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   raveling
         n 1: a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric
               [syn: {raveling}, {ravelling}]

English Dictionary: ruefulness	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ravelling n a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric Synonym(s): raveling, ravelling
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rebellion n refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; "each generation must have its own rebellion"; "his body was in rebellion against fatigue" organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another Synonym(s): rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising
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refilling n filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal]
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refueling n the activity of supplying or taking on fuel [syn: fueling, refueling]
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repellant adj serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" Synonym(s): rebarbative, repellent, repellant highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" Synonym(s): disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky n a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water Synonym(s): repellent, repellant a chemical substance that repels animals Synonym(s): repellent, repellant the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" Synonym(s): repellent, repellant
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repellent adj serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" Synonym(s): rebarbative, repellent, repellant highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" Synonym(s): disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water" Synonym(s): repellent, resistant n a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water Synonym(s): repellent, repellant a chemical substance that repels animals Synonym(s): repellent, repellant the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" Synonym(s): repellent, repellant
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repellently adv in a repellent manner; "repellently fat" [syn: repellently, repellingly]
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repelling adj highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" Synonym(s): disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
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repellingly adv in a repellent manner; "repellently fat" [syn: repellently, repellingly]
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replant v plant again or anew; "They replanted the land"; "He replanted the seedlings"
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replenish v fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please" Synonym(s): replenish, refill, fill again
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replenishment n filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal]
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revealing adj disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down" Synonym(s): revealing, telling, telltale(a) showing or making known; "her dress was scanty and revealing" Antonym(s): concealing n the speech act of making something evident [syn: disclosure, revelation, revealing]
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revilement n a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" Synonym(s): abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification
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rifleman n someone skilled in the use of a rifle a soldier whose weapon is a rifle
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rifleman bird n small green-and-bronze bird [syn: rifleman bird, Acanthisitta chloris]
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rifling n the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm Synonym(s): grooving, rifling
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ripple mark n one of a series of small ridges produced in sand by water currents or by wind
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rippling n a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet]
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Roebling n United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869) Synonym(s): Roebling, John Roebling, John Augustus Roebling
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rub along v manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary" Synonym(s): scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ruefulness n sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game" Synonym(s): sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rabblement \Rab"ble*ment\, n. A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. [bd]Rude rablement.[b8] --Spenser. And still, as he refused it, the rabblement hooted. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rabble \Rab"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rabbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rabbling}.] 1. To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate. --Macaulay. The bishops' carriages were stopped and the prelates them selves rabbled on their way to the house. --J. R. Green. 2. To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence. [Obs. or Scot.] --Foxe. 3. To rumple; to crumple. [Scot.]
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Raffle \Raf"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raffling}.] To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
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Ravelin \Rave"lin\, n. [F.; cf. Sp. rebellin, It. revellino, rivellino; perhaps fr. L. re- again + vallum wall.] (Fort.) A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
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Half-moon \Half"-moon`\, n. 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton. 3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a {ravelin}. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California ({C[91]siosoma Californiense}). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also {medialuna}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ravelin \Rave"lin\, n. [F.; cf. Sp. rebellin, It. revellino, rivellino; perhaps fr. L. re- again + vallum wall.] (Fort.) A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Half-moon \Half"-moon`\, n. 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton. 3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a {ravelin}. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California ({C[91]siosoma Californiense}). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also {medialuna}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ravel \Rav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raveled}or {Ravelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raveling} or {Ravelling}.] [. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Raveling \Rav"el*ing\, n. [Also ravelling.] 1. The act of untwisting, or of disentangling. 2. That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
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Ravel \Rav"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raveled}or {Ravelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raveling} or {Ravelling}.] [. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln.] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a sticking.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rebel \Re*bel"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rebelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rebelling}.] [F. rebeller, fr. L. rebellare to make war again; pref. re- again + bellare to make war, fr. bellum war. See {Bellicose}, and cf. {Revel} to carouse.] 1. To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See {Rebellion}. The murmur and the churl's rebelling. --Chaucer. Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. --Josh. xxii. 16. 2. To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt. Hoe could my hand rebel against my heart? How could you heart rebel against your reason? --Dryden.
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Rebellion \Re*bel"lion\, n. [F. r[82]bellion, L. rebellio. See {Rebel}, v. t. Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a renewed war.] 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistances to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection. No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it. --Ames. 2. Open resistances to, or defiance of, lawful authority. {Commission of rebellion} (Eng. Law), a process of contempt on the nonappearance of a defendant, -- now abolished. --Wharton. --Burrill. Syn: Insurrection; sedition; revolt; mutiny; resistance; contumacy. See {Insurrection}.
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Rebloom \Re*bloom"\, v. i. To bloom again. --Crabbe.
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Reef \Reef\, n. [Akin to D. reef, G. reff, Sw. ref; cf. Icel. rif reef, rifa to basten together. Cf. {Reeve}, v. t., {River}.] (Naut.) That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind. Note: From the head to the first reef-band, in square sails, is termed the first reef; from this to the next is the second reef; and so on. In fore-and-aft sails, which reef on the foot, the first reef is the lowest part. --Totten. {Close reef}, the last reef that can be put in. {Reef band}. See {Reef-band} in the Vocabulary. {Reef knot}, the knot which is used in tying reef pointss. See Illust. under {Knot}. {Reef line}, a small rope formerly used to reef the courses by being passed spirally round the yard and through the holes of the reef. --Totten. {Reef points}, pieces of small rope passing through the eyelet holes of a reef-band, and used reefing the sail. {Reef tackle}, a tackle by which the reef cringles, or rings, of a sail are hauled up to the yard for reefing. --Totten. {To take a reef in}, to reduce the size of (a sail) by folding or rolling up a reef, and lashing it to the spar.
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Reflame \Reflame"\ (r?fl?m"), v. i. To kindle again into flame.
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Refluence \Ref"luence\ (r?f"l?-ens), Refluency \Ref"luency\ (-ens?), n. The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.
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Refluence \Ref"luence\ (r?f"l?-ens), Refluency \Ref"luency\ (-ens?), n. The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.
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Refluent \Ref"lu*ent\ (-ent), a. [L. refluens, p. pr. of refluere to flow back; pref. re- re- + fluere to flow. See {Flurent}.] Flowing back; returning; ebbing. --Cowper. And refluent through the pass of fear The battle's tide was poured. --Sir W. Scott.
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Repeal \Re*peal"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repealed} (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repealing}.] [OF. repeler to call back, F. rappeler; pref. re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See {Appeal}, and. cf. {Repel}.] 1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. [Obs.] The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. --Shak. 2. To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law. 3. To suppress; to repel. [Obs.] Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. --Milton. Syn: To abolish; revoke; rescind; recall; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See {Abolish}.
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Repealment \Re*peal"ment\ (-ment), n. Recall, as from banishment. [Obs.]
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Repellence \Repel"lence\ (-lens), Repellency \Repel"len*cy\ (-len-s?), n. The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
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Repellence \Repel"lence\ (-lens), Repellency \Repel"len*cy\ (-len-s?), n. The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
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Repellent \Re*pel"lent\ (-lent), a. [L. repellens, -entis, p. pr. ] Driving back; able or tending to repel.
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Repellent \Re*pel"lent\, n. 1. That which repels. 2. (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. --Dunglison. 3. A kind of waterproof cloth. --Knight.
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Repel \Re**pel"\ (r?-p?l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repelled} (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Repelling}.] [L. repellere, repulsum; pref. re- re- + pellere to drive. See {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Repulse}, {Repeal}.] 1. To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. --Pope. They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. --Macaulay. 2. To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. [He] gently repelled their entreaties. --Hawthorne. Syn: Tu repulse; resist; oppose; reject; refuse.
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Replant \Re*plant"\ (rE-pl?nt"), v. t. To plant again.
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Replantable \Replant"able\ (-?-b'l), a. That may be planted again.
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Replantation \Re`plan*ta"tion\ (r?`pl?n-t?"sh?n), n. The act of planting again; a replanting. [R.] --Hallywell.
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Replenish \Re*plen"ish\, v. i. To recover former fullness. [Obs.] The humors will not replenish so soon. --Bacon.
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Replenish \Re*plen"ish\ (r?-pl?n"?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Replenished} (-?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replenishing}.] [OE. replenissen, OF. replenir; L. pref. re- re- + plenus full. See {Full}, {-ish}, and cf. {Replete}.] 1. To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound. Multiply and replenish the earth. --Gen. i. 28. The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl. --Milton. 2. To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.] We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature. --Shak.
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Replenish \Re*plen"ish\ (r?-pl?n"?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Replenished} (-?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replenishing}.] [OE. replenissen, OF. replenir; L. pref. re- re- + plenus full. See {Full}, {-ish}, and cf. {Replete}.] 1. To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound. Multiply and replenish the earth. --Gen. i. 28. The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl. --Milton. 2. To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.] We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature. --Shak.
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Replenisher \Replen"isher\ (-?r), n. One who replenishes.
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Replenish \Re*plen"ish\ (r?-pl?n"?sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Replenished} (-?sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replenishing}.] [OE. replenissen, OF. replenir; L. pref. re- re- + plenus full. See {Full}, {-ish}, and cf. {Replete}.] 1. To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound. Multiply and replenish the earth. --Gen. i. 28. The waters thus With fish replenished, and the air with fowl. --Milton. 2. To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.] We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature. --Shak.
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Replenishment \Replen"ishment\ (-ment), n. 1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished. 2. That which replenishes; supply. --Cowper.
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Reply \Re*ply"\ (r?-pl?"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Replied} (-pl?d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Replying}.] [OE. replien, OF. replier, F. r[82]pliquer, fr. L. replicare to fold back, make a reply; pref. re- re- + plicare to fold. See {Ply}, and cf. {Replica}.] 1. To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer. O man, who art thou that repliest against God? --Rom. ix. 20. 2. (Law) To answer a defendant's plea. 3. Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery. Syn: To answer; respond; rejoin.
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Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revealed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Revealing}.] [F. r[82]v[82]ler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See {Veil}.] 1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. --Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency). Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show. Usage: See {Communicate}. -- {Reveal}, {Divulge}. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. [bd]Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered.[b8] --Locke. [bd]A tragic history of facts divulged.[b8] --Wordsworth.
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Revealment \Re*veal"ment\, n. Act of revealing. [R.]
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Revel \Rev"el\, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See {Revel}, v. i.] A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. --Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. --Rambler. {Master of the revels}, {Revel master}. Same as {Lord of misrule}, under {Lord}.
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Revel \Rev"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reveled}or {Revelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reveling} or {Revelling}.] [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See {Rebel}.] 1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak. 2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. [bd]Where joy most revels.[b8] --Shak.
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Revellent \Re*vel"lent\, a. [L. revellens, p. pr. of revellere. See {Revel}, v. t.] Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. (Med.) A revulsive medicine.
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Revel \Rev"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Reveled}or {Revelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reveling} or {Revelling}.] [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See {Rebel}.] 1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak. 2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. [bd]Where joy most revels.[b8] --Shak.
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Revelment \Rev"el*ment\, n. The act of reveling.
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Revilement \Re*vile"ment\, n. The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. --Spenser.
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Revile \Re*vile"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Reviled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Reviling}.] [Pref. re- + OF. aviler to make vile, depreciate, F. avilir; [85] (L. ad.) + vil vile. See {Vile}.] To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. [bd]And did not she herself revile me there?[b8] --Shak. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again. --1 Pet. ii. 23. Syn: To reproach; vilify; upbraid; calumniate.
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Reviling \Re*vil"ing\, n. Reproach; abuse; vilification. Neither be ye afraid of their revilings. --Isa. li. 7.
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Reviling \Revil"ing\, a. Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches. -- {Revil"ing*ly}, adv.
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Reviling \Revil"ing\, a. Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches. -- {Revil"ing*ly}, adv.
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Rifleman \Ri"fle*man\, n.; pl. {Rifleman}. (Mil.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rifled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rifling}.] [F. rifler to rifle, sweep away; of uncertain origin. CF. {Raff}.] 1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. --Pope. 2. To strip; to rob; to pillage. --Piers Plowman. Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. --Shak. 3. To raffle. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
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Rifling \Ri"fling\, n. (a) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. (b) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. {Shunt rifling}, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ripple \Rip"ple\, n. 1. The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves. 2. A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter. 3. (physics) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension. 4. (Electrical engineering) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current. {Ripple grass}. (Bot.) See {Ribwort}. {Ripple marks}, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ripple-marked \Rip"ple-marked`\, a. Having ripple marks.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ripple \Rip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rippling}.] [Cf. {Rimple}, {Rumple}.] 1. To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain. 2. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ripplingly \Rip"pling*ly\, adv. In a rippling manner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rival \Ri"val\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rivaled}or {Rivalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rivaling} or {Rivalling}.] 1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. 2. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rival \Ri"val\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rivaled}or {Rivalled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rivaling} or {Rivalling}.] 1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. 2. To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. To rival thunder in its rapid course. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rivel \Riv"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Riveled};p. pr. & vb. n. {Riveling}.] [AS. gerifled, geriflod, gerifod, wrinkled, geriflian, gerifian, to wrinkle. See {Rifle} a gun, {Rive}.] To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers. [Obs.] --Pope. [bd]Riveled parchments.[b8] --Walpole.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rueful \Rue"ful\, a. 1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. [bd]Rueful faces.[b8] --Dryden. Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. --Sir W. Scott. -- {Rue"fully}, adv. -- {Rue"fulness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rufflement \Ruf"fle*ment\, n. The act of ruffling. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruffling}.] [From {Ruff} a plaited collar, a drum beat, a tumult: cf. OD. ruyffelen to wrinkle.] 1. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle. 2. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt. 3. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. --I. Taylor. She smoothed the ruffled seas. --Dryden. 4. To erect in a ruff, as feathers. [the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. --Tennyson. 5. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. --Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. --Tennyson. 7. To throw into disorder or confusion. Where best He might the ruffled foe infest. --Hudibras. 8. To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.] I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. --Chapman {To ruffle the feathers of}, to exite the resentment of; to irritate.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Ri]o Blanco, PR (comunidad, FIPS 70448) Location: 18.21441 N, 65.79319 W Population (1990): 1341 (437 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Rio Blanco County, CO (county, FIPS 103) Location: 39.97526 N, 108.19911 W Population (1990): 5972 (2803 housing units) Area: 8342.8 sq km (land), 5.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Ripplemead, VA Zip code(s): 24150
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Robeline, LA (village, FIPS 65325) Location: 31.69176 N, 93.30332 W Population (1990): 149 (84 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71469
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Roebling, NJ Zip code(s): 08554
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ROFLMAO {ROTFLMAO}