Rapturist (n.) An enthusiast.
Rapturize (v. t. & i.) To put, or be put, in a state of rapture.
Rapturous (a.) Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.
Rapturously (adv.) In a rapturous manner.
Rare (a.) Early.
Rare (superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
Rare (superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
Rare (superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
Rare (superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
Rare (superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
Rarebit (n.) A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.
Raree-show (n.) A show carried about in a box; a peep show.
Rarefaction (n.) The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.
Rarefiable (a.) Capable of being rarefied.
Rarefied (imp. & p. p.) of Rarefy
Rarefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rarefy
Rarefy (v. t.) To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
Rarefy (v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.
Rarely (adv.) In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen.
Rarely (adv.) Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2.
Rareness (n.) The state or quality of being rare.
Rareripe (a.) Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
Rareripe (n.) An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
Rarification (n.) See Rarefaction.
Rarities (pl. ) of Rarity
Rarity (n.) The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.
Rarity (n.) That which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity.
Ras (n.) See 2d Reis.
Rasante (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.
Rascal (v.) One of the rabble; a low, common sort of person or creature; collectively, the rabble; the common herd; also, a lean, ill-conditioned beast, esp. a deer.
Rascal (v.) A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
Rascal (a.) Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base.
Rascaldom (n.) State of being a rascal; rascality; domain of rascals; rascals, collectively.
Rascaless (n.) A female rascal.
Rascalities (pl. ) of Rascality
Rascality (n.) The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.
Rascality (n.) The poorer and lower classes of people.
Rascallion (n.) A low, mean wretch.
Rascally (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty.
Rased (imp. & p. p.) of Rase
Rasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rase
Rase (v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
Rase (v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
Rase (v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
Rase (v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
Rase (n.) A scratching out, or erasure.
Rase (n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
Rase (n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
Rash (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
Rash (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
Rash (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
Rash (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
Rash (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
Rash (superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
Rash (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
Rash (superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
Rash (superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
Rash (v. t.) To prepare with haste.
Rasher (n.) A thin slice of bacon.
Rasher (n.) A California rockfish (Sebastichthys miniatus).
Rashful (a.) Rash; hasty; precipitate.
Rashling (n.) A rash person.
Rashly (adv.) In a rash manner; with precipitation.
Rashness (n.) The quality or state of being rash.
Raskolnik (n.) One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia.
Rasores (v. t.) An order of birds; the Gallinae.
Rasorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.
Rasour (n.) Razor.
Rasped (imp. & p. p.) of Rasp
Rasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rasp
Rasp (v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
Rasp (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.
Rasp (v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
Rasp (v.) The raspberry.
Raspatorium (n.) See Raspatory.
Raspatory (v.) A surgeon's rasp.
Raspberry (n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
Raspberry (n.) The shrub bearing this fruit.
Rasper (n.) One who, or that which, rasps; a scraper.
Raspis (n.) The raspberry.
Raspy (a.) Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.
Rasse (n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.
Rasure (v.) The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
Rasure (v.) A mark by which a letter, word, or any part of a writing or print, is erased, effaced, or obliterated; an erasure.
Rat (n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.
Rat (n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
Rat (n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.
Ratted (imp. & p. p.) of Rat
Ratting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rat
Rat (v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
Rat (v. i.) To catch or kill rats.
Rata (n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.
Ratability (n.) The quality or state of being ratable.
Ratable (a.) Capable of being rated, or set at a certain value.
Ratable (a.) Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.
Ratable (a.) Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.
Ratafia (n.) A spirituous liquor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, cura/ao, etc.
Ratan (n.) See Rattan.
Ratany (n.) Same as Rhatany.
Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.