(n.) A roc.

(v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.

(v. t.) To advise or counsel.

(v. t.) To interpret; to explain.

(n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion.

(n.) A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.

(n.) Alt. of Rache

(n.) Same as Arrack.

(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

(n.) A wreck; destruction.

(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.

(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.

(n.) A fast amble.

(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.

(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.

(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.

(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.

(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.

(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

(a.) A distaff.

(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.

(v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

(superl.) Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich.

(superl.) Hence: Exciting to the mental taste by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.

() imp. & p. p. of Reave.

(n.) A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.

(n.) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.

(n.) A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.

(v. t.) To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.

(n.) Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.

(n.) Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.

(n.) A violent or raging wind.

(n.) The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

(n.) To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.

(n.) To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.

(n.) To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.

(n.) To toy or act wantonly; to sport.

(v. t.) To enrage.

(n.) An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

(v. i.) To flow forth; to roll out; to course.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.

(n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.

(v. t.) To inclose with rails or a railing.

(v. t.) To range in a line.

(v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.

(v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.

(v. t.) To rail at.

(v. t.) To move or influence by railing.

(n. & v.) Reign.

(n.) Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.

(n.) To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.

(n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.

(v. t.) To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.

(v. t.) To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.

(n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.

(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.

(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

(v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

(v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.

(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.

(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.

(v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.

(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.

(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.

(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.

(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.

(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

(n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

(n.) A rick.

(n.) Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.

(v. i.) To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

(n.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.

(v. t.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve

(v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.

(v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

(n.) A heap; a rick.

(n.) The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rue

(v. t.) To arrest.

(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.

(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.

(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.

(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.

(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.

(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.

(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.

(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.

(n.) A set or game at tennis.

(n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.

(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.

(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.

(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.

(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.

(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.

(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.

(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

(v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.

(v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.

(n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.

(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.

(n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.

(v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.

(n.) A wrinkle; a fold; as, the rugae of the stomach.

(n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

(n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.

(n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.

(n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.

(n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.

(n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.

(v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.

(n.) The roc.

(n.) A large bird, supposed by some to be the same as the extinct Epiornis of Madagascar.

(a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.

(a.) Uniform or established course of things.

(a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.

(a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.

(a.) Conduct in general; behavior.

(a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.

(a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.

(a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.

(a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.

(a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.

(a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.

(a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

(a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.

(n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.

(n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.

(n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.

(n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.

(n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.

(v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.

(v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.

(v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.

(a.) Orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to unruly.

(n.) A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.

(n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

(n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.

(n.) The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.

(n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.

(n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.

() imp. & p. p. of Ring.

(n.) A floor timber in a ship.

(n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.

(n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

(n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

(a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.

(a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.

(a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.

(a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.

(a.) Royal.

(n.) See Rial, an old English coin.

(v. t.) To reave.

(n.) An officer, steward, or governor.

(n.) A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

(n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

(imp. & p. p.) Bereft.

(n.) A chink; a rift. See Rift.

(pl. ) of Ramus

() imp. of Ring, v. t. & i.

(v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.

(n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.

(n.) Robbery; spoil.

(n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.

() of Rap

(n.) A Spanish coin. See Real.

(a.) Royal.

(n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.

(imp.) of Ride

(v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

(v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.

(v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

(v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.

(v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.

(v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

(v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

(v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

(v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

(v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.

(n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

(n.) A saddle horse.

(n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

() imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

(a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.

(a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.

(a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.

(a.) An ecstasy; a trance.

(a.) Rapidity.

(v. t.) To transport or ravish.

(v. t.) To carry away by force.

(n.) Sedge; seaweed.

(a.) Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.

(a.) Having power; active; nimble.

() p. p. of Rive.

(n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

(n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.

(v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.

(v. i.) To burst open; to split.

(v. i.) To belch.

(v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.

(v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.

(v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.

(v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.

(n.) A scratching out, or erasure.

(n.) A slight wound; a scratch.

(n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.

(v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.

(v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.

(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.

(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

(superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.

(superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.

(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.

(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.

(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.

(v. t.) To prepare with haste.

(v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.

(v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.

(v.) The raspberry.

(n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.

(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

(n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.

(n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.

(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

(n.) Order; arrangement.

(n.) Ratification; approval.

(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.

(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.

(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.

(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.

(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.

(v. t.) To ratify.

(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.

(v. i.) To make an estimate.

(n.) A hill or mound.

(n.) A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

(a.) Alt. of Rathe

(adv.) Alt. of Rathe

(v. t.) To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

(v. t.) To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.

(n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.

(n.) See Rille.

(v. i.) To run a small stream.

(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.

(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.

(a.) Abounding with rime; frosty.

(n.) See Rind.

(imp.) of Ring

() of Ring

(p. p.) of Ring

(n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

(n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

() imp. of Rive.

(n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

(v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.

(v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.

(v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.

(v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.

(n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

(n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

(n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

(v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.

(v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.

(v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.

(v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.

(n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

(n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

(n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.

(n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

(n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.

(v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.

(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.

(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.

(n.) A journey, or stage of a journey.

(n.) An inroad; an invasion; a raid.

(n.) A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.

(n.) A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.

(v. i.) To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

(v. t.) To range or wander over.

(n.) The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.

(a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.

(a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.

(n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color.

(n.) A roan horse.

(n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

(v. i.) To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.

(v. i.) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.

(v. i.) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.

(v. i.) To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.

(v. i.) To be boisterous; to be disorderly.

(v. i.) To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.

(v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.

(v. t.) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.

(n.) The sound of roaring.

(n.) The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.

(n.) The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.

(n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

(v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.

(v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.

(n.) A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.

(n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.

(v. t.) An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.

(v. t.) A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison, dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap.

(v. t.) To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.

(n.) Redness; complexion.

() imp. of Ride.

(n.) See Rood, the cross.

(n.) A rush.

(n.) A prank.

(n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.

(a.) Royal; regal; kingly.

(a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.

(a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.

(a.) Relating to things, not to persons.

(a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.

(a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.

(n.) A realist.

(n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.

(v. i.) To cream; to mantle.

(v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

(n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

(v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

(v. t.) To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

(v. t.) To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.

(v. t.) To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

(v. t.) To deprive of the beard; to shave.

(v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

(v.) A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

(a.) Filled with roe.

(v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

(v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.

(v. i.) To wander; to roam.

(v. i.) To romp.

(v. t.) See Royne.

(n.) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.

(n.) Mist; smoke; damp

(n.) A vein of ore.

(a.) Misty; foggy; cloudy.

(n.) A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.

(n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.

(n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

(n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

(n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.

(n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.

(n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

(n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.

(n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.

(n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.

(n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.

(v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.

(v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.

(v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

(v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.

(v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.

(v. i.) To turn; to move circularly.

(v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.

(v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.

(v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.

(v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.

(v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

(v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.

(v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.

(v.) That which rolls; a roller.

(imp. & p. p.) of Rend

(v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.

(v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

(v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

(v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods.

(v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.

(v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.

(v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.

(v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.

(v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.

(v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.

(v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.

(v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

(v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

(v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

(v.) Part; office; duty; role.

() of Reave

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(v. i.) To rant.

() imp. & p. p. of Rend.

(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.

(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.

(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.

(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

(v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

(n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.

(n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

(n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

(n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.

(n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.

(n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

(n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.

(n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

(v. t.) To cover with a roof.

(v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.

(n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.

(v. i.) To squat; to ruck.

(n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

(n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.

(n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.

(v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

(n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.

(n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.

(n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.

(n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.

(n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.

(v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.

(a.) Spacious; roomy.

(a. & n.) Vermilion red; red.

(n.) See Roup.

(v. t.) To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.

(v. t.) To concern; -- used impersonally.

(v. i.) To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.

(n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.

(n.) A row or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

(n.) The small intestines; as, the ropes of birds.

(v. i.) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.

(v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord; as, to rope a bale of goods.

(v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope.

(v. t.) To partition, separate, or divide off, by means of a rope, so as to include or exclude something; as, to rope in, or rope off, a plot of ground; to rope out a crowd.

(v. t.) To lasso (a steer, horse).

(v. t.) To draw, as with a rope; to entice; to inveigle; to decoy; as, to rope in customers or voters.

(v. t.) To prevent from winning (as a horse), by pulling or curbing.

(a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.

(n.) A root.

(n.) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

(n.) The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

(n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.

(v. t.) To learn or repeat by rote.

(v. i.) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

(n.) One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

(v. i. & t.) Alt. of Rown

(v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.

(n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.

(n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.

(v. i.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

(n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

(v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

(v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

(n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

(n.) A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

(n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.

(n.) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.

(n.) A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

(v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

(v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

(v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.

(v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

(v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

(n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

(v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.

(v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

(v. t.) To wander over or through.

(v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

(adv.) Early; soon.

(n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.

(n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

(a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

(v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

(v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.

(v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.

(v. t.) To lift and take up.

(v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.

(v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.

(v. t.) To rouse; to stir up.

(v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.