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.

A dwelling place of a ranchero.

A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter.

The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil.

In a rancid manner.

The quality of being rancid.

The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.

In a rancorous manner.

To rant; to storm.

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

To arrange or rearrange so that there is no predetermined order; to make random; to select by a random process; to assign (members of a group) into subgroups by a random process.

In a random manner.

To go or stray at random.

See Reindeer.

Same as Rani.

See Re/nforce.

imp. of Ring, v. t. i.

Arrangement.

One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.

The office of the keeper of a forest or park.

To range about in an irregular manner.

Inclined or able to range, or rove about, for considerable distances; apt or suited for much roving, -- chiefly used of cattle.

A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.

Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.

One who ranks, or disposes in ranks; one who arranges.

To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.

With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

The condition or quality of being rank.

A prostitute.

The erd shrew.

The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.

To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.

Such as can be ransomed.

One who ransoms or redeems.

Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.

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

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

In a ranting manner.

To act like a rantipole.

Ranterism.

Wild; noisy; boisterous.

A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (Ranunculus Asiaticus, Ranunculus aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

conversation; also, rapping.

a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; same as 7th rap, n..

Same as Accipitres.

The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

See Rapparee.

A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.

Violent.

Violently.

Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.

One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

See Rhaphides.

Occurring in rapid succession like the shots fired from a machine gun. See also machine-gun.

Firing shots in rapid succession. Capable of being fired rapidly; -- applied to single-barreled guns of greater caliber than small arms, mounted so as to be quickly trained and elevated, with a quick-acting breech mechanism operated by a single motion of a crank or lever (abbr. R. F.); In the United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished from breech-loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the former being automatic guns of not less than one inch caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound weight, the explosion of each cartridge operating the mechanism for ejecting the empty shell, loading, and firing the next shot, the latter being guns that require one operation of the hand at each discharge, to load the gun. In the United States army, designating such a gun, whether using fixed or separate ammunition, designed chiefly for use in coast batteries against torpedo vessels and the lightly armored batteries or other war vessels and for the protection of defensive mine fields; -- not distinguished from quick-fire. In Great Britain and Europe used, rarely, as synonymous with quick-fire.

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.

In a rapid manner.

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; -- usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. For boaters on the river, it is a place that can be hazardous, with danger of capsizing or crashing into large rocks.

A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.

Wearing a rapier.

Lapilli.

To plunder.

Given to rapine.

The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.

A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.

imp. p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.

One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.