English Dictionary: Rolle spielen | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Railroad \Rail"road`\, Railway \Rail"way`\, n. 1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway. 2. The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver. Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States. Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: {Atmospheric railway}, {Elevated railway}, etc. See under {Atmospheric}, {Elevated}, etc. {Cable railway}. See {Cable road}, under {Cable}. {Perry railway}, a submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water course. {Gravity railway}, a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines. {Railway brake}, a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives. {Railway car}, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.] {Railway carriage}, a railway passenger car. [Eng.] {Railway scale}, a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars. {Railway slide}. See {Transfer table}, under {Transfer}. {Railway spine} (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury. {Underground railroad} [or] {railway}. (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city. (b) Formerly, a system of co[94]peration among certain active antislavery people in the United States, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada. Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was used.] [bd]Their house was a principal entrep[93]t of the underground railroad.[b8] --W. D. Howells. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Clapper \Clap"per\, n. 1. A person who claps. 2. That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of {Bell}. {Clapper rail} (Zo[94]l.), an Americam species of rail ({Rallus scepitans}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Re89ligible \Re*[89]l"i*gi*ble\ (r[emc]*[ecr]l"[icr]*j[icr]*b'l), a. Eligible again; capable of re[89]lection; as, re[89]ligible to the same office. -- {Re*[89]l`i*gi*bil"i*ty} (r[emc]*[ecr]l`[icr]*j[icr]*b[icr]l"[icr]*t[ycr]), n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Re89ligible \Re*[89]l"i*gi*ble\ (r[emc]*[ecr]l"[icr]*j[icr]*b'l), a. Eligible again; capable of re[89]lection; as, re[89]ligible to the same office. -- {Re*[89]l`i*gi*bil"i*ty} (r[emc]*[ecr]l`[icr]*j[icr]*b[icr]l"[icr]*t[ycr]), n. | |
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Realizable \Re"al*i`za*ble\, a. Capable of being realized. | |
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Relaxable \Re*lax"a*ble\ (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being relaxed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Relay governor \Relay governor\ A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] | |
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Releasable \Re*leas"a*ble\ (r?-l?s"?-b'l), a. That may be released. | |
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Relishable \Rel"ish*a*ble\ (-?-b'l), a. Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
(b) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list. The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant. --Sir M. Hale. The roll and list of that army doth remain. --Sir J. Davies. (c) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon. (d) A cylindrical twist of tobacco. 4. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. 5. (Naut.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching. 6. A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder. 7. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. 8. Part; office; duty; r[93]le. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. {Long roll} (Mil.), a prolonged roll of the drums, as the signal of an attack by the enemy, and for the troops to arrange themselves in line. {Master of the rolls}. See under {Master}. {Roll call}, the act, or the time, of calling over a list names, as among soldiers. {Rolls of court}, {of parliament} (or of any public body), the parchments or rolls on which the acts and proceedings of that body are engrossed by the proper officer, and which constitute the records of such public body. {To call the roll}, to call off or recite a list or roll of names of persons belonging to an organization, in order to ascertain who are present or to obtain responses from those present. Syn: List; schedule; catalogue; register; inventory. See {List}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Royal spade \Royal spade\ (Auction Bridge) A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Reelsville, IN Zip code(s): 46171 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rolesville, NC (town, FIPS 57640) Location: 35.92755 N, 78.45705 W Population (1990): 572 (227 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27571 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rowlesburg, WV (town, FIPS 70588) Location: 39.34849 N, 79.67744 W Population (1990): 648 (295 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) |