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.

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.

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

Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.

To rise in the air spirally.

Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.

Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.

Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.

The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.

The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.

An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones.

A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.

Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.

Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.

A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.

a n. from Ring, v.

In a ringing manner.

The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.

The ringed dotterel, or ring plover.

A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.

The ring finger.

One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.

Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus Aegialitis, having a ring around the neck. The ring is black in summer, but becomes brown or gray in winter. The semipalmated plover (Aegialitis semipalmata) and the piping plover (Aegialitis meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.

See Ringtail, 2.

Ring-streaked.

A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.

A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.

A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).

The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

One who skates at a rink.