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   radiophoto
         n 1: a photograph transmitted by radio waves [syn:
               {radiophotograph}, {radiophoto}]

English Dictionary: Ratibida columnifera by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
radiophotograph
n
  1. a photograph transmitted by radio waves [syn: radiophotograph, radiophoto]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
radiophotography
n
  1. transmission of photographs by radio waves
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ratbite fever
n
  1. either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ratbite fever bacterium
n
  1. a bacterium causing ratbite fever [syn: {ratbite fever bacterium}, Spirillum minus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rate of attrition
n
  1. the rate of shrinkage in size or number [syn: {attrition rate}, rate of attrition]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rate of depreciation
n
  1. the rate at which the value of property is reduced; used to calculate tax deduction
    Synonym(s): rate of depreciation, depreciation rate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ratibida
n
  1. genus of perennial wildflowers of North American plains and prairies; often cultivated for their showy flower heads
    Synonym(s): Ratibida, genus Ratibida
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ratibida columnaris
n
  1. coneflower with flower heads resembling a Mexican hat with a tall red-brown disk and drooping yellow or yellow and red-brown rays; grows in the great plains along base of Rocky Mountains
    Synonym(s): Mexican hat, Ratibida columnaris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ratibida columnifera
n
  1. plant similar to the Mexican hat coneflower; from British Columbia to New Mexico
    Synonym(s): long-head coneflower, prairie coneflower, Ratibida columnifera
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ratibida tagetes
n
  1. coneflower of central to southwestern United States [syn: prairie coneflower, Ratibida tagetes]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ratified
adj
  1. formally approved and invested with legal authority [syn: ratified, sanctioned]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
read between the lines
v
  1. read what is implied but not expressed on the surface
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
readapt
v
  1. adapt anew; "He readapted himself"
  2. adjust anew; "After moving back to America, he had to readjust"
    Synonym(s): readjust, readapt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red bat
n
  1. North American bat of a brick or rusty red color with hairs tipped with white
    Synonym(s): red bat, Lasiurus borealis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red eft
n
  1. red terrestrial form of a common North American newt [syn: red eft, Notophthalmus viridescens]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redbud
n
  1. small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood
    Synonym(s): redbud, Cercis canadensis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redoubt
n
  1. (military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses
  2. an entrenched stronghold or refuge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redoubtable
adj
  1. inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"
    Synonym(s): formidable, redoubtable, unnerving
  2. worthy of respect or honor; "born of a redoubtable family"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reduviid
n
  1. a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
    Synonym(s): assassin bug, reduviid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Reduviidae
n
  1. assassin bugs
    Synonym(s): Reduviidae, family Reduviidae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rhodophyta
n
  1. lower plants; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae
    Synonym(s): Rhodophyta, division Rhodophyta
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roadbed
n
  1. a bed supporting a road
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rudapithecus
n
  1. fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene
    Synonym(s): rudapithecus, Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Radiopticon \Ra`di*op"ti*con\, n. [Radio- + stereopticon.]
      See {Projector}, above.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Projector \Pro*jec"tor\, n.
      An optical instrument for projecting a picture upon a screen,
      as by a magic lantern or by an instrument for projecting (by
      reflection instead of transmission of light) a picture of an
      opaque object, as photographs, picture post-cards, insects,
      etc., in the colors of the object itself. In this latter form
      the projection is accomplished by means of a combination of
      lenses with a prism and a mirror or reflector. Specific
      instruments have been called by different names, such as
      {radiopticon}, {mirrorscope}, {balopticon}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Radiopticon \Ra`di*op"ti*con\, n. [Radio- + stereopticon.]
      See {Projector}, above.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Projector \Pro*jec"tor\, n.
      An optical instrument for projecting a picture upon a screen,
      as by a magic lantern or by an instrument for projecting (by
      reflection instead of transmission of light) a picture of an
      opaque object, as photographs, picture post-cards, insects,
      etc., in the colors of the object itself. In this latter form
      the projection is accomplished by means of a combination of
      lenses with a prism and a mirror or reflector. Specific
      instruments have been called by different names, such as
      {radiopticon}, {mirrorscope}, {balopticon}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rat \Rat\, n. [AS. r[91]t; akin to D. rat, OHG. rato, ratta, G.
      ratte, ratze, OLG. ratta, LG. & Dan. rotte, Sw. r[86]tta, F.
      rat, Ir. & Gael radan, Armor. raz, of unknown origin. Cf.
      {Raccoon}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the several species of small rodents of
            the genus {Mus} and allied genera, larger than mice, that
            infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway,
            or brown, rat ({M. Alexandrinus}). These were introduced
            into Anerica from the Old World.
  
      2. A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material,
            used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their
            natural hair. [Local, U.S.]
  
      3. One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the
            trades, one who works for lower wages than those
            prescribed by a trades union. [Cant]
  
      Note: [bd]It so chanced that, not long after the accession of
               the house of Hanover, some of the brown, that is the
               German or Norway, rats, were first brought over to this
               country (in some timber as is said); and being much
               stronger than the black, or, till then, the common,
               rats, they in many places quite extirpated the latter.
               The word (both the noun and the verb to rat) was first,
               as we have seen, leveled at the converts to the
               government of George the First, but has by degrees
               obtained a wide meaning, and come to be applied to any
               sudden and mercenary change in politics.[b8] --Lord
               Mahon.
  
      {Bamboo rat} (Zo[94]l.), any Indian rodent of the genus
            {Rhizomys}.
  
      {Beaver rat}, {Coast rat}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Beaver} and
            {Coast}.
  
      {Blind rat} (Zo[94]l.), the mole rat.
  
      {Cotton rat} (Zo[94]l.), a long-haired rat ({Sigmodon
            hispidus}), native of the Southern United States and
            Mexico. It makes its nest of cotton and is often injurious
            to the crop.
  
      {Ground rat}. See {Ground Pig}, under {Ground}.
  
      {Hedgehog rat}. See under {Hedgehog}.
  
      {Kangaroo rat} (Zo[94]l.), the potoroo.
  
      {Norway rat} (Zo[94]l.), the common brown rat. See {Rat}.
  
      {Pouched rat}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) See {Pocket Gopher}, under {Pocket}.
            (b) Any African rodent of the genus {Cricetomys}.
  
      {Rat Indians} (Ethnol.), a tribe of Indians dwelling near
            Fort Ukon, Alaska. They belong to Athabascan stock.
  
      {Rat mole}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mole rat}, under {Mole}.
  
      {Rat pit}, an inclosed space into which rats are put to be
            killed by a dog for sport.
  
      {Rat snake} (Zo[94]l.), a large colubrine snake ({Ptyas
            mucosus}) very common in India and Ceylon. It enters
            dwellings, and destroys rats, chickens, etc.
  
      {Spiny rat} (Zo[94]l.), any South America rodent of the genus
            {Echinomys}.
  
      {To smell a rat}. See under {Smell}.
  
      {Wood rat} (Zo[94]l.), any American rat of the genus
            {Neotoma}, especially {N. Floridana}, common in the
            Southern United States. Its feet and belly are white.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ratify \Rat"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ratified}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Ratifying}.] [F. ratifier, fr. L. ratus fixed by
      calculation, firm, valid + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See
      {Rate}, n., and {-fy}.]
      To approve and sanction; to make valid; to establish; to
      settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by
      an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or
      contract; to ratify a nomination.
  
               It is impossible for the divine power to set a seal to
               a lie by ratifying an imposture with such a miracle.
                                                                              --South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ratihabition \Rat`i*ha*bi"tion\, n. [L. ratihabitio; ratus
      fixed, valid + habere to hold.]
      Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.]
      --Jer. Tailor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Readept \Re`a*dept\, v. t. [Pref. re- + L. adeptus. p. p. of
      adipisci to obtain.]
      To regain; to recover. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Readeption \Re`a*dep"tion\, n.
      A regaining; recovery of something lost. [Obs.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Readopt \Re`a*dopt"\, v. t.
      To adopt again. --Young.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Burrel \Bur"rel\, n. [Cf. OF. burel reddish (cf. {Borel}, n.),
      or F. beurr[82] butter pear, fr. beurre butter. Cf.
      {Butter}.]
      A sort of pear, called also the {red butter pear}, from its
      smooth, delicious, soft pulp.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vitriol \Vit"ri*ol\, n. [F. vitriol; cf. Pr. vitriol, vetriol,
      Sp. & Pg. vitriolo, It. vitriuolo; fr. L. vitreolus of glass,
      vitreus vitreous. See {Vitreous}.] (Chem.)
      (a) A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron,
            zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy
            appearance or luster.
      (b) Sulphuric acid; -- called also {oil of vitriol}. So
            called because first made by the distillation of green
            vitriol. See {Sulphuric acid}, under {Sulphuric}.
            [Colloq.]
  
      {Blue vitriol}. See under {Blue}.
  
      {Green vitriol}, ferrous sulphate; copperas. See under
            {Green}.
  
      {Oil of vitriol}, sulphuric or vitriolic acid; -- popularly
            so called because it has the consistency of oil.
  
      {Red vitriol}, a native sulphate of cobalt.
  
      {Vitriol of Mars}, ferric sulphate, a white crystalline
            substance which dissolves in water, forming a red
            solution.
  
      {White vitriol}, zinc sulphate, a white crystalline substance
            used in medicine and in dyeing. It is usually obtained by
            dissolving zinc in sulphuric acid, or by roasting and
            oxidizing certain zinc ores. Formerly called also {vitriol
            of zinc}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Judas \Ju"das\, n.
      The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous
      person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship. --
      a. Treacherous; betraying.
  
      {Judas hole}, a peephole or secret opening for spying.
  
      {Judas kiss}, a deceitful and treacherous kiss.
  
      {Judas tree} (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus {Cercis},
            with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the
            branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree
            of this genus ({C. Siliquastrum}). {C. Canadensis} and {C.
            occidentalis} are the American species, and are called
            also {redbud}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redbud \Red"bud`\ (-b?d`), n. (Bot.)
      A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of
      the genus {Cercis}. See {Judas tree}, under {Judas}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Judas \Ju"das\, n.
      The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous
      person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship. --
      a. Treacherous; betraying.
  
      {Judas hole}, a peephole or secret opening for spying.
  
      {Judas kiss}, a deceitful and treacherous kiss.
  
      {Judas tree} (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus {Cercis},
            with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the
            branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree
            of this genus ({C. Siliquastrum}). {C. Canadensis} and {C.
            occidentalis} are the American species, and are called
            also {redbud}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redbud \Red"bud`\ (-b?d`), n. (Bot.)
      A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of
      the genus {Cercis}. See {Judas tree}, under {Judas}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redhibition \Red`hi*bi"tion\ (r?d`h?*b?sh"?n), n. [L. redhibitio
      a taking back.] (Civil Law)
      The annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the
      article sold, on account of some defect.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redhibitory \Red*hib"i*to*ry\ (r?d*h?b"?*t?*r?), a. [L.
      redhibitorius.] (Civil Law)
      Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or
      fault.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redivide \Re`di*vide"\ (r?`d?*v?d"), v. t.
      To divide anew.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redoubt \Re*doubt"\ (r?*dout"), n. [F. redoute, fem., It.
      ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus
      drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back;
      cf. F. r[82]duit, also fr. LL. reductus. See {Reduce}, and
      cf. {Reduct}, {R[82]duit}, {Ridotto}.] (Fort.)
      (a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or
            outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a
            temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used
            esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and
            positions in hostile territory.
      (b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another
            outwork. See F and i in Illust. of {Ravelin}. [Written
            also {redout}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redoubt \Re*doubt"\, v. t. [F. redouter, formerly also spelt
      redoubter; fr. L. pref. re- re- + dubitare to doubt, in LL.,
      to fear. See {Doubt}.]
      To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\ (-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable,
      formerly also spelt redoubtable.]
      Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
      hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written
      also {redoutable}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redoubted \Re*doubt"ed\, a.
      Formidable; dread. [bd]Some redoubted knight.[b8] --Spenser.
  
               Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy.      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redoubting \Re*doubt"ing\, n.
      Reverence; honor. [Obs.]
  
               In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory.   --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reduvid \Red"u*vid\ (r?d"?*v?d), n. [L. reduvia a hangnail.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      Any hemipterous insect of the genus {Redivius}, or family
      {Reduvid[91]}. They live by sucking the blood of other
      insects, and some species also attack man.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Retiped \Ret`i*ped\, n. [L. rete a net + pes, pedis, a foot: cf.
      F. r[82]tinop[8a]de.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Roadbed \Road"bed`\, n.
      In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the
      superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads,
      the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      2. An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as
            produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc.; as, the
            root crop.
  
      3. That which resembles a root in position or function, esp.
            as a source of nourishment or support; that from which
            anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the
            root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like.
            Specifically:
            (a) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a
                  stem.
  
                           They were the roots out of which sprang two
                           distinct people.                           --Locke.
            (b) A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms
                  employed in language; a word from which other words
                  are formed; a radix, or radical.
            (c) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought
                  about; the source. [bd]She herself . . . is root of
                  bounty.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                           The love of money is a root of all kinds of
                           evil.                                          --1 Tim. vi.
                                                                              10 (rev. Ver.)
            (d) (Math.) That factor of a quantity which when
                  multiplied into itself will produce that quantity;
                  thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into
                  itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27.
            (e) (Mus.) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone
                  from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is
                  composed. --Busby.
            (f) The lowest place, position, or part. [bd]Deep to the
                  roots of hell.[b8] --Milton. [bd]The roots of the
                  mountains.[b8] --Southey.
  
      4. (Astrol.) The time which to reckon in making calculations.
  
                     When a root is of a birth yknowe [known]. --Chaucer.
  
      {A[89]rial roots}. (Bot.)
            (a) Small roots emitted from the stem of a plant in the
                  open air, which, attaching themselves to the bark of
                  trees, etc., serve to support the plant.
            (b) Large roots growing from the stem, etc., which descend
                  and establish themselves in the soil. See Illust. of
                  {Mangrove}.
  
      {Multiple primary root} (Bot.), a name given to the numerous
            roots emitted from the radicle in many plants, as the
            squash.
  
      {Primary root} (Bot.), the central, first-formed, main root,
            from which the rootlets are given off.
  
      {Root and branch}, every part; wholly; completely; as, to
            destroy an error root and branch.
  
      {Root-and-branch men}, radical reformers; -- a designation
            applied to the English Independents (1641). See Citation
            under {Radical}, n., 2.
  
      {Root barnacle} (Zo[94]l.), one of the Rhizocephala.
  
      {Root hair} (Bot.), one of the slender, hairlike fibers found
            on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of
            the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes.
            --Gray.
  
      {Root leaf} (Bot.), a radical leaf. See {Radical}, a., 3
            (b) .
  
      {Root louse} (Zo[94]l.), any plant louse, or aphid, which
            lives on the roots of plants, as the Phylloxera of the
            grapevine. See {Phylloxera}.
  
      {Root of an equation} (Alg.), that value which, substituted
            for the unknown quantity in an equation, satisfies the
            equation.
  
      {Root of a nail}
            (Anat.), the part of a nail which is covered by the skin.
                       
  
      {Root of a tooth} (Anat.), the part of a tooth contained in
            the socket and consisting of one or more fangs.
  
      {Secondary roots} (Bot.), roots emitted from any part of the
            plant above the radicle.
  
      {To strike root}, {To take root}, to send forth roots; to
            become fixed in the earth, etc., by a root; hence, in
            general, to become planted, fixed, or established; to
            increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. [bd]The
            bended twigs take root.[b8] --Milton.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Red Bud, IL (city, FIPS 63043)
      Location: 38.21016 N, 89.99639 W
      Population (1990): 2918 (1174 housing units)
      Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 62278

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Red Feather Lake, CO
      Zip code(s): 80545
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