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   railcar
         n 1: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three
               cars had jumped the rails" [syn: {car}, {railcar}, {railway
               car}, {railroad car}]

English Dictionary: railcar by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
railway car
n
  1. a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails"
    Synonym(s): car, railcar, railway car, railroad car
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
real gross national product
n
  1. a version of the GNP that has been adjusted for the effects of inflation
    Synonym(s): real gross national product, real GNP
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
realgar
n
  1. a rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide; an important ore of arsenic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
relaxer
n
  1. any agent that produces relaxation; "music is a good relaxer"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reliquary
n
  1. a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rowlock arch
n
  1. an arch that is formed with more than one concentric row of voussoirs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
royal agaric
n
  1. widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric
    Synonym(s): royal agaric, Caesar's agaric, Amanita caesarea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
royal charter
n
  1. a charter granted by the sovereign (especially in Great Britain)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
royal court
n
  1. the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince [syn: court, royal court]
  2. the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state
    Synonym(s): court, royal court
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rail \Rail\, n. [Akin to LG. & Sw. regel bar, bolt, G. riegel a
      rail, bar, or bolt, OHG, rigil, rigel, bar, bolt, and
      possibly to E. row a line.]
      1. A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so,
            extending from one post or support to another, as in
            fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.
  
      2. (Arch.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See
            Illust. of {Style}.
  
      3. (Railroad) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the
            track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with
            reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by
            chairs, splices, etc.
  
      4. (Naut.)
            (a) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the
                  bulwarks.
            (b) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at
                  the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such
                  protection is needed.
  
      {Rail fence}. See under {Fence}.
  
      {Rail guard}.
            (a) A device attached to the front of a locomotive on each
                  side for clearing the rail obstructions.
            (b) A guard rail. See under {Guard}.
  
      {Rail joint} (Railroad), a splice connecting the adjacent
            ends of rails, in distinction from a chair, which is
            merely a seat. The two devices are sometimes united. Among
            several hundred varieties, the fish joint is standard. See
            {Fish joint}, under {Fish}.
  
      {Rail train} (Iron & Steel Manuf.), a train of rolls in a
            rolling mill, for making rails for railroads from blooms
            or billets.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Railroad \Rail"road`\, Railway \Rail"way`\, n.
      1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of
            iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks
            for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a
            bed or substructure.
  
      Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of
               the older tramway.
  
      2. The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings,
            rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and
            constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been
            put into the hands of a receiver.
  
      Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the
               commoner word in the United States.
  
      Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and
               railway are used interchangeably:
  
      {Atmospheric railway}, {Elevated railway}, etc. See under
            {Atmospheric}, {Elevated}, etc.
  
      {Cable railway}. See {Cable road}, under {Cable}.
  
      {Perry railway}, a submerged track on which an elevated
            platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water
            course.
  
      {Gravity railway}, a railway, in a hilly country, on which
            the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long
            distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an
            elevated point by stationary engines.
  
      {Railway brake}, a brake used in stopping railway cars or
            locomotives.
  
      {Railway car}, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels
            fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.]
  
      {Railway carriage}, a railway passenger car. [Eng.]
  
      {Railway scale}, a platform scale bearing a track which forms
            part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
           
  
      {Railway slide}. See {Transfer table}, under {Transfer}.
  
      {Railway spine} (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe
            concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad
            accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other
            disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain
            in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral
            disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till
            some months after the injury.
  
      {Underground railroad} [or] {railway}.
            (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as
                  beneath the streets of a city.
            (b) Formerly, a system of co[94]peration among certain
                  active antislavery people in the United States, by
                  which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach
                  Canada.
  
      Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was
               used.] [bd]Their house was a principal entrep[93]t of
               the underground railroad.[b8] --W. D. Howells.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Railroad \Rail"road`\, Railway \Rail"way`\, n.
      1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of
            iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks
            for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a
            bed or substructure.
  
      Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of
               the older tramway.
  
      2. The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings,
            rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and
            constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been
            put into the hands of a receiver.
  
      Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the
               commoner word in the United States.
  
      Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and
               railway are used interchangeably:
  
      {Atmospheric railway}, {Elevated railway}, etc. See under
            {Atmospheric}, {Elevated}, etc.
  
      {Cable railway}. See {Cable road}, under {Cable}.
  
      {Perry railway}, a submerged track on which an elevated
            platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water
            course.
  
      {Gravity railway}, a railway, in a hilly country, on which
            the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long
            distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an
            elevated point by stationary engines.
  
      {Railway brake}, a brake used in stopping railway cars or
            locomotives.
  
      {Railway car}, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels
            fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.]
  
      {Railway carriage}, a railway passenger car. [Eng.]
  
      {Railway scale}, a platform scale bearing a track which forms
            part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.
           
  
      {Railway slide}. See {Transfer table}, under {Transfer}.
  
      {Railway spine} (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe
            concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad
            accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other
            disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain
            in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral
            disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till
            some months after the injury.
  
      {Underground railroad} [or] {railway}.
            (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as
                  beneath the streets of a city.
            (b) Formerly, a system of co[94]peration among certain
                  active antislavery people in the United States, by
                  which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach
                  Canada.
  
      Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was
               used.] [bd]Their house was a principal entrep[93]t of
               the underground railroad.[b8] --W. D. Howells.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
            Whose perfection far excelled Hers in all real dignity.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      5. Relating to things, not to persons. [Obs.]
  
                     Many are perfect in men's humors that are not
                     greatly capable of the real part of business.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      4. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical
            value or meaning; not imaginary.
  
      5. (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable,
            as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in
            distinction from personal or movable property.
  
      {Chattels real} (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or
            savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See
            {Chattel}.
  
      {Real action} (Law), an action for the recovery of real
            property.
  
      {Real assets} (Law), lands or real estate in the hands of the
            heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor.
  
      {Real composition} (Eccl. Law), an agreement made between the
            owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of
            the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from
            payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or
            recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction
            thereof. --Blackstone.
  
      {Real estate} [or] {property}, lands, tenements, and
            hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property;
            property in houses and land. --Kent. --Burrill.
  
      {Real presence} (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body
            and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of
            the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and
            blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches
            there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however
            in the sense of transubstantiation.
  
      {Real servitude}, called also {Predial servitude} (Civil
            Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another
            estate of another proprietor. --Erskine. --Bouvier.
  
      Syn: Actual; true; genuine; authentic.
  
      Usage: {Real}, {Actual}. Real represents a thing to be a
                  substantive existence; as, a real, not imaginary,
                  occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed;
                  and, hence, when we wish to prove a thing real, we
                  often say, [bd]It actually exists,[b8] [bd]It has
                  actually been done.[b8] Thus its really is shown by
                  its actually. Actual, from this reference to being
                  acted, has recently received a new signification,
                  namely, present; as, the actual posture of affairs;
                  since what is now in action, or going on, has, of
                  course, a present existence. An actual fact; a real
                  sentiment.
  
                           For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
                           Contracts the danger of an actual fault.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                           Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the
                           reality of things.                        --Locke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Realgar \Re*al"gar\, n. [F. r[82]algar, Sp. rejalgar, Ar. rahj
      al gh[be]r powder of the mine.] (Min.)
      Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red
      orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Realizer \Re"al*i`zer\, n.
      One who realizes. --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Releaser \Re*leas"er\ (-?r), n.
      One who releases, or sets free.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Releasor \Re*leas"or\ (-?r), n.
      One by whom a release is given.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relessor \Re`les*sor"\ (-s?r"), n.
      See {Releasor}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reliquary \Rel"i*qua*ry\ (r?l"?-kw?-r?), n.; pl. {-ries}
      (-r[icr]z). [LL. reliquiarium, reliquiare: cf. F. reliquaire.
      See {Relic}.]
      A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics
      are kept.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   real user n.   1. A commercial user.   One who is paying _real_
   money for his computer usage.   2. A non-hacker.   Someone using the
   system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc.)
   other than pure exploration.   See {user}.   Hackers who are also
   students may also be real users.   "I need this fixed so I can do a
   problem set.   I'm not complaining out of randomness, but as a real
   user."   See also {luser}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   real user
  
      1. A commercial user.   One who is paying *real* money for his
      computer usage.
  
      2. A non-hacker.   Someone using the system for an explicit
      purpose (a research project, a course, etc.)   other than pure
      exploration.   See {user}.   Hackers who are also students may
      also be real users.   "I need this fixed so I can do a problem
      set.   I'm not complaining out of randomness, but as a real
      user."   See also {luser}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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