A genus of plants related to the banana.

One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.

Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.

Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

One who raves.

Ravenous.

A torrent of water.

See Raven, v. t. i.

Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic.

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

One who ravishes (in any sense).

Rapturous; transporting.

In a ravishing manner.

In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.

A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.

Rawboned.

Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.

A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.

A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.

Somewhat raw.

In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience.

The quality or state of being raw.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc. In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.

Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.

A synthetic fiber, made of thin filaments of regenerated cellulose, extruded from a solution of viscose. Called also viscose fiber and viscose rayon fiber.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.

To erase; to efface; to obliterate.

Slashed or striped in patterns.

To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.

A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head; also called a straight razor.

Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.

having an edge as sharp as that of a razor; very sharp.

as thin as a razor blade; very thin.

Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved.

The rorqual.

A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix. See Cutwater, 3.

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.

Recovery.

Reproof.

Resignation.

To bring together again; to compose or form anew.

To revise or renew one's assessment of; as, we need to reassess our position to include the new information. Usually used without the hyphen.

To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.

To create or form anew.

A forming anew; a new creation or formation.

Creating anew; as, re-creative power.

Same as reemphasize.

To ferment, or cause to ferment, again.

To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.

The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.

to provide additional insurance for.

To let anew, as a house.

To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.

To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument.

The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.

To reiterate many times.

To resolve again.

To search again; to examine anew.

To sound again or anew.

To store again; as, the goods taken out were re-stored.

To turn again.

To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.

The act or process of reabsorbing.

A second access or approach; a return.

To accuse again.

The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.

Being within reach.

One who reaches.

Being beyond reach; lofty.

To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is equal to the component of the impressed electro-motive force at right angles to the current divided by the current, that is, the component of the impedance due to the self-inductance or capacity of the circuit.

Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.

A reactionary.

Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction.

A choking coil.

Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

The state of being readable; readableness.

Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.

To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.

To regain; to recover.

A regaining; recovery of something lost.

One who reads. One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. A proof reader. One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.

The office of reader.

In a ready manner; quickly; promptly.

The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.

Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.

The act of readjourning; a second or repeated adjournment.

To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.

One who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the States of the United States, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the State debt without the consent of the State's creditors.

A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.

Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

To adopt again.

To adorn again or anew.

To advance again.

The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing.

To dispose in order.

Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

Having ready wit.

To affirm again.

A second affirmation.

To convert again into a forest, as a region of country; to re-establish a forest after clear-cutting or fire, etc.; -- used more often without the hyphen.

The act or process of converting again into a forest.

A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

The last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.

To agree again.

A prank.

A realist.

Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

To align anew or better; as, realign the wheels of my car; realign my jaw. Usually used without the hyphen.

As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle). As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.

One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

In a realistic manner.

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.