rattle-top : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   raddled
         adj 1: used until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and
                  raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles"
                  [syn: {raddled}, {worn-out}]
         2: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering;
            "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face
            was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but
            still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his
            handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: {careworn},
            {drawn}, {haggard}, {raddled}, {worn}]

English Dictionary: rattle-top	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
radial tire n pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing [syn: radial, radial tire, radial-ply tire]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rattle down v recite volubly or extravagantly; "He could recite the names of all the chemical elements" Synonym(s): rattle down, rattle off, reel off, spiel off, roll off
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rattle weed n much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers; distributed from Massachusetts to Florida Synonym(s): indigo broom, horsefly weed, rattle weed, Baptisia tinctoria
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rattle-top n North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia Synonym(s): black cohosh, black snakeroot, rattle-top, Cimicifuga racemosa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rattled adj thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) Synonym(s): flustered, hot and bothered(p), perturbed, rattled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red alder n large tree of Pacific coast of North America having hard red wood much used for furniture Synonym(s): red alder, Oregon alder, Alnus rubra
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red lead n a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics Synonym(s): red lead, minium
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red-lead putty n a cement resembling putty; made by mixing white and red lead in boiled linseed oil; used as luting on pipe fittings
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red-letter adj memorable for being a special occasion; "on red-letter nights a large gathering greeted the celebrity"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red-letter day n a memorably happy or noteworthy day (from the custom of marking holy days in red on church calendars)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red-tailed hawk n dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail Synonym(s): redtail, red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
retaliate v take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother" Synonym(s): revenge, avenge, retaliate make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing" Synonym(s): retaliate, strike back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
retaliation n action taken in return for an injury or offense [syn: retaliation, revenge]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
retaliator n someone who takes vengeance Synonym(s): avenger, retaliator
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
retaliatory adj of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" Synonym(s): retaliatory, relatiative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
retaliatory eviction n an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rhodolite n a red or pink variety of garnet used as a gemstone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
riddled adj (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes; "a sweater riddled with moth holes"; "cliffs riddled with caves"; "the bullet-riddled target" spread throughout; "cities riddled with corruption"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ritual dance n a dance that is part of a religious ritual [syn: {ritual dancing}, ritual dance, ceremonial dance]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ritual dancing n a dance that is part of a religious ritual [syn: {ritual dancing}, ritual dance, ceremonial dance]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rootlet n small root or division of a root
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
RTLT n the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point Synonym(s): round-trip light time, RTLT
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rutledge n United States jurist and second chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; he was appointed by George Washington and briefly served as chief justice but was ultimately rejected by the United States Senate (1739-1800) Synonym(s): Rutledge, John Rutledge
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Raddle \Rad"dle\, n. [Cf. G. r[84]der, r[84]del, sieve, or perhaps E. reed.] 1. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence. 2. A hedge or fence made with raddles; -- called also {raddle hedge}. --Todd. 3. An instrument consisting of a woodmen bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Radial engine \Radial engine\ (Mach.) An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type (the {radial type}) having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The {semiradial engine} has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Radiolite \Ra"diolite\, n. [L. radius ray + -lite: cf. F. radiolithe.] (Paleon.) A hippurite.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rat-tailed \Rat"-tailed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. {Rat-tailed larva} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See {Eristalis}. {Rat-tailed serpent} (Zo[94]l.), the fer-de-lance. {Rat-tailed shrew} (Zo[94]l.), the musk shrew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rat-tailed \Rat"-tailed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. {Rat-tailed larva} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See {Eristalis}. {Rat-tailed serpent} (Zo[94]l.), the fer-de-lance. {Rat-tailed shrew} (Zo[94]l.), the musk shrew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Radish \Rad"ish\, n. [F. radis; cf. It. radice, Pr. raditz: all fr. L. radix, -icis, a root, an edible root, especially a radish, akin to E. wort. See {Wort}, and cf. {Eradicate}, {Race} a root, {Radix}.] (Bot.) The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant ({Paphanus sativus}); also, the whole plant. {Radish fly} (Zo[94]l.), a small two-winged fly ({Anthomyia raphani}) whose larv[91] burrow in radishes. It resembles the onion fly. {Rat-tailed radish} (Bot.), an herb ({Raphanus caudatus}) having a long, slender pod, which is sometimes eaten. {Wild radish} (Bot.), the jointed charlock.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rat-tailed \Rat"-tailed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. {Rat-tailed larva} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See {Eristalis}. {Rat-tailed serpent} (Zo[94]l.), the fer-de-lance. {Rat-tailed shrew} (Zo[94]l.), the musk shrew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rat-tailed \Rat"-tailed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. {Rat-tailed larva} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See {Eristalis}. {Rat-tailed serpent} (Zo[94]l.), the fer-de-lance. {Rat-tailed shrew} (Zo[94]l.), the musk shrew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rattle \Rat"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rattled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rattling}.] [Akin to D. ratelen, G. rasseln, AS. hr[91]tele a rattle, in hr[91]telwyrt rattlewort; cf. Gr. [?] to swing, wave. Cf. {Rail} a bird.] 1. To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. --Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rattlehead \Rat"tle*head`\, n. An empty, noisy talker.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rattle-headed \Rat"tle-head`ed\, a. Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rattletrap \Rat"tle*trap`\, n. Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. [Colloq.] --A. Trollope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rattleweed \Rat"tle*weed`\, n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Astragalus}. See {Milk vetch}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Minium \Min"i*um\ (?; 277), n. [L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armine[a0].] (Chem.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, {Pb3O4}, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also {red lead}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Red horse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species. (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}. {Red lead}. (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}. {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}. {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}. {Red maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}. {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See {Maple}. {Red mite}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Red spider}, below. {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color ({Morus rubra}). {Red mullet} (Zo[94]l.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}. {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. {Red perch} (Zo[94]l.), the rosefish. {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}. {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark. {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}. {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}. {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}. {Red scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii}) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver. {Red snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a large fish ({Lutlanus aya [or] Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. {Red spider} (Zo[94]l.), a very small web-spinning mite ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also {red mite}. {Red squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the chickaree. {Red tape}, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Minium \Min"i*um\ (?; 277), n. [L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armine[a0].] (Chem.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, {Pb3O4}, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also {red lead}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Red horse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species. (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}. {Red lead}. (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}. {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}. {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}. {Red maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}. {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See {Maple}. {Red mite}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Red spider}, below. {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color ({Morus rubra}). {Red mullet} (Zo[94]l.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}. {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. {Red perch} (Zo[94]l.), the rosefish. {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}. {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark. {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}. {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}. {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}. {Red scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii}) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver. {Red snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a large fish ({Lutlanus aya [or] Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. {Red spider} (Zo[94]l.), a very small web-spinning mite ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also {red mite}. {Red squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the chickaree. {Red tape}, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Minium \Min"i*um\ (?; 277), n. [L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armine[a0].] (Chem.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, {Pb3O4}, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also {red lead}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Red horse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species. (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}. {Red lead}. (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}. {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}. {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}. {Red maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}. {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See {Maple}. {Red mite}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Red spider}, below. {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color ({Morus rubra}). {Red mullet} (Zo[94]l.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}. {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. {Red perch} (Zo[94]l.), the rosefish. {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}. {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark. {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}. {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}. {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}. {Red scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii}) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver. {Red snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a large fish ({Lutlanus aya [or] Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. {Red spider} (Zo[94]l.), a very small web-spinning mite ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also {red mite}. {Red squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the chickaree. {Red tape}, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crocoite \Cro"co*ite\ (kr?"k?-?t), n. [Gr. [?][?][?][?] saffron.] (Min.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also {red lead ore}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crocoite \Cro"co*ite\ (kr?"k?-?t), n. [Gr. [?][?][?][?] saffron.] (Min.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also {red lead ore}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Red horse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species. (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}. {Red lead}. (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}. {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}. {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}. {Red maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}. {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See {Maple}. {Red mite}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Red spider}, below. {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color ({Morus rubra}). {Red mullet} (Zo[94]l.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}. {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. {Red perch} (Zo[94]l.), the rosefish. {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}. {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark. {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}. {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}. {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}. {Red scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii}) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver. {Red snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a large fish ({Lutlanus aya [or] Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. {Red spider} (Zo[94]l.), a very small web-spinning mite ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also {red mite}. {Red squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the chickaree. {Red tape}, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Red-letter \Red"-let`ter\ (-l?t`t?r), a. Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters. {Red-letter day}, a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Red-letter \Red"-let`ter\ (-l?t`t?r), a. Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters. {Red-letter day}, a day that is fortunate or auspicious; -- so called in allusion to the custom of marking holy days, or saints' days, in the old calendars with red letters.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Red-tailed \Red"-tailed`\ (-t?ld`), a. Having a red tail. {Red-tailed hawk} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American hawk ({Buteo borealis}). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also {hen hawck}, and {red-tailed buzzard}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Red-tailed \Red"-tailed`\ (-t?ld`), a. Having a red tail. {Red-tailed hawk} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American hawk ({Buteo borealis}). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also {hen hawck}, and {red-tailed buzzard}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Red-tailed \Red"-tailed`\ (-t?ld`), a. Having a red tail. {Red-tailed hawk} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American hawk ({Buteo borealis}). When adult its tail is chestnut red. Called also {hen hawck}, and {red-tailed buzzard}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retail \Re*tail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retailed};p. pr. & vb. n. {Retailing}.] [Cf. F. retailler to cut again; pref. re- re + tailler to cut. See {Retail}, n., {Tailor}, and cf. {Detail}.] 1. To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries. 2. To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] --Pope. 3. To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander. [bd]To whom I will retail my conquest won.[b8] --Shak. He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retaliate \Retal"iate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retaliated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Retaliating}.] [L. retaliatus, p. p. of retaliare to retaliate; pref. re- re- + a word akin to talio talion, retaliation. Cf. {Talion}.] To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.] One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. --Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retaliate \Retal"iate\, v. i. To return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retaliate \Retal"iate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retaliated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Retaliating}.] [L. retaliatus, p. p. of retaliare to retaliate; pref. re- re- + a word akin to talio talion, retaliation. Cf. {Talion}.] To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.] One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. --Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retaliate \Retal"iate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Retaliated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Retaliating}.] [L. retaliatus, p. p. of retaliare to retaliate; pref. re- re- + a word akin to talio talion, retaliation. Cf. {Talion}.] To return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [Now seldom used except in a bad sense.] One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated. --Sir T. Herbert. It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retaliation \Retal`ia"tion\, n. The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. God . . . takes what is done to others as done to himself, and by promise obloges himself to full retaliation. --Calamy. Syn: Requital; reprisal; retribution; punishment.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retaliative \Retal"ia*tive\, a. Same as {Retaliatory}.
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Retaliatory \Retal"iatory\, a. Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
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Tariff \Tar"iff\, n. A tariff may be imposed solely for, and with reference to, the production of revenue (called a {revenue tariff}, or {tariff for revenue}, or for the artificial fostering of home industries ( {a projective tariff}), or as a means of coercing foreign governments, as in case of {retaliatory tariff}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retold \Re*told"\, imp. & p. p. of {Retell}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{To run wild}, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or untamed; to live or grow without culture or training. {To sow one's wild oats}. See under {Oat}. {Wild allspice}. (Bot.), spicewood. {Wild balsam apple} (Bot.), an American climbing cucurbitaceous plant ({Echinocystis lobata}). {Wild basil} (Bot.), a fragrant labiate herb ({Calamintha Clinopodium}) common in Europe and America. {Wild bean} (Bot.), a name of several leguminous plants, mostly species of {Phaseolus} and {Apios}. {Wild bee} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of undomesticated social bees, especially the domestic bee when it has escaped from domestication and built its nest in a hollow tree or among rocks. {Wild bergamot}. (Bot.) See under {Bergamot}. {Wild boar} (Zo[94]l.), the European wild hog ({Sus scrofa}), from which the common domesticated swine is descended. {Wild brier} (Bot.), any uncultivated species of brier. See {Brier}. {Wild bugloss} (Bot.), an annual rough-leaved plant ({Lycopsis arvensis}) with small blue flowers. {Wild camomile} (Bot.), one or more plants of the composite genus {Matricaria}, much resembling camomile. {Wild cat}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European carnivore ({Felis catus}) somewhat resembling the domestic cat, but larger stronger, and having a short tail. It is destructive to the smaller domestic animals, such as lambs, kids, poultry, and the like. (b) The common American lynx, or bay lynx. (c) (Naut.) A wheel which can be adjusted so as to revolve either with, or on, the shaft of a capstan. --Luce. {Wild celery}. (Bot.) See {Tape grass}, under {Tape}. {Wild cherry}. (Bot.) (a) Any uncultivated tree which bears cherries. The wild red cherry is {Prunus Pennsylvanica}. The wild black cherry is {P. serotina}, the wood of which is much used for cabinetwork, being of a light red color and a compact texture. (b) The fruit of various species of {Prunus}. {Wild cinnamon}. See the Note under {Canella}. {Wild comfrey} (Bot.), an American plant ({Cynoglossum Virginicum}) of the Borage family. It has large bristly leaves and small blue flowers. {Wild cumin} (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant ({Lag[oe]cia cuminoides}) native in the countries about the Mediterranean. {Wild drake} (Zo[94]l.) the mallard. {Wild elder} (Bot.), an American plant ({Aralia hispida}) of the Ginseng family. {Wild fowl} (Zo[94]l.) any wild bird, especially any of those considered as game birds. {Wild goose} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of undomesticated geese, especially the Canada goose ({Branta Canadensis}), the European bean goose, and the graylag. See {Graylag}, and {Bean goose}, under {Bean}. {Wild goose chase}, the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose. --Shak. {Wild honey}, honey made by wild bees, and deposited in trees, rocks, the like. {Wild hyacinth}. (Bot.) See {Hyacinth}, 1 (b) . {Wild Irishman} (Bot.), a thorny bush ({Discaria Toumatou}) of the Buckthorn family, found in New Zealand, where the natives use the spines in tattooing. {Wild land}. (a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation. (b) Land which is not settled and cultivated. {Wild licorice}. (Bot.) See under {Licorice}. {Wild mammee} (Bot.), the oblong, yellowish, acid fruit of a tropical American tree ({Rheedia lateriflora}); -- so called in the West Indies. {Wild marjoram} (Bot.), a labiate plant ({Origanum vulgare}) much like the sweet marjoram, but less aromatic. {Wild oat}. (Bot.) (a) A tall, oatlike kind of soft grass ({Arrhenatherum avenaceum}). (b) See {Wild oats}, under {Oat}. {Wild pieplant} (Bot.), a species of dock ({Rumex hymenosepalus}) found from Texas to California. Its acid, juicy stems are used as a substitute for the garden rhubarb. {Wild pigeon}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The rock dove. (b) The passenger pigeon. {Wild pink} (Bot.), an American plant ({Silene Pennsylvanica}) with pale, pinkish flowers; a kind of catchfly. {Wild plantain} (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb ({Heliconia Bihai}), much resembling the banana. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise. {Wild plum}. (Bot.) (a) Any kind of plum growing without cultivation. (b) The South African prune. See under {Prune}. {Wild rice}. (Bot.) See {Indian rice}, under {Rice}. {Wild rosemary} (Bot.), the evergreen shrub {Andromeda polifolia}. See {Marsh rosemary}, under {Rosemary}. {Wild sage}. (Bot.) See {Sagebrush}. {Wild sarsaparilla} (Bot.), a species of ginseng ({Aralia nudicaulis}) bearing a single long-stalked leaf. {Wild sensitive plant} (Bot.), either one of two annual leguminous herbs ({Cassia Cham[91]crista}, and {C. nictitans}), in both of which the leaflets close quickly when the plant is disturbed. {Wild service}.(Bot.) See {Sorb}. {Wild Spaniard} (Bot.), any one of several umbelliferous plants of the genus {Aciphylla}, natives of New Zealand. The leaves bear numerous bayonetlike spines, and the plants form an impenetrable thicket. {Wild turkey}. (Zo[94]l.) See 2d {Turkey}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Riddle \Rid"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Riddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Riddling}.] 1. To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. 2. To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rootlet \Root"let\, n. A radicle; a little root.
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Rotalite \Ro"ta*lite\, n. [L. rota wheel + -lite.] (Paleon.) Any fossil foraminifer of the genus {Rotalia}, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under {Rhizopod}.
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Roytelet \Roy"te*let\, n. [F. roitelet, dim. of roi king.] A little king. [Archaic] --Heylin. Bancroft.
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