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.

One who, or that which, rakes A person who uses a rake. A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power. A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.

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.

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.

Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.

A mean wretch.

The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance.

Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.

In a rampant manner.

To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.

The cuckoopint.

See Rampart.

A plant (Campanula Rapunculus) of the Bellflower family, with a tuberous esculent root; -- also called ramps.

To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire.

Roving; rambling.

The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.

To search or ransack; to rummage.

A broad-leaved species of garlic (Allium ursinum), common in European gardens; -- called also buckram.

A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.

A tropical African asteraceous shrub (Guizotia abyssinica) cultivated for its seeds (called ramtil seeds or niger seeds) which yield a valuable oil used for food and as an illuminant.

Having many small branches, or ramuli.

Ramulose.

A small branch, or branchlet, of corals, hydroids, and similar organisms.

A branch; a projecting part or prominent process; a ramification.

A small ramus, or branch.

Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

A genus of anurous batrachians, including the common frogs.

Having a general affinity to ranunculaceous plants.

A prop or shore.

Becoming rancid or sour.

A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.