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Rabat \Rab"at\, n. [See {Rabot}.] A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking. | |
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Rabate \Ra*bate"\, v. t. [F. rabattre to beat down; pref. re- + abattre. See {Abate}, and cf. {Rebate}, v.] (Falconry) To recover to the fist, as a hawk. [Obs.] | |
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Rabato \Ra*ba"to\, n. [F. rabat, fr. rabattre. See {Rabate}.] A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Rabbate \Rab*bate"\, v. t. [See {Rabate}.] To abate or diminish. [Obs.] -n. Abatement. [Obs.] | |
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Rabbet \Rab"bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rabbeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rabbeting}.] [F. raboter to plane, plane down,rabot a plane; pref. re- re- + OF. abouter, aboter. See {Abut}, and cf. {Rebut}.] 1. To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet. 2. To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint. | |
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Rabbet \Rab"bet\, n. [See {Rabbet} v., and cf. {Rebate}, n.] 1. (Carp.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate. 2. Same as Rabbet joint, below. {Rabbet joint} (Carp.), a joint formed by fitting together rabbeted boards or timbers: -- called also {rabbet}. {Rabbet plane}, a joiner's plane for cutting a rabbet. --Moxon. | |
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Rabbet \Rab"bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rabbeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rabbeting}.] [F. raboter to plane, plane down,rabot a plane; pref. re- re- + OF. abouter, aboter. See {Abut}, and cf. {Rebut}.] 1. To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet. 2. To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint. | |
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Rabbet \Rab"bet\, n. [See {Rabbet} v., and cf. {Rebate}, n.] 1. (Carp.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate. 2. Same as Rabbet joint, below. {Rabbet joint} (Carp.), a joint formed by fitting together rabbeted boards or timbers: -- called also {rabbet}. {Rabbet plane}, a joiner's plane for cutting a rabbet. --Moxon. | |
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Rabbit \Rab"bit\, n. [OE. abet, akin to OD. robbe, robbeken.] (Zo[94]l.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species ({Lepus cuniculus}), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand. Note: The common American rabbit ({L. sylvalica}) is similar but smaller. See {Cottontail}, and {Jack rabbit}, under 2d {Jack}. The larger species of Lepus are commonly called hares. See {Hare}. {Angora rabbit} (Zo[94]l.), a variety of the domestic rabbit having long, soft fur. {Rabbit burrow}, a hole in the earth made by rabbits for shelter and habitation. {Rabbit fish}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The northern chim[91]ra ({Chim[91]ra monstrosa}). (b) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, as the bur fish, and puffer. The term is also locally applied to other fishes. {Rabbits' ears}. (Bot.) See {Cyclamen}. | |
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Rabid \Rab"id\, a.[L. rabidus, from rabere to rave. See {Rage}, n.] 1. Furious; raging; extremely violent. The rabid flight Of winds that ruin ships. --Chapman. 2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion; excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist. 3. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid god or fox. 4. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus. | |
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Rabot \Ra"bot\, n. [F.] A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished. --Knight. | |
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Raff \Raff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raffing}.] [OF. raffer, of German origin; cf. G. raffen; akin to E. rap to snatch. See {Rap}, and cf. {Riffraff}, {Rip} to tear.] To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep. [Obs.] Causes and effects which I thus raff up together. --Carew. | |
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Raft \Raft\, obs. imp. & p. p. of {Reave}. --Spenser. | |
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Raft \Raft\, n. [Originally, a rafter, spar, and fr. Icel. raptr a rafter; akin to Dan. raft, Prov. G. raff a rafter, spar; cf. OHG. r[be]fo, r[be]vo, a beam, rafter, Icel. r[be]f roof. Cf. {Rafter}, n.] 1. A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened, together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float. 2. A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation. [U.S.] 3. [Perhaps akin to raff a heap.] A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately. [Slang, U. S.] [bd]A whole raft of folks.[b8] --W. D. Howells. {Raft bridge}. (a) A bridge whose points of support are rafts. (b) A bridge that consists of floating timbers fastened together. {Raft duck}. [The name alludes to its swimming in dense flocks.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The bluebill, or greater scaup duck; -- called also {flock duck}. See {Scaup}. (b) The redhead. {Raft port} (Naut.), a large, square port in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky articles; a timber or lumber port. | |
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Raft \Raft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rafted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rafting}.] To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber. | |
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Reave \Reave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reaved}, {Reft}, or {Raft}(obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaving}.] [AS. re[a0]fian, from re[a0]f spoil, plunder, clothing, re[a2]fan to break (cf. bire[a2]fan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[umac]fa to break, violate, Goth. bir[a0]ubon to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. {Bereave}, {Rob}, v. t., {Robe}, {Rove}, v. t., {Rupture}.] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. [bd]To reave his life.[b8] --Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. --Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. --Chapman. | |
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Rafte \Raf"te\, obs. imp. of {Reave}. --Chaucer. | |
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Rafty \Raf"ty\, a. [Perhaps akin to G. reif hoarfrost.] Damp; musty. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Reap \Reap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaping}.] [OE. repen, AS. r[c6]pan to seize, reap; cf. D. rapen to glean, reap, G. raufen to pluck, Goth. raupjan, or E. ripe.] 1. To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field. --Lev.[?][?][?]. 9. 2. To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions. Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate? --Milton. 3. To clear or a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field. 4. To deprive of the beard; to shave. [R.] --Shak. {Reaping hook}, an instrument having a hook-shaped blade, used in reaping; a sickle; -- in a specific sense, distinguished from a sickle by a blade keen instead of serrated. | |
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Rapid \Rap"id\, a. [L. rapidus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch or hurry away; perhaps akin to Gr. [?]; cf. F. rapide. Cf. {Harpy}, {Ravish}.] 1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. --Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession. 3. Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman. | |
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Rapid \Rap"id\, n. [Cf. F. rapide. See {Rapid}, a.] The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. | |
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Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}, usually written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law] {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[91]na plunder, fr. r[be]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. [bd][Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.[b8] --Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras. {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. | |
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Rap \Rap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door. | |
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Rapped \Rapped\ (r[acr]pt), imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to strike. | |
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Rapped \Rapped\, imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away. | |
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Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}, usually written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law] {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[91]na plunder, fr. r[be]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. [bd][Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.[b8] --Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras. {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. | |
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Rapt \Rapt\ (r[acr]pt), imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away. | |
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Rapt \Rapt\, a. 1. Snatched away; hurried away or along. Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser. 2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. [bd]The rapt musician.[b8] --Longfellow. 3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. [bd]Rapt in secret studies.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Rapt \Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt, a. See {Rapt}, a., and {Rapid}.] 1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton. 2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Rapt \Rapt\, v. i. 1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel. | |
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Rave \Rave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raving}.] [F. r[88]ver to rave, to be delirious, to dream; perhaps fr. L. rabere to rave, rage, be mad or furious. Cf. {Rage}, {Reverie}.] 1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. In our madness evermore we rave. --Chaucer. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast? --Addison. The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Kiliecrankie. --Macaulay. 2. To rush wildly or furiously. --Spencer. 3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty. The hallowed scene Which others rave on, though they know it not. --Byron. | |
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Reave \Reave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reaved}, {Reft}, or {Raft}(obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaving}.] [AS. re[a0]fian, from re[a0]f spoil, plunder, clothing, re[a2]fan to break (cf. bire[a2]fan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[umac]fa to break, violate, Goth. bir[a0]ubon to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. {Bereave}, {Rob}, v. t., {Robe}, {Rove}, v. t., {Rupture}.] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. [bd]To reave his life.[b8] --Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. --Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. --Chapman. | |
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Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. t. [F. rebattre to beat again; pref re- re- + battre to beat, L. batuere to beat, strike. See {Abate}.] 1. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. --Shak. 2. To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. --Blount. | |
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Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. i. To abate; to withdraw. [Obs.] --Foxe. | |
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Rebate \Re*bate"\, n. 1. Diminution. 2. (Com.) Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties. --Bouvier. | |
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Rebate \Re*bate"\, n. [See {Rabbet}.] 1. (Arch.) A restangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See {Rabbet}. 2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar. --Elmes. 3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood. --Elmes. 4. [Perhaps a different word.] A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] --Elmes. | |
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Rebate \Re*bate"\, v. t. To cut a rebate in. See {Rabbet}, v. | |
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Rebato \Re*ba"to\, n. Same as {Rabato}. --Burton. | |
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Rebut \Re*but"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rebutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rebutting}.] [OF. reb[?][?]ter to repulse, drive back; pref. re- + bouter to push, thrust. See 1st {Butt}, {Boutade}.] 1. To drive or beat back; to repulse. Who him, recount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back. --Spenser. 2. (Law) To contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof. --Abbott. | |
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Rebut \Re*but"\, v. i. 1. To retire; to recoil. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. (Law) To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant. --Blackstone. | |
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Reef \Reef\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reefed} (r[c7]ft); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reefing}.] (Naut.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar. --Totten. {To reef the paddles}, to move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply. | |
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Refit \Re*fit"\ (r?*f?t"), v. t. 1. To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war. --Macaulay. 2. To fit out or supply a second time. | |
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Refit \Re*fit"\, v. i. To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit. | |
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Rift \Rift\, n. [Written also {reft}.] [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See {Rive}.] 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. --Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford. | |
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Reave \Reave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reaved}, {Reft}, or {Raft}(obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaving}.] [AS. re[a0]fian, from re[a0]f spoil, plunder, clothing, re[a2]fan to break (cf. bire[a2]fan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[umac]fa to break, violate, Goth. bir[a0]ubon to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. {Bereave}, {Rob}, v. t., {Robe}, {Rove}, v. t., {Rupture}.] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. [bd]To reave his life.[b8] --Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. --Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. --Chapman. | |
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Reft \Reft\, n. A chink; a rift. See {Rift}. --Rom. of R. | |
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Reft \Reft\ (r?ft), imp. & p. p. of {Reave}. Bereft. Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. --Heber. | |
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Rift \Rift\, n. [Written also {reft}.] [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See {Rive}.] 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. --Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford. | |
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Reave \Reave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reaved}, {Reft}, or {Raft}(obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reaving}.] [AS. re[a0]fian, from re[a0]f spoil, plunder, clothing, re[a2]fan to break (cf. bire[a2]fan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[umac]fa to break, violate, Goth. bir[a0]ubon to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. {Bereave}, {Rob}, v. t., {Robe}, {Rove}, v. t., {Rupture}.] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. [bd]To reave his life.[b8] --Spenser. He golden apples raft of the dragon. --Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. --Chapman. | |
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Reft \Reft\, n. A chink; a rift. See {Rift}. --Rom. of R. | |
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Reft \Reft\ (r?ft), imp. & p. p. of {Reave}. Bereft. Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn. --Heber. | |
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Refute \Re*fute"\ (r?*F3t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Refuting}.] [F. r[82]futer, L. refuteare to repel, refute. Cf. {Confute}, {Refuse} to deny.] To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes. --Addison. Syn: To confute; disprove. See {Confute}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Repay \Re*pay"\ (r?-p?"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repaid} (-p?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repaying}.] [Pref. re- + pay: cf. F. repayer.] 1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums. --Shak. 2. To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. --Rambler. 3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt. Syn: To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Repaid \Re*paid"\ (r?-p?d"), imp. & p. p. of {Repay}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (r?-p?t"), n. 1. The act of repeating; repetition. 2. That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.). 3. (Mus.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repeated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Repeating}.] [F. r[82]p[82]ter, L. repetere; pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See {Petition}.] 1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. [bd]I will repeat our former communication.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. --Milton. 2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. [Obs.] --Waller. 3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received). {To repeat one's self}, to do or say what one has already done or said. {To repeat signals}, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See {Reiterate}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Repute \Re*pute"\ (r?-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reputed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reputing}.] [F. r[82]puter, L. reputare to count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count, think. See {Putative}.] To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon. Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? --Job xviii. 3. The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Repute \Re*pute"\, n. 1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate. He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. --Milton. 2. Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; -- opposed to disrepute. [bd]Dead stocks, which have been of repute.[b8] --F. Beaumont. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Revet \Re*vet"\ (r[esl]*v[ecr]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revetted};p. pr. & vb. n. {Revetting}.] [See {Revetment}.] (Mil. & Civil Engineering) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material. | |
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Review \Re*view"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Review[?]d}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reveiwing}.] [Pref. re- + view. Cf. {Review}, n. ] 1. To view or see again; to look back on. [R.] [bd]I shall review Sicilia.[b8] --Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: (a) To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. (b) To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel. (c) To make a formal or official examination of the state of, as troops, and the like; as, to review a regiment. (d) (Law) To re[89]xamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one. 3. To retrace; to go over again. Shall I the long, laborious scene review? --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ribaud \Rib"aud\, n. A ribald. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ribaudy \Rib"aud*y\, n. Ribaldry. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Rib \Rib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ribbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ribbing}.] 1. To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth. 2. To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ribbed \Ribbed\, a. 1. Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth. 2. (Mining) Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal. --Raymond. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rift \Rift\, v. i. 1. To burst open; to split. --Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. --Bacon. 2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rift \Rift\, obs. p. p. of {Rive}. --Spenser. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rift \Rift\, n. [Written also {reft}.] [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See {Rive}.] 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. --Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rift \Rift\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rifted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rifting}.] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. --Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. --Wordsworth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rip \Rip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ripped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ripping}.] [Cf. AS. r[ymac]pan, also Sw. repa to ripple flax, D. repelen, G. reffen, riffeln, and E. raff, raffle. Cf. {Raff}, {Ripple} of flax.] 1. To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off. 2. To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing. He 'll rip the fatal secret from her heart. --Granville. 3. To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up. They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. --Clarendon. For brethern to debate and rip up their falling out in the ear of a common enemy . . . is neither wise nor comely. --Milton. 4. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber. {Ripping chisel} (Carp.), a crooked chisel for cleaning out mortises. --Knight. {Ripping iron}. (Shipbuilding) Same as {Ravehook}. {Ripping saw}. (Carp.) See {Ripsaw}. {To rip out}, to rap out, to utter hastily and violently; as, to rip out an oath. [Colloq.] See {To rap out}, under {Rap}, v. t. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rive \Rive\, v. t. [imp. {Rived}; p. p. {Rived} or {Riven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Riving}.] [Icel. r[c6]fa, akin to Sw. rifva to pull asunder, burst, tear, Dan. rive to rake, pluck, tear. Cf. {Reef} of land, {Rifle} a gun, {Rift}, {Rivel}.] To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles. I shall ryve him through the sides twain. --Chaucer. The scolding winds have rived the knotty oaks. --Shak. Brutus hath rived my heart. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rivet \Riv"et\, n. [F., fr. river to rivet; perh. fr. Icel. rifa to fasten together. Cf. {Reef} part of a sail.] A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends. With busy hammers closing rivets up. --Shak. {Rivet joint}, [or] {Riveted joint}, a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rivet \Riv"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Riveted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Riveting}.] 1. To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron. 2. To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head. 3. Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection. Rivet and nail me where I stand, ye powers! --Congreve. Thus his confidence was riveted and confirmed. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rob \Rob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Robbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Robbing}.] [OF. rober, of German origin; cf. OHG. roub[?]n, G. rauben, and OHG. roub robbing, booty, G. raub. [root]114. See {Reave},and cf. {Robe}.] 1. To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from. Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish? --Milton. He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. --Shak. To be executed for robbing a church. --Shak. 2. (Law) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear. 3. To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight. I never robbed the soldiers of their pay. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Robe \Robe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Robed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Robing}.] To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green. The sage Chaldeans robed in white appeared. --Pope. Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. --Wirt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Roof \Roof\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roofed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roofing}.] 1. To cover with a roof. I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings that have not been roofed with vaults or arches. --Addison. 2. To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter. Here had we now our country's honor roofed. --Shak. | |
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Rope \Rope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roping}.] To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Let us not hang like ropingicicles Upon our houses' thatch. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rove \Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roving}.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See {Reave}, {Rob}.] 1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt. 2. Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. For who has power to walk has power to rove. --Arbuthnot. 3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove. --Spenser. Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rowboat \Row"boat`\, n. A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rub \Rub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rubbing}.] [Probably of Celtic origin; cf. W. rhwbiaw, gael. rub.] 1. To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back and forth; as, to rub the flesh with the hand; to rub wood with sandpaper. It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth. --Sir T. Elyot. 2. To move over the surface of (a body) with pressure and friction; to graze; to chafe; as, the boat rubs the ground. 3. To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface; as, to rub the hand over the body. Two bones rubbed hard against one another. --Arbuthnot. 4. To spread a substance thinly over; to smear. The smoothed plank, . . . New rubbed with balm. --Milton. 5. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver. The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation. --South. 6. To hinder; to cross; to thwart. [R.] 'T is the duke's pleasure, Whose disposition, all the world well knows, Will not be rubbed nor stopped. --Shak. {To rub down}. (a) To clean by rubbing; to comb or curry; as, to down a horse. (b) To reduce or remove by rubbing; as, to rub down the rough points. {To rub off}, to clean anything by rubbing; to separate by friction; as, to rub off rust. {To rub out}, to remove or separate by friction; to erase; to obliterate; as, to rub out a mark or letter; to rub out a stain. {To rub up}. (a) To burnish; to polish; to clean. (b) To excite; to awaken; to rouse to action; as, to rub up the memory. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruby \Ru"by\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rubied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rubying}.] To make red; to redden. [R.] --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rubywood \Ru"by*wood`\, n. red sandalwood. See under {Sandalwood}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [cced]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. {Sanders}.] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album}), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum Freycinetianum} and {S. pyrularium}, the Australian {S. latifolium}, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}). {False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum tenuifolium} of Tahiti. {Red sandalwood}, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus santalinus}, and {Adenanthera pavonina}); -- called also {red sanderswood}, {sanders} or {saunders}, and {rubywood}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Rubywood \Ru"by*wood`\, n. red sandalwood. See under {Sandalwood}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [cced]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. {Sanders}.] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album}), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum Freycinetianum} and {S. pyrularium}, the Australian {S. latifolium}, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}). {False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum tenuifolium} of Tahiti. {Red sandalwood}, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus santalinus}, and {Adenanthera pavonina}); -- called also {red sanderswood}, {sanders} or {saunders}, and {rubywood}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruff \Ruff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruffed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruffing}.] 1. To ruffle; to disorder. --Spenser. 2. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 3. (Hawking) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruffed \Ruffed\, a. Furnished with a ruff. {Ruffed grouse} (Zo[94]l.), a North American grouse ({Bonasa umbellus}) common in the wooded districts of the Northern United States. The male has a ruff of brown or black feathers on each side of the neck, and is noted for the loud drumming sound he makes during the breeding season. Called also {tippet grouse}, {partridge}, {birch partridge}, {pheasant}, {drummer}, and {white-flesher}. {ruffed lemur} (Zo[94]l.), a species of lemur ({lemur varius}) having a conspicuous ruff on the sides of the head. Its color is varied with black and white. Called also {ruffed maucaco}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ruft \Ruft\, n. (Med.) Eructation; belching. [Obs.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Rehoboth, MA Zip code(s): 02769 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
robot n. See {bot}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RAPT ["An Interpreter for a Language for Describing Assemblies", R.J. Popplestone et al, Artif Intell 14:79-107 (1980)]. (1995-05-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
reboot that the computer has not been down for long, or that the {boot} is a {bounce} intended to clear some state of {wedgitude}. See {warm boot}. (1995-11-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
repeat {repeat loop} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RFT {Request For Technology} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
robot 1. might otherwise be done by a human, e.g. spraying paint on cars. See also {cybernetics}. 2. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service. Examples are {NickServ}, which tries to prevent random uNo definitions found for "RPT" sers from adopting {nick}s already claimed by others, and MsgServ, which allows one to send {asynchronous} messages to be delivered when the recipient signs on. Also common are "annoybots", such as KissServ, which perform no useful function except to send cute messages to other people. Service robots are less common on {MUD}s; but some others, such as the "Julia" robot active in 1990--91, have been remarkably impressive {Turing test} experiments, able to pass as human for as long as ten or fifteen minutes of conversation. 3. [{Jargon File}] (1996-03-23) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Rehoboth broad places. (1.) A well in Gerar dug by Isaac (Gen. 26:22), supposed to be in Wady er-Ruheibeh, about 20 miles south of Beersheba. (2.) An ancient city on the Euphrates (Gen. 36:37; 1 Chr. 1:48), "Rehoboth by the river." (3.) Named among the cities of Asshur (Gen. 10:11). Probably, however, the words "rehoboth'ir" are to be translated as in the Vulgate and the margin of A.V., "the streets of the city," or rather "the public square of the city", i.e., of Nineveh. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Riphath a crusher, Gomer's second son (Gen. 10:3), supposed to have been the ancestor of the Paphlagonians. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Rehoboth, spaces; places | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Riphath, remedy; medicine; release; pardon |