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.

See Irrigation.

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.

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.

A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

To compose in rhyme; to versify.

An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer.

Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.

In a rimose manner.

State of being rimose.

Rimose.

To rumple; to wrinkle.

Abounding with rime; frosty.

An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, or the like.

To remove the rind of; to bark.

A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

A small water course or gutter.

Destitute of a rind.

Having a rind or skin.

See Rind.

Having a rind