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Raconteur
A relater; a storyteller.
Racquet
See .
Rad
a unit of measurement of the amount of ionizing radiation absorbed by an object, equal to an energy of 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material (equal to 0.01 gray).
Raffle
To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by ; .
Raip
A rope; also, a measure equal to a rod.
Rampallian
A mean wretch.
Rancor
The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
Rand
To rant; to storm.
Rangy
Inclined or able to range, or rove about, for considerable distances; apt or suited for much roving, -- chiefly used of cattle.
Rattle-pated
Rattle-headed.
Ravel
To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by ;
React
To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; .
Read
To give advice or counsel.
Readjust
To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
Reascend
To rise, mount, or climb again.
Reascension
The act of reascending; a remounting.
Reattach
To attach again.
Rebel
One who rebels.
Recentness
Quality or state of being recent.
Receptive
Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; .
Recess
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; .
Reck
To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.
Recommendation
The act of recommending.
Recumbent
Leaning; reclining; lying; . Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.
Redback
The dunlin.
Redden
To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.
Redintegrate
Restored to wholeness or a perfect state; renewed.
Red-letter
Of or pertaining to a red letter; marked by red letters.
Redness
The quality or state of being red; red color.
Reeded
Civered with reeds; reedy.
Reference
The act of referring, or the state of being referred; .
Reflex
Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
Regius
Of or pertaining to a king; royal.
Reinforcement
See .
Reinsurance
Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.
Reissner's membrane
The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.
Relent
Stay; stop; delay.
Relumine
To light anew; to rekindle.
Remonetization
The act of remonetizing.
Repellent
Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Repone
To replace.
Repose
To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.
Reprinter
One who reprints.
Resalgar
Realgar.
Residenter
A resident.
Resin
Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see ).
Respirator
A divice of gauze or wire, covering the mouth or nose, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.
Restagnate
To stagnate; to cease to flow.
Retailment
The act of retailing.
Retiform
Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; .
Retiracy
Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.
Retrace
To trace back, as a line.
Retrench
To cut off; to pare away.
Retrim
To trim again.
Reversely
In a reverse manner; on the other hand; on the opposite.
Rhachis
The spine.
Rhe
A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.
Rheophore
A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
Rhynchophore
One of the Rhynchophora.
Ricochet
To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See ,
Rider
One who, or that which, rides.
Ridgeling
A half-castrated male animal.
Rip cord
A cord by which the gas bag of a balloon may be ripped open for a limited distance to release the gas quickly and so cause immediate descent.
Roadside
Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
Roccellic
Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the oxalic series found in archil (, etc.), and other lichens, and extracted as a white crystalline substance .
Romanize
To use Latin words and idioms.
Romant
A romaunt.
Romanticism
A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medival forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
Root
The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
Roscid
Containing, or consisting of, dew; dewy.
Rosedrop
A lozenge having a rose flavor.
Rosefish
A large marine scorpnoid food fish () found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also , , , and also, erroneously, , , and .
Roughcast
To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
Roughwork
To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, or finish.
Rowel
To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
Ruelle
A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.
Rundle
A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.
Runnel
A rivulet or small brook.