English Dictionary: rauvolfia | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Buttercup \But"ter*cup`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Ranunculus}, or crowfoot, particularly {R. bulbosus}, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also {butterflower}, {golden cup}, and {kingcup}. It is the {cuckoobud} of Shakespeare. | |
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Cuckoobud \Cuck"oo*bud"\ (k??k"??-b?d`), n. (Bot.) A species of {Ranunculus} ({R. bulbosus}); -- called also {butterflower}, {buttercup}, {kingcup}, {goldcup}. --Shak. | |
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Repealability \Re*peal`a*bil"i*ty\ (-?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality or state of being repealable. | |
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Repealable \Re*peal"a*ble\ (r?-p?l"?-b'l), a. Capable of being repealed. -- {Re*peal"a*ble*ness}, n. Syn: Revocable; abrogable; voidable; reversible. | |
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Repealable \Re*peal"a*ble\ (r?-p?l"?-b'l), a. Capable of being repealed. -- {Re*peal"a*ble*ness}, n. Syn: Revocable; abrogable; voidable; reversible. | |
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Repleviable \Re*plev"i*a*ble\ (r?-pl?v"?-?-b'l), a. [See {Replevy}.] (Law) Capable of being replevied. | |
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Replevy \Re*plev"y\ (-?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Replevied} (-?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replevying}.] [OF. replevir, LL. replevire. See {Pledge}, {Replevin}.] 1. (Law) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied. 2. (Old Eng. Law) To bail. --Spenser. | |
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Replevin \Re*plev"in\ (-?n), n. [LL. replevina. See {Replevy}, and cf. {Plevin}.] 1. (Law) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention. --Bouvier. 2. The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied. | |
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Replevin \Re*plev"in\, v. t. (Law) To replevy. | |
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Replevisable \Re*plev"i*sa*ble\ (-?-s?-b'l), a. [OF. replevisable.] Repleviable. --Sir M. Hale. | |
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Replevy \Re*plev"y\ (-?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Replevied} (-?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replevying}.] [OF. replevir, LL. replevire. See {Pledge}, {Replevin}.] 1. (Law) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied. 2. (Old Eng. Law) To bail. --Spenser. | |
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Replevy \Re*plev"y\ (r?-pl?v"?), n. Replevin. --Mozley & W. | |
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Replevy \Re*plev"y\ (-?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Replevied} (-?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replevying}.] [OF. replevir, LL. replevire. See {Pledge}, {Replevin}.] 1. (Law) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied. 2. (Old Eng. Law) To bail. --Spenser. | |
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Revealability \Re*veal`a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness. | |
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Revealable \Re*veal"a*ble\, a. Capable of being revealed. -- {Re*veal"a*ble*ness}, n. | |
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Revealable \Re*veal"a*ble\, a. Capable of being revealed. -- {Re*veal"a*ble*ness}, n. | |
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Revoluble \Rev"o*lu*ble\, a. [L. revolubilis that may be rolled back. See {Revolve}.] Capable of revolving; rotatory; revolving. [Obs.] Us, then, to whom the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not. --Chapman. | |
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Revolvable \Re*volv"a*ble\, a. That may be revolved. | |
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Revolve \Re*volve"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revolved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revolving}.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See {Voluble}, and cf. {Revolt}, {revolution}.] 1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. --I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun. 3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve. 4. To return; to pass. [R.] --Ayliffe. | |
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Revolve \Re*volve"\, v. t. 1. To cause to turn, as on an axis. Then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axile. --Milton. 2. Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets. --Milton. | |
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Revolve \Re*volve"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revolved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revolving}.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See {Voluble}, and cf. {Revolt}, {revolution}.] 1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. --I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun. 3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve. 4. To return; to pass. [R.] --Ayliffe. | |
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Revolvement \Re*volve"ment\, n. Act of revolving. [R.] | |
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Revolvency \Re*volv"en*cy\, n. The act or state of revolving; revolution. [Archaic] Its own revolvency upholds the world. --Cowper. | |
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Revolver \Re*volv"er\, n. One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater. | |
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Revolve \Re*volve"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Revolved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revolving}.] [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See {Voluble}, and cf. {Revolt}, {revolution}.] 1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house near the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. --I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun. 3. To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve. 4. To return; to pass. [R.] --Ayliffe. | |
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Revolving \Re*volv"ing\, a. Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth. But grief returns with the revolving year. --Shelley. Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. --Cowper. {Revolving firearm}. See {Revolver}. {Revolving light}, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen. | |
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Pendulum \Pen"du*lum\, n.; pl. {Pendulums}. [NL., fr. L. pendulus hanging, swinging. See {Pendulous}.] A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery. Note: The time of oscillation of a pendulum is independent of the arc of vibration, provided this arc be small. {Ballistic pendulum}. See under {Ballistic}. {Compensation pendulum}, a clock pendulum in which the effect of changes of temperature of the length of the rod is so counteracted, usually by the opposite expansion of differene metals, that the distance of the center of oscillation from the center of suspension remains invariable; as, the mercurial compensation pendulum, in which the expansion of the rod is compensated by the opposite expansion of mercury in a jar constituting the bob; the gridiron pendulum, in which compensation is effected by the opposite expansion of sets of rodsof different metals. {Compound pendulum}, an ordinary pendulum; -- so called, as being made up of different parts, and contrasted with simple pendulum. {Conical} [or] {Revolving}, {pendulum}, a weight connected by a rod with a fixed point; and revolving in a horizontal cyrcle about the vertical from that point. {Pendulum bob}, the weight at the lower end of a pendulum. {Pendulum level}, a plumb level. See under {Level}. {Pendulum wheel}, the balance of a watch. {Simple} [or] {Theoretical}, {pendulum}, an imaginary pendulum having no dimensions except length, and no weight except at the center of oscillation; in other words, a material point suspended by an ideal line. | |
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Revolving \Re*volv"ing\, a. Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth. But grief returns with the revolving year. --Shelley. Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. --Cowper. {Revolving firearm}. See {Revolver}. {Revolving light}, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen. | |
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Revolving \Re*volv"ing\, a. Making a revolution or revolutions; rotating; -- used also figuratively of time, seasons, etc., depending on the revolution of the earth. But grief returns with the revolving year. --Shelley. Revolving seasons, fruitless as they pass. --Cowper. {Revolving firearm}. See {Revolver}. {Revolving light}, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen. | |
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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. | |
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Riflebird \Ri"fle*bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera {Ptiloris} and {Craspidophora}, allied to the paradise birds. Note: The largest and best known species is {Ptiloris paradisea} of Australia. Its general color is rich velvety brown, glossed with lilac; the under parts are varied with rich olive green, and the head, throat, and two middle tail feathers are brilliant metallic green. | |
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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. | |
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RoboHELP Sky Software}. Used with {Microsoft Word} to create Help files for inclusion in a Windows application or for stand alone use. (1997-01-19) |