One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
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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.
Skating in a rink.
The act of rinsing.
One who, or that which, rinses.
To spend or pass in riot.
One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer.
Excess; tumult; revelry.
A rioter.
Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
The act or practice of rioting; riot.
A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.
Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
To mature; to ripen.
Maturely; at the fit time.
To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.
A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore.
A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.
Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.
In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.
One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
Having ripple marks.
A small ripple.
In a rippling manner.
Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.
To form a riprap in or upon.
A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the grain (the fiber); -- called also ripping saw.
A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.
A bough or branch; a twig.
To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill.
p. p. a. from Rise.
One who rises; as, an early riser.
A rush (the plant).
The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species.
Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.
The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
One who risks or hazards.
Risky.
Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.
Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.
A kind of pottage.
Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqu/ story.
imp. of Rise.
Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water.
A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.
3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.
3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth.
Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.
The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.
Held back; holding back; ritardando.
A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song. A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude.
A picture.
A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.
A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.
One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.
Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
By rites, or by a particular rite.
A bank, shore, or coast.
To be in rivalry.
A female rival.
Rivalry; competition.
The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition.
Rivalry.
A place torn; a rent; a rift.
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