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   rail fence
         n 1: a fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other
               at an angle)

English Dictionary: relieve oneself by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rawalpindi
n
  1. an ancient city in northeastern Pakistan; served as capital of Pakistan while Islamabad was being built
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Relafen
n
  1. a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Relafen)
    Synonym(s): nabumetone, Relafen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
relevance
n
  1. the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy]
    Antonym(s): irrelevance, irrelevancy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
relevancy
n
  1. the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy]
    Antonym(s): irrelevance, irrelevancy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
relevant
adj
  1. having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; "the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research"
    Antonym(s): irrelevant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
relevantly
adv
  1. with relevance
    Antonym(s): irrelevantly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
relief map
n
  1. a map having contour lines through points of equal elevation
    Synonym(s): contour map, relief map
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
relieve oneself
v
  1. eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
    Synonym(s): make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reliving
n
  1. a recurrence of a prior experience; "the reliving of a strong emotion can be therapeutic"
    Synonym(s): reliving, re- experiencing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rely upon
v
  1. put trust in with confidence; "she is someone you can really rely on when times get rough"; "you can rely on his discretion"
    Synonym(s): depend on, depend upon, rely on, rely upon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
royal family
n
  1. royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty"
    Synonym(s): royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
royal poinciana
n
  1. showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
    Synonym(s): royal poinciana, flamboyant, flame tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rule of morphology
n
  1. a linguistic rule for the formation of words [syn: morphological rule, rule of morphology]
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]:
   Fence \Fence\, n. [Abbrev. from defence.]
      1. That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a
            protection; a cover; security; shield.
  
                     Let us be backed with God and with the seas, Which
                     he hath given for fence impregnable.   --Shak.
  
                     A fence betwixt us and the victor's wrath.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      2. An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any
            object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron,
            or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from
            without or straying from within.
  
                     Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      Note: In England a hedge, ditch, or wall, as well as a
               structure of boards, palings, or rails, is called a
               fence.
  
      3. (Locks) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the
            tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.
  
      4. Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice
            of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and
            repartee. See {Fencing}.
  
                     Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That hath so
                     well been taught her dazzing fence.   --Milton.
  
                     Of dauntless courage and consummate skill in fence.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
      5. A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are
            received. [Slang] --Mayhew.
  
      {Fence month} (Forest Law), the month in which female deer
            are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. --Bullokar.
  
      {Fence roof}, a covering for defense. [bd]They fitted their
            shields close to one another in manner of a fence
            roof.[b8] --Holland.
  
      {Fence time}, the breeding time of fish or game, when they
            should not be killed.
  
      {Rail fence}, a fence made of rails, sometimes supported by
            posts.
  
      {Ring fence}, a fence which encircles a large area, or a
            whole estate, within one inclosure.
  
      {Worm fence}, a zigzag fence composed of rails crossing one
            another at their ends; -- called also {snake fence}, or
            {Virginia rail fence}.
  
      {To be on the fence}, to be undecided or uncommitted in
            respect to two opposing parties or policies. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Reel \Reel\, n. [AS. kre[?]l: cf. Icel. kr[?]ll a weaver's reed
      or sley.]
      1. A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on
            an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are
            wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a
            garden reel.
  
      2. A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays
            and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches
            in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches. --McElrath.
  
      3. (Agric.) A device consisting of radial arms with
            horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for
            holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the
            knives.
  
      {Reel oven}, a baker's oven in which bread pans hang
            suspended from the arms of a kind of reel revolving on a
            horizontal axis. --Knight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relbun \Rel"bun\ (r?l"b?n), n.
      The roots of the Chilian plant {Calceolaria arachnoidea}, --
      used for dyeing crimson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relevance \Rel"e*vance\ (r?l"?*vans), Relevancy \Rel"e*van*cy\
      (-van*s?), n.
      1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency;
            applicability.
  
                     Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore.
                                                                              --Poe.
  
      2. (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relevance \Rel"e*vance\ (r?l"?*vans), Relevancy \Rel"e*van*cy\
      (-van*s?), n.
      1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency;
            applicability.
  
                     Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore.
                                                                              --Poe.
  
      2. (Scots Law) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relevant \Rel"e*vant\ (-vant), a. [F. relevant, p. pr. of
      relever to raise again, to relieve. See {Relieve}.]
      1. Relieving; lending aid or support. [R.] --Pownall.
  
      2. Bearing upon, or properly applying to, the case in hand;
            pertinent; applicable.
  
                     Close and relevant arguments have very little hold
                     on the passions.                                 --Sydney
                                                                              Smith.
  
      3. (Scots Law) Sufficient to support the cause.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relevantly \Rel"e*vant*ly\, adv.
      In a relevant manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relieve \Re*lieve"\ (r?-l?v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Relieved}
      (-l?vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Relieving}.] [OE. releven, F.
      relever to raise again, discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare
      to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- +
      levare to raise, fr. levis light. See {Levity}, and cf.
      {Relevant}, {Relief}.]
      1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to
            cause to rise. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
  
      2. To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give
            prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
  
                     Her tall figure relieved against the blue sky;
                     seemed almost of supernatural height. --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      3. To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or
            variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
  
                     The poet must . . . sometimes relieve the subject
                     with a moral reflection.                     --Addison.
  
      4. To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs
            down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting;
            to allevate; to-abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to
            relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor.
  
      5. To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil,
            distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or
            consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to
            support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged
            town.
  
                     Now lend assistance and relieve the poor. --Dryden.
  
      6. To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another
            in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of
            any burden, or discharge of any duty.
  
                     Who hath relieved you?                        --Shak.
  
      7. To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression,
            by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the
            removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or
            the like; to right.
  
      Syn: To alleviate; assuage; succor; assist; aid; help;
               support; substain; ease; mitigate; lighten; diminish;
               remove; free; remedy; redress; indemnify.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relieving \Re*liev"ing\, a.
      Serving or tending to relieve.
  
      {Relieving arch} (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under
            {Discharge}, v. t.
  
      {Relieving tackle}. (Naut.)
      (a) A temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel
            during gales or an action, in case of accident to the
            tiller ropes.
      (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to
            prevent her from going over entirely, and to assist in
            righting her. --Totten. --Craig.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relieving \Re*liev"ing\, a.
      Serving or tending to relieve.
  
      {Relieving arch} (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under
            {Discharge}, v. t.
  
      {Relieving tackle}. (Naut.)
      (a) A temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel
            during gales or an action, in case of accident to the
            tiller ropes.
      (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to
            prevent her from going over entirely, and to assist in
            righting her. --Totten. --Craig.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relieving \Re*liev"ing\, a.
      Serving or tending to relieve.
  
      {Relieving arch} (Arch.), a discharging arch. See under
            {Discharge}, v. t.
  
      {Relieving tackle}. (Naut.)
      (a) A temporary tackle attached to the tiller of a vessel
            during gales or an action, in case of accident to the
            tiller ropes.
      (b) A strong tackle from a wharf to a careened vessel, to
            prevent her from going over entirely, and to assist in
            righting her. --Totten. --Craig.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Relievment \Re*liev"ment\ (-ment), n.
      The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief;
      release. [Archaic.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rewel bone \Rew"el bone`\ [Perh. from F. rouelle, dim. of roue a
      wheel, L. rota.]
      An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or
      polished bone.
  
               His saddle was of rewel boon.                  --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rowel bone \Row"el bone`\
      See {rewel bone}. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ruell bone \Ru"ell bone`\
      See {rewel bone}. [Obs.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Royal Pines, NC (CDP, FIPS 58260)
      Location: 35.47694 N, 82.50532 W
      Population (1990): 4418 (1865 housing units)
      Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   relevance
  
      A measure of how closely a given object
      (file, {web page}, database {record}, etc.) matches a user's
      search for information.
  
      The relevance {algorithms} used in most large web {search
      engines} today are based on fairly simple word-occurence
      measurement: if the word "daffodil" occurs on a given page,
      then that page is considered relevant to a {query} on the word
      "daffodil"; and its relevance is quantised as a factor of the
      number of times the word occurs in the page, on whether
      "daffodil" occurs in title of the page or in its META
      keywords, in the first {N} words of the page, in a heading,
      and so on; and similarly for words that a {stemmer} says are
      based on "daffodil".
  
      More elaborate (and resource-expensive) relevance algorithms
      may involve thesaurus (or {synonym ring}) lookup; e.g. it
      might rank a document about narcissuses (but which may not
      mention the word "daffodil" anywhere) as relevant to a query
      on "daffodil", since narcissuses and daffodils are basically
      the same thing.   Ditto for queries on "jail" and "gaol", etc.
  
      More elaborate forms of thesaurus lookup may involve
      multilingual thesauri (e.g. knowing that documents in Japanese
      which mention the Japanese word for "narcissus" are relevant
      to your search on "narcissus"), or may involve thesauri (often
      auto-generated) based not on equivalence of meaning, but on
      word-proximity, such that "bulb" or "bloom" may be in the
      thesaurus entry for "daffodil".
  
      {Word spamming} essentially attempts to falsely increase a web
      page's relevance to certain common searches.
  
      See also {subject index}.
  
      (1997-04-09)
  
  
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