.) of Roam
Roamer	(n.) One who roams; a wanderer.
Roaming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roam
Roan	(a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
Roan	(a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
Roan	(n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
Roan	(n.) A roan horse.
Roan	(n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
Roar	(v. t.)To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
Roar	(n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
Roar	(n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
Roar	(n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
Roar	(n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
Roar	(n.) The sound of roaring.
Roar	(v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
Roar	(v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
Roar	(v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
Roar	(v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
Roar	(v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
Roar	(v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
Roar	(v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
Roared	(imp. & p. p.) of Roar
Roarer	(n.) A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2.
Roarer	(n.) A riotous fellow; a roaring boy.
Roarer	(n.) One who, or that which, roars.
Roarer	(n.) The barn owl.
Roaring:	(p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Roar
Roaring	(n.) A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.
Roaring	(n.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.
Roaringly	(adv.) In a roaring manner.
Roast	(a.) Roasted; as, roast beef.
Roast	(v. t.)Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
Roast	(v. t.)To banter severely.
Roast	(v. t.)To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
Roast	(v. t.)To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes.
Roast	(v. t.)To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
Roast	(v. t.)To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
Roast	(n.) That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted.
Roast	(v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
Roast	(v. i.) To undergo the process of being roasted.
Roasted	(imp. & p. p.) of Roast
Roaster	(n.) A contrivance for roasting.
Roaster	(n.) A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.
Roaster	(n.) One who roasts meat.
Roasting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roast
Roasting	() a. & n., from Roast, v.
Rob	(v. t.)To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.
Rob	(v. t.)To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
Rob	(v. t.)To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.
Rob	(n.) The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
Rob	(v. i.) To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.
Roband	(n.) See Roperand.
Robbed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rob
Robber	(n.) One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.
Robberies	(pl. ) of Robbery
Robbery	(n.) The act or practice of robbing; theft.
Robbery	(n.) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.
Robbin	(n.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds.
Robbin	(n.) See Ropeband.
Robbing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rob
Robe	(v. t.)A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.
Robe	(v. t.)An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.
Robe	(v. t.)To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.
Robed	(imp. & p. p.) of Robe
Robe-de-chambre	(n.) A dressing gown, or morning gown.
Roberdsman	(n.) Alt. of Robertsman
Robert	(n.) See Herb Robert, under Herb.
Robertsman	(n.) A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.
Robin Goodfellow	() A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck.
Robin	(n.) A small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.
Robin	(n.) An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.
Robin	(n.) Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See Indian robin, below.
Robin	(n.) Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (Petroica mullticolor).
Robinet	(n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
Robinet	(n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
Robinet	(n.) The European robin.
Robing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Robe
Robing	(n.) The act of putting on a robe.
Robinia	(n.) A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).
Roborant	(a.) Strengthening.
Roborant	(n.) A strengthening medicine; a tonic.
Roborate	(v. t.)To give strength or support to; to confirm.
Roboration	(n.) The act of strengthening.
Roborean	(a.) Alt. of Roboreous
Roboreous	(a.) Made of oak.
Robust	(a.) Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
Robust	(a.) Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
Robust	(a.) Violent; rough; rude.
Robustious	(a.) Robust.
Robustly	(adv.) In a robust manner.
Robustness	(n.) The quality or state of being robust.
Roc	(n.) A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology.
Rocambole	(n.) A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and A. Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.
Roccellic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the oxalic series found in archil (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance C17H32O4.
Roccellin	(n.) A red dyestuff, used as a substitute for cochineal, archil, etc. It consists of the sodium salt of a complex azo derivative of naphtol.
Roche alum	() A kind of alum occuring in small fragments; -- so called from Rocca, in Syria, whence alum is said to have been obtained; -- also called rock alum.
Roche moutonnee	() See Sheepback.
Roche	(n.) Rock.
Rochelime	(n.) Lime in the lump after it is burned; quicklime.
Rochelle	(n.) A seaport town in France.
Rochet	(n.) A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Rochet	(n.) A linen garment resembling the surplise, but with narrower sleeves, also without sleeves, worn by bishops, and by some other ecclesiastical dignitaries, in certain religious ceremonies.
Rochet	(n.) The red gurnard, or gurnet. See Gurnard.
Roching cask	() A tank in which alum is crystallized from a solution.
Rock shaft	() A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way sha
Rock staff	(v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
Rock	(v. t.)To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
Rock	(v. t.)To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
Rock	(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
Rock	(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
Rock	(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
Rock	(n.) Fig.
Rock	(n.) See Roc.
Rock	(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
Rock	(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
Rock	(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
Rock	(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
Rockaway	() Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a
Rocked	(imp. & p. p.) of Rock
Rockelay	(n.) Alt. of Rocklay
Rocker	(n.) A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
Rocker	(n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
Rocker	(n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
Rocker	(n.) Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
Rocker	(n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
Rocker	(n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
Rocker	(n.) Same as Rock shaft.
Rockered	(a.) Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.
Rockery	(n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.
Rocket	(n.) A blunt lance head used in the joust.
Rocket	(n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
Rocket	(n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force ari
Rocket	(n.) Damewort.
Rocket	(n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.
Rocket	(v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.
Rocketed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rocket
Rocketer	(n.) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket.
Rocketing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rocket
Rockfish	(n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
Rockfish	(n.) Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
Rockfish	(n.) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
Rockfish	(n.) The striped bass. See Bass.
Rockiness	(n.) The state or quality of being rocky.
Rocking	(a.) Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking.
Rocking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rock
Rocking-chair	(n.) A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
Rocking-horse	(n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride.
Rocking-stone	(n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.
Rocklay	(n.) See Rokelay.
Rockless	(a.) Being without rocks.
Rockling	(n.) Any species of small marine fishes of the genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.
Rockrose	(n.) A name given to any species of the genus Helianthemum, low shrubs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense.
Rocksucker	(n.) A lamprey.
Rockweed	(n.) Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.
Rockwood	(n.) Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood.
Rockwork	(n.) A rockery.
Rockwork	(n.) Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
Rocky	(a.) Fig.
Rocky	(a.) Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore.
Rocky	(a.) Like a rock; as, the rocky orb of a shield.
Rocoa	(n.) The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See Annoto.
Rococo	(a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
Rococo	(n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Rod	(n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
Rod	(n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Rod	(n.) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
Rod	(n.) A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
Rod	(n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
Rod	(n.) An instrument for measuring.
Rod	(n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
Roddy	(a.) Full of rods or twigs.
Roddy	(a.) Ruddy.
Rode	(imp.) of Ride
Rode	() imp. of Ride.
Rode	(n.) Redness; complexion.
Rode	(n.) See Rood, the cross.
Rodent	(v. t.)Gnawing.
Rodent	(v. t.)Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
Rodent	(v. t.)Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
Rodent	(n.) One of the Rodentia.
Rodentia	(a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
Rodeo	(n.) A round-up. See Round-up.
Rodge	(n.) The gadwall.
Rodomel	(n.) Juice of roses mixed with honey.
Rodomont	(a.) Bragging; vainly boasting.
Rodomont	(n.) A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio.
Rodomontade	(n.) Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
Rodomontade	(v. i.) To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
Rodomontadist	(n.) One who boasts.
Rodomontado	(n.) Rodomontade.
Rodomontador	(n.) A rodomontadist.
Rodsman	(n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party.
Rodsmen	(pl. ) of Rodsman
Rody	(a.) Ruddy.
Roe	(n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
Roe	(n.) A roebuck. See Roebuck.
Roe	(n.) The female of any species of deer.
Roe	(n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.
Roebuck	(n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds.
Roed	(a.) Filled with roe.
Roedeer	(n.) The roebuck.
Roestone	(n.) Same as Oolite.
Rogation	(n.) Litany; supplication.
Rogation	(n.) The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree.
Rogatory	(a.) Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission.
Rogue	(v. t.)To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
Rogue	(v. t.)To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
Rogue	(n.) A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
Rogue	(n.) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Rogue	(n.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
Rogue	(n.) An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
Rogue	(n.) One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
Rogue	(v. i.) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
Roguery	(n.) Arch tricks; mischievousness.
Roguery	(n.) The life of a vargant.
Roguery	(n.) The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
Rogueship	(n.) The quality or state of being a rogue.
Roguish	(a.) Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.
Roguish	(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.
Roguish	(a.) Vagrant.
Roguy	(a.) Roguish.
Rohob	(n.) An inspissated juice. See Rob.
Roial	(a.) Royal.
Roil	(v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
Roil	(v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
Roil	(v. i.) To romp.
Roil	(v. i.) To wander; to roam.
Roiled	(imp. & p. p.) of Roil
Roiling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roil
Roily	(a.) Turbid; as, roily water.
Roin	(v. t.)See Royne.
Roin	(n.) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.
Roinish	(a.) See Roynish.
Roint	(interj.) See Aroint.
Roist	(v. i.) See Roister.
Roister	(n.) See Roisterer.
Roister	(v. i.) To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.
Roisterer	(n.) A blustering, turbulent fellow.
Roisterly	(a.) Blustering; violent.
Roisterly	(adv.) In a roistering manner.
Rokambole	(n.) See Rocambole.
Roke	(n.) A vein of ore.
Roke	(n.) Mist; smoke; damp
Rokeage	(n.) Alt. of Rokee
Rokee	(n.) Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage.
Rokelay	(n.) A short cloak.
Roky	(a.) Misty; foggy; cloudy.
Role	(n.) A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.
Roll	(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
Roll	(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
Roll	(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
Roll	(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
Roll	(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
Roll	(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
Roll	(v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
Roll	(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
Roll	(v.) Part; office; duty; role.
Roll	(v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
Roll	(v.) That which rolls; a roller.
Roll	(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
Roll	(v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
Roll	(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
Roll	(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
Roll	(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
Roll	(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
Roll	(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
Roll	(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
Roll	(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
Roll	(n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
Roll	(n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
Roll	(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
Roll	(n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
Roll	(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
Roll	(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
Roll	(v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
Roll	(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
Roll	(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
Roll	(v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
Roll	(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
Roll	(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
Roll	(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
Roll	(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
Roll	(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
Roll	(v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.
Rollable	(a.) Capable of being rolled.
Rolled	(imp. & p. p.) of Roll
Roller	(n.) A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.
Roller	(n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them.
Roller	(n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man.
Roller	(n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel.
Roller	(n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.
Roller	(n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see Tortrix.
Roller	(n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
Roller	(n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae.
Roller	(n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather.
Roller	(n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts.
Rolley	(n.) A small wagon used for the underground work of a mine.
Rollic	(v. i.) To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking.
Rollicked	(imp. & p. p.) of Rollic
Rollicking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rollic
Rolling	(a.) Having gradual, rounded undulations of surface; as, a rolling country; rolling land.
Rolling	(a.) Moving on wheels or rollers, or as if on wheels or rollers; as, a rolling chair.
Rolling	(a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball.
Rolling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roll
Rolling-pin	(n.) A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.
Rollway	(n.) A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.
Rolly-poly	(a.) Shaped like a rolly-poly; short and stout.
Rolly-poly	(n.) A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed.
Rolly-pooly	(n.) A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins.
Roly-poly	(n. & a.) Rolly-poly.
Romage	(n. & v.) .See Rummage.
Romaic	(a.) Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
Romaic	(n.) The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.
Roman	(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
Roman	(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
Roman	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
Roman	(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
Roman	(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
Roman	(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Romance	(a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
Romance	(n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
Romance	(n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
Romance	(n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one
Romance	(n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
Romance	(n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
Romance	(v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
Romanced	(imp. & p. p.) of Romance
Romancer	(n.) One who romances.
Romancing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romance
Romancist	(n.) A romancer.
Romancy	(a.) Romantic.
Romanesque	(a.) Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful.
Romanesque	(a.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.
Romanesque	(n.) Romanesque style.
Romanic	(n.) Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc.
Romanic	(n.) Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.
Romanic	(n.) Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.
Romanish	(a.) Pertaining to Romanism.
Romanism	(n.) The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.
Romanist	(n.) One who adheres to Romanism.
Romanize	(v. t.)To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.
Romanize	(v. t.)To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms.
Romanize	(v. i.) To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.
Romanize	(v. i.) To use Latin words and idioms.
Romanized	(imp. & p. p.) of Romanize
Romanizer	(n.) One who Romanizes.
Romanizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romanize
Romansch	(n.) The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.
Romant	(n.) A romaunt.
Romantic	(a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.
Romantic	(a.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
Romantic	(a.) Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
Romantic	(a.) Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.
Romantical	(a.) Romantic.
Romanticaly	(adv.) In a romantic manner.
Romanticism	(n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to
Romanticist	(n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
Romanticly	(adv.) Romantically.
Romanticness	(n.) The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness.
Romany	(n.) A gypsy.
Romany	(n.) The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies.
Romanza	(n.) See Romance, 5.
Romaunt	(n.) A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose."
Romble	(v.& n.) Rumble.
Rombowline	(n.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
Rome penny	() Alt. of Rome scot
Rome scot	() See Peter pence, under Peter.
Romeine	(n.) Alt. of Romeite
Romeite	(n.) A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium.
Romekin	(n.) A drinking cup.
Romeward	(a.) Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.
Romeward	(adv.) Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.
Romic	(n.) A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the palaeotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler.
Romish	(a.) Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.
Romist	(n.) A Roman Catholic.
Romp	(n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
Romp	(n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.
Romp	(v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
Romped	(imp. & p. p.) of Romp
Romping	(a.) Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.
Romping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romp
Rompingly	(adv.) In a romping manner.
Rompish	(a.) Given to rude play; inclined to romp.
Rompu	(a.) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.
Roncador	(n.) Any one of several species of California sciaenoid food fishes, especially Roncador Stearnsi, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador (Corvina, / Johnius, saturna).
Ronchil	(n.) An American marine food fish (Bathymaster signatus) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish.
Ronco	(n.) See Croaker, n., 2. (a).
Rondache	(n.) A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.
Ronde	(n.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.
Rondeau	(n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.
Rondeau	(n.) See Rondo, 1.
Rondel	(n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
Rondel	(n.) Same as Rondeau.
Rondel	(n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
Rondeletia	(n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.
Rondle	(n.) A rondeau.
Rondle	(n.) A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
Rondo	(n.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
Rondo	(n.) See Rondeau, 1.
Rondure	(n.) A round; a circle.
Rondure	(n.) Roundness; plumpness.
Rong	() imp. & p. p. of Ring.
Rong	(n.) Rung (of a ladder).
Rongeur	(n.) An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone.
Ronion	(n.) Alt. of Ronyon
Ronne	() obs. imp. pl.
Ronnen	() obs. p. p. of Renne, to run.
Ront	(n.) A runt.
Ronyon	(n.) A mangy or scabby creature.
Rood	(n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
Rood	(n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
Rood	(n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
Roodebok	(n.) The pallah.
Roody	(a.) Rank in growth.
Roof	(v. t.)To cover with a roof.
Roof	(v. t.)To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.
Roof	(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
Roof	(n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roo
Roof	(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
Roofed	(imp. & p. p.) of Roof
Roofer	(n.) One who puts on roofs.
Roofing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roof
Roofing	(n.) Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter.
Roofing	(n.) The act of covering with a roof.
Roofing	(n.) The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof.
Roofing	(n.) The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage.
Roofless	(a.) Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
Roofless	(a.) Having no roof; as, a roofless house.
Rooflet	(n.) A small roof, covering, or shelter.
Rooftree	(n.) The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
Roofy	(a.) Having roofs.
Rook	(v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
Rook	(n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregari
Rook	(n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
Rook	(n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.
Rook	(n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
Rook	(v. i.) To squat; to ruck.
Rooked	(imp. & p. p.) of Rook
Rookeries	(pl. ) of Rookery
Rookery	(n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
Rookery	(n.) A brothel.
Rookery	(n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
Rookery	(n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
Rookery	(n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
Rooking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rook
Rooky	(a.) Misty; gloomy.
Room	(a.) Spacious; roomy.
Room	(n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
Room	(n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
Room	(n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.
Room	(n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
Room	(n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.
Room	(v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.
Roomage	(n.) Space; place; room.
Roomed	(imp. & p. p.) of Room
Roomer	(a.) At a greater distance; farther off.
Roomer	(n.) A lodger.
Roomful	(a.) Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.
Roomful	(n.) As much or many as a room will hold; as, a roomful of men.
Roomfuls	(pl. ) of Roomful
Roomily	(adv.) Spaciously.
Roominess	(n.) The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.
Rooming	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Room
Roomless	(a.) Being without room or rooms.
Roommate	(n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
Roomsome	(a.) Roomy.
Roomth	(n.) Room; space.
Roomthy	(a.) Roomy; spacious.
Roomy	(a.) Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.
Roon	(a. & n.) Vermilion red; red.
Roop	(n.) See Roup.
Roorbach	(n.) A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.
Roorback	(n.) Alt. of Roorbach
Roosa oil	() The East Indian name for grass oil. See under Grass.
Roost	(v. t.)See Roust, v. t.
Roost	(n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.
Roost	(n.) Roast.
Roost	(n.) The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch.
Roost	(v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Roost	(v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch.
Roostcock	(n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
Roosted	(imp. & p. p.) of Roost
Rooster	(n.) The male of the domestic fowl; a cock.
Roosting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roost
Root	(v. t.)To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth; to implant firmly; hence, to make deep or radical; to establish; -- used chiefly in the participle; as, rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
Root	(v. t.)To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away.
Root	(v. t.)To turn up or to dig out with the snout; as, the swine roots the earth.
Root	(n.) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
Root	(n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
Root	(n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the root crop.
Root	(n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity; thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
Root	(n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
Root	(n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
Root	(n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture an
Root	(n.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
Root	(n.) The lowest place, position, or part.
Root	(n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
Root	(n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
Root	(v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
Root	(v. i.) To be firmly fixed; to be established.
Root	(v. i.) To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
Root	(v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
Rootcap	(n.) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
Rooted	(a.) Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
Rooted	(imp. & p. p.) of Root
Rooter	(n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
Rootery	(n.) A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.
Rooting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Root
Rootless	(a.) Destitute of roots.
Rootlet	(n.) A radicle; a little root.
Rootstock	(n.) A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s/ems or flower stems from year to year; a rhizome.
Rooty	(a.) Full of roots; as, rooty ground.
Ropalic	(a.) See Rhopalic.
Rope	(v. t.)To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.
Rope	(v. t.)To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.
Rope	(v. t.)To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.
Rope	(v. t.)To lasso (a steer, horse).
Rope	(v. t.)To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.
Rope	(v. t.)To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.
Rope	(n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
Rope	(n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.
Rope	(n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.
Rope	(v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
Ropeband	(n.) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.
Roped	(imp. & p. p.) of Rope
Ropedancer	(n.) One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height.
Roper	(n.) A maker of ropes.
Roper	(n.) One fit to be hanged.
Roper	(n.) One who ropes goods; a packer.
Ropery	(n.) A place where ropes are made.
Ropery	(n.) Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.
Rope's-end	(v. t.)To punish with a rope's end.
Ropewalk	(a.) A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.
Ropewalker	(n.) A ropedancer.
Rope-yarn	(n.) the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.
Ropily	(adv.) In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.
Ropiness	(n.) Quality of being ropy; viscosity.
Roping	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rope
Ropish	(a.) Somewhat ropy.
Ropy	(a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
Roquelaure	(n.) A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century.
Roquet	(v. t.)To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.
Roquet	(v. i.) To hit another's ball with one's own.
Roral	(a.) Of or pertaining to dew; consisting of dew; dewy.
Roration	(n.) A falling of dew.
Roric	(a.) Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.
Rorid	(a.) Dewy; bedewed.
Roriferous	(a.) generating or producing dew.
Rorifluent	(a.) Flowing with dew.
Rorqual	(n.) A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback.
Rorulent	(a.) Full of, or abounding in, dew.
Rorulent	(a.) Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew.
Rory	(a.) Dewy.
Rosaceous	(a.) Like a rose in shape or appearance; as, a rosaceous corolla.
Rosaceous	(a.) Of a pure purpish pink color.
Rosaceous	(a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
Rosacic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red precipitates of urine. See Uric.
Rosalgar	(n.) realgar.
Rosalia	(n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.
Rosaniline	(n.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, anili
Rosarian	(n.) A cultivator of roses.
Rosaries	(pl. ) of Rosary
Rosary	(n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
Rosary	(n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
Rosary	(n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
Rosary	(n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
Roscid	(a.) Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.
Roscoelite	(n.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
Rose	(imp.) of Rise
Rose water	() Water tinctured with roses by distillation.
Rose	(v. t.)To perfume, as with roses.
Rose	(v. t.)To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.
Rose	() imp. of Rise.
Rose	(n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
Rose	(n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
Rose	(n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.
Rose	(n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
Rose	(n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.
Rose	(n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
Rose	(n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
Rose	(n.) The erysipelas.
Roseal	(a.) resembling a rose in smell or color.
Roseate	(a.) Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
Roseate	(a.) resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips.
Rosebay	(n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.
Rosebay	(n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron.
Rosebay	(n.) the oleander.
Rosebud	(n.) The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.
Rosebush	(n.) The bush or shrub which bears roses.
Rose-colored	(a.) Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.
Rose-colored	(a.) Uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing; alluring; as, rose-colored anticipations.
Rose-cut	(a.) Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.
Rosedrop	(n.) A kind of earring.
Rosedrop	(n.) A lozenge having a rose flavor.
Rosedrop	(n.) A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.
Rosefinch	(n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.
Rosefish	(n.) A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.
Rosehead	(n.) A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.
Rosehead	(n.) See Rose, n., 4.
Roseine	(n.) See Magenta.
Roselite	(n.) A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.
Rosella	(n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
Roselle	(n.) a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.
Rosemaloes	(n.) The liquid storax of the East Indian Liquidambar orientalis.
Rosemary	(n.) A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cooker
Rosen	(a.) Consisting of roses; rosy.
Rosenmuller's organ	() The parovarium.
Roseo-	() A prefix (also used adjectively) signifying rose-red; specifically used to designate certain rose-red compounds (called roseo-cobaltic compounds) of cobalt with ammonia. Cf. Luteo-.
Roseola	(n.) A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called als
Rose-pink	(a.) Disposed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental.
Rose-pink	(a.) Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.
Roser	(n.) A rosier; a rosebush.
Rose-red	(a.) Red as a rose; specifically (Zool.), of a pure purplish red color.
Rose-rial	(n.) A name of several English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.
Roseroot	(n.) A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; -- so called because the roots have the odor of roses.
Rosery	(n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1.
Roset	(n.) A red color used by painters.
Ro-setta stone	() A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
Rosetta wood	() An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork.
Rosette	(n.) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
Rosette	(n.) A red color. See Roset.
Rosette	(n.) A rose burner. See under Rose.
Rosette	(n.) An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
Rosette	(n.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
Rosette	(n.) Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.
Rose-water	(a.) Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental.
Rosewood	(n.) A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
Roseworm	(n.) The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially Cacaecia rosaceana, which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.
Rosewort	(n.) Any plant nearly related to the rose.
Rosewort	(n.) Roseroot.
Rosicrucian	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
Rosicrucian	(n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
Rosied	(a.) Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.
Rosier	(n.) A rosebush; roses, collectively.
Rosily	(adv.) In a rosy manner.
Rosin	(v. t.)To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Rosin	(n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
Rosiness	(n.) The quality of being rosy.
Rosinweed	(n.) A name given in California to various composite plants which secrete resins or have a resinous smell.
Rosinweed	(n.) The compass plant. See under Compass.
Rosiny	(a.) like rosin, or having its qualities.
Rosland	(n.) heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
Rosmarine	(n.) A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means of its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.
Rosmarine	(n.) Dew from the sea; sea dew.
Rosmarine	(n.) Rosemary.
Rosolic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with ba
Ross	(v. t.)To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.
Ross	(n.) The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.
Rossel current	() A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.
Rossel	(n.) Light land; rosland.
Rosselly	(a.) Loose; light.
Rost	(n.) See Roust.
Rostel	(n.) same as Rostellum.
Rostella	(pl. ) of Rostellum
Rostellar	(a.) Pertaining to a rostellum.
Rostellate	(a.) Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.
Rostelliform	(a.) Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.
Rostellum	(n.) A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.
Roster	(n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.
Rostra	(pl. ) of Rostrum
Rostra	(n. pl.) See Rostrum, 2.
Rostral	(a.) Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at Rome, or their decorations.
Rostrate	(a.) Alt. of Rostrated
Rostrated	(a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
Rostrated	(a.) Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
Rostrifera	(n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.
Rostriform	(a.) Having the form of a beak.
Rostrula	(pl. ) of Rostrulum
Rostrulum	(n.) A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.
Rostrum	(n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
Rostrum	(n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
Rostrum	(n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
Rostrum	(n.) Same as Rostellum.
Rostrum	(n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
Rostrum	(n.) The beak or head of a ship.
Rostrum	(n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
Rostrum	(n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erec
Rostrum	(n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
Rostrum	(n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
Rostrums	(pl. ) of Rostrum
Rosulate	(a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
Rosy	(superl.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
Rot	(v. t.)To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rot	(v. t.)To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
Rot	(n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
Rot	(n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Rot	(n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
Rot	(v. i.) Figuratively
Rot	(v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a na
Rota	(n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
Rota	(n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
Rota	(n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
Rotacism	(n.) See Rhotacism.
Rotal	(a.) Relating to wheels or to rotary motion; rotary.
Rotalite	(n.) Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
Rotary	(a.) Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
Rotascope	(n.) Same as Gyroscope, 1.
Rotate	(a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
Rotate	(v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
Rotate	(v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
Rotate	(v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
Rotate	(v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
Rotated	(a.) Turned round, as a wheel; also, wheel-shaped; rotate.
Rotated	(imp. & p. p.) of Rotate
Rotating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rotate
Rotation	(a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity.
Rotation	(n.) Any return or succesion in a series.
Rotation	(n.) The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion round the
Rotative	(a.) turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational.
Rotator	(n.) A revolving reverberatory furnace.
Rotator	(n.) that which gives a rotary or rolling motion, as a muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis.
Rotatoria	(n. pl.) Same as Rotifera.
Rotatory	(a.) Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles.
Rotatory	(a.) Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.
Rotatory	(a.) Turning as on an axis; rotary.
Rotatory	(n.) A rotifer.
Rotche	(n.) A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.
Rotchet	(n.) The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
Rote	(v. t.)To learn or repeat by rote.
Rote	(n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
Rote	(n.) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
Rote	(n.) A root.
Rote	(n.) The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
Rote	(v. i.) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
Roted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rote
Rotella	(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.
Rotgut	(n.) Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious.
Rotgut	(n.) Bad small beer.
Rother	(a.) Bovine.
Rother	(n.) A bovine beast.
Rother	(n.) A rudder.
Rotifer	(n.) One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.
Rotifera	(n.) An order of minute worms which usually have one or two groups of vibrating cilia on the head, which, when in motion, often give an appearance of rapidly revolving wheels. The species are very numerous in fresh waters, and are very diversified in form
Rotiform	(a.) Same as Rotate.
Rotiform	(a.) Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages.
Roting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rote
Rotta	(n.) See Rota.
Rotted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rot
Rotten	(a.) Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
Rotten	(a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.
Rotten	(a.) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
Rotting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rot
Rotula	(n.) The patella, or kneepan.
Rotular	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.
Rotund	(a.) Hence, complete; entire.
Rotund	(a.) Orbicular, or nearly so.
Rotund	(a.) Round; circular; spherical.
Rotund	(n.) A rotunda.
Rotunda	(a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
Rotundate	(a.) Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners.
Rotundifolious	(a.) Having round leaves.
Rotundity	(n.) Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness.
Rotundity	(n.) The state or quality of being rotu/; roundness; sphericity; circularity.
Rotundness	(n.) Roundness; rotundity.
Rotundo	(n.) See Rotunda.
Roturer	(n.) A roturier.
Roturier	(n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.
Roty	(v. t.)To make rotten.
Rouble	(n.) A coin. See Ruble.
Rouche	(n.) See Ruche.
Roue	(n.) One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.
Rouet	(n.) A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.
Rouge dragon	(n.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
Rouge	(a.) red.
Rouge	(v. t.)To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.
Rouge	(n.) A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.
Rouge	(n.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
Rouge	(v. i.) To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
Rougecroix	(n.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.
Rouged	(imp. & p. p.) of Rouge
Rough	(v. t.)To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
Rough	(v. t.)To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.
Rough	(v. t.)To render rough; to roughen.
Rough	(adv.) In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Rough	(n.) A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
Rough	(n.) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
Rough	(n.) Boisterous weather.
Rough	(n.) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
Rough	(n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
Rough	(n.) Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
Rough	(n.) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
Rough	(n.) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.
Rough	(n.) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
Rough	(n.) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.
Rough	(n.) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.
Rough	(n.) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
Rough	(n.) Produced offhand.
Rough	(n.) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.
Rough	(n.) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.
Roughcast	(v. t.)To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
Roughcast	(v. t.)To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.
Roughcast	(v. t.)To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building.
Roughcast	(n.) A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings.
Roughcast	(n.) A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.
Roughcaster	(n.) One who roughcasts.
Roughdraw	(v. t.)To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.
Roughdry	(v. t.)in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
Roughen	(v. t.)To make rough.
Roughen	(v. i.) To grow or become rough.
Roughened	(imp. & p. p.) of Roughen
Roughening	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roughen
Rough-footed	(a.) Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove.
Rough-grained	(a.) Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.
Roughhead	(n.) The redfin.
Roughhew	(v. t.)To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape approximately and rudely; to roughcast.
Roughhew	(v. t.)To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.
Roughhewer	(n.) One who roughhews.
Roughhewn	(a.) Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.
Roughhewn	(a.) Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained.
Roughing-in	(n.) The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
Roughings	(n. pl.) Rowen.
Roughish	(a.) Somewhat rough.
Roughleg	(n.) Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard.
Rough-legged	(a.) Having the legs covered with feathers; -- said of a bird.
Roughly	(adv.) In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.
Roughness	(n.) The quality or state of being rough.
Roughrider	(n.) One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.
Roughscuff	(n.) A rough, coarse fellow; collectively, the lowest class of the people; the rabble; the riffraff.
Roughsetter	(n.) A mason who builds rough stonework.
Roughshod	(a.) Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse.
Roughstrings	(n. pl.) Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.
Rought	() imp. of Reach.
Rought	() imp. of Reck, to care.
Roughtail	(n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidae; -- so called from their rough tails.
Roughte	() of Reck
Roughwork	(v. t.)To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish.
Roughwrought	(a.) Wrought in a rough, unfinished way; worked over coarsely.
Rouging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rouge
Rouk	(v. i.) See 5th Ruck, and Roke.
Roulade	(n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.
Rouleau	(n.) A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.
Rouleaus	(pl. ) of Rouleau
Rouleaux	(pl. ) of Rouleau
Roulette	(n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
Roulette	(n.) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
Roulette	(n.) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots.
Roulette	(n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid.
Rouly-pouly	(n.) See Rolly-pooly.
Roun	(v. i. & t.) Alt. of Rown
Rounce	(n.) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen.
Rounceval	(a.) Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes.
Rounceval	(n.) A giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also marrowfat.
Rouncy	(n.) A common hackney horse; a nag.
Round	(v. i. & t.) To whisper.
Round	(a.) Complete and consistent; fair; just; -- applied to conduct.
Round	(a.) Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style.
Round	(a.) Full; complete; not broken; not fractional; approximately in even units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.; -- said of numbers.
Round	(a.) Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills.
Round	(a.) Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; as, a round ball.
Round	(a.) Having the form of a cylinder; cylindrical; as, the barrel of a musket is round.
Round	(a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
Round	(a.) Not inconsiderable; large; hence, generous; free; as, a round price.
Round	(a.) Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; unqualified; not mincing; as, a round answer; a round oath.
Round	(a.) Uttered or emitted with a full tone; as, a round voice; a round note.
Round	(v. t.)To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion.
Round	(v. t.)To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn.
Round	(v. t.)To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.
Round	(v. t.)To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
Round	(v. t.)To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
Round	(adv.) By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
Round	(adv.) Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.
Round	(adv.) From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, -- that is, to change sides or opinions.
Round	(adv.) In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
Round	(adv.) On all sides; around.
Round	(adv.) Roundly; fully; vigorously.
Round	(adv.) Through a circle, as of friends or houses.
Round	(n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
Round	(n.) A circular dance.
Round	(n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman.
Round	(n.) A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
Round	(n.) A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
Round	(n.) A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures.
Round	(n.) A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
Round	(n.) A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
Round	(n.) A vessel filled, as for drinking.
Round	(n.) A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plur
Round	(n.) Ammunition for discharging a piece or pieces once; as, twenty rounds of ammunition were given out.
Round	(n.) An assembly; a group; a circle; as, a round of politicians.
Round	(n.) Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown].
Round	(n.) Rotation, as in office; succession.
Round	(n.) Same as Round of beef, below.
Round	(n.) See Roundtop.
Round	(n.) That which goes round a whole circle or company; as, a round of applause.
Round	(n.) The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair.
Round	(n.) The time during which prize fighters or boxers are in actual contest without an intermission, as prescribed by their rules; a bout.
Round	(prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass.
Round	(v. i.) To go or turn round; to wheel about.
Round	(v. i.) To go round, as a guard.
Round	(v. i.) To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
Roundabout	(a.) Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
Roundabout	(a.) Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
Roundabout	(n.) A dance performed in a circle.
Roundabout	(n.) A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.
Roundabout	(n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
Roundabout	(n.) A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
Roundaboutness	(n.) The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
Round-arm	(a.) Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
Round-backed	(a.) Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
Rounded	(a.) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
Rounded	(imp. & p. p.) of Round
Roundel	(a.) A bastion of a circular form.
Roundel	(a.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle.
Roundel	(a.) A rondelay.
Roundel	(a.) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Roundel	(a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
Roundelay	(n.) A dance in a circle.
Roundelay	(n.) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.
Roundelay	(n.) Anything having a round form; a roundel.
Roundelay	(n.) See Rondeau, and Rondel.
Rounder	(n.) A tool for making an edge or surface round.
Rounder	(n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
Rounder	(n.) One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
Roundfish	(n.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus quadrilateralis), less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
Roundfish	(n.) Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes.
Roundhead	(n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Roundheaded	(a.) Having a round head or top.
Roundhouse	(n.) A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.
Roundhouse	(n.) A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
Roundhouse	(n.) A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
Roundhouse	(n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
Rounding	(a.) Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
Rounding	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Round
Rounding	(n.) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
Rounding	(n.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
Roundish	(a.) Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.
Roundlet	(n.) A little circle.
Roundly	(adv.) Briskly; with speed.
Roundly	(adv.) Completely; vigorously; in earnest.
Roundly	(adv.) In a round form or manner.
Roundly	(adv.) Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply.
Roundly	(adv.) Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly.
Roundness	(n.) Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.
Roundness	(n.) Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.
Roundness	(n.) The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.
Roundridge	(v. t.)To form into round ridges by plowing.
Round-shouldered	(a.) Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
Roundsman	(n.) A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
Roundsmen	(pl. ) of Roundsman
Roundtop	(n.) A top; a platform at a masthead; -- so called because formerly round in shape.
Round-up	(n.) The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
Roundure	(n.) Roundness; a round or circle.
Roundworm	(n.) A nematoid worm.
Roundy	(a.) Round.
Roup	(v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.
Roup	(n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.
Roup	(n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.
Rousant	(a.) Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.
Rouse	(v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
Rouse	(v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase.
Rouse	(v.) To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions.
Rouse	(v.) To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate.
Rouse	(v.) To raise; to make erect.
Rouse	(v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.
Rouse	(n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
Rouse	(n.) A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
Rouse	(v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
Rouse	(v. i.) To be exited to thought or action from a state of indolence or inattention.
Rouse	(v. i.) To get or start up; to rise.
Roused	(imp. & p. p.) of Rouse
Rouser	(n.) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
Rouser	(n.) One who, or that which, rouses.
Rouser	(n.) Something very exciting or great.
Rousing	(a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
Rousing	(a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.
Rousing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rouse
Rousingly	(adv.) In a rousing manner.
Roussette	(n.) A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
Roussette	(n.) Any small shark of the genus Scyllium; -- called also dogfish. See Dogfish.
Roust	(v. t.)To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out.
Roust	(n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
Roustabout	(n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
Rout	(v. t.)To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
Rout	(v. t.)To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
Rout	(n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.
Rout	(n.) A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
Rout	(n.) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
Rout	(n.) A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
Rout	(n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
Rout	(n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
Rout	(v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
Rout	(v. i.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
Rout	(v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
Route	(n.) The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.
Routed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rout
Router	(n.) A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
Router	(n.) A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
Routhe	(n.) Ruth; sorrow.
Routinary	(a.) Involving, or pertaining to, routine; ordinary; customary.
Routine	(n.) A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.
Routine	(n.) Any regular course of action or procedure rigidly adhered to by the mere force of habit.
Routing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rout
Routinism	(n.) the practice of doing things with undiscriminating, mechanical regularity.
Routinist	(n.) One who habituated to a routine.
Routish	(a.) Uproarious; riotous.
Routously	(adv.) With that violation of law called a rout. See 5th Rout, 4.
Roux	(n.) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.
Rove	(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
Rove	(v. t.)To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
Rove	(v. t.)To draw through an eye or aperture.
Rove	(v. t.)To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
Rove	(v. t.)To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
Rove	(v. t.)To wander over or through.
Rove	(n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
Rove	(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
Rove	(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.
Rove	(v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
Rove	(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
Rove	(v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
Roved	(imp. & p. p.) of Rove
Rover	(v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
Rover	(v. i.) A sort of arrow.
Rover	(v. i.) Casual marks at uncertain distances.
Rover	(v. i.) Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
Rover	(v. i.) One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
Rover	(v. i.) One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
Roving	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rove
Roving	(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
Roving	(n.) The act of one who roves or wanders.
Roving	(n.) The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
Rovingly	(adv.) In a wandering manner.
Rovingness	(n.) The state of roving.
Row	(a. & adv.) Rough; stern; angry.
Row	(v. t.)To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
Row	(v. t.)To transport in a boat propelled with oars; as, to row the captain ashore in his barge.
Row	(n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
Row	(n.) A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
Row	(n.) The act of rowing; excursion in a rowboat.
Row	(v. i.) To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily.
Row	(v. i.) To use the oar; as, to row well.
Rowable	(a.) That may be rowed, or rowed upon.
Rowan tree	() A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of si
Rowan	(n.) Rowan tree.
Rowboat	(n.) A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.
Rowdies	(pl. ) of Rowdy
Rowdy	(n.) One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.
Rowdydow	(n.) Hubbub; uproar.
Rowdydowdy	(a.) Uproarious.
Rowdyish	(a.) Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.
Rowdyism	(n.) the conduct of a rowdy.
Rowed	(a.) Formed into a row, or rows; having a row, or rows; as, a twelve-rowed ear of corn.
Rowed	(imp. & p. p.) of Row
Rowel bone	() See rewel bone.
Rowel	(v. t.)To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
Rowel	(n.) A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
Rowel	(n.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
Rowel	(n.) The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
Roweled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rowel
Roweling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rowel
Rowelled	() of Rowel
Rowelling	() of Rowel
Rowen	(n.) A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.
Rowen	(n.) The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath.
Rower	(n.) One who rows with an oar.
Rowett	(n.) See Rowen.
Rowing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Row
Rowlock	(n.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing t
Rown	(v. i. & t.) see Roun.
Rown	(v. i. & t.) To whisper.
Rowport	(n.) An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.
Roxburgh	(n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.
Roy	(a.) Royal.
Roy	(n.) A king.
Royal	(a.) Kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state.
Royal	(a.) Noble; generous; magnificent; princely.
Royal	(a.) Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of Arts; the Royal Society.
Royal	(n.) A small mortar.
Royal	(n.) A small sail immediately above the topgallant sail.
Royal	(n.) An old English coin. See Rial.
Royal	(n.) One of the soldiers of the first regiment of foot of the British army, formerly called the Royals, and supposed to be the oldest regular corps in Europe; -- now called the Royal Scots.
Royal	(n.) One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag.
Royal	(n.) Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.
Royalet	(n.) A petty or powerless king.
Royalism	(n.) the principles or conduct of royalists.
Royalist	(n.) An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.
Royalization	(n.) The act of making loyal to a king.
Royalize	(v. t.)to make royal.
Royally	(adv.) In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king.
Royalties	(pl. ) of Royalty
Royalty	(n.) A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property.
Royalty	(n.) An emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning regalia.
Royalty	(n.) Domain; province; sphere.
Royalty	(n.) Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.
Royalty	(n.) Kingliness; spirit of regal authority.
Royalty	(n.) That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality.
Royalty	(n.) The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty.
Royalty	(n.) The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.
Royne	(v. t.)To bite; to gnaw.
Roynish	(a.) Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome.
Royster	(n.) Alt. of Roysterer
Roysterer	(n.) same as Roister, Roisterer.
Royston crow	() See Hooded crow, under Hooded.
Roytelet	(n.) A little king.
Roytish	(a.) Wild; irregular.
Ru bible	(n.) A ribble.
Rub	(v. t.)To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body.
Rub	(v. t.)To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
Rub	(v. t.)To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground.
Rub	(v. t.)To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver.
Rub	(v. t.)To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
Rub	(v. t.)To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper.
Rub	(n.) A chance.
Rub	(n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone.
Rub	(n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.
Rub	(n.) Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness.
Rub	(n.) Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a hard rub.
Rub	(n.) That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch.
Rub	(n.) The act of rubbing; friction.
Rub	(v. i.) To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.
Rub	(v. i.) To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
Rub	(v. i.) To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods, as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
Ruba-dub	(n.) The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter.
Rubato	(a.) Robbed; borrowed.
Rubbage	(n.) Rubbish.
Rubbed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rub
Rubber	(n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.
Rubber	(n.) A whetstone; a rubstone.
Rubber	(n.) An eraser, usually made of caoutchouc.
Rubber	(n.) An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.
Rubber	(n.) An overshoe made of India rubber.
Rubber	(n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
Rubber	(n.) India rubber; caoutchouc.
Rubber	(n.) One who performs massage, especially in a Turkish bath.
Rubber	(n.) One who, or that which, rubs.
Rubber	(n.) Something that chafes or annoys; hence, something that grates on the feelings; a sarcasm; a rub.
Rubber	(n.) The cushion of an electrical machine.
Rubbidge	(n.) Rubbish.
Rubbing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rub
Rubbing	() a. & n. from Rub, v.
Rubbish	(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
Rubbish	(n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
Rubble	(n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
Rubble	(n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
Rubble	(n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
Rubble	(n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Rubblestone	(n.) See Rubble, 1 and 2.
Rubblework	(n.) Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
Rubbly	(a.) Relating to, or containing, rubble.
Rubedinous	(a.) Reddish.
Rubefacient	(a.) Making red.
Rubefacient	(n.) An external application which produces redness of the skin.
Rubefaction	(n.) The act or process of making red.
Rubelet	(n.) A little ruby.
Rubella	(n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.
Rubelle	(n.) A red color used in enameling.
Rubellite	(n.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.
Rubeola	(n.) Rubella.
Rubeola	(n.) the measles.
Ruberythrinic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.
Rubescence	(n.) The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.
Rubescent	(a.) Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
Rubiaceous	(a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding per
Rubiacin	(n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
Rubian	(n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.
Rubianic	(a.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.
Rubican	(a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses.
Rubicelle	(n.) A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.
Rubicon	(n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
Rubicund	(a.) Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
Rubicundity	(n.) The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness.
Rubidic	(a.) Of or pertaining to rubidium; containing rubidium.
Rubidine	(n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.
Rubidium	(n.) A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.
Rubied	(imp. & p. p.) of Ruby
Rubies	(pl. ) of Ruby
Rubific	(a.) Making red; as, rubific rays.
Rubification	(n.) The act of making red.
Rubiform	(a.) Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun.
Rubify	(v. t.)To redden.
Rubiginose	(a.) Alt. of Rubiginous
Rubiginous	(a.) Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.
Rubigo	(n.) same as Rust, n., 2.
Rubin	(n.) A ruby.
Rubious	(a.) Red; ruddy.
Rubiretin	(n.) One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
Ruble	(n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents.
Rubric	(a.) Alt. of Rubrical
Rubric	(v. t.)To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.
Rubric	(n.) A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.
Rubric	(n.) Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed.
Rubric	(n.) That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.
Rubric	(n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural.
Rubric	(n.) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters.
Rubrical	(a.) Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.
Rubrical	(a.) Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics.
Rubricate	(v. t.)To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.
Rubricate	(n.) Marked with red.
Rubrician	(n.) Alt. of Rubricist
Rubricist	(n.) One skilled in, or tenaciously adhering to, the rubric or rubrics.
Rubricity	(n.) Redness.
Rubstone	(n.) A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
Rubus	(n.) A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
Ruby	(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
Ruby	(v. t.)To make red; to redden.
Ruby	(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
Ruby	(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
Ruby	(n.) See Agate, n., 2.
Ruby	(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
Ruby	(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
Rubying	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruby
Rubytail	(n.) A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.
Ruby-tailed	(a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
Rubythroat	(n.) Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United
Rubywood	(n.) red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.
Rucervine	(a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rucervus, which includes the swamp deer of India.
Ruche	(n.) A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.
Ruche	(n.) A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.
Ruching	(n.) A ruche, or ruches collectively.
Ruck	(v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.
Ruck	(v. t.)A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
Ruck	(n.) A heap; a rick.
Ruck	(n.) A roc.
Ruck	(n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.
Ruck	(v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
Rucked	(imp. & p. p.) of Ruck
Rucking	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruck
Ructation	(n.) The act of belching wind.
Ruction	(n.) An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.
Rud	(v. t.)To make red.
Rud	(n.) Redness; blush.
Rud	(n.) Ruddle; red ocher.
Rud	(n.) The rudd.
Rudd	(n.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue
Rudder	(n.) A riddle or sieve.
Rudder	(n.) Fig.
Rudder	(n.) The mechanical appliance by means of which a vessel is guided or steered when in motion. It is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel
Rudderhead	(n.) The upper end of the rudderpost, to which the tiller is attached.
Rudderhole	(n.) The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.
Rudderless	(a.) Without a rudder.
Rudderpost	(n.) The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and the attachments for operating it at the other.
Rudderstock	(n.) The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.
Ruddied	(a.) Made ruddy or red.
Ruddily	(adv.) In a ruddy manner.
Ruddiness	(n.) The quality or state of being ruddy; as, the ruddiness of the cheeks or the sky.
Ruddle	(v. t.)To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.
Ruddle	(v. t.)To raddle or twist.
Ruddle	(n.) A riddle or sieve.
Ruddle	(n.) A species of red earth colored by iron sesquioxide; red ocher.
Ruddock	(n.) A piece of gold money; -- probably because the gold of coins was often reddened by copper alloy. Called also red ruddock, and golden ruddock.
Ruddock	(n.) The European robin.
Ruddy	(v. t.)To make ruddy.
Ruddy	(n.) Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips.
Ruddy	(n.) Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame.
Rude	(superl.) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
Rude	(superl.) Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
Rude	(superl.) Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like.
Rude	(superl.) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.
Rude	(superl.) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
Rude	(superl.) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
Rudenture	(n.) Cabling. See Cabling.
Ruderary	(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish..
Rudesby	(n.) An uncivil, turbulent fellow.
Rudesheimer	(n.) A German wine made near Rudesheim, on the Rhine.
Rudiment	(v. t.)To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.
Rudiment	(n.) An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed.
Rudiment	(n.) Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step.
Rudiment	(n.) That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
Rudimental	(a.) Rudimentary.
Rudimentary	(a.) Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
Rudimentary	(a.) Very imperfectly developed; in an early stage of development; embryonic.
Rudish	(a.) Somewhat rude.
Rudistes	(n. pl.) An extinct order or suborder of bivalve mollusks characteristic of the Cretaceous period; -- called also Rudista. See Illust. under Hippurite.
Rudity	(n.) Rudeness; ignorance.
Rudmasday	(n.) Either of the feasts of the Holy Cross, occuring on May 3 and September 14, annually.
Rudolphine	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a set of astronomical tables computed by Kepler, and founded on the observations of Tycho Brahe; -- so named from Rudolph II., emperor of Germany.
Rue	(v. t.)Sorrow; repetance.
Rue	(v. t.)To cause to grieve; to afflict.
Rue	(v. t.)To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over.
Rue	(v. t.)To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from.
Rue	(n.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine.
Rue	(n.) Fig.
Rue	(v. i.) To feel sorrow and regret; to repent.
Rue	(v. i.) To have compassion.
Rued	(imp. & p. p.) of Rue
Rueful	(a.) Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
Rueful	(a.) Expressing sorrow.
Ruell bone	() See rewel bone.
Ruelle	(n.) A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.
Rufescent	(a.) Reddish; tinged with red.
Ruff	(v. i. & t.) To trump.
Ruff	(v. t.)To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
Ruff	(v. t.)To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
Ruff	(v. t.)To ruffle; to disorder.
Ruff	(n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
Ruff	(n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
Ruff	(n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on t
Ruff	(n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
Ruff	(n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
Ruff	(n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
Ruff	(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
Ruff	(n.) Alt. of Ruffe
Ruff	(n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
Ruff	(n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
Ruff	(n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
Ruff	(n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
Ruffe	(n.) A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.
Ruffed	(a.) Furnished with a ruff.
Ruffed	(imp. & p. p.) of Ruff
Ruffian	(a.) brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
Ruffian	(n.) A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat.
Ruffian	(n.) A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
Ruffian	(v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
Ruffianage	(n.) Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians.
Ruffianish	(a.) Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
Ruffianlike	(a.) Ruffianly.
Ruffianly	(a.) Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.
Ruffianous	(a.) Ruffianly.
Ruffin	(a.) Disordered.
Ruffing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruff
Ruffle	(v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
Ruffle	(v. t. & i.) A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
Ruffle	(v. t. & i.) That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
Ruffle	(v. t. & i.) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To throw into disorder or confusion.
Ruffle	(v. t.)To throw together in a disorderly manner.
Ruffle	(v. i.) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
Ruffle	(v. i.) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
Ruffle	(v. i.) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
Ruffled	(imp. & p. p.) of Ruffle
Ruffleless	(a.) Having no ruffle.
Rufflement	(n.) The act of ruffling.
Ruffler	(n.) One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian.
Ruffler	(n.) That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.
Ruffling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruffle
Rufigallic	(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained from gallic acid as a brown or red crystalline substance, and is related to rufiopin and anthracene.
Rufiopin	(n.) A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene, and obtained from opianic acid.
Rufol	(n.) A phenol derivative of anthracene obtained as a white crystalline substance, which on oxidation produces a red dyestuff related to anthraquinone.
Rufous	(a.) Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.
Ruft	(n.) Eructation; belching.
Rufterhood	(n.) A kind of hood for a hawk.
Rug	(a.) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.
Rug	(a.) A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, -- used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potiere, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from
Rug	(a.) A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
Rug	(v. t.)To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
Ruga	(n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.
Rugae	(pl. ) of Ruga
Rugate	(a.) Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
Rugged	(n.) Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.
Rugged	(n.) Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.
Rugged	(n.) Not neat or regular; uneven.
Rugged	(n.) Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like.
Rugged	(n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
Rugged	(n.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.
Rugged	(n.) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
Rugged	(n.) Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
Rugged	(n.) Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
Rugging	(n.) A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.
Rug-gowned	(a.) Wearing a coarse gown or shaggy garment made of rug.
Ruggy	(a.) Rugged; rough.
Rug-headed	(a.) Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
Rugin	(n.) A nappy cloth.
Rugine	(v. t.)To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to scale.
Rugine	(n.) An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.
Rugosa	(n. pl.) An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species, many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoic formations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually in multiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.
Rugose	(a.) Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Rugosity	(n.) The quality or state of being rugose.
Rugous	(a.) Wrinkled; rugose.
Rugulose	(a.) Somewhat rugose.
Ruhmkorff's coil	() See Induction coil, under Induction.
Ruin	(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
Ruin	(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
Ruin	(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
Ruin	(n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
Ruin	(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
Ruin	(n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
Ruin	(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.
Ruinable	(a.) Capable of being ruined.
Ruinate	(a.) Involved in ruin; ruined.
Ruinate	(v. t.)To cause to fall; to cast down.
Ruinate	(v. t.)To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.
Ruinate	(v. i.) To fall; to tumble.
Ruination	(n.) The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
Ruined	(imp. & p. p.) of Ruin
Ruiner	(n.) One who, or that which, ruins.
Ruing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rue
Ruiniform	(a.) Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.
Ruining	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruin
Ruinous	(a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
Ruinous	(a.) Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
Ruinous	(a.) Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
Rukh	(n.) A large bird, supposed by some to be the same as the extinct Epiornis of Madagascar.
Rukh	(n.) The roc.
Rulable	(a.) That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable to rule.
Rule	(a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.
Rule	(a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
Rule	(a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and i
Rule	(a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
Rule	(a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
Rule	(a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
Rule	(a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
Rule	(a.) Conduct in general; behavior.
Rule	(a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
Rule	(a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
Rule	(a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a schoo
Rule	(a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
Rule	(a.) Uniform or established course of things.
Rule	(n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
Rule	(n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
Rule	(n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
Rule	(n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
Rule	(n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
Rule	(v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
Rule	(v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.
Rule	(v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
Ruled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rule
Ruleless	(a.) Destitute of rule; lawless.
Rule-monger	(n.) A stickler for rules; a slave of rules
Ruler	(n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a).
Ruler	(n.) One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor.
Ruling	(a.) Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign.
Ruling	(a.) Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen.
Ruling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rule
Ruling	(n.) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence.
Ruling	(n.) The act of one who rules; ruled lines.
Rulingly	(adv.) In a ruling manner; so as to rule.
Rullichies	(n. pl.) Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried.
Ruly	(a.) Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.
Rum	(a.) Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
Rum	(n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxic
Rum	(n.) A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Rumble	(v. t.)To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.
Rumble	(n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
Rumble	(n.) A noisy report; rumor.
Rumble	(n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
Rumble	(n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
Rumble	(v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
Rumble	(v. i.) To murmur; to ripple.
Rumbler	(n.) One who, or that which, rumbles.
Rumbling	() a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.
Rumblingly	(adv.) In a rumbling manner.
Rumbo	(n.) Grog.
Rumbowline	(n.) Same as Rombowline.
Rumen	(n.) The cud of a ruminant.
Rumen	(n.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.
Rumicin	(n.) A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid.
Ruminal	(a.) Ruminant; ruminating.
Ruminant	(a.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
Ruminant	(n.) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
Ruminantia	(n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.
Ruminantly	(adv.) In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.
Ruminate	(a.) Alt. of Ruminated
Ruminate	(v. t.)To chew over again.
Ruminate	(v. t.)To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
Ruminate	(v. i.) To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.
Ruminate	(v. i.) To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect.
Ruminated	(a.) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
Ruminated	(imp. & p. p.) of Ruminate
Ruminating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruminate
Rumination	(n.) The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.
Rumination	(n.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
Rumination	(n.) The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
Ruminative	(a.) Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.
Ruminator	(n.) One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.
Rumkin	(n.) A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel.
Rummage	(v. t.)To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage.
Rummage	(v. t.)To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
Rummage	(n.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage.
Rummage	(n.) A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
Rummage	(v. i.) To search a place narrowly.
Rummaged	(imp. & p. p.) of Rummage
Rummager	(n.) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager.
Rummager	(n.) One who rummages.
Rummaging	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rummage
Rummer	(n.) A large and tall glass, or drinking cup.
Rummies	(pl. ) of Rummy
Rummy	(a.) Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.
Rummy	(a.) Strange; odd.
Rummy	(n.) One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person.
Rumney	(n.) A sort of Spanish wine.
Rumor	(v. t.)To report by rumor; to tell.
Rumor	(n.) A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.
Rumor	(n.) A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.
Rumor	(n.) A prolonged, indistinct noise.
Rumored	(imp. & p. p.) of Rumor
Rumorer	(n.) A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports.
Rumoring	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rumor
Rumorous	(a.) Famous; notorious.
Rumorous	(a.) Murmuring.
Rumorous	(a.) Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors.
Rump	(n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
Rump	(n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
Rump	(n.) The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
Rumper	(n.) A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament.
Rump-fed	(a.) A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps "fattened in the rump, pampered."
Rumple	(v. t. & i.) To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.
Rumple	(n.) A fold or plait; a wrinkle.
Rumpled	(a.) Wrinkled; crumpled.
Rumpled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rumple
Rumpless	(a.) Destitute of a rump.
Rumpling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rumple
Rumply	(a.) Rumpled.
Rumpus	(n.) A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.
Rumseller	(n.) One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
Run	(p. p.) of Run
Run	(a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
Run	(a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.
Run	(a.) Specifically, of a horse
Run	(a.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
Run	(a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
Run	(a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
Run	(a.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
Run	(a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
Run	(a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.
Run	(a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
Run	(a.) To creep, as serpents.
Run	(a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
Run	(a.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.
Run	(a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
Run	(a.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Run	(a.) To flee, as from fear or danger.
Run	(a.) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.
Run	(a.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
Run	(a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
Run	(a.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
Run	(a.) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
Run	(a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
Run	(a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.
Run	(a.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
Run	(a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
Run	(a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, a
Run	(a.) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
Run	(a.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
Run	(a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
Run	(a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
Run	(a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
Run	(a.) To steal off; to depart secretly.
Run	(a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
Run	(a.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
Run	(a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
Run	(v. t.)To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
Run	() of Run
Run	(n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
Run	(n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.
Run	(n.) A pair or set of millstones.
Run	(n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.
Run	(n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.
Run	(n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.
Run	(n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
Run	(n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.
Run	(n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
Run	(n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.
Run	(n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
Run	(n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
Run	(n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
Run	(n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
Run	(n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
Run	(n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.
Run	(n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
Run	(n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
Run	(v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
Run	(v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
Run	(v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
Run	(v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
Run	(v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
Run	(v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.
Run	(v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
Run	(v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
Run	(v. i.) To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.
Run	(v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
Run	(v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
Run	(v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
Run	(v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
Run	(v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
Run	(v. i.) To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
Run	(v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
Runagate	(n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.
Runaway	(a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
Runaway	(a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
Runaway	(a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.
Runaway	(a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
Runaway	(n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
Runaway	(n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
Runcation	(n.) A weeding.
Runch	(n.) The wild radish.
Runcinate	(a.) Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.
Rundel	(n.) A circle.
Rundel	(n.) A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet.
Rundle	(n.) A ball.
Rundle	(n.) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
Rundle	(n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Rundle	(n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan.
Rundlet	(n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons.
Rune	(n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
Rune	(n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.
Runer	(n.) A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.
Rung	(p. p.) of Ring
Rung	() imp. & p. p. of Ring.
Rung	() of Ring
Rung	(n.) A floor timber in a ship.
Rung	(n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Rung	(n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
Rung	(n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
Runghead	(n.) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
Runic	(a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
Runlet	(n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.
Runlet	(n.) Same as Rundlet.
Runnel	(n.) A rivulet or small brook.
Runner	(n.) A detective.
Runner	(n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
Runner	(n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
Runner	(n.) A messenger.
Runner	(n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Runner	(n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
Runner	(n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
Runner	(n.) A smuggler.
Runner	(n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Runner	(n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
Runner	(n.) Any cursorial bird.
Runner	(n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
Runner	(n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
Runner	(n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
Runner	(n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
Runner	(n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
Runnet	(n.) See Rennet.
Running	(a.) Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation.
Running	(a.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
Running	(a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
Running	(a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
Running	(a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
Running	(a.) Moving or advancing by running.
Running	(a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
Running	(a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
Running	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Run
Running	(n.) That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as, the first running of a still.
Running	(n.) The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow.
Running	(n.) The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
Runningly	(adv.) In a running manner.
Runnion	(n.) See Ronion.
Runology	(n.) The science of runes.
Runround	(n.) A felon or whitlow.
Runt	(a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
Runt	(a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
Runt	(a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
Runt	(a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
Runty	(a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.
Runway	(n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.
Runway	(n.) The channel of a stream.
Rupee	(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.
Rupellary	(n.) Rocky.
Rupert's drop	() A kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were fir
Rupia	(n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust.
Rupial	(a.) Of or pertaining to rupia.
Rupicola	(n.) A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.
Rupicoline	(a.) Rock-inhabiting.
Ruption	(n.) A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
Ruptuary	(n.) One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
Rupture	(v. t.)To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
Rupture	(v. t.)To produce a hernia in.
Rupture	(n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
Rupture	(n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
Rupture	(n.) Hernia. See Hernia.
Rupture	(n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
Rupture	(v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.
Ruptured	(a.) Having a rupture, or hernia.
Ruptured	(imp. & p. p.) of Rupture
Rupturewort	(n.) A West Indian plant (Alternanthera polygonoides) somewhat resembling burstwort.
Rupturewort	(n.) Same as Burstwort.
Rupturing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rupture
Rural	(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.
Rural	(a.) Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.
Rurales	(n. pl.) The gossamer-winged butterflies; a family of small butterflies, including the hairstreaks, violets, and theclas.
Ruralism	(n.) A rural idiom or expression.
Ruralism	(n.) The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.
Ruralist	(n.) One who leads a rural life.
Rurality	(n.) A rural place.
Rurality	(n.) The quality or state of being rural.
Ruralize	(v. t.)To render rural; to give a rural appearance to.
Ruralize	(v. i.) To become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.
Ruralized	(imp. & p. p.) of Ruralize
Ruralizing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruralize
Rurally	(adv.) In a rural manner; as in the country.
Ruralness	(n.) The quality or state of being rural.
Ruricolist	(n.) An inhabitant of the country.
Ruridecanal	(a.) Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect.
Rurigenous	(a.) Born in the country.
Ruse	(n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Rush	(v. t.)To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
Rush	(v. t.)To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
Rush	(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
Rush	(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
Rush	(n.) A perfect recitation.
Rush	(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
Rush	(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
Rush	(n.) The act of running with the ball.
Rush	(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
Rush	(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
Rush	(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
Rush-bearing	(n.) A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church.
Rushbuckler	(n.) A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
Rushed	(a.) Abounding or covered with rushes.
Rushed	(imp. & p. p.) of Rush
Rusher	(n.) One who rushes.
Rusher	(n.) One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances.
Rushiness	(n.) The quality or state of abounding with rushes.
Rushing	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rush
Rushingly	(adv.) In a rushing manner.
Rushlight	(n.) A rush candle, or its light; hence, a small, feeble light.
Rushlike	(a.) Resembling a rush; weak.
Rushy	(a.) Abounding with rushes.
Rushy	(a.) Made of rushes.
Rusine	(a.) Of, like, or pertaining to, a deer of the genus Rusa, which includes the sambur deer (Rusa Aristotelis) of India.
Rusk	(n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
Rusk	(n.) A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.
Rusk	(n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.
Rusma	(n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.
Russ	(a.) Of or pertaining to the Russians.
Russ	(n. sing. & pl.) A Russian, or the Russians.
Russ	(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Russians.
Russet	(a.) Coarse; homespun; rustic.
Russet	(a.) Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.
Russet	(n.) A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.
Russet	(n.) A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.
Russet	(n.) An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet.
Russet	(n.) Cloth or clothing of a russet color.
Russeting	(n.) See Russet, n., 2 and 4.
Russety	(a.) Of a russet color; russet.
Russia	(n.) A country of Europe and Asia.
Russian	(a.) Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language.
Russian	(n.) A native or inhabitant of Russia; the language of Russia.
Russianize	(v. t.)To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to Russianize the Poles.
Russification	(n.) The act or process of Russifying, or the state of being Russified.
Russify	(v. t.)To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.
Russophile	(n.) Alt. of Russophilist
Russophilist	(n.) One who, not being a Russian, favors Russian policy and aggrandizement.
Russophobe	() Alt. of Russophobist
Russophobia	(n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.
Russophobist	() One who dreads Russia or Russian influence.
Rust	(v. t.)To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
Rust	(v. t.)To impair by time and inactivity.
Rust	(n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
Rust	(n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary redd
Rust	(n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
Rust	(n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
Rust	(n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
Rust	(n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.
Rust	(v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
Rust	(v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
Rust	(v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
Rusted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rust
Rustful	(a.) Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty.
Rustic	(a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
Rustic	(a.) Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
Rustic	(a.) Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.
Rustic	(a.) Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
Rustic	(n.) A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
Rustic	(n.) An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
Rustical	(a.) Rustic.
Rusticate	(v. t.)To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
Rusticate	(v. i.) To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
Rusticated	(a.) Resembling rustic work. See Rustic work (a), under Rustic.
Rusticated	(imp. & p. p.) of Rusticate
Rusticating	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rusticate
Rustication	(n.) Rustic work.
Rustication	(n.) The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.
Rusticity	(n.) The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
Rusticly	(adv.) In a rustic manner; rustically.
Rustily	(adv.) In a rusty state.
Rustiness	(n.) The quality or state of being rusty.
Rusting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rust
Rustle	(v. t.)To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
Rustle	(n.) A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
Rustle	(v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
Rustle	(v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
Rustled	(imp. & p. p.) of Rustle
Rustler	(n.) A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person.
Rustler	(n.) One who, or that which, rustles.
Rustless	(a.) Free from rust.
Rustling	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rustle
Rusty	(superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
Rusty	(superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
Rusty	(superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
Rusty	(superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
Rusty	(superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
Rusty	(superl.) Rust-colored; dark.
Rusty	(superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.
Rut	(v. t.)To cover in copulation.
Rut	(v. t.)To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
Rut	(n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
Rut	(n.) Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote.
Rut	(n.) Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
Rut	(v. i.) To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
Ruta-baga	(n.) A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.
Rutaceous	(a.) Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.
Rutate	(n.) A salt of rutic acid.
Ruth	(v.) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
Ruth	(v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.
Ruthenic	(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.
Ruthenious	(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.
Ruthenium	(n.) A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum.
Ruthful	(a.) Causing sorrow.
Ruthful	(a.) Full of ruth
Ruthful	(a.) Full of sorrow; woeful.
Ruthful	(a.) Pitiful; tender.
Ruthless	(a.) Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.
Rutic	(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.
Rutilant	(a.) Having a reddish glow; shining.
Rutilate	(v. i.) To shine; to emit rays of light.
Rutile	(n.) A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite.
Rutilian	(n.) Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).
Rutin	(n.) A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.
Rutinose.	() A disaccharide present in glycosides.
Rutted	(imp. & p. p.) of Rut
Rutter	(n.) A horseman or trooper.
Rutter	(n.) That which ruts.
Rutterkin	(n.) An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt.
Ruttier	(n.) A chart of a course, esp. at sea.
Rutting	(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rut
Ruttish	(a.) Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.
Ruttle	(n.) A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle.
Rutty	(a.) Full of ruts; as, a rutty road.
Rutty	(a.) Rooty.
Rutty	(a.) Ruttish; lustful.
Rutylene	(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.
Ryal	(a.) Royal.
Ryal	(n.) See Rial, an old English coin.
Ryder	(n.) A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider.
Ryder	(n.) A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.
Rye	(n.) A disease in a hawk.
Rye	(n.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.
Rynd	(n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
Ryot	(n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil.
Rypophagous	(a.) Eating, or subsisting on, filth.
Rys	(n.) A branch.
Rysh	(n.) Rush, a plant.
Rysimeter	(n.) See Rhysimeter.
Ryth	(n.) A ford.
Rytina	(n.) A genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow.

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