See Coif.

See Coiffure.

See Coil.

Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

To throw; to pitch.

imp. of Quake.

A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.

A person dismissed or ejected from a position.

imp. of Quake.

See Quob.

Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.

A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.

The act of quoting or citing.

One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.

A note upon an author.

One who quotes the words of another.

Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I, quoth he.

Indeed; forsooth.

Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.

The relation of an object to number.

Part or proportion; quota.

See Koran.

Research and development; used mostly to refer to the division of a corporation responsible for performing research and developing new products, or the activitie performed by that division; -- a commonly used abbreviation.

research and development; -- used mostly to refer to the division of a corporation responsible for performing research and developing new products; -- a commonly used abbreviation.

A roe; a deer.

The electric catfish.

A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.

A clerical linen collar. A kind of clerical scarf fitted to a collar; as, a black silk rabat.

To recover to the fist, as a hawk.

A collar or cape.

A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.

To abate or diminish. Abatement.

To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.

Same as Rabbi.

The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.

Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins.

In a rabbinical manner; after the manner of the rabbins.

A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.

One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.

Same as Rabbinist.

Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand.

To hunt rabbits.

The hunting of rabbits.

A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

See Sagittal.

The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones.

Divination by means of rods or wands.

Furious; raging; extremely violent.

Rabidness; furiousness.

In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.

The quality or state of being rabid.

Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

A kind of small ordnance formerly in use.

Fierce.

A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning /worthless./

A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.

A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.

To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

A salt of racemic acid.

A cluster or bunch, as of grapes.

A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.

Arranged in a raceme, or in racemes.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in many kinds of grapes. It is also obtained from tartaric acid, with which it is isomeric, and from sugar, gum, etc., by oxidation. It is a sour white crystalline substance, consisting of a combination of dextrorotatory and levorotatory tartaric acids.

Bearing racemes, as the currant.

Having the form of a raceme.

Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.

See Racemose.

A little raceme.

Growing in very small racemes.

One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.

A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.

A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.

Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.

Same as Rhachilla.

Same as Rhachiodont.

The spine; the vertebral column.

Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.

Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.

A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.

Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.

In a racy manner.

The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.

a. n. from Race, v. t. i.

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.

To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.

One who is subjected to paying rack-rent.

A very lean animal, esp. a horse.

A Sprengel explosive consisting of potassium chlorate and mono-nitrobenzene.

One who racks.

To make a confused noise or racket.

Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped.

Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.

One who makes, or engages in, a racket.

An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.

Making a tumultuous noise.

Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.

Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.

See Rakel.

See Rakelness.

A relater; a storyteller.

The coypu.

One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.

See Racket.

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

imp. p. p. of Read, Rede.

An electronic device designed to detect objects at a distance, and determine their distance from the device, by transmitting a pulse of radio waves and measuring the time required for the echo of the pulse to return to the emitting device; as, the radar showed a plane approaching rapidly. For more information of radar, see the article What is Radar?.

imp. of Read, Rede.

To mark or paint with, or as with, raddle.

The ruddock.

A raid.

A float; a raft.

Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zool.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery.