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Rabble \Rab"ble\, a. Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. [R.] --Dryden. | |
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Rabble \Rab"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rabbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rabbling}.] 1. To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate. --Macaulay. The bishops' carriages were stopped and the prelates them selves rabbled on their way to the house. --J. R. Green. 2. To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence. [Obs. or Scot.] --Foxe. 3. To rumple; to crumple. [Scot.] | |
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Rabble \Rab"ble\ (r[acr]b"b'l), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Iron Manuf.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling. | |
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Rabble \Rab"ble\, v. t. To stir with a rabble, as molten iron. | |
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Rabble \Rab"ble\, v. i. [Akin to D. rabbelen, Prov. G. rabbeln, to prattle, to chatter: cf. L. rabula a brawling advocate, a pettifogger, fr. rabere to rave. Cf. {Rage}] To speak in a confused manner. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Rabble \Rab"ble\, n. [Probably named from the noise made by it (see {Rabble}, v. t.) cf. D. rapalje rabble, OF. & Prov. F. rapaille.] 1. A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noise people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng. I saw, I say, come out of London, even unto the presence of the prince, a great rabble of mean and light persons. --Ascham. Jupiter, Mercury, Bacchus, Venus, Mars and the whole rabble of licentious deities. --Bp. Warburton. 2. A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter. {The rabble}, the lowest class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people. [bd]The rabble call him [bf]lord.'[b8] --Shak. | |
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Raffle \Raf"fle\, n. [See {Raff}, n. & v., and {Raffle}.] Refuse; rubbish; raff. | |
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Raffle \Raf"fle\, n. [F. rafle; faire rafle to sweep stakes, fr. rafter to carry or sweep away, rafler tout to sweep stakes; of German origin; cf. G. raffeln to snatch up, to rake. See {Raff}, v.] 1. A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor. 2. A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. | |
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Raffle \Raf"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raffling}.] To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch. | |
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Raffle \Raf"fle\, v. t. To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse. | |
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Raivel \Rai"vel\, n. (Weaving) A separator. [Scot.] | |
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Rapfully \Rap"ful*ly\, adv. Violently. [Obs.] | |
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Rappel \Rap"pel\, n. [F. Cf. {Repeal}.] (Mil.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms. | |
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Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also {ravallia}, and {robalo}. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. | |
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Ravel \Rav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raveled}or {Ravelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raveling} or {Ravelling}.] [. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking. | |
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Ravel \Rav"el\, v. i. 1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. [Obs.] Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved. --Milton. 3. To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. [Obs.] The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. --Sir W. Temple. | |
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Reapply \Re`ap*ply"\, v. t. & i. To apply again. | |
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Rebel \Reb"el\, a. [F. rebelle, fr. L. rebellis. See {Rebel}, v. t.] Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops. Whoso be rebel to my judgment. --Chaucer. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. --Milton. | |
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Rebel \Reb"el\, n. [F. rebelle.] One who rebels. Syn: Revolter; insurgent. Usage: {Rebel}, {Insurgent}. Insurgent marks an early, and rebel a more advanced, stage of opposition to government. The former rises up against his rulers, the latter makes war upon them. | |
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Rebel \Re*bel"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rebelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rebelling}.] [F. rebeller, fr. L. rebellare to make war again; pref. re- again + bellare to make war, fr. bellum war. See {Bellicose}, and cf. {Revel} to carouse.] 1. To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See {Rebellion}. The murmur and the churl's rebelling. --Chaucer. Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. --Josh. xxii. 16. 2. To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt. Hoe could my hand rebel against my heart? How could you heart rebel against your reason? --Dryden. | |
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Rebellow \Re*bel"low\, v. i. To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. --Dryden. | |
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Reboil \Re*boil"\, v. t. & i. [Pref. re- + boil: cf. F. rebouillir.] 1. To boil, or to cause to boil, again. 2. Fig.: To make or to become hot. [Obs.] Some of his companions thereat reboyleth. --Sir T. Elyot. | |
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Refel \Re*fel"\ (r?*f?l"), v. t. [L. refellere; pref. re- re- + fallere to deceive.] To refute; to disprove; as, to refel the tricks of a sophister. [Obs.] How he refelled me, and how I replied. --Shak. | |
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Refill \Re*fill"\ (r?*f?l"), v. t. & i. To fill, or become full, again. | |
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Reflew \Re*flew"\ (r?*fl?"), v. i. To flow back; to ebb. | |
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Reful \Ref"ul\ (r?f"?t), n. [OF. refuite.] Refuge. [bd]Thou haven of refut.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Repeal \Re*peal"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repealed} (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repealing}.] [OF. repeler to call back, F. rappeler; pref. re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See {Appeal}, and. cf. {Repel}.] 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. [Obs.] The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. --Shak. 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law. 3. To suppress; to repel. [Obs.] Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. --Milton. Syn: To abolish; revoke; rescind; recall; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See {Abolish}. | |
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Repeal \Re*peal"\, n. 1. Recall, as from exile. [Obs.] The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty To expel him thence. --Shak. 2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage. | |
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Repel \Re*pel"\, v. i. To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion. | |
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Repel \Re**pel"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repelled} (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repelling}.] [L. repellere, repulsum; pref. re- re- + pellere to drive. See {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Repulse}, {Repeal}.] 1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. --Pope. They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. --Macaulay. 2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [He] gently repelled their entreaties. --Hawthorne. Syn: Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse. | |
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Reply \Re*ply"\ (r?-pl?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Replied} (-pl?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replying}.] [OE. replien, OF. replier, F. r[82]pliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See {Ply}, and cf. {Replica}.] 1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer. O man, who art thou that repliest against God? --Rom. ix. 20. 2. (Law) To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn: To answer; respond; rejoin. | |
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Reply \Re*ply"\, v. t. To return for an answer. --Milton. Lords, vouchsafe To give me hearing what I shall reply. --Shak. | |
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Reply \Re*ply"\, n.; pl. {Replies} (-pl[?]z"). [See {Reply}, v. i., and cf. {Replica}.] That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response. Syn: Answer; rejoinder; response. Usage: {Reply}, {Rejoinder}, {Answer}. A reply is a distinct response to a formal question or attack in speech or writing. A rejoinder is a second reply (a reply to a reply) in a protracted discussion or controversy. The word answer is used in two senses, namely (1), in the most general sense of a mere response; as, the answer to a question; or (2), in the sense of a decisive and satisfactory confutation of an adversary's argument, as when we speak of a triumphant answer to the speech or accusations of an opponent. Here the noun corresponds to a frequent use of the verb, as when we say. [bd]This will answer (i.e., fully meet) the end in view;[b8] [bd]It answers the purpose.[b8] | |
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Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revealed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revealing}.] [F. r[82]v[82]ler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See {Veil}.] 1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. --Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency). Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. Usage: See {Communicate}. -- {Reveal}, {Divulge}. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. [bd]Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered.[b8] --Locke. [bd]A tragic history of facts divulged.[b8] --Wordsworth. | |
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Reveal \Re*veal"\, n. 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.] 2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also {revel}.] | |
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Reveille \Re*veil"le\, n. [F. r[82]veil, fr. r[82]veiller to awake; pref. re- re- + pref. es- (L. ex) + veiller to awake, watch, L. vigilare to watch. The English form was prob. taken by mistake from the French imper. r[82]veillez,2d pers. pl. See {Vigil}.] (Mil.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging. [bd]Sound a reveille.[b8] --Dryden. For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See {Revel}, v. i.] A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. --Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. --Rambler. {Master of the revels}, {Revel master}. Same as {Lord of misrule}, under {Lord}. | |
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Reveal \Re*veal"\, n. 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.] 2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also {revel}.] | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reveled}or {Revelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reveling} or {Revelling}.] [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See {Rebel}.] 1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak. 2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. [bd]Where joy most revels.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Revel \Re*vel"\, v. t. [L. revellere; re- + vellere to pluck, pull.] To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] --Harvey. | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, n. (Arch.) See {Reveal}. [R.] | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See {Revel}, v. i.] A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. --Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. --Rambler. {Master of the revels}, {Revel master}. Same as {Lord of misrule}, under {Lord}. | |
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Reveal \Re*veal"\, n. 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.] 2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also {revel}.] | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reveled}or {Revelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reveling} or {Revelling}.] [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See {Rebel}.] 1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak. 2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. [bd]Where joy most revels.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Revel \Re*vel"\, v. t. [L. revellere; re- + vellere to pluck, pull.] To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] --Harvey. | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, n. (Arch.) See {Reveal}. [R.] | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See {Revel}, v. i.] A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. --Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. --Rambler. {Master of the revels}, {Revel master}. Same as {Lord of misrule}, under {Lord}. | |
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Reveal \Re*veal"\, n. 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.] 2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also {revel}.] | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reveled}or {Revelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reveling} or {Revelling}.] [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See {Rebel}.] 1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak. 2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. [bd]Where joy most revels.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Revel \Re*vel"\, v. t. [L. revellere; re- + vellere to pluck, pull.] To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] --Harvey. | |
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Revel \Rev"el\, n. (Arch.) See {Reveal}. [R.] | |
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Reviewal \Re*view"al\, n. A review. [R.] --Southey. | |
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Revile \Re*vile"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Reviled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reviling}.] [Pref. re- + OF. aviler to make vile, depreciate, F. avilir; [85] (L. ad.) + vil vile. See {Vile}.] To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. [bd]And did not she herself revile me there?[b8] --Shak. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. --1 Pet. ii. 23. Syn: To reproach; vilify; upbraid; calumniate. | |
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Revile \Re*vile"\, n. Reproach; reviling. [Obs.] The gracious Judge, without revile, replied. --Milton. | |
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Rewful \Rew"ful\, a. Rueful. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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d8Rhopalium \[d8]Rho*pa"li*um\, n.; pl. {Rhopalia}. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the marginal sensory bodies of medus[91] belonging to the Discophora. | |
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Rife \Rife\, a. [AS. r[c6]f abundant, or Icel. r[c6]fr munificent; akin to OD. riff, rijve, abundant.] 1. Prevailing; prevalent; abounding. Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal. --Arbuthnot. Even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife, and perfect in may listening ear. --Milton. 2. Having power; active; nimble. [Obs.] What! I am rife a little yet. --J. Webster. -- {Rife"ly}, adv. -- {Rife"ness}, n. | |
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Riffle \Rif"fle\, n. [CF. G. riffeln, riefeln, to groove. Cf. {Rifle} a gun.] (Mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple. | |
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Riffle \Rif"fle\, n. [Cf. {Riffle} a trough.] A ripple in a stream or current of water; also, a place where the water ripples, as on a shallow rapid. [Local, U. S.] The bass have left the cool depth beside the rock and are on the riffle or just below it. --James A. Henshall. | |
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. t. 1. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon. 2. To whet with a rifle. See {Rifle}, n., 3. | |
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rifled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rifling}.] [F. rifler to rifle, sweep away; of uncertain origin. CF. {Raff}.] 1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. --Pope. 2. To strip; to rob; to pillage. --Piers Plowman. Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. --Shak. 3. To raffle. [Obs.] --J. Webster. | |
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. i. 1. To raffle. [Obs.] --Chapman. 2. To commit robbery. [R.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, n. [Akin to Dan. rifle, or riffel, the rifle of a gun, a chamfer (cf. riffel, riffelb[94]sse, a rifle gun, rifle to rifle a gun, G. riefeln, riefen, to chamfer, groove), and E. rive. See {Rive}, and cf. {Riffle}, {Rivel}.] 1. A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket. 2. pl. (Mil.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles. 3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. {Rifle pit} (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ripely \Ripe"ly\, adv. Maturely; at the fit time. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ripple \Rip"ple\, n. [FRom {Rip}, v.] An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ripple \Rip"ple\, v. t. 1. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple. 2. Hence, to scratch or tear. --Holland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ripple \Rip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rippling}.] [Cf. {Rimple}, {Rumple}.] 1. To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain. 2. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ripple \Rip"ple\, v. t. To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ripple \Rip"ple\, n. 1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves. 2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter. 3. (physics) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension. 4. (Electrical engineering) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current. {Ripple grass}. (Bot.) See {Ribwort}. {Ripple marks}, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ripply \Rip"ply\, a. Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove. --Keats. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rival \Ri"val\, n. [F. rival (cf. It. rivale), L. rivales two neigbors having the same brook in common, rivals, fr. rivalis belonging to a brook, fr. rivus a brook. Cf. {Rivulet}, {Rete}.] 1. A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. [Obs.] If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. --Shak. 2. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Note: [bd]Rivals, in the primary sense of the word, are those who dwell on the banks of the same stream. But since, as all experience shows, there is no such fruitful source of coutention as a water right, it would continually happen that these occupants of the opposite banks would be at strife with one another in regard of the periods during which they severally had a right to the use of the stream . . . And thus 'rivals' . . . came to be used of any who were on any grounds in more or less unfriendly competition with one another.[b8] --Trench. Syn: Competitor; emulator; antagonist. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rival \Ri"val\, v. i. To be in rivalry. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rival \Ri"val\, a. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen. --Macaulay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rival \Ri"val\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rivaled}or {Rivalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rivaling} or {Rivalling}.] 1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. 2. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rivel \Riv"el\, n. A wrinkle; a rimple. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rivel \Riv"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Riveled};p. pr. & vb. n. {Riveling}.] [AS. gerifled, geriflod, gerifod, wrinkled, geriflian, gerifian, to wrinkle. See {Rifle} a gun, {Rive}.] To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers. [Obs.] --Pope. [bd]Riveled parchments.[b8] --Walpole. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sea pike \Sea" pike`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found on both coasts of America; -- called also {robalo}. (c) The merluce. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Robalo \Rob"a*lo\, n. [Sp. r[a2]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracid[91], esp. the largest species ({Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis}), a valuable food fish called also {snook}, the smaller species being called | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also {ravallia}, and {robalo}. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sea pike \Sea" pike`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found on both coasts of America; -- called also {robalo}. (c) The merluce. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Robalo \Rob"a*lo\, n. [Sp. r[a2]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracid[91], esp. the largest species ({Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis}), a valuable food fish called also {snook}, the smaller species being called | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also {ravallia}, and {robalo}. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sea pike \Sea" pike`\ (Zo[94]l.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found on both coasts of America; -- called also {robalo}. (c) The merluce. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Robalo \Rob"a*lo\, n. [Sp. r[a2]balo.] Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracid[91], esp. the largest species ({Oxylabrax, syn. Centropomus, undecimalis}), a valuable food fish called also {snook}, the smaller species being called | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Snook \Snook\, n. [D. snoek.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large perchlike marine food fish ({Centropomus undecimalis}) found both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical America; -- called also {ravallia}, and {robalo}. (b) The cobia. (c) The garfish. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ropily \Rop"i*ly\, adv. In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents. [Written also {rouble}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rowable \Row"a*ble\, a. That may be rowed, or rowed upon. [bd]That long barren fen, once rowable.[b8] --B. Jonson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rubble \Rub"ble\, n. [From an assumed Old French dim. of robe See {Rubbish}.] 1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls. Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar. --Jowett (Thucyd.). 2. Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash. --Brande & C. 3. (Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. --Lyell. 4. pl. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.] --Simmonds. {Coursed rubble}, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rubbly \Rub"bly\, a. Relating to, or containing, rubble. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rubell \Ru*bell"\, n. [L. rubellus reddish.] A red color used in enameling. --Weale. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruble \Ru"ble\, n. [Russ. ruble.] The unit of monetary value in Russia. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rueful \Rue"ful\, a. 1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. [bd]Rueful faces.[b8] --Dryden. Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. --Sir W. Scott. -- {Rue"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Rue"ful*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rueful \Rue"ful\, a. 1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. [bd]Rueful faces.[b8] --Dryden. Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. --Sir W. Scott. -- {Rue"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Rue"ful*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. i. [Perhaps of different origin from ruffle to wrinkle; cf. OD. roffeln, roffen, to pander, LG. raffein, Dan. ruffer a pimp. Cf. {Rufflan}.] 1. To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent. [R.] The night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle. --Shak. 2. To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter. On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. --Dryden. 3. To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger. They would ruffle with jurors. --Bacon. Gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruffling}.] [From {Ruff} a plaited collar, a drum beat, a tumult: cf. OD. ruyffelen to wrinkle.] 1. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle. 2. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt. 3. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. --I. Taylor. She smoothed the ruffled seas. --Dryden. 4. To erect in a ruff, as feathers. [the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. --Tennyson. 5. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. --Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. --Tennyson. 7. To throw into disorder or confusion. Where best He might the ruffled foe infest. --Hudibras. 8. To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.] I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. --Chapman {To ruffle the feathers of}, to exite the resentment of; to irritate. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, n. [See {Ruffle}, v. t. & i.] 1. That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill. 2. A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle. 3. (Mil.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also {ruff}. --H. L. Scott. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The connected series of large egg capsules, or o[94]thec[91], of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus {Fulgur}. See {O[94]theca}. {Ruffle of a boot}, the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited. --Halliwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rufol \Ru"fol\, n. [L. rufus reddish + -ol.] (Chem.) A phenol derivative of anthracene obtained as a white crystalline substance, which on oxidation produces a red dyestuff related to anthraquinone. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rupial \Ru"pi*al\, a. Of or pertaining to rupia. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rayville, LA (town, FIPS 63680) Location: 32.47158 N, 91.75725 W Population (1990): 4411 (1631 housing units) Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Rayville, MO (village, FIPS 60824) Location: 39.34798 N, 94.06359 W Population (1990): 170 (71 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64084 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Revelo, KY Zip code(s): 42638 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Revillo, SD (town, FIPS 54220) Location: 45.01457 N, 96.57032 W Population (1990): 152 (95 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Riffle, WV Zip code(s): 26619 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rifle, CO (city, FIPS 64255) Location: 39.53934 N, 107.77775 W Population (1990): 4636 (1984 housing units) Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 81650 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ripley, IL (village, FIPS 64174) Location: 40.02497 N, 90.63773 W Population (1990): 103 (50 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Ripley, MS (city, FIPS 62600) Location: 34.72960 N, 88.94444 W Population (1990): 5371 (2183 housing units) Area: 29.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38663 Ripley, NY (CDP, FIPS 61874) Location: 42.26562 N, 79.71144 W Population (1990): 1189 (467 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14775 Ripley, OH (village, FIPS 67272) Location: 38.73963 N, 83.84025 W Population (1990): 1816 (864 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45167 Ripley, OK (town, FIPS 63500) Location: 36.01749 N, 96.90487 W Population (1990): 376 (181 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74062 Ripley, TN (city, FIPS 63340) Location: 35.74592 N, 89.53406 W Population (1990): 6188 (2490 housing units) Area: 17.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38063 Ripley, WV (city, FIPS 68596) Location: 38.82010 N, 81.70913 W Population (1990): 3023 (1317 housing units) Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 25271 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Roopville, GA (town, FIPS 66696) Location: 33.45680 N, 85.13228 W Population (1990): 248 (94 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30170 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
RBL /R-B-L/ Abbreviation: "Realtime Blackhole List". A service that allows people to blacklist sites for emitting {spam}, and makes the blacklist available in real time to electronic-mail transport programs that know how to use RBL so they can filter out mail from those sites. Drastic (and controversial) but effective. There is an RBL home page (http://maps.vix.com/rbl/usage.html). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
reply n. See {followup}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
REFAL {Recursive Functional Algorithmic Language} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
REPL 1. 2. (2003-06-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Replay {Acorn Computers}' {full-motion video} system written by Roger Wilson. Video and sound information are stored in compressed form. Compression is relatively slow but decompression is done in {real-time} with quality and {frame-rate} varying with the processing power available, the size of the picture and whether it appears in a {window} or uses the whole screen. (1994-11-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
reply See {followup}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RPL Reverse Polish LISP. Language used by HP-28 and HP-48 calculators. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RPL-1 Data reduction language. Proc SJCC 30:571-575, AFIPS (Spring 1967). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RUFL Rhodes University Functional Language. A {Miranda}-like functional language from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa with a {SPARC} {code generator}. (1994-10-27) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Rephael healed of God, one of Shemaiah's sons. He and his brethren, on account of their "strength for service," formed one of the divisions of the temple porters (1 Chr. 26:7, 8). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Riblah fruitful, an ancient town on the northern frontier of Palestine, 35 miles north-east of Baalbec, and 10 or 12 south of Lake Homs, on the eastern bank of the Orontes, in a wide and fertile plain. Here Nebuchadnezzar had his head-quarters in his campaign against Jerusalem, and here also Necho fixed his camp after he had routed Josiah's army at Megiddo (2 Kings 23:29-35; 25:6, 20, 21; Jer. 39:5; 52:10). It was on the great caravan road from Palestine to Carchemish, on the Euphrates. It is described (Num. 34:11) as "on the eastern side of Ain." A place still called el Ain, i.e., "the fountain", is found in such a position about 10 miles distant. (See {JERUSALEM}.) | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Rephael, the physic or medicine of God | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Riblah, quarrel; greatness to him |