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Rallentando
Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
Rap
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.
Ras
See 2d .
Rase
To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
Ratfish
Same as .
Rathripe
Rareripe, or early ripe.
Rathskeller
Orig., in Germany, the cellar or basement of the city hall, usually rented for use as a restaurant where beer is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served.
Rattoon
One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See .
Rawly
In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience.
Rayonnant
Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
Re
A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.
Ream
To cream; to mantle.
Reascension
The act of reascending; a remounting.
Reaume
Realm.
Reckoner
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.
Recognize
To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
Recorder
One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
Recrementitial
Of the nature of a recrement. See , 2 .
Redeye
The rudd.
Redress
To dress again.
Restablish
To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore;
Reflexibility
The quality or capability of being reflexible; .
Refresh
To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; .
Refulgent
Casting a bright light; radiant; brilliant; resplendent; shining; splendid; .
Regian
An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.
Regret
Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.
Reinstallment
A renewed installment.
Remediate
Remedial.
Remount
The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; .
Rendezvous
To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.
Rendible
Capable of being rent or torn.
Reng
A rank; a row.
Repel
To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.
Replevy
To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied.
Report
To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; .
Repositor
An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.
Reprobationer
One who believes in reprobation. See , 2.
Reproducer
One who, or that which, reproduces.
Repulseless
Not capable of being repulsed.
Resiant
Resident; present in a place.
Resiny
Like resin; resinous.
Resister
One who resists.
Resistibility
The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.
Retene
A white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. It is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.
Retrocopulant
Copulating backward, or from behind.
Reverent
Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; .
Rhapsoder
A rhapsodist.
Rhizostomata
A suborder of Medus which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See in Appendix.
Rig
To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
Rightless
Destitute of right.
Rimple
To rumple; to wrinkle.
Ripe
The bank of a river.
Risker
One who risks or hazards.
Riven
from .
Roaring forties
The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50 S.
Rolly-pooly
A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins.
Romanizer
One who Romanizes.
Romanza
See , 5.
Rooty
Full of roots; .
Rosemaloes
The liquid storax of the East Indian .
Rosinweed
The compass plant. See under .
Rotundo
See .
Rouche
See .
Roust
A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
Rowdydowdy
Uproarious.
Royalize
to make royal.
Rubian
One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.
Runaround
a delaying or evasive, and sometimes deceptive, answer to an inquiry or request.
Runcinate
Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.
Rusticated
Resembling rustic work. See , under .
Ruta-baga
A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See .