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English Dictionary: rapaciousness	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rapacious adj living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" Synonym(s): predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" Synonym(s): rapacious, ravening, voracious devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" Synonym(s): edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
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rapaciously adv in a rapacious manner
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rapaciousness n extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness] an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts); "the greediness of lawyers" Synonym(s): greediness, voraciousness, rapaciousness
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rape suspect n someone who is suspected of committing rape
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Raphus cucullatus n extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons Synonym(s): dodo, Raphus cucullatus
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Rebecca West n British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) [syn: West, Rebecca West, Dame Rebecca West, Cicily Isabel Fairfield]
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refocus v focus once again; The physicist refocused the light beam" focus anew; "The group needs to refocus its goals" put again into focus or focus more sharply; "refocus the image until it is very sharp"
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refocusing n focusing again
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refugee camp n shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs Synonym(s): camp, refugee camp
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refuse collector n someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse [syn: garbage man, garbageman, garbage collector, garbage carter, garbage hauler, refuse collector, dustman]
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repechage n a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race
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repossess v claim back Synonym(s): reclaim, repossess regain possession of something Synonym(s): take back, repossess
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repossession n the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default)
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Rhapis excelsa n small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers Synonym(s): miniature fan palm, bamboo palm, fern rhapis, Rhapis excelsa
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rib cage n the bony enclosing wall of the chest
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rofecoxib n a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Vioxx) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract; voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2004 Synonym(s): rofecoxib, Vioxx
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rubiaceous plant n any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae Synonym(s): madderwort, rubiaceous plant
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Rubus australis n stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth Synonym(s): lawyerbush, lawyer bush, bush lawyer, Rubus cissoides, Rubus australis
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Rubus caesius n creeping European bramble bearing dewberries [syn: European dewberry, Rubus caesius]
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Rubus cissoides n stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth Synonym(s): lawyerbush, lawyer bush, bush lawyer, Rubus cissoides, Rubus australis
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Rubus hispidus n of eastern North America [syn: swamp dewberry, {swamp blackberry}, Rubus hispidus]
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Rubus occidentalis n raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit Synonym(s): black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, thimbleberry, Rubus occidentalis
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Rubus saxatilis n European trailing bramble with red berrylike fruits [syn: stone bramble, Rubus saxatilis]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rapacious \Rapa"cious\, a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See {Rapid}.] 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. [bd] The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.[b8] --Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. 3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim --Milton. Syn: Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. -- {Rapa"ciously}, adv. -- {Rapa"ciousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rapacious \Rapa"cious\, a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See {Rapid}.] 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. [bd] The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.[b8] --Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. 3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim --Milton. Syn: Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. -- {Rapa"ciously}, adv. -- {Rapa"ciousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rapacious \Rapa"cious\, a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See {Rapid}.] 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. [bd] The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.[b8] --Motley. 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. 3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [Thy Lord] redeem thee from Death's rapacious claim --Milton. Syn: Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. -- {Rapa"ciously}, adv. -- {Rapa"ciousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. [?], [?], G. r[81]be.] (Bot.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds. Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the {Brassica campestris} of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({B. oleracea}) of the cabbage. See {Cole}. {Broom rape}. (Bot.) See {Broom rape}, in the Vocabulary. {Rape cake}, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the seed. {Rape root}. Same as {Rape}. {Summer rape}. (Bot.) See {Colza}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebucous \Re*bu"cous\, a. Rebuking. [Obs.] She gave unto him many rebucous words. --Fabyan.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebus \Re"bus\, n.; pl. {Rebuses}. [L. rebus by things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. r[82]bus. Cf. 3d things, abl. pl. of res a thing: cf. F. r[82]bus. Cf. 3d {Real}.] 1. A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations. Note: A gallant, in love with a woman named Rose Hill, had, embroidered on his gown, a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf, and a well, signifying, Rose Hill I love well. 2. (Her.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See {Canting arms}, under {Canting}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repassage \Re*pas"sage\ (r?-p?s"s?j;48), n. The act of repassing; passage back. --Hakluyt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repossess \Re`possess"\ (r?"p?zz?s" [or] -p?s*s?s"), v. t. To possess again; as, to repossess the land. --Pope. {To repossess one's self of} (something), to acquire again (something lost).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repossession \Re`pos*ses"sion\ (r?`p?z-z?sh"?n [or] -p?s s?sh"?n), n. The act or the state of possessing again.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rubiaceous \Ru`bi*a"ceous\, a. [L. rubia madder, fr. rubeus red.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants ({Rubiace[91]}) named after the madder ({Rubia tinctoria}), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thimbleberry \Thim"ble*ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) A kind of black raspberry ({Rubus occidentalis}), common in America.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[be]n; akin to OS. & OFries. st[c7]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. [?], [?], a pebble. [fb]167. Cf. {Steen}.] 1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. [bd]Dumb as a stone.[b8] --Chaucer. They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar. --Gen. xi. 3. Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like. 2. A precious stone; a gem. [bd]Many a rich stone.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels.[b8] --Shak. 3. Something made of stone. Specifically: (a) The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.] Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives. --Shak. (b) A monument to the dead; a gravestone. --Gray. Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie. --Pope. 4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus. 5. One of the testes; a testicle. --Shak. 6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of {Endocarp}. 7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.] Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs. 8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone. I have not yet forgot myself to stone. --Pope. 9. (Print.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also {imposing stone}. Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc. {Atlantic stone}, ivory. [Obs.] [bd]Citron tables, or Atlantic stone.[b8] --Milton. {Bowing stone}. Same as {Cromlech}. --Encyc. Brit. {Meteoric stones}, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor. {Philosopher's stone}. See under {Philosopher}. {Rocking stone}. See {Rocking-stone}. {Stone age}, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also {flint age}. The {bronze age} succeeded to this. {Stone bass} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus {Serranus} and allied genera, as {Serranus Couchii}, and {Polyprion cernium} of Europe; -- called also {sea perch}. {Stone biter} (Zo[94]l.), the wolf fish. {Stone boiling}, a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages. --Tylor. {Stone borer} (Zo[94]l.), any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See {Lithodomus}, and {Saxicava}. {Stone bramble} (Bot.), a European trailing species of bramble ({Rubus saxatilis}). {Stone-break}. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Saxifraga}; saxifrage. {Stone bruise}, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone. {Stone canal}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Sand canal}, under {Sand}. {Stone cat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus {Noturus}. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds. {Stone coal}, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal. {Stone coral} (Zo[94]l.), any hard calcareous coral. {Stone crab}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large crab ({Menippe mercenaria}) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food. (b) A European spider crab ({Lithodes maia}). {Stone crawfish} (Zo[94]l.), a European crawfish ({Astacus torrentium}), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species ({A. fluviatilis}). {Stone curlew}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large plover found in Europe ({Edicnemus crepitans}). It frequents stony places. Called also {thick-kneed plover} or {bustard}, and {thick-knee}. (b) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.] (c) The willet. [Local, U.S.] {Stone crush}. Same as {Stone bruise}, above. {Stone eater}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Stone borer}, above. {Stone falcon} (Zo[94]l.), the merlin. {Stone fern} (Bot.), a European fern ({Asplenium Ceterach}) which grows on rocks and walls. {Stone fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus {Perla} and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larv[91] are aquatic. {Stone fruit} (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry. {Stone grig} (Zo[94]l.), the mud lamprey, or pride. {Stone hammer}, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone. {Stone hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones. {Stone jar}, a jar made of stoneware. {Stone lily} (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid. {Stone lugger}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Stone roller}, below. {Stone marten} (Zo[94]l.), a European marten ({Mustela foina}) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also {beech marten}. {Stone mason}, a mason who works or builds in stone. {Stone-mortar} (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances. {Stone oil}, rock oil, petroleum. {Stone parsley} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Seseli Labanotis}). See under {Parsley}. {Stone pine}. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under {Pine}, and {Pi[a4]on}. {Stone pit}, a quarry where stones are dug. {Stone pitch}, hard, inspissated pitch. {Stone plover}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European stone curlew. (b) Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus {Esacus}; as, the large stone plover ({E. recurvirostris}). (c) The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.] (d) The ringed plover. (e) The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds. {Stone roller}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An American fresh-water fish ({Catostomus nigricans}) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also {stone lugger}, {stone toter}, {hog sucker}, {hog mullet}. (b) A common American cyprinoid fish ({Campostoma anomalum}); -- called also {stone lugger}. {Stone's cast}, [or] {Stone's throw}, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand. {Stone snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. [Local, U.S.] {Stone toter}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) See {Stone roller} (a), above. (b) A cyprinoid fish ({Exoglossum maxillingua}) found in the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; -- called also {cutlips}. {To leave no stone unturned}, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Refugio County, TX (county, FIPS 391) Location: 28.32091 N, 97.16874 W Population (1990): 7976 (3739 housing units) Area: 1995.2 sq km (land), 125.3 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
RBASIC Database language for Revelation, by Cosmos, Inc. Combines features of BASIC, Pascal and Fortran.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Rabshakeh chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in the hearing of all the people, as he stood near the wall on the north side of the city (2 Kings 18:17-37). He and the other envoys returned to their master and reported that Hezekiah and his people were obdurate, and would not submit.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Refuge, Cities of were six in number (Num. 35). 1. On the west of Jordan were (1) Kadesh, in Naphtali; (2) Shechem, in Mount Ephraim; (3) Hebron, in Judah. 2. On the east of Jordan were, (1) Golan, in Bashan; (2) Ramoth-Gilead, in Gad; and (3) Bezer, in Reuben. (See under each of these names.)
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Rab-shakeh, cup-bearer of the prince