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Raceme
A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
Racemose
Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; .
Raffia
A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from the leaves of a palm tree of the genus .
Rafting
The business of making or managing rafts.
Raiment
Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.
Ramblingly
In a rambling manner.
Rampart
To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Ranch
A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See , 2.
Rareripe
Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
Ratten
To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; .
Reach
To stretch out the hand.
Readdress
To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.
Rear
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
Receiptor
One who receipts; specifically , one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.
Recensionist
One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.
Redistrainer
One who distrains again.
Redoubt
A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.
Reeding
A small convex molding; a reed (see of ); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of .
Remerge
To emerge again.
Refective
Refreshing; restoring.
Refrigerant
Cooling; allaying heat or fever.
Regal
A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Regimentally
In or by a regiment or regiments; .
Relievable
Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief.
Reluct
To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.
Remember
To have (a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
Reneye
To deny; to reject; to renounce.
Replevin
To replevy.
Repone
To replace.
Report
That which is reported.
Representation
The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
Reprint
A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.
Reprize
See .
Researchful
Making researches; inquisitive.
Reseize
To seize again, or a second time.
Resell
To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.
Reservee
One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with .
Resinousness
The quality of being resinous.
Resort
To go; to repair; to betake one's self.
Retchless
Careless; reckless.
Retene
A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.
Reverentially
In a reverential manner.
Reverseless
Irreversible.
Revigorate
Having new vigor or strength; invigorated anew.
Revolt
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
Rhachidian
Of or pertaining to the rhachis; .
Rhamphotheca
The horny covering of the bill of birds.
Rhinoscleroma
A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.
Rhodium
A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse. Symbol Rh. Atomic weight 104.1. Specific gravity 12.
Rhodocrinite
A rose encrinite.
Ribauld
A ribald.
Ringbird
The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also .
Rip
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; ; -- commonly used with , , .
Ripple
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.
Rivaless
A female rival.
Rix-dollar
A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See , , and .
Roarer
One who, or that which, roars.
Rob
To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
Robert
See , under .
Roil
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; , in casks or bottles; to a spring.
Rolling
Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; .
Rondle
A rondeau.
Rotiform
Wheel-shaped; .
Rouche
See .
Rough
Boisterous weather.
Roughings
Rowen.
Rounceval
A giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also .
Rud
Redness; blush.
Rugging
A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.
Ruinate
To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.
Rummage
A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written .
Rumney
A sort of Spanish wine.
Run-in
An argument or quarrel.
Runnel
A rivulet or small brook.
Rustic
Of or pertaining to the country; rural; .