Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 12

Ratter (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.

Ratter (n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.

Rattinet (n.) A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.

Ratting (n.) The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1.

Ratting (v. i.) The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.

Rattled (imp. & p. p.) of Rattle

Rattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rattle

Rattle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

Rattle (v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.

Rattle (v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.

Rattle (v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

Rattle (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

Rattle (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

Rattle (v. t.) To scold; to rail at.

Rattle (n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.

Rattle (n.) Noisy, rapid talk.

Rattle (n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.

Rattle (n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

Rattle (n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

Rattle (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

Rattle (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.

Rattlebox (n.) A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle.

Rattlebox (n.) An American herb (Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.

Rattlebox (n.) Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.

Rattle-brained (a.) Giddy; rattle-headed.

Rattlehead (n.) An empty, noisy talker.

Rattle-headed (a.) Noisy; giddy; unsteady.

Rattlemouse (n.) A bat.

Rattlepate (n.) A rattlehead.

Rattle-pated (a.) Rattle-headed.

Rattler (n.) One who, or that which, rattles.

Rattlesnake (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.

Rattletrap (n.) Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly.

Rattleweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.

Rattlewings (n.) The golden-eye.

Rattlewort (n.) Same as Rattlebox.

Rattlings (n. pl.) Ratlines.

Rattoon (n.) One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.

Rattooned (imp. & p. p.) of Rattoon

Rattooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rattoon

Rattoon (v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting.

Raucid (a.) Hoarse; raucous.

Raucity (n.) Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.

Raucous (a.) Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.

Raught () imp. & p. p. of Reach.

Raught () imp. & p. p. of Reck.

Raunch (v. t.) See Ranch.

Raunsoun (n.) Ransom.

Ravage (n.) Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.

Ravaged (imp. & p. p.) of Ravage

Ravaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravage

Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.

Ravager (n.) One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.

Rave () imp. of Rive.

Rave (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.

Raved (imp. & p. p.) of Rave

Raving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rave

Rave (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.

Rave (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.

Rave (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.

Rave (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.

Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.

Raveled (imp. & p. p.) of Ravel

Ravelled () of Ravel

Raveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravel

Ravelling () of Ravel

Ravel (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.

Ravel (v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.

Ravel (v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.

Ravel (v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.

Ravel (v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.

Ravel (v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.

Raveler (n.) One who ravels.

Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.

Raveling (n.) The act of untwisting or of disentangling.

Raveling (n.) That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.

Raven (n.) A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.

Raven (a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.

Raven (n.) Rapine; rapacity.

Raven (n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Ravened (imp. & p. p.) of Raven

Ravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raven

Raven (v. t.) To obtain or seize by violence.

Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.

Raven (v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.

Ravenala (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.

Ravener (n.) One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.

Ravener (n.) A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture.

Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

Ravening (a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.

Ravenous (a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

Ravenous (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.

Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth.

Raver (n.) One who raves.

Ravin (a.) Ravenous.

Ravin (n.) Alt. of Ravine

Ravine (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.

Ravin (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Ravine

Ravine (v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i.

Ravine (n.) A torrent of water.

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