| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| rabatine | noun | A collar or cape. |
| rabbeted | imp. & past participle | of Rabbet |
| rabbinic | adjective | Alt. of Rabbinical, The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew. |
| rabbitry | noun | A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits. |
| rabbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rabble |
| rabidity | noun | Rabidness; furiousness. |
| racahout | noun | A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids. |
| racemate | noun | A salt of racemic acid. |
| racemose | adjective | 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 | adjective | See Racemose. |
| racemule | noun | A little raceme. |
| rachilla | noun | Same as Rhachilla. |
| rachises | plural | of Rachis |
| rachides | plural | of Rachis |
| rachitic | adjective | Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety. |
| rachitis | noun | Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets., A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds. |
| raciness | noun | The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor. |
| racketed | imp. & past participle | of Racket |
| racketer | noun | One who makes, or engages in, a racket. |
| racktail | noun | An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock. |
| rackwork | noun | Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion. |
| racoonda | noun | The coypu. |
| racovian | noun | One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland. |
| radialia | plural | of Radiale |
| radially | adverb | In a radial manner. |
| radiance | noun | Alt. of Radiancy |
| radiancy | noun | The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun. |
| radiated | imp. & past participle | of Radiate, Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat., 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., Belonging to the Radiata. |
| radiator | noun | 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. |
| radicant | adjective | Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy. |
| radicate | adjective | Radicated., To take root; to become rooted., To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root. |
| radicule | noun | A radicle. |
| radiuses | plural | of Radius |
| raffling | present participle & vb. noun | of Raffle |
| raftsmen | plural | of Raftsman |
| raftsman | noun | A man engaged in rafting. |
| ragabash | noun | Alt. of Ragabrash |
| ragguled | adjective | Notched in regular diagonal breaks; — said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge. |
| raillery | noun | Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. |
| railleur | noun | A banterer; a jester; a mocker. |
| railroad | noun | Alt. of Railway |
| raindeer | noun | See Reindeer. |
| raindrop | noun | A drop of rain. |
| rainfall | noun | A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. |
| rainless | adjective | Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region. |
| raisable | adjective | Capable of being raised. |
| raisonne | adjective | Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue. |
| rakehell | noun | A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake., Alt. of Rakehelly |
| rakishly | adverb | In a rakish manner. |
| rallying | present participle & vb. noun | of Rally |
| ramayana | noun | The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita. |
| ramberge | noun | Formerly, a kind of large war galley. |
| rambling | present participle & vb. noun | of Ramble, Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building. |
| rambooze | noun | A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. |
| rambutan | noun | 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. |
| ramequin | noun | A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread. |
| ramiform | adjective | Having the form of a branch. |
| ramified | imp. & past participle | of Ramify |
| rampancy | noun | The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. |
| ramulose | adjective | Having many small branches, or ramuli. |
| ramulous | adjective | Ramulose. |
| ranchero | noun | A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho., The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho. |
| ranchmen | plural | of Ranchman |
| ranchman | noun | An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. |
| rancidly | adverb | In a rancid manner. |
| randomly | adverb | In a random manner. |
| ranedeer | noun | See Reindeer. |
| ranforce | noun | See Re/nforce. |
| rankling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rankle |
| rankness | noun | The condition or quality of being rank. |
| ransomed | imp. & past participle | of Ransom |
| ransomer | noun | One who ransoms or redeems. |
| rapacity | noun | The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves., The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. |
| rapfully | adverb | Violently. |
| raphides | noun pl. | See Rhaphides. |
| rapidity | noun | The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement. |
| rapiered | adjective | Wearing a rapier. |
| rapinous | adjective | Given to rapine. |
| rapparee | noun | A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; — so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. |
| raptores | noun pl. | Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores. |
| raptured | imp. & past participle | of Rapture |
| rarefied | imp. & past participle | of Rarefy |
| rareness | noun | The state or quality of being rare. |
| rareripe | adjective | Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season., An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach. |
| rarities | plural | of Rarity |
| rascally | adjective | Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; — often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. |
| rashling | noun | A rash person. |
| rashness | noun | The quality or state of being rash. |
| rasorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like. |
| rataplan | noun | The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse. |
| rateable | adjective | See Ratable. |
| rathripe | adjective | Rareripe, or early ripe., A rareripe. |
| ratifier | noun | One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer. |
| ratified | imp. & past participle | of Ratify |
| rational | adjective | Relating to the reason; not physical; mental., Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning., Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man., Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; — said of formulae. See under Formula., A rational being. |
| ratitate | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Ratitae. |
| ratlines | noun pl. | Alt. of Ratlins |
| ratsbane | noun | Rat poison; white arsenic. |
| rat-tail | adjective | Like a rat’s tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File., An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse., The California chimaera. See Chimaera., Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2. |
| rattinet | noun | A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen. |
| rattling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rattle |
| raunsoun | noun | Ransom. |
| ravaging | present participle & vb. noun | of Ravage |
| ravehook | noun | A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum. |
| ravelled | of Ravel | |
| raveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Ravel, The act of untwisting or of disentangling., That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture. |
| ravening | present participle & vb. noun | of Raven, Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion., Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves. |
| ravenala | noun | A genus of plants related to the banana. |
| ravenous | adjective | Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture., Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. |
| ravished | imp. & past participle | of Ravish |
| ravisher | noun | One who ravishes (in any sense). |
| rawboned | adjective | Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. |
| razeeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Razee |
| reabsorb | verb 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. |
| reaccess | noun | A second access or approach; a return. |
| reaccuse | verb t. | To accuse again. |
| reaching | present participle & vb. noun | of Reach |
| reaction | noun | Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action., 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 new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame., 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., The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction., Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction. |
| reactive | adjective | Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction. |
| readable | adjective | Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting. |
| readjust | verb t. | To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange. |
| reaffirm | verb t. | To affirm again. |
| realized | imp. & past participle | of Realize |
| realizer | noun | One who realizes. |
| reallege | verb t. | To allege again. |
| realness | noun | The quality or condition of being real; reality. |
| reanswer | verb t. & i. | To answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for. |
| reappear | verb i. | To appear again. |
| reardoss | noun | A reredos. |
| rearmost | adjective | Farthest in the rear; last. |
| rearward | noun | The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively., At or toward the rear. |
| reascend | verb i. | To rise, mount, or climb again., To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again. |
| reascent | noun | A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. |
| reasoned | imp. & past participle | of Reason |
| reasoner | noun | One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner. |
| reassert | verb t. | To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so. |
| reassign | verb t. | To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned. |
| reassume | verb t. | To assume again or anew; to resume. |
| reassure | verb t. | To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror., To reinsure. |
| reattach | verb t. | To attach again. |
| reattain | verb t. | To attain again. |
| rebanish | verb t. | To banish again. |
| rebelled | imp. & past participle | of Rebel |
| rebeldom | noun | A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels. |
| rebeller | noun | One who rebels; a rebel. |
| rebellow | verb i. | To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. |
| rebiting | noun | The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid. |
| rebucous | adjective | Rebuking. |
| rebuffed | imp. & past participle | of Rebuff |
| rebuking | present participle & vb. noun | of Rebuke |
| rebutted | imp. & past participle | of Rebut |
| rebuttal | noun | The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit. |
| rebutter | noun | The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff’s surrejoinder. |
| recanted | imp. & past participle | of Recant |
| recanter | noun | One who recants. |
| recapper | noun | A tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it. |
| recaptor | noun | One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken. |
| receding | present participle & vb. noun | of Recede |
| received | imp. & past participle | of Receive |
| receiver | noun | One who takes or receives in any manner., 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 necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases., One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen., A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation., A vessel for receiving and containing gases., 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., A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine., A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine., That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; — opposed to transmitter. |
| recenter | verb t. | To center again; to restore to the center. |
| recently | adverb | Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received. |
| recessed | imp. & past participle | of Recess, Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall., Withdrawn; secluded. |
| rechange | verb t. & i. | To change again, or change back. |
| recharge | verb t. & i. | To charge or accuse in return., To attack again; to attack anew. |
| rechless | adjective | Reckless. |
| rechoose | verb t. | To choose again. |
| reciprok | adjective | Reciprocal. |
| recision | noun | The act of cutting off. |
| reciting | present participle & vb. noun | of Recite |
| reckless | adjective | Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent., Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. |
| reckling | adjective | Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child., A weak child or animal. |
| reckoned | imp. & past participle | of Reckon |
| reckoner | noun | One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. |
| reclined | imp. & past participle | of Recline, Falling or turned downward; reclinate. |
| recliner | noun | One who, or that which, reclines. |
| reclothe | verb t. | To clothe again. |
| recoiled | imp. & past participle | of Recoil |
| recoiler | noun | One who, or that which, recoils. |
| recollet | noun | Same as Recollect, n. |
| recommit | verb 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. |
| reconvey | verb t. | To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods., To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate. |
| recorded | imp. & past participle | of Record |
| recorder | noun | One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions., 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., A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. |
| recouper | noun | One who recoups. |
| recourse | noun | A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence., Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort., Access; admittance., To return; to recur., To have recourse; to resort. |
| recovery | noun | The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession., Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc., The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court., The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had., In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke. |
| recreant | adjective | Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven., Apostate; false; unfaithful., One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch. |
| recreate | verb 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., To take recreation. |
| rectitis | noun | Proctitis. |
| rectoral | adjective | Pertaining to a rector or governor. |
| rectress | noun | A rectoress. |
| recurred | imp. & past participle | of Recur |
| recurved | adjective | Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals. |
| recusant | adjective | 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., One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion., 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., One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist. |
| redactor | noun | One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. |
| redargue | verb t. | To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. |
| redbelly | noun | The char. |
| reddened | imp. & past participle | of Redden |
| redeemed | imp. & past participle | of Redeem |
| redeemer | noun | One who redeems., Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ. |
| redeless | adjective | Without rede or counsel. |
| redemand | verb t. | To demand back; to demand again., A demanding back; a second or renewed demand. |
| redemise | verb t. | To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate., The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise. |
| redented | adjective | Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented. |
| redfinch | noun | The European linnet. |
| red-hand | adjective / adverb | Alt. of Red-handed |
| redigest | verb t. | To digest, or reduce to form, a second time. |
| redirect | adjective | Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination. |
| redition | noun | Act of returning; return. |
| redivide | verb t. | To divide anew. |
| redmouth | noun | 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. |
| redolent | adjective | Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; — usually followed by of. |
| redouble | verb t. | To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply., To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles. |
| redshank | noun | 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., The fieldfare., A bare-legged person; — a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. |
| redstart | noun | 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 allied genera, native of India., 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. |
| red-tape | adjective | Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a. |
| reducing | present participle & vb. noun | of Reduce, a & n. from Reduce. |
| reducent | adjective | Tending to reduce., A reducent agent. |
| redwithe | noun | A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets. |
| reedbird | noun | The bobolink., One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; — called also reed babbler. |
| reedbuck | noun | See Rietboc. |
| reedless | adjective | Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks. |
| reedling | noun | The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); — called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird. |
| reedwork | noun | A collective name for the reed stops of an organ. |
| reembark | verb t. & i. | To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again. |
| reembody | verb t. | To embody again. |
| reemerge | verb i. | To emerge again. |
| reengage | verb t. & i. | To engage a second time or again. |
| reenlist | verb t. & i. | To enlist again. |
| reestate | verb t. | To reestablish. |
| reexport | verb t. | To export again, as what has been imported., Any commodity reexported; — chiefly in the plural. |
| refasten | verb t. | To fasten again. |
| referred | imp. & past participle | of Refer |
| referrer | noun | One who refers. |
| refigure | verb t. | To figure again. |
| refining | present participle & vb. noun | of Refine |
| refinery | noun | The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar., A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal. |
| reflexed | adjective | Bent backward or outward. |
| reflexly | adverb | In a reflex manner; reflectively. |
| reflower | verb i. & t. | To flower, or cause to flower, again. |
| refluent | adjective | Flowing back; returning; ebbing. |
| reflueus | adjective | Refluent. |
| refoment | verb t. | To foment anew. |
| reforger | noun | One who reforges. |
| reformed | adjective | 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 consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches., Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard., Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; — said of an officer. |
| reformer | noun | One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses., One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin. |
| reformly | adverb | In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform. |
| refunder | noun | One who refunds. |
| refusing | present participle & vb. noun | of Refuse |
| refusion | noun | New or repeated melting, as of metals., Restoration. |
| refuting | present participle & vb. noun | of Refute |
| regaling | present participle & vb. noun | of Regale |
| regalian | adjective | Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives. |
| regalism | noun | The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy. |
| regality | noun | Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction., An ensign or badge of royalty. |
| regarded | imp. & past participle | of Regard |
| regarder | noun | One who regards., An officer appointed to supervise the forest. |
| regather | verb t. | To gather again. |
| regattas | plural | of Regatta |
| regelate | verb i. | To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice. |
| regicide | noun | One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death., The killing or the murder of a king. |
| regiment | noun | Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen., A region or district governed., A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten., To form into a regiment or into regiments. |
| regional | adjective | Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional. |
| register | noun | A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule., A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district., 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 nationality or as a muniment of title., 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., That which registers or records., A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process., The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received., A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale., 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 excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation., The inner part of the mold in which types are cast., The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet., 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., 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., A stop or set of pipes in an organ., To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service., To enroll; to enter in a list., To enroll one’s name in a register., 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 design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary. |
| registry | noun | The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration., The place where a register is kept., A record; an account; a register. |
| regnancy | noun | The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. |
| regrated | imp. & past participle | of Regrate |
| regrater | noun | One who regrates. |
| regrator | noun | One guilty of regrating. |
| regrowth | noun | The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. |
| regulate | verb t. | To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws., To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances., 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. |
| reguline | adjective | Of or pertaining to regulus. |
| regulize | verb t. | To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony. |
| rehearse | verb t. | To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite., To narrate; to relate; to tell., To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy., To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal., To recite or repeat something for practice. |
| reigning | present participle & vb. noun | of Reign |
| reillume | verb t. | To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine. |
| reimbark | verb t. & i. | See Reembark. |
| reimbody | verb t. & i. | To imbody again. |
| reimport | verb t. | To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. |
| reimpose | verb t. | To impose anew. |
| reindeer | noun | 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 | verb t. | To induce again. |
| reinette | noun | A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin. |
| reinfect | verb t. | To infect again. |
| reinfund | verb i. | To flow in anew. |
| reinless | adjective | Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained. |
| reinsert | verb t. | To insert again. |
| reinsure | verb t. | To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on., To insure, as life or property, in favor of one who has taken an insurance risk upon it. |
| reinvest | verb t. | To invest again or anew. |
| rejected | imp. & past participle | of Reject |
| rejecter | noun | One who rejects. |
| rejoiced | imp. & past participle | of Rejoice |
| rejoicer | noun | One who rejoices. |
| rejoined | imp. & past participle | of Rejoin |
| rekindle | verb t. & i. | To kindle again. |
| relapsed | imp. & past participle | of Relapse |
| relapser | noun | One who relapses. |
| relating | present participle & vb. noun | of Relate |
| relation | noun | The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events., 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 thing; connection; as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation of master to servant., Reference; respect; regard., Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children., A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a relative; a kinsman or kinswoman., 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., The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is begun. |
| relative | adjective | Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject., Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute., Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun., 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., 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., A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman., A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives “who”, “which”, “that”. |
| relatrix | noun | A female relator. |
| relaxing | present participle & vb. noun | of Relax |
| relaxant | noun | A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. |
| relaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Relay |
| released | imp. & past participle | of Release |
| releasee | noun | One to whom a release is given. |
| releaser | noun | One who releases, or sets free. |
| releasor | noun | One by whom a release is given. |
| relegate | verb t. | To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish. |
| relented | imp. & past participle | of Relent |
| relessee | noun | See Releasee. |
| relessor | noun | See Releasor. |
| relevant | adjective | Relieving; lending aid or support., Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand; pertinent; applicable., Sufficient to support the cause. |
| reliable | adjective | Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. |
| reliance | noun | 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., Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance. |
| relicted | adjective | Left uncovered, as land by recession of water. |
| relieved | imp. & past participle | of Relieve |
| reliever | noun | One who, or that which, relieves. |
| religion | noun | 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 superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers., 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., A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion., Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct. |
| relished | imp. & past participle | of Relish |
| relocate | verb t. | To locate again. |
| relucent | adjective | Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid. |
| reluming | present participle & vb. noun | of Relume |
| relumine | verb t. | To light anew; to rekindle., To illuminate again. |
| remained | imp. & past participle | of Remain |
| remanded | imp. & past participle | of Remand |
| remanent | adjective | That which remains; a remnant; a residue., Remaining; residual. |
| remarked | imp. & past participle | of Remark |
| remarker | noun | One who remarks. |
| remberge | noun | See Ramberge. |
| remedial | adjective | Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. |
| remedies | plural | of Remedy |
| remedied | imp. & past participle | of Remedy |
| remember | verb 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 childhood; I cannot remember dates., 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., To put in mind; to remind; — also used reflexively and impersonally., To mention., To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered to you, etc., To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember better than others. |
| remenant | noun | A remnant. |
| remercie | verb t. | Alt. of Remercy |
| remiform | adjective | Shaped like an oar. |
| reminder | noun | One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance. |
| remising | present participle & vb. noun | of Remise |
| remissly | adverb | In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly. |
| remitted | imp. & past participle | of Remit |
| remittal | noun | A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. |
| remittee | noun | One to whom a remittance is sent. |
| remitter | noun | One who remits., One who pardons., One who makes remittance., 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 possession only by suit. |
| remittor | noun | One who makes a remittance; a remitter. |
| remodify | verb t. | To modify again or anew; to reshape. |
| remolade | noun | Alt. of Remoulad |
| remoulad | noun | A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise. |
| remorate | verb t. | To hinder; to delay. |
| remorsed | adjective | Feeling remorse. |
| remotion | noun | The act of removing; removal., The state of being remote; remoteness. |
| removing | present participle & vb. noun | of Remove |
| remuable | adjective | That may be removed; removable. |
| remurmur | verb t. & i. | To murmur again; to utter back, or reply, in murmurs. |
| rendered | imp. & past participle | of Render |
| renderer | noun | One who renders., A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered. |
| rendible | adjective | Capable of being rent or torn., Capable, or admitting, of being rendered. |
| rendrock | noun | A kind of dynamite used in blasting. |
| renegade | noun | One faithless to principle or party., An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith., One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter., A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow. |
| renegado | noun | See Renegade. |
| renewing | present participle & vb. noun | of Renew |
| reniform | adjective | Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf. |
| renitent | adjective | Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force., Persistently opposed. |
| renneted | adjective | Provided or treated with rennet. |
| renounce | verb 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., To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear., To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit., To make renunciation., To decline formally, as an executor or a person entitled to letters of administration, to take out probate or letters., Act of renouncing. |
| renovate | verb t. | To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. |
| renowmed | adjective | Renowned. |
| renowned | adjective | Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. |
| renowner | noun | One who gives renown. |
| rentable | adjective | Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting. |
| rentered | imp. & past participle | of Renter |
| renterer | noun | One who renters. |
| renverse | verb t. | To reverse., Alt. of Renverse, Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position. |
| reobtain | verb t. | To obtain again. |
| reoccupy | verb t. | To occupy again. |
| reometer | noun | Same as Rheometer. |
| reoppose | verb t. | To oppose again. |
| reordain | verb t. | To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective. |
| reorient | adjective | Rising again. |
| reotrope | noun | See Rheotrope. |
| repacify | verb t. | To pacify again. |
| repacker | noun | One who repacks. |
| repaired | imp. & past participle | of Repair |
| repairer | noun | One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends. |
| repartee | noun | A smart, ready, and witty reply., To make smart and witty replies. |
| repaster | noun | One who takes a repast. |
| repaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Repay |
| repealed | imp. & past participle | of Repeal |
| repealer | noun | One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland. |
| repeated | imp. & past participle | of Repeat |
| repeater | noun | One who, or that which, repeats., A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters., A repeating firearm., An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point., A person who votes more than once at an election., See Circulating decimal, under Decimal., A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated. |
| repelled | imp. & past participle | of Repel |
| repeller | noun | One who, or that which, repels. |
| repented | imp. & past participle | of Repent |
| repenter | noun | One who repents. |
| repeople | verb t. | To people anew. |
| reperuse | verb t. | To peruse again. |
| repetend | noun | That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: — sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7/8/), the repetend is 283. |
| replevin | noun | 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 detention., The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied., To replevy. |
| replying | present participle & vb. noun | of Reply |
| repolish | verb t. | To polish again. |
| reported | imp. & past participle | of Report |
| reporter | noun | One who reports., An officer or person who makes authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates., One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. |
| reposing | present participle & vb. noun | of Repose |
| reposure | noun | Rest; quiet. |
| repousse | adjective | Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal., 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 work. |
| repriefe | noun | Repreve. |
| reprieve | verb 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., To relieve for a time, or temporarily., A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death., Interval of ease or relief; respite. |
| reprimer | noun | A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again. |
| reprisal | noun | The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity., Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation., 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., Any act of retaliation. |
| reprizes | noun pl. | See Reprise, n., 2. |
| reproach | verb t. | To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace., To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid., The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach., A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace., An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision. |
| reproved | imp. & past participle | of Reprove |
| reprover | noun | One who, or that which, reproves. |
| reptilia | noun 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. |
| republic | adjective | Common weal., 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. |
| repugner | noun | One who repugns. |
| repulsed | imp. & past participle | of Repulse |
| repulser | noun | One who repulses, or drives back. |
| repurify | verb t. | To purify again. |
| reputing | present participle & vb. noun | of Repute |
| required | imp. & past participle | of Require |
| requirer | noun | One who requires. |
| requital | noun | 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. |
| requited | imp. & past participle | of Requite |
| requiter | noun | One who requites. |
| rerefief | noun | A fief held of a superior feudatory; a fief held by an under tenant. |
| rereward | noun | The rear guard of an army. |
| resalgar | noun | Realgar. |
| resalute | verb t. | To salute again. |
| rescribe | verb t. | To write back; to write in reply., To write over again. |
| rescript | verb t. | The answer of an emperor when formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree., The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals., A counterpart. |
| rescuing | present participle & vb. noun | of Rescue |
| research | noun | Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom., To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently. |
| resected | imp. & past participle | of Resect |
| reseizer | noun | One who seizes again., 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. |
| resemble | verb t. | To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other., To liken; to compare; to represent as like., To counterfeit; to imitate., To cause to imitate or be like. |
| resented | imp. & past participle | of Resent |
| resenter | noun | One who resents. |
| reserate | verb t. | To unlock; to open. |
| reserved | imp. & past participle | of Reserve, Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater., Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one’s thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. |
| reservee | noun | One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; — contrasted with reservor. |
| reserver | noun | One who reserves. |
| reservor | noun | One who reserves; a reserver. |
| resetter | noun | One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal., One who resets, or sets again. |
| resettle | verb t. | To settle again., To settle again, or a second time. |
| resiance | noun | Residence; abode. |
| residing | present participle & vb. noun | of Reside |
| resident | adjective | 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., Fixed; stable; certain., One who resides or dwells in a place for some time., 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. |
| residual | adjective | Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken., The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula., The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them. |
| residuum | noun | That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. |
| resigned | imp. & past participle | of Resign, Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. |
| resignee | noun | One to whom anything is resigned, or in whose favor a resignation is made. |
| resigner | noun | One who resigns. |
| resiling | present participle & vb. noun | of Resile |
| resinate | noun | Any one of the salts the resinic acids. |
| resinoid | adjective | Somewhat like resin. |
| resinous | adjective | Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. |
| resisted | imp. & past participle | of Resist |
| resister | noun | One who resists. |
| resolute | verb t. & i. | Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady., Convinced; satisfied; sure., Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand., One who is resolute; hence, a desperado., Redelivery; repayment. |
| resolved | imp. & past participle | of Resolve, Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; — usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. |
| resolver | noun | That which decomposes, or dissolves., That which clears up and removes difficulties, and makes the mind certain or determined., One who resolves, or formal a firm purpose. |
| resonant | adjective | Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. |
| resorcin | noun | 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. |
| resorted | imp. & past participle | of Resort |
| resorter | noun | One who resorts; a frequenter. |
| re-sound | verb t. & i. | To sound again or anew. |
| resource | noun | That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient., Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. |
| resperse | verb t. | To sprinkle; to scatter. |
| respired | imp. & past participle | of Respire |
| respited | imp. & past participle | of Respite |
| response | noun | The act of responding., An answer or reply., Reply to an objection in formal disputation., The answer of the people or congregation to the priest or clergyman, in the litany and other parts of divine service., A kind of anthem sung after the lessons of matins and some other parts of the office., A repetition of the given subject in a fugue by another part on the fifth above or fourth below. |
| restless | adjective | Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child., 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., Deprived of rest or sleep., Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night., Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. |
| restoral | noun | Restoration. |
| re-store | verb t. | To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored. |
| restored | imp. & past participle | of Restore |
| restorer | noun | One who, or that which, restores. |
| restrain | verb 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., To draw back toghtly, as a rein., To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge., To limit; to confine; to restrict., To withhold; to forbear. |
| restrict | adjective | Restricted., To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet. |
| restrive | verb i. | To strive anew. |
| resulted | imp. & past participle | of Result |
| resuming | present participle & vb. noun | of Resume |
| resummon | verb t. | To summon again. |
| resupine | adjective | Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. |
| resupply | verb t. | To supply again. |
| resurvey | verb t. | To survey again or anew; to review., A second or new survey. |
| retailed | imp. & past participle | of Retail |
| retailer | noun | One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip. |
| retained | imp. & past participle | of Retain |
| retainal | noun | The act of retaining; retention. |
| retainer | noun | One who, or that which, retains., One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on., Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master’s livery., The act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause., The act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right., 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., The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence. |
| retarded | imp. & past participle | of Retard |
| retarder | noun | One who, or that which, retards. |
| retching | present participle & vb. noun | of Retch |
| retentor | noun | A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See Illust. of Phylactolemata. |
| retepore | noun | Any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus Retepora. They form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds. |
| reticent | adjective | Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. |
| reticule | noun. | A little bag, originally of network; a woman’s workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand., A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle. |
| reticula | plural | of Reticulum |
| retiform | adjective | Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye. |
| retineum | noun | That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate. |
| retinite | noun | An inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal. |
| retinoid | adjective | Resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such. |
| retinula | noun | One of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. See Illust. under Ommatidium. |
| retiracy | noun | Retirement; — mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. |
| retirade | noun | 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. |
| retiring | present participle & vb. noun | of Retire, Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners., Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. |
| retorted | imp. & past participle | of Retort |
| retorter | noun | One who retorts. |
| retraict | noun | Retreat. |
| retraxit | noun | The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action. |
| retrench | verb t. | To cut off; to pare away., To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses., To confine; to limit; to restrict., To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions., To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed. |
| retrieve | verb t. | To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one’s character; to retrieve independence., To recall; to bring back., To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge., To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve., A seeking again; a discovery., The recovery of game once sprung; — an old sporting term. |
| retroact | verb i. | To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective. |
| retrorse | adjective | Bent backward or downward. |
| retruded | imp. & past participle | of Retrude |
| returned | imp. & past participle | of Return |
| returner | noun | One who returns. |
| revealed | imp. & past participle | of Reveal |
| revealer | noun | One who, or that which, reveals. |
| reveille | noun | 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. |
| revelled | of Revel | |
| reveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Revel |
| revelate | verb t. | To reveal. |
| revelous | adjective | Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. |
| revenged | imp. & past participle | of Revenge |
| revenger | noun | One who revenges. |
| revering | present participle & vb. noun | of Revere |
| reverend | adjective | Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. |
| reverent | adjective | Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples., Expressing reverence, veneration, devotion, or submission; as, reverent words; reverent behavior. |
| reveries | plural | of Revery |
| reversal | adjective | Intended to reverse; implying reversal., 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., 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. |
| reversed | imp. & past participle | of Reverse, 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., Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. |
| reverser | noun | One who reverses. |
| reversis | noun | A certain game at cards. |
| reverted | imp. & past participle | of Revert, Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S. |
| reverter | noun | One who, or that which, reverts., Reversion. |
| revestry | noun | Same as Revestiary. |
| revetted | imp. & past participle | of Revet |
| review/d | imp. & past participle | of Review |
| reviewal | noun | A review. |
| reviewer | noun | One who reviews or reexamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books. |
| reviling | present participle & vb. noun | of Revile, Reproach; abuse; vilification., Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches. |
| revising | present participle & vb. noun | of Revise |
| revision | noun | 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., That which is made by revising. |
| revisory | adjective | Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. |
| reviving | present participle & vb. noun | of Revive, Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. |
| revivify | verb t. | To cause to revive. |
| revocate | verb t. | To recall; to call back. |
| revoking | present participle & vb. noun | of Revoke |
| revolted | imp. & past participle | of Revolt |
| revolter | noun | One who revolts. |
| revolute | adjective | Rolled backward or downward. |
| revolved | imp. & past participle | of Revolve |
| revolver | noun | 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. |
| rewarded | imp. & past participle | of Reward |
| rewarder | noun | One who rewards. |
| rhabdite | noun | A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria., One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects. |
| rhamadan | noun | See Ramadan. |
| rhapsode | noun | A rhapsodist. |
| rhapsody | noun | 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., A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition., A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsodies.” |
| rhatanhy | noun | The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. |
| rhematic | adjective | Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives., The doctrine of propositions or sentences. |
| rheostat | noun | 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 | noun | An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current. |
| rhetoric | noun | The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose., Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force., Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling., Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms. |
| rhinitis | noun | Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils. |
| rhizogan | adjective | Prodicing roots. |
| rhizogen | noun | One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage. |
| rhizopod | noun | One of the Rhizopoda. |
| rhodanic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts. |
| rhomboid | noun | An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different., Same as Rhomboidal. |
| rhonchal | adjective | Rhonchial. |
| rhonchus | noun | 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. |
| rhopalic | adjective | Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding. |
| rhopalia | plural | of Rhopalium |
| rhubarby | adjective | Like rhubarb. |
| rhyolite | noun | A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure. |
| rhythmer | noun | One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter. |
| rhythmic | adjective | Alt. of Rhythmical |
| rhythmus | noun | Rhythm. |
| ribaldry | noun | 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. |
| ribanded | adjective | Ribboned. |
| ribaudry | noun | Ribaldry. |
| ribboned | imp. & past participle | of Ribbon |
| ribroast | verb t. | To beat soundly. |
| ricebird | noun | The Java sparrow., The bobolink. |
| richesse | noun | Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. |
| richness | noun | The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective). |
| richweed | noun | An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; — called also clearweed. |
| ricinine | noun | A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant. |
| rickrack | noun | A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid. |
| ricochet | noun | 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., To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n., 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. |
| riddance | noun | The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out., The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. |
| riddling | present participle & vb. noun | of Riddle, Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle. |
| ridgelet | noun | A little ridge. |
| ridicule | noun | An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter., 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., Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness., To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting., Ridiculous. |
| riffraff | noun | Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society. |
| rifleman | plural | of Rifleman, A soldier armed with a rifle. |
| rigadoon | noun | A gay, lively dance for one couple, — said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. |
| 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. | |
| rigarion | noun | See Irrigation. |
| righting | present participle & vb. noun | of Right |
| rightful | adjective | Righteous; upright; just; good; — said of persons., Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause., 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., Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority. |
| rigidity | noun | 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., Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance., Severity; rigor. |
| rigorism | noun | Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; — opposed to laxity., Severity, as of style, or the like. |
| rigorist | noun | One who is rigorous; — sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist. |
| rigorous | adjective | 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., Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter., Violent. |
| rig-veda | See Veda. | |
| rimosely | adverb | In a rimose manner. |
| rimosity | noun | State of being rimose. |
| rimpling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rimple |
| rindless | adjective | Destitute of a rind. |
| ringbill | noun | The ring-necked scaup duck; — called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup. |
| ringbird | noun | The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting. |
| ringbolt | noun | An eyebolt having a ring through the eye. |
| ringbone | noun | A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. |
| ringdove | noun | 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. |
| ringhead | noun | An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth. |
| ringneck | noun | 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 common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover., The ring-necked duck. |
| ringsail | noun | See Ringtail, 2. |
| ringtail | noun | A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier., A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; — called also ringsail. |
| ringtoss | noun | A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick. |
| ringworm | noun | 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 distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton). |
| riparian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights. |
| ripening | present participle & vb. noun | of Ripen |
| ripeness | noun | The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment. |
| rippling | present participle & vb. noun | of Ripple |
| riptowel | noun | A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord’s corn. |
| risorial | adjective | Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles. |
| ritenuto | adjective | Held back; holding back; ritardando. |
| ritratto | noun | A picture. |
| ritually | adverb | By rites, or by a particular rite. |
| rivalled | of Rival | |
| rivaling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rival |
| rivaless | noun | A female rival. |
| rivality | noun | Rivalry; competition., Equality, as of right or rank. |
| riveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rivel |
| riveting | present participle & vb. noun | of Rivet, The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing., The whole set of rivets, collectively. |
| rixation | noun | A brawl or quarrel. |
| rixatrix | noun | A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold. |
| rixdaler | noun | A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00. |
| roadless | adjective | Destitute of roads. |
| roadside | noun | Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively. |
| roadster | noun | A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides., A horse that is accustomed to traveling on the high road, or is suitable for use on ordinary roads., A bicycle or tricycle adapted for common roads rather than for the racing track., One who drives much; a coach driver., A hunter who keeps to the roads instead of following the hounds across country. |
| roasting | present participle & vb. noun | of Roast, a. & n., from Roast, v. |
| roborant | adjective | Strengthening., A strengthening medicine; a tonic. |
| roborate | verb t. | To give strength or support to; to confirm. |
| roborean | adjective | Alt. of Roboreous |
| robustly | adverb | In a robust manner. |
| rochelle | noun | A seaport town in France. |
| 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 door at each side. | |
| rockelay | noun | Alt. of Rocklay |
| rockered | adjective | Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel. |
| rocketed | imp. & past participle | of Rocket |
| rocketer | noun | A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket. |
| rockfish | noun | 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., The striped bass. See Bass., Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus., An American fresh-water darter; the log perch. |
| rockless | adjective | Being without rocks. |
| rockling | noun | 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 | noun | 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. |
| rockweed | noun | Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus. |
| rockwood | noun | Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood. |
| rockwork | noun | Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough., A rockery. |
| rodentia | adjective | 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. |
| rodomont | noun | A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio., Bragging; vainly boasting. |
| roestone | noun | Same as Oolite. |
| rogation | noun | The demand, by the consuls or tribunes, of a law to be passed by the people; a proposed law or decree., Litany; supplication. |
| rogatory | adjective | Seeking information; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. |
| rollable | adjective | Capable of being rolled. |
| romanced | imp. & past participle | of Romance |
| romancer | noun | One who romances. |
| romanish | adjective | Pertaining to Romanism. |
| romanism | noun | The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion. |
| romanist | noun | One who adheres to Romanism. |
| romanize | verb t. | To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms., To convert to the Roman Catholic religion., To use Latin words and idioms., To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech. |
| romansch | noun | The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin. |
| romantic | adjective | Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking., Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind., 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., Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; — applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. |
| romeward | adverb | Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church., Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church. |
| roncador | noun | 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). |
| rondache | noun | A circular shield carried by foot soldiers. |
| roodebok | noun | The pallah. |
| roofless | adjective | Having no roof; as, a roofless house., Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless. |
| rooftree | noun | The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. |
| roomfuls | plural | of Roomful |
| roomless | adjective | Being without room or rooms. |
| roommate | noun | One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum. |
| roomsome | adjective | Roomy. |
| roorback | noun | Alt. of Roorbach |
| roorbach | noun | A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue. |
| roosting | present participle & vb. noun | of Roost |
| rootless | adjective | Destitute of roots. |
| ropeband | noun | A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. |
| ropewalk | adjective | A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured. |
| ropiness | noun | Quality of being ropy; viscosity. |
| roration | noun | A falling of dew. |
| rorulent | adjective | Full of, or abounding in, dew., Having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew. |
| rosalgar | noun | realgar. |
| rosarian | noun | A cultivator of roses. |
| rosaries | plural | of Rosary |
| rosebush | noun | The bush or shrub which bears roses. |
| rose-cut | adjective | 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 | noun | A lozenge having a rose flavor., A kind of earring., A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom. |
| rosefish | noun | 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 | noun | See Rose, n., 4., A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head. |
| roselite | noun | A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite. |
| rosemary | noun | 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 cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. |
| rose-red | adjective | Red as a rose; specifically (Zool.), of a pure purplish red color. |
| roseroot | noun | A fleshy-leaved herb (Rhodiola rosea); rosewort; — so called because the roots have the odor of roses. |
| rosewood | noun | 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 | noun | 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 | noun | Roseroot., Any plant nearly related to the rose. |
| rosiness | noun | The quality of being rosy. |
| rosselly | adjective | Loose; light. |
| rostella | plural | of Rostellum |
| rostrate | adjective | Alt. of Rostrated |
| rostrula | plural | of Rostrulum |
| rostrums | plural | of Rostrum |
| rosulate | adjective | Arranged in little roselike clusters; — said of leaves and bracts. |
| rotacism | noun | See Rhotacism. |
| rotalite | noun | Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod. |
| rotating | present participle & vb. noun | of Rotate |
| rotation | noun | 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 sun is a revolution., Any return or succesion in a series., Pertaining to, or resulting from, rotation; of the nature of, or characterized by, rotation; as, rotational velocity. |
| rotative | adjective | turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational. |
| rotatory | adjective | Turning as on an axis; rotary., Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles., Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, the rotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization., A rotifer. |
| rotifera | noun | 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 and habits. |
| rotiform | adjective | Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages., Same as Rotate. |
| roturier | noun | A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land. |
| roughdry | verb t. | in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing. |
| roughhew | verb t. | To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber., To give the first form or shape to; to form rudely; to shape approximately and rudely; to roughcast. |
| roughish | adjective | Somewhat rough. |
| roughleg | noun | 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. |
| rouleaux | plural | of Rouleau |
| rouleaus | plural | of Rouleau |
| roulette | noun | 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., A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to order to produce rows of dots., A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint., 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. |
| rounding | present participle & vb. noun | of Round, Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish., Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; — called also service., Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11. |
| roundish | adjective | Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. |
| roundlet | noun | A little circle. |
| roundtop | noun | A top; a platform at a masthead; — so called because formerly round in shape. |
| round-up | noun | The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. |
| roundure | noun | Roundness; a round or circle. |
| rovingly | adverb | In a wandering manner. |
| rowdydow | noun | Hubbub; uproar. |
| rowdyish | adjective | Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy. |
| rowdyism | noun | the conduct of a rowdy. |
| rowelled | of Rowel | |
| roweling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rowel |
| roxburgh | noun | 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. |
| royalism | noun | the principles or conduct of royalists. |
| royalist | noun | An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. |
| royalize | verb t. | to make royal. |
| roytelet | noun | A little king. |
| ruba-dub | noun | The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter. |
| rubbidge | noun | Rubbish. |
| rubiacin | noun | A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid. |
| rubianic | adjective | pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid. |
| ru bible | noun | A ribble. |
| rubicund | adjective | Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. |
| rubidine | noun | 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 | noun | 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. |
| rubiform | adjective | Having the nature or quality of red; as, the rubiform rays of the sun. |
| rubrical | adjective | Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics., Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics. |
| rubstone | noun | A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. |
| rubytail | noun | 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. |
| rubywood | noun | red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood. |
| ruderary | adjective | Of or pertaining to rubbish.. |
| rudiment | noun | That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning., Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step., An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed., To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments. |
| rudistes | noun pl. | An extinct order or suborder of bivalve mollusks characteristic of the Cretaceous period; — called also Rudista. See Illust. under Hippurite. |
| ruffling | present participle & vb. noun | of Ruffle |
| rufiopin | noun | A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene, and obtained from opianic acid. |
| rugosity | noun | The quality or state of being rugose. |
| rugulose | adjective | Somewhat rugose. |
| ruinable | adjective | Capable of being ruined. |
| ruleless | adjective | Destitute of rule; lawless. |
| rulingly | adverb | In a ruling manner; so as to rule. |
| rumbling | a. & n. from Rumble, v. i. | |
| ruminant | adjective | Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia., A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia. |
| ruminate | verb i. | To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed., To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect., To chew over again., To meditate or ponder over; to muse on., Alt. of Ruminated |
| rummaged | imp. & past participle | of Rummage |
| rummager | noun | One who rummages., A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; — formerly written roomager, and romager. |
| rumoring | present participle & vb. noun | of Rumor |
| rumorous | adjective | Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors., Famous; notorious., Murmuring. |
| rump-fed | adjective | A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps “fattened in the rump, pampered.” |
| rumpling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rumple |
| rumpless | adjective | Destitute of a rump. |
| runagate | noun | A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. |
| runghead | noun | The upper end of a floor timber in a ship. |
| runology | noun | The science of runes. |
| runround | noun | A felon or whitlow. |
| rupicola | noun | A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock. |
| ruptuary | noun | One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier. |
| ruptured | imp. & past participle | of Rupture, Having a rupture, or hernia. |
| ruralism | noun | The quality or state of being rural; ruralness., A rural idiom or expression. |
| ruralist | noun | One who leads a rural life. |
| rurality | noun | The quality or state of being rural., A rural place. |
| ruralize | verb t. | To render rural; to give a rural appearance to., To become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate. |
| rushlike | adjective | Resembling a rush; weak. |
| rustical | adjective | Rustic. |
| rusticly | adverb | In a rustic manner; rustically. |
| rustling | present participle & vb. noun | of Rustle |
| rustless | adjective | Free from rust. |
| ruthenic | adjective | Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds. |
| ruthless | adjective | Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless. |
| rutilant | adjective | Having a reddish glow; shining. |
| rutilate | verb i. | To shine; to emit rays of light. |
| rutilian | noun | Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata). |
| rutylene | noun | A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially. |