English Dictionary: ripen | by the DICT Development Group |
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Rabbin \Rab"bin\, n. [F.] Same as {Rabbi}. | |
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Rape \Rape\ (r[amac]p), n. [F. r[83]pe a grape stalk.] 1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. --Ray. 2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making. 3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. {Rape wine}, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes. | |
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Raphany \Raph"a*ny\, n. [Cf. F. raphanie.] (Med.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock ({Raphanus raphanistrum}) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism. | |
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Rapine \Rap"ine\, n. [F. rapine; cf. Pr. & It. rapina; all fr. L. rapina, fr. rapere to seize and carry off by force. See {Rapid}, and cf. {Raven} rapine.] 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. --Macaulay. 2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Rapine \Rap"ine\, v. t. To plunder. --Sir G. Buck. | |
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Raven \Ra"ven\, a. Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ravened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ravening}.] [Written also ravin, and ravine.] 1. To obtain or seize by violence. --Hakewill. 2. To devoir with great eagerness. Like rats that ravin down their proper bane. --Shak. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
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Raven \Ra"ven\, n. [AS. hr[91]fn; akin to raaf, G. rabe, OHG. hraban, Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus, Gr. [?]. [?][?][?].] (Zo[94]l.) A large black passerine bird ({Corvus corax}), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. {Sea raven} (Zo[94]l.), the cormorant. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, n. Ravenous. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Ravine\, n. [See 2d {Raven}.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. [bd]Fowls of ravyne.[b8] --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i. See {Raven}, v. t. & i. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, n. Ravenous. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Ravine\, n. [See 2d {Raven}.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. [bd]Fowls of ravyne.[b8] --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i. See {Raven}, v. t. & i. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, n. Ravenous. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Ravine\, n. [See 2d {Raven}.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. [bd]Fowls of ravyne.[b8] --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i. See {Raven}, v. t. & i. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Ravine\, n. [See 2d {Raven}.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. [bd]Fowls of ravyne.[b8] --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i. See {Raven}, v. t. & i. | |
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Ravine \Ra*vine"\, n. [F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See {Ravish}, and cf. {Rapine}, {Raven} prey.] 1. A torrent of water. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Ravine\, n. [See 2d {Raven}.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. [bd]Fowls of ravyne.[b8] --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i. See {Raven}, v. t. & i. | |
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Ravine \Ra*vine"\, n. [F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See {Ravish}, and cf. {Rapine}, {Raven} prey.] 1. A torrent of water. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Ravine\, n. [See 2d {Raven}.] Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. [bd]Fowls of ravyne.[b8] --Chaucer. Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, n. [OF. ravine impetuosity, violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] 1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. | |
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Raven \Rav"en\, v. i. To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix. 27. | |
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Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i. See {Raven}, v. t. & i. | |
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Ravine \Ra*vine"\, n. [F., a place excavated by a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L. rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See {Ravish}, and cf. {Rapine}, {Raven} prey.] 1. A torrent of water. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft. | |
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Rawbone \Raw"bone`\, a. Rawboned. [Obs.] --Spencer. | |
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Refine \Re*fine"\, v. i. 1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines. --Addison. 2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories. --Dryden. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines! --Pope. 3. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. [bd]He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy.[b8] --Atterbury. | |
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Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refined} (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refining}.] [Pref. re- + fine to make fine: cf. F. raffiner.] 1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii. 9. 2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges. --Milton. Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble. | |
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Reopen \Re*o"pen\ (r?-?"p'n), v. t. & i. To open again. | |
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Repine \Re*pine"\ (r?-p?n"), v. i. [Pref. re- + pine to languish.] 1. To fail; to wane. [Obs.] [bd]Reppening courage yields no foot to foe.[b8] --Spenser. 2. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. --Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind? --Pope. | |
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Repine \Re*pine"\, n. Vexation; mortification. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Repone \Re*pone"\ (r?-p?n"), v. t. [L. reponere; pref. re- re- + ponere to place.] To replace. --R. Baillie. | |
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Revenue \Rev"e*nue\, n. [F. revenu, OF. revenue, fr. revenir to return, L. revenire; pref. re- re- + venire to come. See {Come}.] 1. That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. --Gray. 2. Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise. 3. The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use. {Revenue cutter}, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc. | |
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Riban \Rib"an\, n. See {Ribbon}. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. | |
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Ribbon \Rib"bon\, n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.] [Written also {riband}, {ribband}.] 1. A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes. 2. A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons. 3. (Shipbuilding) Same as {Rib-band}. 4. pl. Driving reins. [Cant] --London Athen[91]um. 5. (Her.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide. 6. (Spinning) A silver. Note: The blue ribbon, and The red ribbon, are phrases often used to designate the British orders of the Garter and of the Bath, respectively, the badges of which are suspended by ribbons of these colors. See {Blue ribbon}, under {Blue}. {Ribbon fish}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any elongated, compressed, ribbon-shaped marine fish of the family {Trachypterid[91]}, especially the species of the genus {Trachypterus}, and the oarfish ({Regelecus Banksii}) of the North Atlantic, which is sometimes over twenty feet long. (b) The hairtail, or bladefish. (c) A small compressed marine fish of the genus {Cepola}, having a long, slender, tapering tail. The European species ({C. rubescens}) is light red throughout. Called also {band fish}. {Ribbon grass} (Bot.), a variety of reed canary grass having the leaves stripped with green and white; -- called also {Lady's garters}. See {Reed grass}, under {Reed}. {Ribbon seal} (Zo[94]l.), a North Pacific seal ({Histriophoca fasciata}). The adult male is dark brown, conspicuously banded and striped with yellowish white. {Ribbon snake} (Zo[94]l.), a common North American snake ({Eutainia saurita}). It is conspicuously striped with bright yellow and dark brown. {Ribbon Society}, a society in Ireland, founded in the early part of the 19th century in antagonism to the Orangemen. It afterwards became an organization of tennant farmers banded together to prevent eviction by landlords. It took its name from the green ribbon worn by members as a badge. {Ribborn worm}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A tapeworm. (b) A nemertean. | |
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Ribbon \Rib"bon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ribboned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ribboning}.] To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons. | |
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Ripen \Rip"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ripened};p. pr. & vb. n. {Ripening}.] 1. To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun. 2. To approach or come to perfection. | |
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Ripen \Rip"en\, v. t. 1. To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn. 2. To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment. When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. --Milton. | |
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Riven \Riv"en\, p. p. & a. from {Rive}. | |
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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. | |
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Robbin \Rob"bin\, n. (Com.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. --Simmonds. | |
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Robbin \Rob"bin\, n. (Naut.) See {Ropeband}. | |
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Ropeband \Rope"band`\, n. (Naut.) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [Written also {roband}, and {robbin}.] | |
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Robbin \Rob"bin\, n. (Com.) A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. The robbin of rice in Malabar weighs about 84 pounds. --Simmonds. | |
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Robbin \Rob"bin\, n. (Naut.) See {Ropeband}. | |
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Ropeband \Rope"band`\, n. (Naut.) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [Written also {roband}, and {robbin}.] | |
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Robin \Rob"in\, n. [Properly a pet name for Robert, originally meaning, famebright; F., fron OHG. Roudperht; ruod (in comp.; akin to AS. hr[?][?] glory, fame, Goth. hr[?]peigs victorius) + beraht bright. See {Bright}, {Hob} a clown.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small European singing bird ({Erythacus rubecula}), having a reddish breast; -- called also {robin redbreast}, {robinet}, and {ruddock}. (b) An American singing bird ({Merula migratoria}), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also {robin redbreast}, and {migratory thrush}. (c) Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera {Petroica}, {Melanadrays}, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin ({Petroica mullticolor}). (d) Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See {Indian robin}, below. {Beach robin} (Zo[94]l.), the robin snipe, or knot. See {Knot}. {Blue-throated robin}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Bluethroat}. {Canada robin} (Zo[94]l.), the cedar bird. {Golden robin} (Zo[94]l.), the Baltimore oriole. {Ground robin} (Zo[94]l.), the chewink. {Indian robin} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Asiatic saxoline birds of the genera {Thamnobia} and {Pratincola}. They are mostly black, usually with some white on the wings. {Magrie robin} (Zo[94]l.), an Asiatic singing bird ({Corsycus saularis}), having the back, head, neck, and breast black glossed with blue, the wings black, and the belly white. {Ragged robin}. (Bot.) See under {Ragged}. {Robin accentor} (Zo[94]l.), a small Asiatic singing bird ({Accentor rubeculoides}), somewhat resembling the European robin. {Robin redbreast}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European robin. (b) The American robin. (c) The American bluebird. {Robin snipe}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The red-breasted snipe, or dowitcher. (b) The red-breasted sandpiper, or knot. {Robin's plantain}. (Bot.) See under {Plantain}. {Sea robin}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any one of several species of American gurnards of the genus {Prionotus}. They are excellent food fishes. Called also {wingfish}. The name is also applied to a European gurnard. (b) The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. [Local, U.S.] {Water robin} (Zo[94]l.), a redstart ({Ruticulla fuliginosa}), native of India. | |
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Rubian \Ru"bi*an\, n. [L. rubia madder, fr. rubeus red.] (Chem.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root. | |
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Rubin \Ru"bin\, n. [Cf. LL. rubinus, It. rubino. See {Ruby}.] A ruby. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Ruffian \Ruf"fian\, a. brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage. | |
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Ruffian \Ruf"fian\, v. i. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Ruffian \Ruf"fian\ (? [or] ?; 277), n. [F. rufien, OF. ruffen, ruffian, pimp. libertine, ake; cf. pr. & Sp. rufian, It. ruffiano; all perhaps of German or Dutch origin; cf. G. raufen to pluck, scuffle, fight, OD. roffen to pander. Cf. Ruffle to grow urbulent.] 1. A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour. [Obs.] he [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, reveling with her ruffians. --Bp. Reynolds. 2. A boisterous, cruel, brutal fellow; a desperate fellow ready for murderous or cruel deeds; a cutthroat. Wilt thou on thy deathbed play the ruffian? --Shak. | |
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Ruffin \Ruf"fin\, a. [See Ruffian.] Disordered. [Obs.] His ruffin rainment all was stained with blood. --Spenser. | |
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Raphine, VA Zip code(s): 24472 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Raven, KY Zip code(s): 41844, 41861 Raven, VA (CDP, FIPS 65744) Location: 37.09416 N, 81.86203 W Population (1990): 2640 (1062 housing units) Area: 16.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24639 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ravena, NY (village, FIPS 60675) Location: 42.47658 N, 73.81229 W Population (1990): 3547 (1487 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 12143 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ravenna, KY (city, FIPS 64092) Location: 37.68718 N, 83.94782 W Population (1990): 804 (365 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 40472 Ravenna, MI (village, FIPS 67280) Location: 43.18957 N, 85.94027 W Population (1990): 919 (346 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49451 Ravenna, NE (city, FIPS 40710) Location: 41.02679 N, 98.91300 W Population (1990): 1317 (609 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68869 Ravenna, OH (city, FIPS 65592) Location: 41.15980 N, 81.24257 W Population (1990): 12069 (5203 housing units) Area: 12.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44266 Ravenna, TX Zip code(s): 75476 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ravinia, SD (town, FIPS 53220) Location: 43.13601 N, 98.42713 W Population (1990): 79 (36 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57357 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ripon, CA (city, FIPS 61026) Location: 37.73505 N, 121.12645 W Population (1990): 7455 (2567 housing units) Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95366 Ripon, WI (city, FIPS 68175) Location: 43.84582 N, 88.84158 W Population (1990): 7241 (2804 housing units) Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54971 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ruffin, NC Zip code(s): 27326 Ruffin, SC Zip code(s): 29475 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
rave on! imp. Sarcastic invitation to continue a {rave}, often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realizes this is unlikely. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
rave on! Sarcastic invitation to continue a {rave}, often by someone who wishes the raver would get a clue but realises this is unlikely. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
REFINE 1. "Research on Knowledge-Based Software Environments at Kestrel Institute", D.R. Smith et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng, SE-11(11) (1985). E-mail: 2. Cordell Green et al, Stanford U. Uses logic to specify and evolve programs. [same as 1?] Reasoning Systems, Inc. E-mail: | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RIPEM {Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RPM that helps installation of software packages; similar to an install program. [More details? Reference? Expansion?] (1996-03-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
rpm {rotation per minute} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RPM that helps installation of software packages; similar to an install program. [More details? Reference? Expansion?] (1996-03-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
rpm {rotation per minute} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
RPN {postfix notation} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Rabboni (id.) occurs only twice in the New Testament (Mark 10:51, A.V., "Lord," R.V., "Rabboni;" John 20:16). It was the most honourable of all the titles. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Raven Heb. 'orebh, from a root meaning "to be black" (comp. Cant. 5:11); first mentioned as "sent forth" by Noah from the ark (Gen. 8:7). "Every raven after his kind" was forbidden as food (Lev. 11:15; Deut. 14:14). Ravens feed mostly on carrion, and hence their food is procured with difficulty (Job 38:41; Ps. 147:9). When they attack kids or lambs or weak animals, it is said that they first pick out the eyes of their victims (Prov. 30:17). When Elijah was concealed by the brook Cherith, God commanded the ravens to bring him "bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening" (1 Kings 17:3-6). (See {ELIJAH}.) There are eight species of ravens in Palestine, and they are everywhere very numerous in that land. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Rehoboam he enlarges the people, the successor of Solomon on the throne, and apparently his only son. He was the son of Naamah "the Ammonitess," some well-known Ammonitish princess (1 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 12:13). He was forty-one years old when he ascended the throne, and he reigned seventeen years (B.C. 975-958). Although he was acknowledged at once as the rightful heir to the throne, yet there was a strongly-felt desire to modify the character of the government. The burden of taxation to which they had been subjected during Solomon's reign was very oppressive, and therefore the people assembled at Shechem and demanded from the king an alleviation of their burdens. He went to meet them at Shechem, and heard their demands for relief (1 Kings 12:4). After three days, having consulted with a younger generation of courtiers that had grown up around him, instead of following the advice of elders, he answered the people haughtily (6-15). "The king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the Lord" (comp. 11:31). This brought matters speedily to a crisis. The terrible cry was heard (comp. 2 Sam. 20:1): "What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: To your tents, O Israel: Now see to thine own house, David" (1 Kings 12:16). And now at once the kingdom was rent in twain. Rehoboam was appalled, and tried concessions, but it was too late (18). The tribe of Judah, Rehoboam's own tribe, alone remained faithful to him. Benjamin was reckoned along with Judah, and these two tribes formed the southern kingdom, with Jerusalem as its capital; while the northern ten tribes formed themselves into a separate kingdom, choosing Jeroboam as their king. Rehoboam tried to win back the revolted ten tribes by making war against them, but he was prevented by the prophet Shemaiah (21-24; 2 Chr. 11:1-4) from fulfilling his purpose. (See {JEROBOAM}.) In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign, Shishak (q.v.), one of the kings of Egypt of the Assyrian dynasty, stirred up, no doubt, by Jeroboam his son-in-law, made war against him. Jerusalem submitted to the invader, who plundered the temple and virtually reduced the kingdom to the position of a vassal of Egypt (1 Kings 14:25, 26; 2 Chr. 12:5-9). A remarkable memorial of this invasion has been discovered at Karnac, in Upper Egypt, in certain sculptures on the walls of a small temple there. These sculptures represent the king, Shishak, holding in his hand a train of prisoners and other figures, with the names of the captured towns of Judah, the towns which Rehoboam had fortified (2 Chr. 11:5-12). The kingdom of Judah, under Rehoboam, sank more and more in moral and spiritual decay. "There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days." At length, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, Rehoboam "slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David" (1 Kings 14:31). He was succeeded by his son Abijah. (See {EGYPT}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Rephaim lofty men; giants, (Gen. 14:5; 2 Sam. 21:16, 18, marg. A.V., Rapha, marg. R.V., Raphah; Deut. 3:13, R.V.; A.V., "giants"). The aborigines of Palestine, afterwards conquered and dispossessed by the Canaanite tribes, are classed under this general title. They were known to the Moabites as Emim, i.e., "fearful", (Deut. 2:11), and to the Ammonites as Zamzummim. Some of them found refuge among the Philistines, and were still existing in the days of David. We know nothing of their origin. They were not necessarily connected with the "giants" (R.V., "Nephilim") of Gen. 6:4. (See {GIANTS}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Reuben behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father's malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, and was the means of saving his life when his other brothers would have put him to death (37:21,22). It was he also who pledged his life and the life of his sons when Jacob was unwilling to let Benjamin go down into Egypt. After Jacob and his family went down into Egypt (46:8) no further mention is made of Reuben beyond what is recorded in ch. 49:3,4. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Rehoboam, who sets the people at liberty | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Rehpaim, giants; physicians; relaxed | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Reuben, who sees the son; the vision of the son |