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Rabblement
A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble.
Rachis
The spine; the vertebral column.
Rackett
An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
Rai
The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also , and .
Rakeshame
A vile, dissolute wretch.
Rank
Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height;
Raphaelesque
Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
Rate
To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently; to berate.
razor-edged
having an edge as sharp as that of a razor; very sharp.
Reallege
To allege again.
Realty
Royalty.
Reclaimer
One who reclaims.
Recollet
Same as ,
Recolonization
A second or renewed colonization.
Reek
A rick.
Refective
Refreshing; restoring.
Refrication
A rubbing up afresh; a brightening.
Rehabilitate
To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law.
Reimbursement
The act reimbursing.
Reinfectious
Capable of reinfecting.
Remainder
Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant.
Remanent
Remaining; residual.
Remissly
In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
Remunerate
To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; .
Remunerative
Affording remuneration; .
Reordain
To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective.
Repent
To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
Reposeful
Full of repose; quiet.
Reproducer
One who, or that which, reproduces.
Repugnantly
In a repugnant manner.
Resiant
A resident.
Residuary
Consisting of residue; ; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; .
Resolute
Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
Resuscitative
Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.
Retentor
A muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. See of .
Reticulosa
Same as .
Revel
To draw back; to retract.
Reverse
That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.
Revigorate
Having new vigor or strength; invigorated anew.
Revulsive
That which causes revulsion; specifically , a revulsive remedy or agent.
Rhaphides
Minute transparent, often needle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants.
Rhonchisonant
Making a snorting noise; snorting.
Rhythmically
In a rhythmical manner.
Ridgingly
So as to form ridges.
Ridotto
To hold ridottos.
Rivel
To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; .
Rocaille
Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens.
Roody
Rank in growth.
Rooty
Full of roots; .
Rosicrucian
One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years.
Rosied
Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.
Ross
To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; .
Rostriform
Having the form of a beak.
Roughen
To make rough.
Round
Having every portion of the surface or of the circumference equally distant from the center; spherical; circular; having a form approaching a spherical or a circular shape; orbicular; globular; .
Roustabout
A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
Rower
One who rows with an oar.
Rubefacient
Making red.
Rubric
To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.
Ruffianish
Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
Rugging
A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.
Rule
That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; .
Rumple
A fold or plait; a wrinkle.
Run
To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
Rutic
Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (); .