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   race car
         n 1: a fast car that competes in races [syn: {racer}, {race
               car}, {racing car}]

English Dictionary: Reichsritterschaft by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
racecard
n
  1. a program for a race meeting; lists the races and the names of the horses
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
racecourse
n
  1. a course over which races are run [syn: racetrack, racecourse, raceway, track]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rice grass
n
  1. any grass of the genus Oryzopsis [syn: ricegrass, {rice grass}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rice-grain fritillary
n
  1. herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell- shaped flowers
    Synonym(s): mission bells, rice-grain fritillary, Fritillaria affinis, Fritillaria lanceolata, Fritillaria mutica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ricegrass
n
  1. any grass of the genus Oryzopsis [syn: ricegrass, {rice grass}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rose garden
n
  1. a garden for growing roses
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rose geranium
n
  1. any of several southern African geraniums having fragrant three-lobed to five-lobed leaves and pink flowers
    Synonym(s): rose geranium, sweet-scented geranium, Pelargonium graveolens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rose quartz
n
  1. a translucent rose-red variety of quartz used for ornaments
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rosicrucian
adj
  1. of or relating to the Rosicrucians
n
  1. a member of any of various organizations that subsequently derived from the 17th-century society
  2. a member of a secret 17th-century society of philosophers and scholars versed in mystical and metaphysical and alchemical lore
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rosicrucianism
n
  1. the theological doctrine that venerates the rose and the cross as symbols of Christ's Resurrection and redemption; claims various occult powers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rough green snake
n
  1. of southern and eastern United States [syn: {rough green snake}, Opheodrys aestivus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rush grass
n
  1. grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles [syn: {rush grass}, rush-grass]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rush-grass
n
  1. grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles [syn: {rush grass}, rush-grass]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Race \Race\, n. [OE. ras, res, rees, AS. r[aemac]s a rush,
      running; akin to Icel. r[be]s course, race. [root]118.]
      1. A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
  
      2. Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
  
                     The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of
                     any beasts.                                       --Bacon.
  
      3. Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a
            contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding,
            driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually,
            a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he
            attended the races.
  
                     The race is not to the swift.            --Eccl. ix.
                                                                              11.
  
                     I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race. --Pope.
  
      4. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged;
            hence, career; course of life.
  
                     My race of glory run, and race of shame. --Milton.
  
      5. A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or
            passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy
            sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as,
            the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
  
      6. The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the
            channel in which it flows; a mill race.
  
      Note: The part of the channel above the wheel is sometimes
               called the headrace, the part below, the tailrace.
  
      7. (Mach.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven
            back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
  
      {Race cloth}, a cloth worn by horses in racing, having
            pockets to hold the weights prescribed.
  
      {Race course}.
            (a) The path, generally circular or elliptical, over which
                  a race is run.
            (b) Same as {Race way}, below.
  
      {Race cup}, a cup given as a prize to the victor in a race.
           
  
      {Race glass}, a kind of field glass.
  
      {Race horse}.
            (a) A horse that runs in competition; specifically, a
                  horse bred or kept for running races.
            (b) A breed of horses remarkable for swiftness in running.
            (c) (Zo[94]l.) The steamer duck.
            (d) (Zo[94]l.) A mantis.
  
      {Race knife}, a cutting tool with a blade that is hooked at
            the point, for marking outlines, on boards or metals, as
            by a pattern, -- used in shipbuilding.
  
      {Race saddle}, a light saddle used in racing.
  
      {Race track}. Same as {Race course}
            (a), above.
  
      {Race way}, the canal for the current that drives a water
            wheel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rejoicer \Re*joi"cer\ (r?-joi"s?r), n.
      One who rejoices.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rescissory \Re*scis"so*ry\ (r?-s?z"?-r? [or] r?-s?s"-), a. [L.
      rescissorius: cf. F. rescisoire.]
      Tending to rescind; rescinding.
  
               To pass a general act rescissory (as it was called),
               annulling all the Parliaments that had been held since
               the year 1633.                                       --Bp. Burnet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rescue \Res"cue\ (r?s"k?), n. [From {Rescue}, v.; cf.
      {Rescous}.]
      1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
            or danger; liberation.
  
                     Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. --Shak.
  
      2. (Law)
            (a) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of
                  things lawfully distrained.
            (b) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or
                  imprisonment.
            (c) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by
                  the enemy. --Bouvier.
  
                           The rescue of a prisoner from the court is
                           punished with perpetual imprisonment and
                           forfeiture of goods.                     --Blackstone.
  
      {Rescue grass}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass
            ({Ceratochloa unioloides}) somewhat resembling chess,
            cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rescussor \Res*cus"sor\ (r?s-k?s"s?r), n. [LL.] (O.Eng.Law)
      One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer. --Burril.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reseizer \Re*seiz"er\ (-s?z"?r), n.
      1. One who seizes again.
  
      2. (Eng. Law) The taking of lands into the hands of the king
            where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly
            mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reseizure \Re*sei"zure\ (r[?]-s[?]"zh[?]r; 135), n.
      A second seizure; the act of seizing again. --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rhizocarpous \Rhi`zo*car"pous\, a. [Gr. [?][?][?] root +
      [?][?][?] fruit.] (Bot.)
      Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering
      stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   White \White\, a. [Compar. {Whiter}; superl. {Whitest}.] [OE.
      whit, AS. hw[?]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[c6]t, D. wit, G.
      weiss, OHG. w[c6]z, hw[c6]z, Icel. hv[c6]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan.
      hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ.
      sviet' light, Skr. [?]v[?]ta white, [?]vit to be bright.
      [?][?][?]. Cf. {Wheat}, {Whitsunday}.]
      1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum
            combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or
            their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; --
            the opposite of {black} or {dark}; as, white paper; a
            white skin. [bd]Pearls white.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
                     White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow.
  
      2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of
            blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  
                     Or whispering with white lips, [bd]The foe! They
                     come! they come![b8]                           --Byron.
  
      3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or
            from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  
                     White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden.
  
                     No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope.
  
      4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  
                     Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old
                     and white as this.                              --Shak.
  
      5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the
            like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  
                     On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as
                     one of the white days of his life.      --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  
                     Come forth, my white spouse.               --Chaucer.
  
                     I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford.
  
      Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as
               white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed.
  
      {White alder}. (Bot.) See {Sweet pepper bush}, under
            {Pepper}.
  
      {White ant} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of social
            pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Termes}. These
            insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form
            large and complex communities consisting of numerous
            asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed
            asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens
            (or fertile females) often having the body enormously
            distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous
            winged males, together with the larv[91] and pup[91] of
            each kind in various stages of development. Many of the
            species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes
            in the form of domelike structures rising several feet
            above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean
            galleries and chambers. In their social habits they
            closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and
            vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber,
            and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture.
           
  
      {White arsenic} (Chem.), arsenious oxide, {As2O3}, a
            substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine
            luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a
            deadly poison.
  
      {White bass} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water North American bass
            ({Roccus chrysops}) found in the Great Likes.
  
      {White bear} (Zo[94]l.), the polar bear. See under {Polar}.
           
  
      {White blood cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White brand} (Zo[94]l.), the snow goose.
  
      {White brass}, a white alloy of copper; white copper.
  
      {White campion}. (Bot.)
            (a) A kind of catchfly ({Silene stellata}) with white
                  flowers.
            (b) A white-flowered Lychnis ({Lychnis vespertina}).
  
      {White canon} (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian.
  
      {White caps}, the members of a secret organization in various
            of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform
            obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked
            in white.
  
      {White cedar} (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America
            ({Thuja occidentalis}), also the related {Cupressus
            thyoides}, or {Cham[91]cyparis sph[91]roidea}, a slender
            evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar
            swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much
            valued for their durable timber. In California the name is
            given to the {Libocedrus decurrens}, the timber of which
            is also useful, though often subject to dry rot.
            --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a
            lofty tree ({Icica, [or] Bursera, altissima}) whose
            fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is
            not attacked by insect.
  
      {White cell}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cell-blood} (Med.), leucocyth[91]mia.
  
      {White clover} (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover
            bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for
            cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also
            under {Clover}.
  
      {White copper}, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German
            silver}, under {German}.
  
      {White copperas} (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron;
            coquimbite.
  
      {White coral} (Zo[94]l.), an ornamental branched coral
            ({Amphihelia oculata}) native of the Mediterranean.
  
      {White corpuscle}. (Physiol.) See {Leucocyte}.
  
      {White cricket} (Zo[94]l.), the tree cricket.
  
      {White crop}, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or
            becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and
            oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.
           
  
      {White currant} (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant,
            having white berries.
  
      {White daisy} (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under {Daisy}.
  
      {White damp}, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal
            mines. --Raymond.
  
      {White elephant} (Zo[94]l.), a whitish, or albino, variety of
            the Asiatic elephant.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sea perch \Sea" perch`\ (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The European bass ({Roccus, [or] Labrax, lupus}); --
            called also {sea dace}.
      (b) The cunner.
      (c) The sea bass.
      (d) The name is applied also to other species of fishes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Perch \Perch\ (p[etil]rch), n. [Written also {pearch}.] [OE.
      perche, F. perche, L. perca, fr. Gr. pe`rkh; cf. perkno`s
      dark-colored, Skr. p[rsdot][cced]ni spotted, speckled, and E.
      freckle.] (Zo[94]l.)
      1. Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several
            other allied genera of the family {Percid[91]}, as the
            common American or yellow perch ({Perca flavescens, [or]
            Americana}), and the European perch ({P. fluviatilis}).
  
      2. Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes
            belonging to the {Percid[91]}, {Serranid[91]}, and related
            families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
  
      {Black perch}.
            (a) The black bass.
            (b) The flasher.
            (c) The sea bass.
  
      {Blue perch}, the cunner.
  
      {Gray perch}, the fresh-water drum.
  
      {Red perch}, the rosefish.
  
      {Red-bellied perch}, the long-eared pondfish.
  
      {Perch pest}, a small crustacean, parasitic in the mouth of
            the perch.
  
      {Silver perch}, the yellowtail.
  
      {Stone}, [or] {Striped}, {perch}, the pope.
  
      {White perch}, the {Roccus, [or] Morone, Americanus}, a small
            silvery serranoid market fish of the Atlantic coast.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rocksucker \Rock"suck`er\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A lamprey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lamprey \Lam"prey\, n.; pl. {Lampreys}. [OE. lampreie, F.
      lamproie, LL. lampreda, lampetra, from L. lambere to lick +
      petra rock, stone. The lampreys are so called because they
      attach themselves with their circular mouths to rocks and
      stones, whence they are also called {rocksuckers}. See {Lap}
      to drink, {Petrify}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus {Petromyzon}, and
      allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth,
      without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to
      three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of
      {Cyclostomi}). There are seven small branchial openings on
      each side. [Written also {lamper eel}, {lamprel}, and
      {lampron}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rogue \Rogue\, n. [F. rogue proud, haughty, supercilious; cf.
      Icel. hr[?]kr a rook, croaker (cf. {Rook} a bird), or Armor.
      rok, rog, proud, arogant.]
      1. (Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a
            tramp.
  
      Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large
               class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons.
               They were formerly punished by being whipped and having
               the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
  
      2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
  
                     The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. --Pope.
  
      3. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence,
            often used as a term of endearment.
  
                     Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!         --Shak.
  
      4. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about
            alone, in which state it is very savage.
  
      5. (Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some
            choice variety.
  
      {Rogues' gallery}, a collection of portraits of rogues or
            criminals, for the use of the police authorities.
  
      {Rogue's march}, derisive music performed in driving away a
            person under popular indignation or official sentence, as
            when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment.
  
      {Rogue's yarn}, yarn of a different twist and color from the
            rest, inserted into the cordage of the British navy, to
            identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the
            maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to
            use yarns of different colors.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Memorial rose \Memorial rose\
      A Japanese evergreen rose ({Rosa wichuraiana}) with creeping
      branches, shining leaves, and single white flowers. It is
      often planted in cemeteries.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Rose de Pompadour}, {Rose du Barry}, names succesively given
            to a delicate rose color used on S[8a]vres porcelain.
  
      {Rose diamond}, a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the
            other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges
            which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf.
            {Brilliant}, n.
  
      {Rose ear}. See under {Ear}.
  
      {Rose elder} (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
  
      {Rose engine}, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe,
            by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with
            a variety of curved lines. --Craig.
  
      {Rose family} (Bot.) the {Rosece[91]}. See {Rosaceous}.
  
      {Rose fever} (Med.), rose cold.
  
      {Rose fly} (Zo[94]l.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.
  
      {Rose gall} (Zo[94]l.), any gall found on rosebushes. See
            {Bedeguar}.
  
      {Rose knot}, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to
            resemble a rose; a rosette.
  
      {Rose lake}, {Rose madder}, a rich tint prepared from lac and
            madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt.
  
      {Rose mallow}. (Bot.)
            (a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus
                  {Hibiscus}, with large rose-colored flowers.
            (b) the hollyhock.
  
      {Rose nail}, a nail with a convex, faceted head.
  
      {Rose noble}, an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the
            figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward
            III., and current at 6s. 8d. --Sir W. Scott.
  
      {Rose of China}. (Bot.) See {China rose}
            (b), under {China}.
  
      {Rose of Jericho} (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant
            ({Anastatica Hierochuntica}) which rolls up when dry, and
            expands again when moistened; -- called also {resurrection
            plant}.
  
      {Rose of Sharon} (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub
            ({Hibiscus Syriacus}). In the Bible the name is used for
            some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or
            possibly the great lotus flower.
  
      {Rose oil} (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from
            various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief
            part of attar of roses.
  
      {Rose pink}, a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk
            or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also,
            the color of the pigment.
  
      {Rose quartz} (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
           
  
      {Rose rash}. (Med.) Same as {Roseola}.
  
      {Rose slug} (Zo[94]l.), the small green larva of a black
            sawfly ({Selandria ros[91]}). These larv[91] feed in
            groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and
            are often abundant and very destructive.
  
      {Rose window} (Arch.), a circular window filled with
            ornamental tracery. Called also {Catherine wheel}, and
            {marigold window}. Cf. {wheel window}, under {Wheel}.
  
      {Summer rose} (Med.), a variety of roseola. See {Roseola}.
  
      {Under the rose} [a translation of L. sub rosa], in secret;
            privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the
            rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and
            hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there
            said was to be divulged.
  
      {Wars of the Roses} (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of
            York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the
            House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rosicrucian \Ros`i*cru"cian\, n. [The name is probably due to a
      German theologian, Johann Valentin Andre[84], who in
      anonymous pamphlets called himself a knight of the Rose Cross
      (G. Rosenkreuz), using a seal with a St. Andrew's cross and
      four roses.)]
      One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th,
      claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply
      versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society
      having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
  
      Note: The Rosicrucians also called brothers of the Rosy
               Cross, Rosy-cross Knights, Rosy-cross philosophers,
               etc. Among other pretensions, they claimed to be able
               to transmute metals, to prolong life, to know what is
               passing in distant places, and to discover the most
               hidden things by the application of the Cabala and
               science of numbers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rosicrucian \Ros`i*cru"cian\, a.
      Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rosy \Ros"y\, a. [Compar. {Rosier}; superl. {Rosiest}.]
      Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming;
      red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
  
               A smile that glowed Celestial rosy-red, love's proper
               hue.                                                      --Milton.
  
               While blooming youth and gay delight Sit thy rosy
               cheeks confessed.                                    --Prior.
  
      Note: Rosy is sometimes used in the formation of
               self[?]xplaining compounde; as, rosy-bosomed,
               rosy-colored, rosy-crowned, rosy-fingered, rosy-tinted.
  
      {Rosy cross}. See the Note under {Rosicrucian}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rougecroix \Rouge`croix"\ (? [or] ?), n. [F., literally, red
      cross.] (Her.)
      One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rough-grained \Rough"-grained\, a.
      Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having
      coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rush \Rush\, n. [OE. rusche, rische, resche, AS. risce, akin to
      LG. rusk, risch, D. & G. rusch; all probably fr. L. ruscum
      butcher's broom; akin to Goth. raus reed, G. rohr.]
      1. (Bot.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing
            endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species
            of {Juncus} and {Scirpus}.
  
      Note: Some species are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting
               mats, and the pith is used in some places for wicks to
               lamps and rushlights.
  
      2. The merest trifle; a straw.
  
                     John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.
                                                                              --Arbuthnot.
  
      {Bog rush}. See under {Bog}.
  
      {Club rush}, any rush of the genus {Scirpus}.
  
      {Flowering rush}. See under {Flowering}.
  
      {Nut rush}
            (a) Any plant of the genus {Scleria}, rushlike plants with
                  hard nutlike fruits.
            (b) A name for several species of {Cyperus} having
                  tuberous roots.
  
      {Rush broom}, an Australian leguminous plant ({Viminaria
            denudata}), having long, slender branches. Also, the
            Spanish broom. See under {Spanish}.
  
      {Rush candle}, See under {Candle}.
  
      {Rush grass}, any grass of the genus {Vilfa}, grasses with
            wiry stems and one-flowered spikelets.
  
      {Rush toad} (Zo[94]l.), the natterjack.
  
      {Scouring rush}. (Bot.) Same as {Dutch rush}, under {Dutch.}
           
  
      {Spike rush}, any rushlike plant of the genus {Eleocharis},
            in which the flowers grow in dense spikes.
  
      {Sweet rush}, a sweet-scented grass of Arabia, etc.
            ({Andropogon sch[d2]nanthus}), used in Oriental medical
            practice.
  
      {Wood rush}, any plant of the genus {Luzula}, which differs
            in some technical characters from {Juncus}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rich Creek, VA (town, FIPS 66896)
      Location: 37.38397 N, 80.82189 W
      Population (1990): 670 (314 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 24147

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rich Square, NC (town, FIPS 56440)
      Location: 36.27369 N, 77.28436 W
      Population (1990): 1058 (440 housing units)
      Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 27869

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Richgrove, CA (CDP, FIPS 60606)
      Location: 35.79672 N, 119.10572 W
      Population (1990): 1899 (446 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Rose Creek, MN (city, FIPS 55600)
      Location: 43.60457 N, 92.82965 W
      Population (1990): 363 (152 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55970
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