English Dictionary: Rau-Sed | by the DICT Development Group |
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Race \Race\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Racing}.] 1. To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port. 2. (Steam Mach.) 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. | |
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Rack \Rack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Racking}.] [See {Rack} that which stretches, or {Rock}, v.] To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse. --Fuller. | |
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Racket \Rack"et\, n. A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket. [Slang] | |
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Racket \Rack"et\, v. t. To strike with, or as with, a racket. Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another. --Hewyt. | |
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Racket \Rack"et\, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.] 1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport. 2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang] | |
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Racket \Rack"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Racketing}.] 1. To make a confused noise or racket. 2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. --Sterne. 3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang] | |
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Racket \Rack"et\, n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raquets, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[be]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.] [Written also {racquet}.] 1. 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. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. --Bancroft. 2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. --Chaucer. 3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada] 4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. {Racket court}, a court for playing the game of rackets. | |
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Rackett \Rack"ett\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Mus.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys. | |
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Rackety \Rack"et*y\, a. Making a tumultuous noise. | |
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Racket \Rack"et\, n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raquets, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[be]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.] [Written also {racquet}.] 1. 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. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. --Bancroft. 2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. --Chaucer. 3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada] 4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. {Racket court}, a court for playing the game of rackets. | |
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Racquet \Rac"quet\, n. See {Racket}. | |
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Racket \Rack"et\, n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raquets, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[be]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.] [Written also {racquet}.] 1. 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. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. --Bancroft. 2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. --Chaucer. 3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada] 4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. {Racket court}, a court for playing the game of rackets. | |
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Racquet \Rac"quet\, n. See {Racket}. | |
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Rage \Rage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raging}.] [OF. ragier. See {Rage}, n.] 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. [bd]Whereat he inly raged.[b8] --Milton. When one so great begins to rage, he a hunted Even to falling. --Shak. 2. To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds. Why do the heathen rage ? --Ps. ii. 1. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise. --Milton. 3. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo. 4. To toy or act wantonly; to sport. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: To storm; fret; chafe; fume. | |
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Rag \Rag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ragging}.] To become tattered. [Obs.] | |
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Ragged \Rag"ged\, a. [From {Rag}, n.] 1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail. 2. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks. 3. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.] [bd]A ragged noise of mirth.[b8] --Herbert. 4. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. 5. Rough; shaggy; rugged. What shepherd owns those ragged sheep ? --Dryden. {Ragged lady} (Bot.), the fennel flower ({Nigella Damascena}). {Ragged robin} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Lychnis} ({L. Flos-cuculi}), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes. {Ragged sailor} (Bot.), prince's feather ({Polygonum orientale}). {Ragged school}, a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.] -- {Rag"ged*ly}, adv. -- {Rag"ged*ness}, n. | |
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Ragout \Ra*gout"\ (r[adot]*g[oomac]"), n. [F. rago[96]t, fr. rago[96]ter to restore one's appetite, fr. L. pref. re- re- + ad to + gustare to taste, gustus taste. See {Gust} relish.] A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton. | |
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Ragweed \Rag"weed\, n. (Bot.) A common American composite weed ({Ambrosia artemisi[91]folia}) with finely divided leaves; hogweed. {Great ragweed}, a coarse American herb ({Ambrosia trifida}), with rough three-lobed opposite leaves. | |
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Raise \Raise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raising}.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[c6]sa to rise. See {Rise}, and cf. {Rear} to raise.] 1. 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. Hence, figuratively: (a) 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, and the like. This gentleman came to be raised to great titles. --Clarendon. The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece. --Sir W. Temple. (b) 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. (c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room. 2. 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. Hence: (a) To cause to spring up from recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse. They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. --Job xiv. 12. (b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. --Ps. cvii. 25. [92]neas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. --Dryden. (c) 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. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ? --Acts xxvi. 8. 3. To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: (a) 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. I will raise forts against thee. --Isa. xxxix. 3. (b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. [bd]To raise up a rent.[b8] --Chaucer. (c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. [bd]He raised sheep.[b8] [bd]He raised wheat where none grew before.[b8] --Johnson's Dict. | |
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Raised \Raised\, a. 1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. 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 beach}. See under {Beach}, n. | |
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Muckrake \Muck"rake`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {-raked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-raking}.] To seek for, expose, or charge, esp. habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on [bd]The Man with the Muck Rake,[b8] in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to | |
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Rake \Rake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raking}.] [AS. racian. See 1st {Rake}.] 1. To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves. 2. Hence: 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. 3. 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. 4. To search through; to scour; to ransack. The statesman rakes the town to find a plot. --Swift. 5. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. Like clouds that rake the mountain summits. --Wordsworth. 6. (Mil.) 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. {To rake up}. (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes. (b) To bring up; to search out an bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals. | |
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Muckrake \Muck"rake`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {-raked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-raking}.] To seek for, expose, or charge, esp. habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on [bd]The Man with the Muck Rake,[b8] in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to | |
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Rake \Rake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raking}.] [AS. racian. See 1st {Rake}.] 1. To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves. 2. Hence: 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. 3. 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. 4. To search through; to scour; to ransack. The statesman rakes the town to find a plot. --Swift. 5. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. Like clouds that rake the mountain summits. --Wordsworth. 6. (Mil.) 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. {To rake up}. (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes. (b) To bring up; to search out an bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals. | |
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Rase \Rase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rasing}.] [F. raser, LL. rasare to scrape often, v. freq. fr. L. radere, rasum, to scrape, shave; cf. Skr. rad to scratch, gnaw, L. rodere to gnaw. Cf. {Raze}, {Razee}, {Razor}, {Rodent}.] 1. To rub along the surface of; to graze. [Obsoles.] Was he not in the . . . neighborhood to death? and might not the bullet which rased his cheek have gone into his head? --South. Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. --Beckford. 2. To rub or scratch out; to erase. [Obsoles.] Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. --Fuller. 3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze. [In this sense {rase} is generally used.] Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn home. --Chapman. Note: This word, rase, may be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase, and raze, having superseded it. {Rasing iron}, a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel. Syn: To erase; efface; obliterate; expunge; cancel; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; demolish; ruin. | |
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Raucid \Rau"cid\, a. [L. raucus hoarse; cf. LL. raucidus.] Hoarse; raucous [R.] --Lamb. | |
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Raucity \Rau"ci*ty\, n. [L. rausitas, from raucus hoarse: cf. F. raucit[82].] Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice. | |
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Raught \Raught\, obs. imp. & p. p. of {Reach}. --Shak. | |
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Raught \Raught\, obs. imp. & p. p. of {Reck}. --Chaucer. | |
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Reach \Reach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reached}({Raught}, the old preterit, is obsolete); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaching}.] [OE. rechen, AS. r[aemac]can, r[aemac]cean, to extend, stretch out; akin to D. reiken, G. reichen, and possibly to AS. r[c6]ce powerful, rich, E. rich. [root]115.] 1. To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten. --Rom. of R. Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side. --John xx. 27. Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs. --Milton. 2. 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. He reached me a full cap. --2 Esd. xiv. 39. 3. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; too 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. O patron power, . . . thy present aid afford, Than I may reach the beast. --Dryden. 4. To strike, hit, or tough with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. 5. Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine. --Locke. 6. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his hand reaches the river. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. --Milton. 7. To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality. --Cheyne. 9. To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.] Do what, sir? I reach you not. --Beau. & Fl. 10. To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] --South. | |
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Raw \Raw\, a. [Compar {Rawer}; superl. {Rawest}.] [AS. hre[a0]w; akin to D. raauw, LG. rau, G. roh, OHG. r[omac], Icel. hr[be]r, Dan. raa, Sw. r[86], L. crudus, Gr. kre`as flesh, Skr. kravis raw flesh. [root]18. Cf. {Crude}, {Cruel}.] 1. 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. 2. Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude. --De Quincey. 3. Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought. Specifically: (a) Not distilled; as, raw water. [Obs.] --Bacon. (b) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton. (c) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits. (d) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow. (e) Not tanned; as, raw hides. (f) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth. 4. Not covered; bare. Specifically: (a) Bald. [Obs.] [bd]With scull all raw.[b8] --Spencer (b) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore. (c) Sore, as if by being galled. And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment. --Spenser. 5. Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; as, a raw wind. [bd]A raw and gusty day.[b8] --Shak. {Raw material}, material that has not been subjected to a (specified) process of manufacture; as, ore is the raw material used in smelting; leather is the raw material of the shoe industry. {Raw pig}, cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace. | |
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Raze \Raze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Razed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Razing}.] [F. raser. See {Rase}, v. t.] [Written also {rase}.] 1. To erase; to efface; to obliterate. Razing the characters of your renown. --Shak. 2. To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to destroy; to demolish. The royal hand that razed unhappy Troy. --Dryden. Syn: To demolish; level; prostrate; overthrow; subvert; destroy; ruin. See {Demolish}. | |
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Razed \Razed\, a. Slashed or striped in patterns. [Obs.] [bd]Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Razoe \Ra*zoe"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Razeed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Razeeing}.] To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or glass, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article. | |
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Reach \Reach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reached}({Raught}, the old preterit, is obsolete); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaching}.] [OE. rechen, AS. r[aemac]can, r[aemac]cean, to extend, stretch out; akin to D. reiken, G. reichen, and possibly to AS. r[c6]ce powerful, rich, E. rich. [root]115.] 1. To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten. --Rom. of R. Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side. --John xx. 27. Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs. --Milton. 2. 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. He reached me a full cap. --2 Esd. xiv. 39. 3. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; too 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. O patron power, . . . thy present aid afford, Than I may reach the beast. --Dryden. 4. To strike, hit, or tough with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. 5. Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine. --Locke. 6. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his hand reaches the river. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. --Milton. 7. To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality. --Cheyne. 9. To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.] Do what, sir? I reach you not. --Beau. & Fl. 10. To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] --South. | |
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React \Re*act"\, 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. | |
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React \Re*act"\, v. i. 1. 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. | |
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Reasty \Reas"ty\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser. -- {Reas"ti*ness}, n. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] | |
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Recede \Re*cede"\, v. t. [Pref. re- + cede. Cf. {Recede}, v. t.] To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory. | |
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Recede \Re*cede"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Receded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Receding}.] [L. recedere, recessum; pref. re- re- + cedere to go, to go along: cf. F. rec[82]der. See {Cede}.] 1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. --Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. --Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition. Syn: To retire; retreat; return; retrograde; withdraw; desist. | |
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Receit \Re*ceit"\, n. Receipt. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Recheat \Re*cheat"\, v. i. To blow the recheat. --Drayton. | |
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Recheat \Re*cheat"\, n. [F. requ[88]t[82], fr. requ[88]ter to hunt anew. See {Request}.] (Sporting) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game. | |
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Recite \Re*cite"\, v. i. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned. | |
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Recite \Re*cite"\, n. A recital. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple. | |
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Recite \Re*cite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reciting}.] [F. r[82]citer, fr. L. recitare, recitatum; pref. re- re- + citare to call or name, to cite. See {Cite}.] 1. 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. 2. To tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage. 3. To rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor. 4. (Law) To state in or as a recital. See {Recital}, 5. Syn: To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate; detail; number; count. | |
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Reck \Reck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recked}(obs. imp. {Roughte}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Recking}.] [AS. reccan, r[emac]can, to care for; akin to OS. r[omac]kian, OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. r[91]kja, also to E. reckon, rake an implement. See {Rake}, and cf. {Reckon}.] 1. To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard. [Archaic] This son of mine not recking danger. --Sir P. Sidney. And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser. --Burns. 2. To concern; -- used impersonally. [Poetic] What recks it them? --Milton. | |
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Recti- \Rec"ti-\ (r?k"t?*). [L. rectus straight.] A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved. | |
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d8Rectus \[d8]Rec"tus\ (-t?s), n.; pl. {Recti} (-t[?]). [NL., fr. L. regere to keep straight.] (Anat.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye. | |
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Recti- \Rec"ti-\ (r?k"t?*). [L. rectus straight.] A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved. | |
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d8Rectus \[d8]Rec"tus\ (-t?s), n.; pl. {Recti} (-t[?]). [NL., fr. L. regere to keep straight.] (Anat.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye. | |
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Recto- \Rec"to-\ (r?k"t?*). A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the rectum; as, recto-vesical. | |
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Recto \Rec"to\, n. [Abbrev. fr. LL. breve de recto. See {Right}.] (Law) A writ of right. | |
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Recto \Rec"to\, n. [Cf. F. recto.] (Print.) The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso. | |
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Recto- \Rec"to-\ (r?k"t?*). A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the rectum; as, recto-vesical. | |
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Recto \Rec"to\, n. [Abbrev. fr. LL. breve de recto. See {Right}.] (Law) A writ of right. | |
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Recto \Rec"to\, n. [Cf. F. recto.] (Print.) The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso. | |
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Reek \Reek\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reeked} (r[emac]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reeking}.] [As. r[emac]can. See {Reek} vapor.] To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale. Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. --Spenser. I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. --Milton. The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. --Macaulay. | |
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Reezed \Reezed\ (r?zd), a. Grown rank; rancid; rusty. [Obs.] [bd]Reezed bacon.[b8] --Marston. | |
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Regatta \Re*gat"ta\ (r?*g?t"t?), n.; pl. {Regattas} (-t[?]z). [It. regatta, regata.] Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races. | |
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Reget \Re*get"\ (r?*g?t"), v. t. To get again. | |
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Requite \Re"quite"\ (r?-kw?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Requited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Requiting}.] [Pref. re- + quit.] 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. He can requite thee; for he knows the charma That call fame on such gentle acts as these. --Milton. Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand. --Ps. x. 14. Syn: To repay; reward; pay; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; recompense; punish; revenge. | |
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Rescat \Res"cat\ (r?s"k?t), v. t. [Sp. rescattar.] To ransom; to release; to rescue. [Obs.] --Howell. | |
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Rescat \Res"cat\, n. [Sp. rescate.] Ransom; release. [Obs.] | |
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Rescue \Res"cue\ (r?s"k?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rescued} (-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. {Rescuing}.] [OE. rescopuen, OF. rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See {Qtash} to crush, {Rercussion}.] 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. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. --Shak. Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release; save. | |
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Reseat \Re*seat"\ (r?-s?t"), v. t. 1. To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc. --Dryden. 2. To put a new seat, or new seats, in; as, to reseat a theater; to reseat a chair or trousers. | |
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Reseda \Re*se"da\ (r?-s?"d?), n. [L., a kind of plant.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette. 2. A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette. | |
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Reset \Re*set"\ (r?-s?t"), v. t. To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond. | |
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Reset \Re"set\ (r?"s?t), n. 1. The act of resetting. 2. (Print.) That which is reset; matter set up again. | |
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Reset \Re*set"\ (r?-s?t"), n. [OF. recete, recepte, a receiving. Cf. {Receipt}.] (Scots Law) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. --Jamieson. | |
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Reset \Re*set"\, v. t. (Scots Law) To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal. We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here. --Sir. W. Scott. | |
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Reside \Re*side"\ (r?-z?d"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Resided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Residing}.] [F. r[82]sider, L. residere; pref. re- re- + sedere to sit. See {Sit}. ] 1. 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. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. --Shak. In no fixed place the happy souls reside. --Dryden. 2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside. --Barrow. 3. To sink; to settle, as sediment. [Obs.] --Boyle. Syn: To dwell; inhabit; sojourn; abide; remain; live; domiciliate; domicile. | |
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Residue \Res"i*due\ (r?z"?-d?), n. [F. r[82]sidu, L. residuum, fr. residuus that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to remain behind. See {Reside}, and cf. {Residuum}.] 1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder. The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. --Jer. xv. 9. If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved. --I. Taylor. 2. (Law) 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. 3. (Chem.) 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. | |
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Rest \Rest\ (r[ecr]st), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Resting}.] [AS. restan. See {Rest}, n.] 1. To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion. God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. --Gen. ii. 2. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest. --Ex. xxiii. 12. 2. To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still. There rest, if any rest can harbor there. --Milton. 3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch. 4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal. 5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead. Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests. --Milton. 6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise. On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering, fixed [?][?] fate. --Dryden. 7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce. To rest in Heaven's determination. --Addison. {To rest with}, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide. | |
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Rest \Rest\ (r?st), v. t. [For arrest.] To arrest. [Obs.] | |
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Rest \Rest\, n. [AS. rest, r[ae]st, rest; akin to D. rust, G. rast. OHG. rasta, Dan. & Sw. rast rest, repose, Icel. r[94]st the distance between two resting places, a mole, Goth. rasta a mile, also to Goth. razn house, Icel. rann, and perhaps to G. ruhe rest, repose, AS. r[omac]w, Gr. 'erwh`. Cf. {Ransack}.] 1. A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. --Chaucer. Sleep give thee all his rest! --Shak. 2. Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security. And the land had rest fourscore years. --Judges iii. 30. 3. Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest. --Collins. 4. That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work. He made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. --1 Kings vi. 6. 5. (Anc. Armor) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance. Their visors closed, their lances in the rest. --Dryden. 6. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. [bd]Halfway houses and travelers' rests.[b8] --J. H. Newman. In dust our final rest, and native home. --Milton. Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. --Deut. xii. 9. 7. (Pros.) A short pause in reading verse; a c[ae]sura. 8. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. [bd]An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests.[b8] --Abbott. 9. A set or game at tennis. [Obs.] 10. (Mus.) 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 house}, an empty house for the accomodation of travelers; a caravansary. [India] {To set, [or] To set up}, {one's rest}, to have a settled determination; -- from an old game of cards, when one so expressed his intention to stand or rest upon his hand. [Obs.] --Shak. Bacon. Syn: Cessation; pause; intermission; stop; stay; repose; slumber; quiet; ease; quietness; stillness; tranquillity; peacefulness; peace. Usage: {Rest}, {Repose}. Rest is a ceasing from labor or exertion; repose is a mode of resting which gives relief and refreshment after toil and labor. The words are commonly interchangeable. | |
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Rest \Rest\, v. i. [F. rester. See {Rest} remainder.] To be left; to remain; to continue to be. The affairs of men rest still uncertain. --Shak. | |
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Rest \Rest\, v. t. 1. To lay or place at rest; to quiet. Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade. --Dryden. 2. To place, as on a support; to cause to lean. Her weary head upon your bosom rest. --Waller. | |
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Rest \Rest\, n. [F. reste, fr. rester to remain, L. restare to stay back, remain; pref. re- re- + stare to stand, stay. See {Stand}, and cf. {Arrest}, {Restive}.] (With the definite article.) 1. That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue. Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and, for the rest, it offers us the best security that Heaven can give. --Tillotson. 2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. [bd]Plato and the rest of the philosophers.[b8] --Bp. Stillingfleet. Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. --DRyden. 3. (Com.) 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. [Eng.] Syn: Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve; others. | |
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Resty \Rest"y\, a. Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] --Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. --Milton. | |
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Rhizoid \Rhi"zoid\, n. [Gr. [?][?][?] root + -oid.] (Bot.) A rootlike appendage. | |
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Richweed \Rich"weed`\, n. (Bot.) An herb ({Pilea pumila}) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also {clearweed}. | |
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Rickety \Rick"et*y\, a. 1. Affected with rickets. 2. Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky. | |
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Rig \Rig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rigging}.] [Norweg. rigga to bind, particularly, to wrap round, rig; cf. AS. wr[c6]han to cover.] 1. To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling. 2. To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out. Jack was rigged out in his gold and silver lace. --L'Estrange. {To rig a purchase}, to adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc. {To rig a ship} (Naut.), to fit the shrouds, stays, braces, etc., to their respective masts and yards. | |
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Right \Right\ (r[imac]t), a. [OE. right, riht, AS. riht; akin to D. regt, OS. & OHG. reht, G. recht, Dan. ret, Sw. r[84]tt, Icel. r[89]ttr, Goth. ra[a1]hts, L. rectus, p. p. of regere to guide, rule; cf. Skr. [rsdot]ju straight, right. [root]115. Cf. {Adroit},{Alert}, {Correct}, {Dress}, {Regular}, {Rector}, {Recto}, {Rectum}, {Regent}, {Region}, {Realm}, {Rich}, {Royal}, {Rule}.] 1. Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line. [bd]Right as any line.[b8] --Chaucer 2. Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone. 3. 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. That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. --Whately. 2. Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford. 5. Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious. [bd]His right wife.[b8] --Chaucer. In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. --Milton. 6. 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. You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well. --Shak. If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, [bd]Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.[b8] --Locke. 7. Most favorable or convenient; fortunate. The lady has been disappointed on the right side. --Spectator. 8. 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 corresponding side of the lower animals. Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand. --Longfellow. Note: In designating the banks of a river, right and left are used always with reference to the position of one who is facing in the direction of the current's flow. 9. Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done. 10. Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth. {At right angles}, so as to form a right angle or right angles, as when one line crosses another perpendicularly. {Right and left}, in both or all directions. [Colloq.] {Right and left coupling} (Pipe fitting), a coupling the opposite ends of which are tapped for a right-handed screw and a left-handed screw, respectivelly. {Right angle}. (a) The angle formed by one line meeting another perpendicularly, as the angles ABD, DBC. (b) (Spherics) A spherical angle included between the axes of two great circles whose planes are perpendicular to each other. {Right ascension}. See under {Ascension}. {Right Center} (Politics), those members belonging to the Center in a legislative assembly who have sympathies with the Right on political questions. See {Center}, n., 5. {Right cone}, {Right cylinder}, {Right prism}, {Right pyramid} (Geom.), a cone, cylinder, prism, or pyramid, the axis of which is perpendicular to the base. {Right line}. See under {Line}. {Right sailing} (Naut.), sailing on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter a ship's latitude or its longitude, but not both. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Right sphere} (Astron. & Geol.), a sphere in such a position that the equator cuts the horizon at right angles; in spherical projections, that position of the sphere in which the primitive plane coincides with the plane of the equator. Note: Right is used elliptically for it is right, what you say is right, true. [bd]Right,[b8] cries his lordship. --Pope. Syn: Straight; direct; perpendicular; upright; lawful; rightful; true; correct; just; equitable; proper; suitable; becoming. | |
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Right \Right\, adv. 1. In a right manner. 2. 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. Unto Dian's temple goeth she right. --Chaucer. Let thine eyes look right on. --Prov. iv. 25. Right across its track there lay, Down in the water, a long reef of gold. --Tennyson. 3. Exactly; just. [Obs. or Colloq.] Came he right now to sing a raven's note? --Shak. 4. According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right. 5. According to any rule of art; correctly. You with strict discipline instructed right. --Roscommon. 6. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. [bd]Right at mine own cost.[b8] --Chaucer. Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye. --Chaucer. His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught. --Fairfax. 7. In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. [bd]He was not right fat[b8]. --Chaucer. For which I should be right sorry. --Tyndale. [I] return those duties back as are right fit. --Shak. Note: In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable; right reverend. {Right honorable}, a title given in England to peers and peeresses, to the eldest sons and all daughters of such peers as have rank above viscounts, and to all privy councilors; also, to certain civic officers, as the lord mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin. | |
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Right \Right\, n. [AS. right. See {Right}, a.] 1. That which is right or correct. Specifically: (a) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong. (b) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact. Seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always in the right. --Prior. (c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity. Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved, had fortune done him right. --Dryden. 2. That to which one has a just claim. Specifically: (a) That which one has a natural claim to exact. There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties. --Coleridge. (b) 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. (c) 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. Born free, he sought his right. --Dryden. Hast thou not right to all created things? --Milton. Men have no right to what is not reasonable. --Burke. (d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority. 3. The right side; the side opposite to the left. Led her to the Souldan's right. --Spenser. 4. In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See {Center}, 5. 5. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc. {At all right}, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Bill of rights}, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See under {Bill}. {By right}, {By rights}, [or] {By good rights}, rightly; properly; correctly. He should himself use it by right. --Chaucer. I should have been a woman by right. --Shak. {Divine right}, [or] {Divine right of kings}, a name given to the patriarchal theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience of the people. {To rights}. (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] --Woodward. (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] --Swift. {To set to rights}, {To put to rights}, to put in good order; to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order. {Writ of right} (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner. --Blackstone. | |
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Right \Right\, v. i. 1. To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright. 2. (Naut.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening. | |
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Right \Right\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Righted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Righting}.] [AS. rihtan. See {Right}, a.] 1. 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. 2. 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. So just is God, to right the innocent. --Shak. All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. --Jefferson. {To right a vessel} (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening. {To right the helm} (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel. | |
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Note: Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright, forthright, etc. {Right along}, without cessation; continuously; as, to work right along for several hours. [Colloq. U.S.] {Right away}, [or] {Right off}, at once; straightway; without delay. [Colloq. U.S.] [bd]We will . . . shut ourselves up in the office and do the work right off.[b8] --D. Webster. | |
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Rigid \Rig"id\, a. [L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb: cf. F. rigide. Cf. {Rigor}. ] 1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. --Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. --Hawthorne. Syn: Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact; severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated. | |
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Risk \Risk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Risked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Risking}.] [CF. F. risquer. See {Risk}, n.] 1. 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. 2. To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle. Syn: To hazard; peril; endanger; jeopard. | |
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Rissoid \Ris"soid\, n. [NL. Rissoa, the typical genus ( fr. A. Risso, an Italian naturalist) + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus {Rissoa}, or family {Rissoid[91]}, found both in fresh and salt water. | |
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Rist \Rist\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Rise}, contracted from riseth. --Chaucer. | |
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Roast \Roast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roasting}.] [OE. rosten, OF. rostir, F. r[93]tir; of German origin; cf. OHG. r[omac]sten, G. r[94]sten, fr. OHG. r[omac]st, r[omac]sta, gridiron, G. rost; cf. AS. hyrstan to roast.] 1. 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. 2. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. --BAcon. 3. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts. 4. Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. [bd]Roasted in wrath and fire.[b8] --Shak. 5. (Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores. 6. To banter severely. [Colloq.] --Atterbury. | |
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Roast \Roast\, v. i. 1. To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry. --Chaucer. 2. To undergo the process of being roasted. | |
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Roast \Roast\, n. That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted. A fat swan loved he best of any roost [roast]. --Chaucer. {To rule the roast}, to be at the head of affairs. [bd]The new-made duke that rules the roast.[b8] | |
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Roast \Roast\, a. [For roasted.] Roasted; as, roast beef. | |
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Rochet \Roch"et\, n. [F., dim. fr. OHG. rocch coat, G. rock.] 1. (Eccl.) 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. They see no difference between an idler with a hat and national cockade, and an idler in a cowl or in a rochet. --Burke. 2. A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. | |
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Rochet \Roch"et\, n. [Probably corrupted fr. F. rouget the red gurnet, from rouge red. CF. {Rouge}.] (Zo[94]l.) The red gurnard, or gurnet. See {Gurnard}. | |
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Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS. rocc.] 1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See {Stone}. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. 3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii. 2. 4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The striped bass. See under {Bass}. Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built, rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like. {Rock alum}. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a rock.] Same as {Roche alum}. {Rock barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a barnacle ({Balanus balanoides}) very abundant on rocks washed by tides. {Rock bass}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The stripped bass. See under {Bass}. (b) The goggle-eye. (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass. {Rock builder} (Zo[94]l.), any species of animal whose remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the corals and Foraminifera. {Rock butter} (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate. {Rock candy}, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure sugar which are very hard, whence the name. {Rock cavy}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Moco}. {Rock cod} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod found about rocks andledges. (b) A California rockfish. {Rock cook}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European wrasse ({Centrolabrus exoletus}). (b) A rockling. {Rock cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture. {Rock crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large crabs of the genus {Cancer}, as the two species of the New England coast ({C. irroratus} and {C. borealis}). See Illust. under {Cancer}. {Rock cress} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress kind found on rocks, as {Arabis petr[91]a}, {A. lyrata}, etc. {Rock crystal} (Min.), limpid quartz. See {Quartz}, and under {Crystal}. {Rock dove} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock doo}. {Rock drill}, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp., a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for drilling holes for blasting, etc. {Rock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the harlequin duck. {Rock eel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gunnel}. {Rock goat} (Zo[94]l.), a wild goat, or ibex. {Rock hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a penguin of the genus {Catarractes}. See under {Penguin}. {Rock kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}, and {Petrogale}. {Rock lobster} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large spinose lobsters of the genera {Panulirus} and {Palinurus}. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny lobster}, and {sea crayfish}. {Rock meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence. {Rock milk}. (Min.) See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}. {Rock moss}, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See {Cudbear}. {Rock oil}. See {Petroleum}. {Rock parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian parrakeet ({Euphema petrophila}), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish green. {Rock pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the wild pigeon ({Columba livia}) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under {Pigeon}. {Rock pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Pipit}. {Rock plover}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover. (b) The rock snipe. {Rock ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.), an arctic American ptarmigan ({Lagopus rupestris}), which in winter is white, with the tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black patches on the back. {Rock rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the hyrax. See {Cony}, and {Daman}. {Rock ruby} (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet. {Rock salt} (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities. {Rock seal} (Zo[94]l.), the harbor seal. See {Seal}. {Rock shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and allied genera. {Rock snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several large pythons; as, the royal rock snake ({Python regia}) of Africa, and the rock snake of India ({P. molurus}). The Australian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus {Morelia}. {Rock snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima}); -- called also {rock bird}, {rock plover}, {winter snipe}. {Rock soap} (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. {Rock sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of the genus {Petronia}, as {P. stulla}, of Europe. (b) A North American sparrow ({Puc[91]a ruficeps}). {Rock tar}, petroleum. {Rock thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any Old World thrush of the genus {Monticola}, or {Petrocossyphus}; as, the European rock thrush ({M. saxatilis}), and the blue rock thrush of India ({M. cyaneus}), in which the male is blue throughout. {Rock tripe} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. {Rock trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus {Hexagrammus}, family {Chirad[91]}, native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also {sea trout}, {boregat}, {bodieron}, and {starling}. {Rock warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian singing bird ({Origma rubricata}) which frequents rocky ravines and water courses; -- called also {cataract bird}. {Rock wren} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus {Salpinctes}, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico. | |
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Rockfish \Rock"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several California scorp[91]noid 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}. (b) The striped bass. See {Bass}. (c) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus {Epinephelus}. (d) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch. Note: The term is locally applied to various other fishes. | |
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Cod \Cod\, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L. gadus merlangus.] (Zo[94]l.) An important edible fish ({Gadus morrhua}), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities. Note: There are several varieties; as {shore cod}, from shallow water; {bank cod}, from the distant banks; and {rock cod}, which is found among ledges, and is often dark brown or mottled with red. The {tomcod} is a distinct species of small size. The {bastard}, {blue}, {buffalo}, or {cultus cod} of the Pacific coast belongs to a distinct family. See {Buffalo cod}, under {Buffalo}. {Cod fishery}, the business of fishing for cod. {Cod line}, an eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish. --McElrath. | |
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Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS. rocc.] 1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See {Stone}. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. 3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii. 2. 4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The striped bass. See under {Bass}. Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built, rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like. {Rock alum}. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a rock.] Same as {Roche alum}. {Rock barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a barnacle ({Balanus balanoides}) very abundant on rocks washed by tides. {Rock bass}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The stripped bass. See under {Bass}. (b) The goggle-eye. (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass. {Rock builder} (Zo[94]l.), any species of animal whose remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the corals and Foraminifera. {Rock butter} (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate. {Rock candy}, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure sugar which are very hard, whence the name. {Rock cavy}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Moco}. {Rock cod} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod found about rocks andledges. (b) A California rockfish. {Rock cook}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European wrasse ({Centrolabrus exoletus}). (b) A rockling. {Rock cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture. {Rock crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large crabs of the genus {Cancer}, as the two species of the New England coast ({C. irroratus} and {C. borealis}). See Illust. under {Cancer}. {Rock cress} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress kind found on rocks, as {Arabis petr[91]a}, {A. lyrata}, etc. {Rock crystal} (Min.), limpid quartz. See {Quartz}, and under {Crystal}. {Rock dove} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock doo}. {Rock drill}, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp., a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for drilling holes for blasting, etc. {Rock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the harlequin duck. {Rock eel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gunnel}. {Rock goat} (Zo[94]l.), a wild goat, or ibex. {Rock hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a penguin of the genus {Catarractes}. See under {Penguin}. {Rock kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}, and {Petrogale}. {Rock lobster} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large spinose lobsters of the genera {Panulirus} and {Palinurus}. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny lobster}, and {sea crayfish}. {Rock meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence. {Rock milk}. (Min.) See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}. {Rock moss}, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See {Cudbear}. {Rock oil}. See {Petroleum}. {Rock parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian parrakeet ({Euphema petrophila}), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish green. {Rock pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the wild pigeon ({Columba livia}) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under {Pigeon}. {Rock pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Pipit}. {Rock plover}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover. (b) The rock snipe. {Rock ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.), an arctic American ptarmigan ({Lagopus rupestris}), which in winter is white, with the tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black patches on the back. {Rock rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the hyrax. See {Cony}, and {Daman}. {Rock ruby} (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet. {Rock salt} (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities. {Rock seal} (Zo[94]l.), the harbor seal. See {Seal}. {Rock shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and allied genera. {Rock snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several large pythons; as, the royal rock snake ({Python regia}) of Africa, and the rock snake of India ({P. molurus}). The Australian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus {Morelia}. {Rock snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima}); -- called also {rock bird}, {rock plover}, {winter snipe}. {Rock soap} (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. {Rock sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of the genus {Petronia}, as {P. stulla}, of Europe. (b) A North American sparrow ({Puc[91]a ruficeps}). {Rock tar}, petroleum. {Rock thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any Old World thrush of the genus {Monticola}, or {Petrocossyphus}; as, the European rock thrush ({M. saxatilis}), and the blue rock thrush of India ({M. cyaneus}), in which the male is blue throughout. {Rock tripe} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. {Rock trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus {Hexagrammus}, family {Chirad[91]}, native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also {sea trout}, {boregat}, {bodieron}, and {starling}. {Rock warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian singing bird ({Origma rubricata}) which frequents rocky ravines and water courses; -- called also {cataract bird}. {Rock wren} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus {Salpinctes}, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico. | |
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Rockfish \Rock"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several California scorp[91]noid 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}. (b) The striped bass. See {Bass}. (c) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus {Epinephelus}. (d) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch. Note: The term is locally applied to various other fishes. | |
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Cod \Cod\, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L. gadus merlangus.] (Zo[94]l.) An important edible fish ({Gadus morrhua}), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities. Note: There are several varieties; as {shore cod}, from shallow water; {bank cod}, from the distant banks; and {rock cod}, which is found among ledges, and is often dark brown or mottled with red. The {tomcod} is a distinct species of small size. The {bastard}, {blue}, {buffalo}, or {cultus cod} of the Pacific coast belongs to a distinct family. See {Buffalo cod}, under {Buffalo}. {Cod fishery}, the business of fishing for cod. {Cod line}, an eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish. --McElrath. | |
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Distaff \Dis"taff\, n.; pl. {Distaffs}, rarely {Distaves}. [OE. distaf, dysestafe, AS. distaef; cf. LG. diesse the bunch of flax on a distaff, and E. dizen. See {Staff}.] 1. The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. --Fairfax. 2. Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively. His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. --Dryden. Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. --Howell. Note: The plural is regular, but Distaves occurs in Beaumont & Fletcher. {Descent by distaff}, descent on the mother's side. {Distaff Day}, [or] {Distaff's Day}, the morrow of the Epiphany, that is, January 7, because working at the distaff was then resumed, after the Christmas festival; -- called also {Rock Day}, a distaff being called a rock. --Shipley. | |
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Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS. rocc.] 1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See {Stone}. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. 3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii. 2. 4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The striped bass. See under {Bass}. Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built, rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like. {Rock alum}. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a rock.] Same as {Roche alum}. {Rock barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a barnacle ({Balanus balanoides}) very abundant on rocks washed by tides. {Rock bass}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The stripped bass. See under {Bass}. (b) The goggle-eye. (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass. {Rock builder} (Zo[94]l.), any species of animal whose remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the corals and Foraminifera. {Rock butter} (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate. {Rock candy}, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure sugar which are very hard, whence the name. {Rock cavy}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Moco}. {Rock cod} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod found about rocks andledges. (b) A California rockfish. {Rock cook}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European wrasse ({Centrolabrus exoletus}). (b) A rockling. {Rock cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture. {Rock crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large crabs of the genus {Cancer}, as the two species of the New England coast ({C. irroratus} and {C. borealis}). See Illust. under {Cancer}. {Rock cress} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress kind found on rocks, as {Arabis petr[91]a}, {A. lyrata}, etc. {Rock crystal} (Min.), limpid quartz. See {Quartz}, and under {Crystal}. {Rock dove} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock doo}. {Rock drill}, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp., a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for drilling holes for blasting, etc. {Rock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the harlequin duck. {Rock eel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gunnel}. {Rock goat} (Zo[94]l.), a wild goat, or ibex. {Rock hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a penguin of the genus {Catarractes}. See under {Penguin}. {Rock kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}, and {Petrogale}. {Rock lobster} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large spinose lobsters of the genera {Panulirus} and {Palinurus}. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny lobster}, and {sea crayfish}. {Rock meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence. {Rock milk}. (Min.) See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}. {Rock moss}, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See {Cudbear}. {Rock oil}. See {Petroleum}. {Rock parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian parrakeet ({Euphema petrophila}), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish green. {Rock pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the wild pigeon ({Columba livia}) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under {Pigeon}. {Rock pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Pipit}. {Rock plover}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover. (b) The rock snipe. {Rock ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.), an arctic American ptarmigan ({Lagopus rupestris}), which in winter is white, with the tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black patches on the back. {Rock rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the hyrax. See {Cony}, and {Daman}. {Rock ruby} (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet. {Rock salt} (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities. {Rock seal} (Zo[94]l.), the harbor seal. See {Seal}. {Rock shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and allied genera. {Rock snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several large pythons; as, the royal rock snake ({Python regia}) of Africa, and the rock snake of India ({P. molurus}). The Australian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus {Morelia}. {Rock snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima}); -- called also {rock bird}, {rock plover}, {winter snipe}. {Rock soap} (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. {Rock sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of the genus {Petronia}, as {P. stulla}, of Europe. (b) A North American sparrow ({Puc[91]a ruficeps}). {Rock tar}, petroleum. {Rock thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any Old World thrush of the genus {Monticola}, or {Petrocossyphus}; as, the European rock thrush ({M. saxatilis}), and the blue rock thrush of India ({M. cyaneus}), in which the male is blue throughout. {Rock tripe} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. {Rock trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus {Hexagrammus}, family {Chirad[91]}, native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also {sea trout}, {boregat}, {bodieron}, and {starling}. {Rock warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian singing bird ({Origma rubricata}) which frequents rocky ravines and water courses; -- called also {cataract bird}. {Rock wren} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus {Salpinctes}, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico. | |
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Rock \Rock\, n. [OF. roke, F. roche; cf. Armor. roc'h, and AS. rocc.] 1. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See {Stone}. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Geol.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. 3. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress. --2 Sam. xxii. 2. 4. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The striped bass. See under {Bass}. Note: This word is frequently used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, rock-bound, rock-built, rock-ribbed, rock-roofed, and the like. {Rock alum}. [Probably so called by confusion with F. roche a rock.] Same as {Roche alum}. {Rock barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), a barnacle ({Balanus balanoides}) very abundant on rocks washed by tides. {Rock bass}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The stripped bass. See under {Bass}. (b) The goggle-eye. (c) The cabrilla. Other species are also locally called rock bass. {Rock builder} (Zo[94]l.), any species of animal whose remains contribute to the formation of rocks, especially the corals and Foraminifera. {Rock butter} (Min.), native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white color, occuring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate. {Rock candy}, a form of candy consisting of crystals of pure sugar which are very hard, whence the name. {Rock cavy}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Moco}. {Rock cod} (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small, often reddish or brown, variety of the cod found about rocks andledges. (b) A California rockfish. {Rock cook}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European wrasse ({Centrolabrus exoletus}). (b) A rockling. {Rock cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus the fibers of which are loosely interlaced. It resembles cork in its texture. {Rock crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large crabs of the genus {Cancer}, as the two species of the New England coast ({C. irroratus} and {C. borealis}). See Illust. under {Cancer}. {Rock cress} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the cress kind found on rocks, as {Arabis petr[91]a}, {A. lyrata}, etc. {Rock crystal} (Min.), limpid quartz. See {Quartz}, and under {Crystal}. {Rock dove} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pigeon; -- called also {rock doo}. {Rock drill}, an implement for drilling holes in rock; esp., a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for drilling holes for blasting, etc. {Rock duck} (Zo[94]l.), the harlequin duck. {Rock eel}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gunnel}. {Rock goat} (Zo[94]l.), a wild goat, or ibex. {Rock hopper} (Zo[94]l.), a penguin of the genus {Catarractes}. See under {Penguin}. {Rock kangaroo}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Kangaroo}, and {Petrogale}. {Rock lobster} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of large spinose lobsters of the genera {Panulirus} and {Palinurus}. They have no large claws. Called also {spiny lobster}, and {sea crayfish}. {Rock meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite occuring as an efflorescence. {Rock milk}. (Min.) See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}. {Rock moss}, a kind of lichen; the cudbear. See {Cudbear}. {Rock oil}. See {Petroleum}. {Rock parrakeet} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian parrakeet ({Euphema petrophila}), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs. Its general color is yellowish olive green; a frontal band and the outer edge of the wing quills are deep blue, and the central tail feathers bluish green. {Rock pigeon} (Zo[94]l.), the wild pigeon ({Columba livia}) Of Europe and Asia, from which the domestic pigeon was derived. See Illust. under {Pigeon}. {Rock pipit}. (Zo[94]l.) See the Note under {Pipit}. {Rock plover}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The black-bellied, or whistling, plover. (b) The rock snipe. {Rock ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.), an arctic American ptarmigan ({Lagopus rupestris}), which in winter is white, with the tail and lores black. In summer the males are grayish brown, coarsely vermiculated with black, and have black patches on the back. {Rock rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), the hyrax. See {Cony}, and {Daman}. {Rock ruby} (Min.), a fine reddish variety of garnet. {Rock salt} (Min.), cloride of sodium (common salt) occuring in rocklike masses in mines; mineral salt; salt dug from the earth. In the United States this name is sometimes given to salt in large crystals, formed by evaporation from sea water in large basins or cavities. {Rock seal} (Zo[94]l.), the harbor seal. See {Seal}. {Rock shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of Murex, Purpura, and allied genera. {Rock snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several large pythons; as, the royal rock snake ({Python regia}) of Africa, and the rock snake of India ({P. molurus}). The Australian rock snakes mostly belong to the allied genus {Morelia}. {Rock snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima}); -- called also {rock bird}, {rock plover}, {winter snipe}. {Rock soap} (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue. {Rock sparrow}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World sparrows of the genus {Petronia}, as {P. stulla}, of Europe. (b) A North American sparrow ({Puc[91]a ruficeps}). {Rock tar}, petroleum. {Rock thrush} (Zo[94]l.), any Old World thrush of the genus {Monticola}, or {Petrocossyphus}; as, the European rock thrush ({M. saxatilis}), and the blue rock thrush of India ({M. cyaneus}), in which the male is blue throughout. {Rock tripe} (Bot.), a kind of lichen ({Umbilicaria Dillenii}) growing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. {Rock trout} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus {Hexagrammus}, family {Chirad[91]}, native of the North Pacific coasts; -- called also {sea trout}, {boregat}, {bodieron}, and {starling}. {Rock warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a small Australian singing bird ({Origma rubricata}) which frequents rocky ravines and water courses; -- called also {cataract bird}. {Rock wren} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of wrens of the genus {Salpinctes}, native of the arid plains of Lower California and Mexico. | |
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Rock \Rock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rocked};p. pr. & vb. n. {Rocking}.] [AS. roccian; akin to Dan. rokke to move, to snake; cf. Icel. rukkja to pull, move, G. r[81]cken to move, push, pull.] 1. 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. A rising earthquake rocked the ground. --Dryden. 2. To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet. [bd]Sleep rock thy brain.[b8] --Shak. Note: Rock differs from shake, as denoting a slower, less violent, and more uniform motion, or larger movements. It differs from swing, which expresses a vibratory motion of something suspended. | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant ({Eruca sativa}) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. {Dyer's Rocket}. (Bot.) See {Dyer's broom}, under {Broom}. {Rocket larkspur} (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes ({Delphinium Ajacis}). {Sea rocket} (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants ({Cakile maritima} and {C. Americana}) found on the seashore of Europe and America. {Yellow rocket} (Bot.), a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers ({Barbarea vulgaris}). | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, n. [It. rocchetta, fr. rocca a distaff, of German origin. Named from the resemblance in shape to a distaff. See {Rock} a distaff.] 1. 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 arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display. 2. A blunt lance head used in the joust. | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rocketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rocketing}.] (Sporting) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective. [Eng.] An old cock pheasant came rocketing over me. --H. R. Haggard. | |
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Damewort \Dame"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A cruciferrous plant ({Hesperis matronalis}), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also {rocket} and {dame's violet}. --Loudon. | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant ({Eruca sativa}) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. {Dyer's Rocket}. (Bot.) See {Dyer's broom}, under {Broom}. {Rocket larkspur} (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes ({Delphinium Ajacis}). {Sea rocket} (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants ({Cakile maritima} and {C. Americana}) found on the seashore of Europe and America. {Yellow rocket} (Bot.), a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers ({Barbarea vulgaris}). | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, n. [It. rocchetta, fr. rocca a distaff, of German origin. Named from the resemblance in shape to a distaff. See {Rock} a distaff.] 1. 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 arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display. 2. A blunt lance head used in the joust. | |
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Rocket \Rock"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rocketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rocketing}.] (Sporting) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective. [Eng.] An old cock pheasant came rocketing over me. --H. R. Haggard. | |
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Damewort \Dame"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A cruciferrous plant ({Hesperis matronalis}), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also {rocket} and {dame's violet}. --Loudon. | |
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Rockweed \Rock"weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus. | |
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Rockwood \Rock"wood`\, n. (Min.) Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood. | |
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Roist \Roist\, v. i. See {Roister}. | |
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Rook \Rook\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooking}.] To cheat; to defraud by cheating. [bd]A band of rooking officials.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Roust \Roust\, n. [Cf. Icel. r[94]st an estuary.] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also {rost}, and {roost}.] --Jamieson. | |
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Roost \Roost\, n. Roast. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Roost \Roost\, v. t. See {Roust}, v. t. | |
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Roost \Roost\, n. [AS. hr[d3]st; akin to OD. roest roost, roesten to roost, and probably to E. roof. Cf. {Roof}.] 1. The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. He clapped his wings upon his roost. --Dryden. 2. A collection of fowls roosting together. {At roost}, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest. | |
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Roost \Roost\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roosted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roosting}.] 1. To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch. --Wordsworth. 2. Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep. O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there. --Herbert. | |
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Roust \Roust\, n. [Cf. Icel. r[94]st an estuary.] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also {rost}, and {roost}.] --Jamieson. | |
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Roost \Roost\, n. Roast. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Roost \Roost\, v. t. See {Roust}, v. t. | |
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Roost \Roost\, n. [AS. hr[d3]st; akin to OD. roest roost, roesten to roost, and probably to E. roof. Cf. {Roof}.] 1. The pole or other support on which fowls rest at night; a perch. He clapped his wings upon his roost. --Dryden. 2. A collection of fowls roosting together. {At roost}, on a perch or roost; hence, retired to rest. | |
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Roost \Roost\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roosted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roosting}.] 1. To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch. --Wordsworth. 2. Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep. O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there. --Herbert. | |
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Roquet \Ro*quet"\, v. t. [Etymol. uncertain] (Croquet) To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball. | |
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Roquet \Ro*quet"\, v. i. To hit another's ball with one's own. | |
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Roscid \Ros"cid\, a. [L. roscidus, fr. ros, roris, dew.] Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy. [R.] --Bacon. | |
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Roseate \Ro"se*ate\, a. [Cf. L. roseus, rosatus, prepared from roses. See {Roseal}, {Rose}.] 1. Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers. 2. resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. {Roseate tern} (Zo[94]l.), an American and European tern ({Sterna Dougalli}) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season. | |
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Rosehead \Rose"head`\, n. 1. See {Rose}, n., 4. 2. A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head. | |
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Roset \Ro"set\, n. [F. rosette. See {Rosette}.] A red color used by painters. --Peacham. | |
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Rosette \Ro*sette\, n. [F., dim. of rose a rose. Cf. {Roset}.] 1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge. 2. (Arch.) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration. 3. A red color. See {Roset}. 4. A rose burner. See under {Rose}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) (a) 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}. (b) A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rosewood \Rose"wood\, 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 {Mach[91]rium}. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the {Dalbergia nigra}. {African rosewood}, the wood of the leguminous tree {Pterocarpus erinaceus}. {Jamaica rosewood}, the wood of two West Indian trees ({Amyris balsamifera}, and {Linocieria ligustrina}). {New South Wales rosewood}, the wood of {Trichilia glandulosa}, a tree related to the margosa. | |
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Rosied \Ros"ied\, a. Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses. | |
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Rost \Rost\, n. See {Roust}. [Scot.] --Jamieson. | |
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Roust \Roust\, n. [Cf. Icel. r[94]st an estuary.] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also {rost}, and {roost}.] --Jamieson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rost \Rost\, n. See {Roust}. [Scot.] --Jamieson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Roust \Roust\, n. [Cf. Icel. r[94]st an estuary.] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also {rost}, and {roost}.] --Jamieson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rouge \Rouge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rouged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rouging} .] To paint the face or cheeks with rouge. | |
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Roughhead \Rough"head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The redfin. | |
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Rought \Rought\, obs. imp. of {Reck}, to care. --Chaucer. | |
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Rought \Rought\, obs. imp. of {Reach}. | |
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Reck \Reck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recked}(obs. imp. {Roughte}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Recking}.] [AS. reccan, r[emac]can, to care for; akin to OS. r[omac]kian, OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. r[91]kja, also to E. reckon, rake an implement. See {Rake}, and cf. {Reckon}.] 1. To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard. [Archaic] This son of mine not recking danger. --Sir P. Sidney. And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser. --Burns. 2. To concern; -- used impersonally. [Poetic] What recks it them? --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rouse \Rouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roused} (rouzd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rousing}.] [Probably of Scan. origin; cf. Sw. rusa to rush, Dan. ruse, AS. hre[a2]san to fall, rush. Cf. {Rush}, v.] 1. To cause to start from a covert or lurking place; as, to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase. Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. --Spenser. Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. --Pope. 2. To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly. 3. To excite to lively thought or action from a state of idleness, languor, stupidity, or indifference; as, to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions. To rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom. --Atterbury. 4. To put in motion; to stir up; to agitate. Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea. --Milton. 5. To raise; to make erect. [Obs.] --Spenser. Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Roussette \Rous*sette"\, n. [F.; -- so called in allusion to the color. See {Russet}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) 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. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any small shark of the genus {Scyllium}; -- called also {dogfish}. See {Dogfish}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Roust \Roust\ (roust), v. t. To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Roust \Roust\, n. [Cf. Icel. r[94]st an estuary.] A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel. [Written also {rost}, and {roost}.] --Jamieson. | |
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Ruck \Ruck\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Rucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rucking}.] [Icel hrukkast to wrinkle, hrukka wrinkle, fold.] To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet. --Smart. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rugate \Ru"gate\, a. [L. rugatus, p. p. of rugare to wrinkle, fr. ruga a wrinkle.] Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled. --Dana. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rugged \Rug"ged\, a. [See {Rug}, n.] 1. 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. The rugged bark of some broad elm. --Milton. 2. Not neat or regular; uneven. His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged. --Shak. 3. Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. [bd]The rugged Russian bear.[b8] --Shak. 4. Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons. Neither melt nor endear him, but leave him as hard, rugged, and unconcerned as ever. --South. 5. Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude. --Milton. 6. Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like. Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. --Dryden. 7. Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc. [bd]Sleek o'er your rugged looks.[b8] --Shak. 8. Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc. 9. Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc. [Colloq. U.S.] Syn: Rough; uneven; wrinkled; cragged; coarse; rude; harsh; hard; crabbed; severe; austere; surly; sour; frowning; violent; boisterous; tumultuous; turbulent; stormy; tempestuous; inclement. -- {Rug"ged*ly}, adv. -- {Rug"ged*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rush \Rush\ (r[ucr]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rushed} (r[ucr]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rushing}.] [OE. ruschen; cf. AS. hryscan to make a noise, D. ruischen to rustle, G. rauschen, MHG. r[umac]schen to rush, to rustle, LG. rusken, OSw. ruska, Icel. & Sw. ruska to shake, Dan. ruske to shake, and E. rouse.] 1. To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice. Like to an entered tide, they all rush by. --Shak. 2. To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation. They . . . never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers. --Sprat. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rushed \Rushed\, a. Abounding or covered with rushes. | |
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Russet \Rus"set\, a. [F. rousset, dim. of roux red, L. russus (for rudtus, rudhtus), akin to E. red. See {Red}, and cf. {Roussette}.] 1. 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. The morn, in russet mantle clad. --Shak. Our summer such a russet livery wears. --Dryden. 2. Coarse; homespun; rustic. [R.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Russet \Rus"set\, n. 1. A russet color; a pigment of a russet color. 2. Cloth or clothing of a russet color. 3. A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color. --Dryden. 4. An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the {English russet}, and the {Roxbury russet}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Russety \Rus"set*y\, a. Of a russet color; russet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rust \Rust\, n. [AS. rust; akin to D. roest, G. & Sw. rost, Icel. ry[eb]; -- named from its color, and akin to E. red. [fb]113. See {Red}.] 1. (Chem.) 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. 2. (Bot.) 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 reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish. Note: Rust is also applied to many other minute fungi which infest vegetation, such as the species of {Ustilago}, {Uredo}, and {Lecythea}. 3. That which resembles rust in appearance or effects. Specifically: (a) A composition used in making a rust joint. See {Rust joint}, below. (b) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat. (c) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence. Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. --Eikon Basilike. Note: Rust is used in the formation of compounds of obvious meaning; as, rust-colored, rust-consumed, rust-eaten, and the like. {Rust joint}, a joint made between surfaces of iron by filling the space between them with a wet mixture of cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulphur, which by oxidation becomes hard, and impervious to steam, water, etc. {Rust mite} (Zo[94]l.), a minute mite ({Phytopius oleivorus}) which, by puncturing the rind, causes the rust-colored patches on oranges. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rust \Rust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rusting}.] [AS. rustian.] 1. To contract rust; to be or become oxidized. If gold ruste, what shall iron do? --Chaucer. Our armors now may rust. --Dryden. 2. To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance. as plants. 3. Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction. Must I rust in Egypt? never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece? --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rust \Rust\, v. t. 1. To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. --Shak. 2. Fig.: To impair by time and inactivity. --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ferrugo \[d8]Fer*ru"go\, n. [L., iron rust, fr. ferrum iron.] A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the {rust}, from its resemblance to iron rust in color. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rust \Rust\, n. [AS. rust; akin to D. roest, G. & Sw. rost, Icel. ry[eb]; -- named from its color, and akin to E. red. [fb]113. See {Red}.] 1. (Chem.) 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. 2. (Bot.) 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 reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish. Note: Rust is also applied to many other minute fungi which infest vegetation, such as the species of {Ustilago}, {Uredo}, and {Lecythea}. 3. That which resembles rust in appearance or effects. Specifically: (a) A composition used in making a rust joint. See {Rust joint}, below. (b) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat. (c) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence. Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. --Eikon Basilike. Note: Rust is used in the formation of compounds of obvious meaning; as, rust-colored, rust-consumed, rust-eaten, and the like. {Rust joint}, a joint made between surfaces of iron by filling the space between them with a wet mixture of cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulphur, which by oxidation becomes hard, and impervious to steam, water, etc. {Rust mite} (Zo[94]l.), a minute mite ({Phytopius oleivorus}) which, by puncturing the rind, causes the rust-colored patches on oranges. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rust \Rust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rusting}.] [AS. rustian.] 1. To contract rust; to be or become oxidized. If gold ruste, what shall iron do? --Chaucer. Our armors now may rust. --Dryden. 2. To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance. as plants. 3. Fig.: To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction. Must I rust in Egypt? never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece? --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rust \Rust\, v. t. 1. To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. --Shak. 2. Fig.: To impair by time and inactivity. --Johnson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ferrugo \[d8]Fer*ru"go\, n. [L., iron rust, fr. ferrum iron.] A disease of plants caused by fungi, commonly called the {rust}, from its resemblance to iron rust in color. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rusty \Rust"y\, a. [AS. rustig.] [Compar. {Rustier}; superl. {Rustiest.}] 1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat. 2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ray City, GA (city, FIPS 63728) Location: 31.07484 N, 83.19675 W Population (1990): 603 (279 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31645 | |
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Reseda, CA Zip code(s): 91335 | |
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Richwood, LA (town, FIPS 64660) Location: 32.44658 N, 92.07253 W Population (1990): 1253 (385 housing units) Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71202 Richwood, MN Zip code(s): 56577 Richwood, OH (village, FIPS 66936) Location: 40.42713 N, 83.29617 W Population (1990): 2186 (941 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43344 Richwood, TX (city, FIPS 61904) Location: 29.05800 N, 95.40750 W Population (1990): 2732 (1267 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Richwood, WV (city, FIPS 68116) Location: 38.22155 N, 80.53720 W Population (1990): 2808 (1267 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 26261 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rociada, NM Zip code(s): 87742 | |
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Rock City, IL (village, FIPS 64837) Location: 42.41262 N, 89.47078 W Population (1990): 286 (121 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61070 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rockwood, IL (village, FIPS 65221) Location: 37.83787 N, 89.69744 W Population (1990): 45 (21 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62280 Rockwood, ME Zip code(s): 04478 Rockwood, MI (city, FIPS 69180) Location: 42.07030 N, 83.24438 W Population (1990): 3141 (1135 housing units) Area: 7.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Rockwood, PA (borough, FIPS 65736) Location: 39.91675 N, 79.15714 W Population (1990): 1014 (449 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 15557 Rockwood, TN (city, FIPS 64440) Location: 35.87407 N, 84.67519 W Population (1990): 5348 (2326 housing units) Area: 17.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37854 Rockwood, TX Zip code(s): 76873 | |
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Roseto, PA (borough, FIPS 66168) Location: 40.87818 N, 75.22077 W Population (1990): 1555 (619 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 18013 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rosewood, CA Zip code(s): 90222 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rozet, WY Zip code(s): 82727 | |
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Ryegate, MT (town, FIPS 64975) Location: 46.29877 N, 109.25339 W Population (1990): 260 (127 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59074 Ryegate, VT Zip code(s): 05042 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Rosette {MCC}. [Details?] (1997-11-26) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RS-232D {standard} {V.28}. [Difference from EIA-232/EIA-232C?] (1995-03-02) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Rakkath shore-town, a "fenced city" of the tribe of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35). The old name of Tiberias, according to the Rabbins. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Rest (1.) Gr. katapausis, equivalent to the Hebrew word _noah_ (Heb. 4:1). (2.) Gr. anapausis, "rest from weariness" (Matt. 11:28). (3.) Gr. anesis, "relaxation" (2 Thess. 1:7). (4.) Gr. sabbatismos, a Sabbath rest, a rest from all work (Heb. 4:9; R.V., "sabbath"), a rest like that of God when he had finished the work of creation. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Rakkath, empty; temple of the head |