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.

A wrinkle; a rimple.

p. p. a. from Rive.

To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.

A rivulet.

A rivulet.

The side or bank of a river.

Having rivers; as, a rivery country.

To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.

One who rivets.

The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.

A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, esp. one of several strings.

Marked with sinuate and irregular furrows.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet.

A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.

A brawl or quarrel.

A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold.

A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00.

To dry in the sun; as, rizzared haddock.

the symbol for the chemical element radon.

To cause to arch.

Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.

A journey, or stage of a journey.

In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.

The body of an animal killed by a vehicle on a road; as, it is illegal in most places for a restaurant to serve roadkill as food for people. Also used metaphorically; as, /roadkill on the information superhighway/ (a person or corporation defeated by others more expert at using the internet).

Destitute of roads.

One who makes roads.

Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

An anchorage off shore. Same as Road, 4.

A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.

A road; especially, the part traveled by vehicles.

The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill and dale.

One who roams; a wanderer.

The color of a roan horse; a roan color.

The sound of roaring. The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion. The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like. A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.

One who, or that which, roars. A riotous fellow; a roaring boy.

A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.

In a roaring manner.

Roasted; as, roast beef.

One who roasts meat.

a. n., from Roast, v.

To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.

Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidae, esp. the largest species (Oxylabrax undecimalis, syn. Centropomus undecimalis), a valuable food fish called also snook, the smaller species being called Rob`a*li"to (/).

See Roperand.

One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

The act or practice of robbing; theft.

See Ropeband.

To invest with a robe or robes; to dress; to array; as, fields robed with green.

A dressing gown, or morning gown.

See Herb Robert, under Herb.

A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.

A small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock. An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush. Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (Petroica mullticolor). Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See Indian robin, below.

The chaffinch; -- called also roberd. The European robin.

The act of putting on a robe.

A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).

The California white oak (Quercus lobata).

Strengthening. A strengthening medicine; a tonic.

To give strength or support to; to confirm.

The act of strengthening.

Made of oak.

Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

Robust.

In a robust manner.

The quality or state of being robust.

A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology.