Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.

Ragged; rough.

A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.

a. n. from Rage, v. i.

Raging; furious; rageful.

A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named after Lord Raglan, an English general who was an aide-de-camp to Wellington at Waterlooo.

A sleeve joined to the body of a garment by a long slanting seam starting at the neck and continuing around the armhole. Contrasted to a set-in sleeve.

A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull.

The so-called /Twilight of the Gods/ (called in German G/tterd/mmerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the Aesir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the giants and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).

A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.

a rhythm with a regular accompaniment in two-four time and a melody characterized by syncopation, first recognized in many negro melodies; also a style of American music in this rhythm.

A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed.

A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajae, and Rajii.

To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

One who engages in a raid.

Designating, or pertaining to, a form of cooperative bank founded among the German agrarian population by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-88); as, Raiffeisen banks, the Raiffeisen system, etc. The banks are unlimited-liability institutions making small loans at a low rate of interest, for a designated purpose, to worthy members only.

To rail at.

One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.

A barrier made of a rail or of rails, together with vertical supports. The typical railing in the interior of structures or on porches has a horizontal rail near waist height, and multiple vertical supports. Its function is usually to provide a safety barrier at the edge of a verticle drop to prevent falls.

With scoffing or insulting language.

Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.

A banterer; a jester; a mocker.

To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress.

The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.

To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.

So tight as to exclude rain; as, a rain-tight roof.

A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

Formed with or like a rainbow.

See Reindeer.

A drop of rain.

A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.

The state of being rainy.

Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.

Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.

A rope; also, a measure equal to a rod.

Same as 2d Reis.

Capable of being raised.

Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.

One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).

A grape, or a bunch of grapes.

The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.

Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonn/. See under Catalogue.

A separator.

Reign; rule.

Same as Rajah.

A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.

The office or dignity of a rajah.

A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

See Rake, a mineral vein.

A kind of ardent spirits used in southern Europe and the East, distilled from grape juice, grain, etc.

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.

Hasty; reckless; rash.

Debauchery; lewdness.

A vile, dissolute wretch.

The handle of a rake.

The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.

Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.

In a rakish manner.

The quality or state of being rakish.

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

Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

The act of rallying.

One who rallies.

A French political group, also known as the Constitutional Right from its position in the Chambers, mainly monarchists who rallied to the support of the Republic in obedience to the encyclical put forth by Pope Leo XIII. in Feb., 1892.

Pertaining to the rails.

Good-humored raillery.

A name sometimes given to the raven.

A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.

To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.

The ninth Mohammedan month.

Wild; untamed.

Wild; not tame.

Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.

The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

Formerly, a kind of large war galley.

A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.

One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

In a rambling manner.

A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.

A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.

Same as Ramal.

A Ramist.

Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.

See Ramie.

same as Ramequin.

A scraping; a shaving.

Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.

Covered with ramenta.

Ramal.

A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.

The grasscloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

Flowering on the branches.

Having the form of a branch.

To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.

Bearing branches; branched.

Producing branches; ramigerous.

A follower of Pierre Ram/, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.

A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, or from stem to stern in building a vessel.

Refuse matter.

One who, or that which, rams or drives. An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity. A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod. An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.

Like a ram; hence, rank; lascivious.

The quality of being rammish.

Like a ram; rammish.

A softening or mollifying.

A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberry family, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.

Branched, as the stem or root of a plant; having lateral divisions; consisting of, or having, branches; full of branches; ramifying; branching; branchy.

Ramose.

A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.

High-spirited; rampageous.

To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage.