Rantingly (adv.) In a ranting manner.
Rantipole (n.) A wild, romping young person.
Rantipole (a.) Wild; roving; rakish.
Rantipole (v. i.) To act like a rantipole.
Rantism (n.) Ranterism.
Ranty (a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous.
Ranula (n.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.
Ranunculaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.
Ranunculuses (pl. ) of Ranunculus
Ranunculi (pl. ) of Ranunculus
Ranunculus (n.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.
Ranz des vaches () The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
Rap (n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Rapped (imp. & p. p.) of Rap
Rapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap
Rap (v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
Rap (v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
Rap (v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rap (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rapped (imp. & p. p.) of Rap
Rapt () of Rap
Rapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap
Rap (v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
Rap (v.) To hasten.
Rap (v.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
Rap (v.) To exchange; to truck.
Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Rapaces (n. pl.) Same as Accipitres.
Rapacious (a.) Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
Rapacious (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
Rapacity (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Raparee (n.) See Rapparee.
Rape (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
Rape (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
Rape (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rape (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
Rape (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Rape (n.) That which is snatched away.
Rape (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Rape (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
Rape (v. i.) To rob; to pillage.
Rape (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
Rape (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
Rapeful (a.) Violent.
Rapeful (a.) Given to the commission of rape.
Rapfully (adv.) Violently.
Raphaelesque (a.) Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
Raphaelism (n.) The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.
Raphaelite (n.) One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.
Raphany (n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.
Raphe (n.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.
Raphe (n.) Same as Rhaphe.
Raphides (n. pl.) See Rhaphides.
Rapid (a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Rapid (a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
Rapid (a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
Rapid (a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
Rapidity (n.) The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
Rapidly (adv.) In a rapid manner.
Rapidness (n.) Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
Rapier (n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
Rapiered (a.) Wearing a rapier.
Rapilli (n. pl.) Lapilli.
Rapine (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
Rapine (n.) Ravishment; rape.
Rapine (v. t.) To plunder.
Rapinous (a.) Given to rapine.
Rappage (n.) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.
Rapparee (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary.
Rapped () imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.
Rapped () imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rappee (v.) A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
Rappel (n.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Rapper (n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
Rapper (n.) A forcible oath or lie.
Rapport (n.) Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.
Rapscallion (n.) A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow.
Rapt () imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rapt (a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Rapt (a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
Rapt (a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
Rapt (a.) An ecstasy; a trance.
Rapt (a.) Rapidity.
Rapt (v. t.) To transport or ravish.
Rapt (v. t.) To carry away by force.
Rapter (n.) A raptor.
Raptor (n.) A ravisher; a plunderer.
Raptores (n. pl.) Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.
Raptorial (a.) Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.
Raptorial (a.) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.
Raptorial (a.) Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves.
Raptorious (a.) Raptorial.
Rapture (n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
Rapture (n.) The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
Rapture (n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Raptured (imp. & p. p.) of Rapture
Rapturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rapture
Rapture (v. t.) To transport with excitement; to enrapture.