Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 70

Riptowel (n.) A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.

Ris (n.) A bough or branch; a twig.

Rose (imp.) of Rise

Risen (p. p.) of Rise

Rising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rise

Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

Rise (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.

Rise (v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

Rise (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

Rise (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

Rise (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

Rise (v.) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.

Rise (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction.

Rise (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.

Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

Rise (v.) To have the aspect or the effect of rising.

Rise (v.) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.

Rise (v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore.

Rise (v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.

Rise (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.

Rise (v.) To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.

Rise (v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.

Rise (v.) To become of higher value; to increase in price.

Rise (v.) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.

Rise (v.) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.

Rise (v.) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.

Rise (v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.

Rise (v.) In various figurative senses.

Rise (v.) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.

Rise (v.) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.

Rise (v.) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest.

Rise (v.) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.

Rise (v.) To come; to offer itself.

Rise (v.) To ascend from the grave; to come to life.

Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.

Rise (v.) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.

Rise (n.) The act of rising, or the state of being risen.

Rise (n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step.

Rise (n.) Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.

Rise (n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.

Rise (n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.

Rise (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.

Rise (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

Rise (n.) Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.

Rise (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

Risen () p. p. & a. from Rise.

Risen (p. p. & a.) Obs. imp. pl. of Rise.

Riser (n.) One who rises; as, an early riser.

Riser (n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread.

Riser (n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.

Riser (n.) A shaft excavated from below upward.

Riser (n.) A feed head. See under Feed, n.

Rish (n.) A rush (the plant).

Risibility (n.) The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species.

Risible (a.) Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.

Risible (a.) Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing.

Risible (a.) Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles.

Rising (a.) Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.

Rising (a.) Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.

Rising (a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.

Rising (prep.) More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age.

Rising (n.) The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).

Rising (n.) That which rises; a tumor; a boil.

Risk (n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.

Risk (n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.

Risked (imp. & p. p.) of Risk

Risking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Risk

Risk (n.) 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.

Risk (n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

Risker (n.) One who risks or hazards.

Riskful (a.) Risky.

Risky (a.) Attended with risk or danger; hazardous.

Risorial (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.

Risotto (n.) A kind of pottage.

Risse () imp. of Rise.

Rissoid (n.) Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidae, found both in fresh and salt water.

Rissole (n.) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

Rist () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.

Rit () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth.

Ritardando (a.) Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.

Rite (n.) 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.

Ritenuto (a.) Held back; holding back; ritardando.

Ritornelle (n.) Alt. of Ritornello

Ritornello (n.) A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song.

Ritornello (n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude.

Ritratto (n.) A picture.

Ritual (a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.

Ritual (n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.

Ritual (n.) Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.

Ritual (n.) A book containing the rites to be observed.

Ritualism (n.) A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.

Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.

Ritualist (n.) One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

Ritualistic (a.) Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.

Ritually (adv.) By rites, or by a particular rite.

Rivage (n.) A bank, shore, or coast.

Rivage (n.) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

Rival (n.) A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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