Rickety.

A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.

Affected with rickets.

A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.

A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.

To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.

Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles.

A gaping.

The gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth.

To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.

Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

p. p. of Ride.

One who, or that which, rids.

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.

Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.

The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

to be executed by electrocution in the electric chair.

A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.

imp. pl. p. p. of Ride.

Laughing.

One who, or that which, rides.

Having no rider; as, a riderless horse.

To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.

The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger.

The backbone.

Same as Ridgelling.

A little ridge.

A half-castrated male animal.

See Ridgepole.

The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.

See Life line (a), under Life.

So as to form ridges.

Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.

Ridicule.

Ridiculous.

One who ridicules.

To make ridiculous; to ridicule.

The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous.

Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.

The act or state of one who rides.

To hold ridottos.

See Rye.

Robbery.

The reedbuck, a South African antelope (Cervicapra arundinacea); -- so called from its frequenting dry places covered with high grass or reeds. Its color is yellowish brown. Called also inghalla, and rietbok.

A remaking or recasting; an adaptation, esp. of a literary work or musical composition.

Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.

A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.

A curved file used in carving wool and marble.

Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.

To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.

Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.

A soldier armed with a rifle.

One who rifles; a robber.

The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.

To burst open; to split.

A rafter.

To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.

A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France.

A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.

Growing stiff or numb.

One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.

Dress; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.

Like a rig or wanton.

The European lance fish.

To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.

A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.

Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.

Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.

Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.

Having a right heart or disposition.

Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.

Having a right or honest mind.

Straight; direct.

To do justice to.

Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.

Made righteous.

In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.

The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.

One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.

Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.

According to right or justice.

The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.

Destitute of right.

Straightly; directly; in front.

Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.

Toward the right.

To make righteous.

Righteously.

Righteousness.

Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.

The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.

In a rigid manner; stiffly.

The quality or state of being rigid.

Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.

See Reglet.

Consisting of rigmarole; frivolous; nonsensical; foolish.

A circle; hence, a diadem.

A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool.

A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.

The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.

One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.

Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.

See Legislature, Denmark.

A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.

A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

Same as Relief, n., 5.

To run a small stream.

One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

A little rill.

Roily.

To furnish with a rim; to border.

Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.

A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

To rhyme. See Rhyme.