To go or stray at random.

See Reindeer.

Same as Rani.

See Re/nforce.

imp. of Ring, v. t. i.

A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

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.

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.

Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.

Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations.

A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow.

To transport or ravish.

A raptor.

A ravisher; a plunderer.

An order of birds, same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.

Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds. Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals. Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves.

Raptorial.

To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

An enthusiast.

To put, or be put, in a state of rapture.

Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

In a rapturous manner.

Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.

A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

A show carried about in a box; a peep show.

The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.

Capable of being rarefied.

To become less dense; to become thin and porous.

In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.

The state or quality of being rare.

An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.

See Rarefaction.

The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

See 2d Reis.

The name and genetic symbol for a mutant gene that has been identified as one of those associated with certains types of cancer; -- it is a form of oncogene. It was first observed in rats, but analogues have been found in humans and other animals.

Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.

Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.

State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively.

A female rascal.

A low, mean wretch; a rogue; same as rascal, n.. 2; now disused, replaced by rapscalion.

Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.

A scratching out, or erasure.

To prepare with haste.

A thin slice of bacon.

Rash; hasty; precipitate.

A rash person.

In a rash manner; with precipitation.

The quality or state of being rash.

The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church. The Raskolniki embrace many sects, whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions, habits, and customs. The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translation of the religious books. The dissenters, who have been continually persecuted, are believed to number about 20,000,000, although the Holy Synod officially puts the number at about 2,000,000. They are officially divided into three groups according to the degree of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances, as follows: I. /Most obnoxious./ the Judaizers; the Molokane, who refuse to recognize civil authority or to take oaths; the Dukhobortsy, or Dukhobors, who are communistic, marry without ceremony, and believe that Christ was human, but that his soul reappears at intervals in living men; the Khlysty, who countenance anthropolatory, are ascetics, practice continual self-flagellation, and reject marriage; the Skoptsy, who practice castration; and a section of the Bezpopovtsy, or priestless sect, which disbelieve in prayers for the Czar and in marriage. II. /Obnoxious:/ the Bezpopovtsy, who pray for the Czar and recognize marriage. III. /Least obnoxious:/ the Popovtsy, who dissent from the orthodox church in minor points only.

An order of birds; the Gallinae.

Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.

Razor.

See Raspatory.

A surgeon's rasp.

The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry. The shrub bearing this fruit.

One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.

The raspberry.

Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.

A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.

An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.