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Raiment \Rai"ment\, n. [Abbrev. fr. arraiment. See {Array}.] 1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. --Dryden. 2. An article of dress. [R. or Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. | |
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Rament \Ram"ent\, n. [L. ramenta, pl.] 1. A scraping; a shaving. [Obs.] | |
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Ramentaceous \Ram`en*ta"ceous\, a. (Bot.) Covered with ramenta. | |
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Rayonnant \Ray"on*nant\, a. [F.] (Her.) Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out. | |
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Reanimate \Re*an"i*mate\, v. t. To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. --Glanvill. | |
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Reanimation \Re*an"i*ma"tion\, n. The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival. | |
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Remainder \Re*main"der\ (r?-m?n"d?r), n. [OF. remaindre, inf. See {Remain}.] 1. Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. [bd]The last remainders of unhappy Troy.[b8] --Dryden. If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt. --Arbuthnot. 2. (Math.) The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction. 3. (Law) An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder. Syn: Balance; rest; residue; remnant; leavings. | |
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Remainder \Re*main"der\, a. Remaining; left; left over; refuse. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. --Shak. | |
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Remainder-man \Re*main"der-man\ (- m[acr]n), n.; pl. {Remainder-men} (-m[ecr]n). (Law) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See {Remainder}, n., 3. --Blackstone. | |
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Remainder-man \Re*main"der-man\ (- m[acr]n), n.; pl. {Remainder-men} (-m[ecr]n). (Law) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See {Remainder}, n., 3. --Blackstone. | |
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Remain \Re*main"\ (r?-m?n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Remained} (-m?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Remaining}.] [OF. remaindre, remanoir, L. remanere; pref. re- re- + manere to stay, remain. See {Mansion}, and cf. {Remainder}, {Remnant}.] 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. Gather up the fragments that remain. --John vi. 12. Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. --1 Cor. xv. 6. That . . . remains to be proved. --Locke. 2. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. Remain a widow at thy father's house. --Gen. xxxviii. 11. Childless thou art; childless remain. --Milton. Syn: To continue; stay; wait; tarry; rest; sojourn; dwell; abide; last; endure. | |
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Remand \Re*mand"\ (r?-m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remanded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Remanding}.] [F. remander to send word again, L. remandare; pref. re- re- + mandare to commit, order, send word. See {Mandate}.] To recommit; to send back. Remand it to its former place. --South. Then were they remanded to the cage again. --Bunyan. | |
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Remand \Re*mand"\, n. The act of remanding; the order for recommitment. | |
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Remand \Re*mand"\ (r?-m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remanded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Remanding}.] [F. remander to send word again, L. remandare; pref. re- re- + mandare to commit, order, send word. See {Mandate}.] To recommit; to send back. Remand it to its former place. --South. Then were they remanded to the cage again. --Bunyan. | |
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Remand \Re*mand"\ (r?-m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Remanded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Remanding}.] [F. remander to send word again, L. remandare; pref. re- re- + mandare to commit, order, send word. See {Mandate}.] To recommit; to send back. Remand it to its former place. --South. Then were they remanded to the cage again. --Bunyan. | |
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Remandment \Re*mand"ment\ (-ment), n. A remand. | |
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Remeant \Re"me*ant\ (r[?]"m[?]*ant), a. [L. remeans, -antis, p. pr. of remeare to go or come back.] Coming back; returning. [R.] [bd]Like the remeant sun.[b8] --C. Kingsley. | |
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Remind \Re*mind"\ (r?-m?nd"), v. t. To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person). When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. --South. | |
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Reminder \Re*mind"er\ (-?r), n. One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance. | |
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Remindful \Re**mind"ful\ (f?l), a. Tending or adapted to remind; careful to remind. --Southey. | |
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Remnant \Rem"nant\, n. [OF. remanant. See {Remnant}, a.] 1. That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue. --Chaucer. The remnant that are left of the captivity. --Neh. i. 3. The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience. --Dryden. 2. A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap. Some odd quirks and remnants of wit. --Shak. 3. (Com.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc. Syn: Residue; rest; remains; remainder. | |
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Remnant \Rem"nant\ (r?m"nant), a. [OF. remanant, p. pr. of remanoir, remaindre. See {Remanent}, {Remain}.] Remaining; yet left. [R.] [bd]Because of the remnant dregs of his disease.[b8] --Fuller. And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble wife. --Prior. | |
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Remonetization \Re*mon`e*ti*za"tion\ (r?-m?n`?-t?-z?"sh?n [or] -m?n`-), n. The act of remonetizing. | |
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Remonetize \Re*mon"e*tize\ (-t?z), v. t. To restore to use as money; as, to remonetize silver. | |
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Remontant \Re*mon"tant\ (-tant), a.[F.] (Hort.) Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example. | |
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Remount \Re*mount"\ (r?-mount"), v. t. & i. To mount again. | |
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Remount \Re*mount"\, n. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount. | |
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Renowmed \Re*nowmed"\ (r?-noumd"), a. Renowned. [Obs.] | |
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Renowned \Re*nowned"\ (r?-nound"), a. Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. [bd]Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires.[b8] --Milton. These were the renowned of the congregation. --Num. i. 61. Syn: Famous; famed; distinguished; noted; eminent; celebrated; remarkable; wonderful. See {Famous}. | |
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Renownedly \Re*nown"ed*ly\ (r?-noun"?d-l?), adv. With renown. | |
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Emodin \Em"o*din\, n. (Chem.) An orange-red crystalline substance, {C15H10O5}, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb ({Rheum emodei}). | |
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Rhubarb \Rhu"barb\, n. [F. rhubarbe, OF. rubarbe, rheubarbe, reubarbare, reobarbe, LL. rheubarbarum for rheum barbarum, Gr. [?][?][?] (and [?][?]) rhubarb, from the river Rha (the Volga) on whose banks it grew. Originally, therefore, it was the barbarian plant from the Rha. Cf. {Barbarous}, {Rhaponticine}.] 1. (Bot.) The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus {Rheum} and order {Polygonace[91]}. 2. The large and fleshy leafstalks of {Rheum Rhaponticum} and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called also {pieplant}. 3. (Med.) The root of several species of {Rheum}, used much as a cathartic medicine. {Monk's rhubarb}. (Bot.) See under {Monk}. {Turkey rhubarb} (Med.), the roots of {Rheum Emodi}. | |
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Rattle \Rat"tle\, n. 1. A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum. --Prior. 2. Noisy, rapid talk. All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit. --Hakewill. 3. An instrument with which a ratting sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattle when shaken. The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other. --Sir W. Raleigh. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. --Pope. 4. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle. --Macaulay. 5. A scolding; a sharp rebuke. [Obs.] --Heylin. 6. (Zo[94]l.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a ratting sound. Note: The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and so modified in form as to make a series of loose, hollow joints. 7. The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See {R[acir]le}. {To spring a rattle}, to cause it to sound. {Yellow rattle} (Bot.), a yellow-flowered herb ({Rhinanthus Crista-galli}), the ripe seeds of which rattle in the inflated calyx. | |
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Cockscomb \Cocks"comb`\ (k[ocr]ks"k[omac]m`), n. [1st cock, n. + comb crest.] 1. See {Coxcomb}. 2. (Bot.) A plant ({Celosia cristata}), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called {garden cockscomb}. Also the {Pedicularis}, or lousewort, the {Rhinanthus Crista-galli}, and the {Onobrychis Crista-galli}. | |
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Roan \Roan\, a. [F. rouan; cf. Sp. roano, ruano, It. rovano, roano.] 1. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse. Give my roan a drench. --Shak. 2. Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding. {Roan antelope} (Zo[94]l.), a very large South African antelope ({Hippotragus equinus}). It has long sharp horns and a stiff bright brown mane. Called also {mahnya}, {equine antelope}, and {bastard gemsbok}. | |
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Romant \Ro*mant"\, n. A romaunt. [Obs.] | |
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Romantic \Ro*man"tic\, a. [F. romantique, fr. OF. romant. See {Romance}.] 1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion? --South. Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic. --Addison. 2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind. 3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets. 4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape. Syn: Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See {Sentimental}. {The romantic drama}. See under {Drama}. | |
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Romantical \Ro*man"tic*al\, a. Romantic. | |
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Romanticaly \Ro*man"tic*al*y\, adv. In a romantic manner. | |
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Romanticism \Ro*man"ti*cism\, n. [CF. It. romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.] A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi[?]val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style. He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of romanticism. --Lowell. | |
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Romanticist \Ro*man"ti*cist\, n. One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. --J. R. Seeley. | |
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Romanticly \Ro*man"tic*ly\, adv. Romantically. [R.] --Strype. | |
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Romanticness \Ro*man"tic*ness\, n. The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. --Richardson. | |
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Romaunt \Ro*maunt"\, n. [See {Romance}.] A romantic story in verse; as, the [bd]Romaunt of the Rose.[b8] O, hearken, loving hearts and bold, Unto my wild romaunt. --Mrs. Browning. | |
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Room \Room\ (r[oomac]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r[umac]m; akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r[umac]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG. r[umac]m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r[umac]ms, and to AS. r[umac]m, adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[umac]mr, Goth. r[umac]ms; and prob. to L. rus country (cf. {Rural}), Zend rava[ndot]h wide, free, open, ravan a plain.] 1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room. Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. --Luke xiv. 22. There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7. 2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. --Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. --Luke xiv. 8. 3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. I found the prince in the next room. --Shak. 4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. [Obs.] When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. --Matt. ii. 22. Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. --Tyndale. Let Bianca take her sister's room. --Shak. 5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. --Addison. {Room and space} (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. {To give room}, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. {To make room}, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. --Shak. Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude. | |
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Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, Ruminated \Ru"mi*na`ted\, a. (Bot.) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. | |
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Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ruminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruminating}.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr. [?], AS. roccettan.] 1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. [bd]Cattle free to ruminate.[b8] --Wordsworth. 2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. --Cowper. Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven? --I. Taylor. | |
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Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. t. 1. To chew over again. 2. Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on. Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin. --Dryden. What I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down. --Shak. | |
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Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, Ruminated \Ru"mi*na`ted\, a. (Bot.) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. | |
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Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ruminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruminating}.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr. [?], AS. roccettan.] 1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. [bd]Cattle free to ruminate.[b8] --Wordsworth. 2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. --Cowper. Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven? --I. Taylor. | |
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Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ruminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruminating}.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr. [?], AS. roccettan.] 1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. [bd]Cattle free to ruminate.[b8] --Wordsworth. 2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. --Cowper. Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven? --I. Taylor. | |
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Rumination \Ru`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. ruminatio: cf. F. rumination.] 1. The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it. --Arbuthnot. 2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection. Retiring full of rumination sad. --Thomson. 3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man. | |
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Ruminative \Ru"mi*na*tive\, a. Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation. | |
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Ruminator \Ru"mi*na`tor\, n. [L.] One who ruminates or muses; a meditator. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Raymond, CA Zip code(s): 93653 Raymond, GA Zip code(s): 30263 Raymond, IA (city, FIPS 65820) Location: 42.46685 N, 92.22825 W Population (1990): 619 (212 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50667 Raymond, IL (village, FIPS 62965) Location: 39.32022 N, 89.57374 W Population (1990): 820 (391 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62560 Raymond, KS (city, FIPS 58550) Location: 38.27845 N, 98.41453 W Population (1990): 125 (62 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67573 Raymond, ME Zip code(s): 04071 Raymond, MN (city, FIPS 53296) Location: 45.01602 N, 95.23718 W Population (1990): 668 (276 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56282 Raymond, MS (town, FIPS 61160) Location: 32.26030 N, 90.42271 W Population (1990): 2275 (477 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Raymond, MT Zip code(s): 59256 Raymond, NE (village, FIPS 40780) Location: 40.95655 N, 96.78148 W Population (1990): 167 (76 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Raymond, NH (CDP, FIPS 63940) Location: 43.03296 N, 71.17473 W Population (1990): 2516 (1041 housing units) Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 03077 Raymond, OH Zip code(s): 43067 Raymond, SD (town, FIPS 53260) Location: 44.91114 N, 97.93656 W Population (1990): 96 (51 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57258 Raymond, WA (city, FIPS 57430) Location: 46.68348 N, 123.73694 W Population (1990): 2901 (1258 housing units) Area: 10.1 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98577 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Raymondville, MO (town, FIPS 60734) Location: 37.33975 N, 91.83581 W Population (1990): 425 (190 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65555 Raymondville, TX (city, FIPS 60836) Location: 26.47911 N, 97.78082 W Population (1990): 8880 (2838 housing units) Area: 7.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78580 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Reminderville, OH (village, FIPS 66152) Location: 41.32740 N, 81.39727 W Population (1990): 2163 (818 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44202 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Roan Mountain, TN (CDP, FIPS 63840) Location: 36.18369 N, 82.07385 W Population (1990): 1220 (508 housing units) Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37687 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Runnemede, NJ (borough, FIPS 65160) Location: 39.85145 N, 75.07511 W Population (1990): 9042 (3524 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 08078 | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Remmon-methoar (Josh. 19:13), rendered correctly in the Revised Version, "Rimmon, which stretcheth unto Neah," a landmark of Zebulun; called also Rimmon (1 Chr. 6:77). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Romamti-ezer elevation of help, one of the sons of Heman, "the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn." He was head of the "four-and-twentieth" course of singers (1 Chr. 25:4, 31). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Romamti-ezer, exaltation of help |