Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 69

Ringmen (pl. ) of Ringman

Ringman (n.) The ring finger.

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

Ringneck (n.) 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 (Ae. semipalmata) and the piping plover (Ae. meloda) are common North American species. Called also ring plover, and ring-necked plover.

Ringneck (n.) The ring-necked duck.

Ring-necked (a.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.

Ringsail (n.) See Ringtail, 2.

Ringstraked (a.) Ring-streaked.

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

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

Ringtail (n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.

Ring-tailed (a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.

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

Ringworm (n.) 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).

Rink (n.) The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

Rink (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor.

Rinker (n.) One who skates at a rink.

Rinking (n.) Skating in a rink.

Rinsed (imp. & p. p.) of Rinse

Rinsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rinse

Rinse (v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.

Rinse (v. t.) To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.

Rinse (n.) The act of rinsing.

Rinser (n.) One who, or that which, rinses.

Riot (n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

Riot (n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.

Riot (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

Rioted (imp. & p. p.) of Riot

Rioting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riot

Riot (v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.

Riot (v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.

Riot (v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.

Rioter (n.) One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer.

Rioter (n.) One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3.

Riotise (n.) Excess; tumult; revelry.

Riotour (n.) A rioter.

Riotous (a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.

Riotous (a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.

Riotry (n.) The act or practice of rioting; riot.

Rip (n.) A wicker fish basket.

Ripped (imp. & p. p.) of Rip

Ripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rip

Rip (v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.

Rip (v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.

Rip (v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.

Rip (v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

Rip (n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

Rip (n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.

Rip (n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.

Riparian (a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.

Riparious (a.) Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.

Ripe (n.) The bank of a river.

Ripe (superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.

Ripe (superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.

Ripe (superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.

Ripe (superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.

Ripe (superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.

Ripe (superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

Ripe (superl.) Intoxicated.

Ripe (v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.

Ripe (v. t.) To mature; to ripen.

Ripely (adv.) Maturely; at the fit time.

Ripened (imp. & p. p.) of Ripen

Ripening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripen

Ripen (v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

Ripen (v. i.) To approach or come to perfection.

Ripen (v. t.) To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.

Ripen (v. t.) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.

Ripeness (n.) The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.

Ripidolite (n.) 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.

Ripienist (n.) A player in the ripieno portion of an orchestra. See Ripieno.

Ripieno (a.) Filling up; supplementary; supernumerary; -- a term applied to those instruments which only swell the mass or tutti of an orchestra, but are not obbligato.

Ripler (n.) Alt. of Ripper

Ripper (n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.

Ripost (n.) In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.

Ripost (n.) A quick and sharp refort; a repartee.

Ripper (n.) One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.

Ripper (n.) A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Ripper (n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.

Ripple (v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.

Ripple (v. t.) To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

Ripple (v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear.

Rippled (imp. & p. p.) of Ripple

Rippling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ripple

Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.

Ripple (v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

Ripple (v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.

Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.

Ripple (n.) A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.

Ripple (n.) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension.

Ripple (n.) the residual AC component in the DC current output from a rectifier, expressed as a percentage of the steady component of the current.

Ripple-marked (a.) Having ripple marks.

Ripplet (n.) A small ripple.

Ripplingly (adv.) In a rippling manner.

Ripply (a.) Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.

Riprap (n.) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom.

Riprapped (imp. & p. p.) of Riprap

Riprapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riprap

Riprap (v. t.) To form a riprap in or upon.

Ripsaw (v. t.) A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw.

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