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 rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.

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.

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.

The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

In a radial manner.

An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.

The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.

The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.

In a radiant manner; with glittering splendor.

A radiate.

An extensive artificial group of invertebrates, having all the parts arranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.

One of the Radiata.

Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.

Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat.

In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.

Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower.

The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

Capable of radiating; acting by radiation.

That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a steam radiator.

A primitive word; a radix, root, or simple, underived, uncompounded word; an etymon. A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix.

The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform.

Germinal principle; source; origination.

In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.

Quality or state of being radical.

Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.

To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.

Rooted Having roots, or possessing a well-developed root. Having rootlike organs for attachment.

The process of taking root, or state of being rooted; as, the radication of habits.

A small branch of a root; a rootlet.

Rhizanthous.

Having the nature or appearance of a radix or root.

The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the stem of the embryo; the caulicle. A rootlet; a radicel.

Of or pertaining to roots, or the root of a plant.

A radicle.

Producing numerous radicles, or rootlets.