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Ramage

RAM'AGE, noun [Latin ramus, a branch.]

1. Branches of trees. [Not in use.]

2. The warbling of birds sitting on boughs.

3. [See Rummage.]

Ramble

RAM'BLE, verb intransitive

1. To rove; to wander; to walk, ride or sail from place to place, without any determinate object in view; or to visit many places; to rove carelessly or irregularly; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the country.

Never ask leave to go abroad, for you will be thought an idle rambling fellow.

2. To go at large without restraint and without direction.

3. To move without certain direction.

O're his ample sides, the rambling sprays luxuriant shoot.

RAM'BLE, noun a roving; a wandering; a going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an irregular excursion.

Coming home after a short Christmas ramble I found a letter upon my table.

Rambler

RAM'BLER, noun One that rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

Rambling

RAM'BLING, participle present tense Roving; wandering; moving or going irregularly.

RAM'BLING, noun A roving; irregular excursion.

Rambooze

RAM'BOOZE,

RAM'BUSE, noun a drink made of wine, ale, eggs and sugar in winter, or of wine, milk, sugar and rose water in summer.

Rambuse

RAM'BUSE, n. a drink made of wine, ale, eggs and sugar in winter, or of wine, milk, sugar and rose water in summer.

Ramekin

RAM'EKIN,

RAM'ENTS, noun [Latin ramenta, a chip.]

1. Scrapings; shavings; . [Not used.]

2. In botany, loose scales on the stems of plants.

Rameous

RA'MEOUS, adjective [Latin ramus, a branch.] In botany, belonging to a branch; growing on or shooting from a branch.

Ramequins

RAM'EQUINS, noun In cookery, small slices of bread covered with a farce of cheese and eggs.

Ramification

RAMIFICA'TION, noun [Latin ramus, a branch.]

1. The process of branching or shooting branches from a stem.

2. A branch; a small division proceeding from a main stock or channel; as the ramifications of a family; the ramifications of an artery.

3. A division or subdivision; as the ramifications of a subject or scheme.

4. In botany, the manner in which a tree produces its branches or boughs.

5. The production of figures resembling branches.

Ramified

RAM'IFIED, participle passive divided into branches.

Ramify

RAM'IFY, verb transitive [Latin ramus, a branch, and facio, to make.]

To divide into branches or parts; as, to ramify an art, a subject or scheme.

RAM'IFY, verb intransitive

1. To shoot into branches, as the stem of a plant.

When the asparagus begins to ramify -

2. To be divided or subdivided; as a main subject or scheme.

Ramifying

RAM'IFYING, participle present tense shooting into branches or divisions.

Ramish

RAM'ISH, adjective

Rank; strong scented.

Ramishness

RAM'ISHNESS, noun [from ram.] Rankness; a strong scent.

Rammed

RAM'MED, participle passive [See Ram.] Driven forcibly.

Rammer

RAM'MER, noun

1. One that rams or drives.

2. An instrument for driving any thing with force; as a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.

3. A gun-stick; a ramrod; a rod for forcing down the charge of a gun.

Ramming

RAM'MING, participle present tense Driving with force.

Ramoon

RAMOON', noun A tree of America.

Ramous

RA'MOUS, adjective [Latin ramosus, from ramus, a branch.]

1. In botany, branched, as a stem or root; having lateral divisions.

2. Branchy; consisting of branches; full of branches.

Ramp

RAMP, verb intransitive [See Ramble and Romance.]

1. To climb, as a plant; to creep up.

Plants furnished with tendrils catch hold, and so ramping on trees, they mount to a great height.

2. To spring; to leap; to bound; to prance; to frolic.

Their bridles they would champ - and trampling the fine element, would fiercely ramp

Sporting the lion ramp'd.

[In the latter sense, the word is usually written and pronounced romp; the word being originally pronounced with a broad.]

RAMP, noun A leap; a spring; a bound.

Rampallian

RAMPAL'LIAN, noun A mean wretch. [Not in use.]

Rampancy

RAMP'ANCY, noun [from rampant.] Excessive growth or practice; excessive prevalence; exuberance; extravagance; as the rampancy of vice.

Rampant

RAMP'ANT, adjective [See Ramp and Ramble.]

1. Overgrowing the usual bounds; rank in growth; exuberant; as rampant weeds.

2. Overleaping restraint; as rampant vice.

3. In heraldry, applied to the lion, leopard or other beast, rampant denotes the animal reared and standing on his hind legs, in the posture of climbing. It differs from saliant, which indicates the posture of springing or making a sally.

The lion rampant shakes his brinded mane.

Rampart

RAM'PART, noun [Hence we see rampart is from Latin reparo; re and paro. See Parry and Repair.]

1. In fortification, an elevation or mound of earth round a place, capable of resisting cannon shot, and formed into bastions, curtains, etc.

No standards from the hostile ramparts torn.

2. That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety.

RAM'PART, verb transitive To fortify with ramparts. [Not in use.]

Rampion

RAM'PION, noun [from ramp.] The name of several plants; as the common esculent rampion a species of Campanula; the crested rampion a species of Lobelia; the horned rampion a species of Phyteuma.

Rampire

RAMP'IRE, noun The same as rampart; but obsolete.

Ramsons

RAM'SONS, noun A plant, a species of Allium.

Ran

RAN, the preterit tense of run. In old writers, open robbery.

Rancescent

RANCES'CENT, adjective [Latin ranceo, to be rank.] Becoming rancid or sour.

Ranch

RANCH, verb transitive [corrupted from wrench.] To sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion. [Not used.]

Rancid

RAN'CID, adjective [Latin rancidus, from ranceo, to be rank. This is the Eng. rank, luxuriant in growth.]

Having a rank smell; strong scented; sour; musty; as rancid oil.

Rancidity

RANCID'ITY,

RAN'CIDNESS, noun The quality of being rancid; a strong, sour scent, as of old oil.

The rancidity of oils may be analogous to the oxidation of metals.

Rancidness

RAN'CIDNESS, n. The quality of being rancid; a strong, sour scent, as of old oil. The rancidity of oils may be analogous to the oxidation of metals.

Rancor

RAN'COR, noun [Latin from ranceo, to be rank.]

1. The deepest malignity or spite; deep seated and implacable malice; inveterate enmity. [This is the strongest term for enmity which the English language supplies.]

It issues from the rancor of a villain.

2. Virulence; corruption.

Rancorous

RAN'COROUS, adjective Deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.

So flam'd his eyes with rage and ranc'rous ire.

Rancorous opposition to the gospel of Christ.

Rancorously

RAN'COROUSLY, adverb With deep malignity or spiteful malice.

Rand

RAND, noun

A border; edge; margin; as the rand of a shoe.

Random

RAN'DOM, noun

1. A roving motion or course without direction; hence, want of direction, rule or method; hazard; chance; used in the phrase, at random that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.

2. Course; motion; progression; distance of a body thrown; as the furthest random of a missile weapon.

RAN'DOM, adjective

1. Done at hazard or without settled aim or purpose; left to chance; as a random blow.

2. Uttered or done without previous calculation; as a random guess.

Random-Shot

RAN'DOM-SHOT, noun A shot not directed to a point, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun elevated above a horizontal line.

Randy

RAN'DY, adjective Disorderly; riotous. [Not used or local.]

Rane

RANE,

RANEDEER, noun

A species of deer found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. He has large branched palmated horns, and travels with great speed. Among the Laplanders, he is a substitute for the horse, the cow, the goat and the sheep, as he furnishes food, clothing and the means of conveyance. This animal will draw a sled on the snow more than a hundred miles in a day.

Ranedeer

RANEDEER, n. A species of deer found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. He has large branched palmated horns, and travels with great speed. Among the Laplanders, he is a substitute for the horse, the cow, the goat and the sheep, as he furnishes food, clothing and the means of conveyance. This animal will draw a sled on the snow more than a hundred miles in a day.

Ranforce

RAN'FORCE, noun The ring of a gun next to the vent.

[I do not find this word in modern books.]

Range

RANGE, verb transitive

1. To set in a row or in rows; to place in a regular line, lines or ranks; to dispose in the proper order; as, to range troops in a body; to range men or ships in the order of battle.

2. To dispose in proper classes, orders or divisions; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

3. To dispose in a proper manner; to place in regular method; in a general sense. range and arrange are used indifferently in the same sense.

4. To rove over; to pass over.

Teach him to range the ditch and force the brake.

[This use is elliptical, over being omitted.]

5. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast, that is, along the coast.

RANGE, verb intransitive

1. To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction.

As a roaring lion and a ranging bear. Proverbs 28:1.

2. To be placed in order; to be ranked.

'Tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content -

[In this sense, rank is now used.]

3. To lie in a particular direction.

Which way thy forests range -

We say, the front of a house ranges with the line of the street.

4. To sail or pass near or in the direction of; as, to range along the coast.

RANGE, noun [See Rank.]

1. A row; a rank; things in a line; as a range of buildings; a range of mountains; ranges of colors.

2. A class; an order.

The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences -

3. A wandering or roving; excursion.

He may take a range all the world over.

4. Space or room for excursion.

A man has not enough range of thought -

5. Compass or extent of excursion; space taken in by any thing extended or ranked in order; as the range of Newton's thought. No philosopher has embraced a wider range

Far as creation's ample range extends.

6. The step of a ladder. [Corrupted in popular language to rung.]

7. A kitchen grate.

8. A bolting sieve to sift meal.

9. In gunnery, the path of a bullet or bomb, or the line it describes from the mouth of the piece to the point where it lodges; or the whole distance which it passes. When a cannon lies horizontally, it is called the right level, or point blank range; when the muzzle is elevated to 45 degrees, it is called the utmost range To this may be added the ricochet, the rolling or bounding shot, with the piece elevated from three to six degrees.

Ranged

RANGED, participle passive Disposed in a row or line; placed in order; passed in roving placed in a particular direction.

Ranger

RANGER, noun

1. One that ranges; a rover; a robber. [Now little used.]

2. A dog that beats the ground.

3. In England, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business is to walk through the forest, watch the deer, present trespasses, etc.

Rangership

RANGERSHIP, noun The office of the keeper of a forest or park.

Ranging

RANGING, participle present tense Placing in a row or line; disposing in order, method or classes; roving; passing near and in the direction of.

RANGING, noun The act of placing in lines or in order; a roving, etc.

Rank

RANK, noun [Heb.]

1. A row or line, applied to troops; a line of men standing abreast or side by side, and as opposed to file, a line running the length of a company, battalion or regiment. Keep your ranks; dress your ranks.

Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds in ranks and squadrons and right form of war.

2. Ranks, in the plural, the order of common soldiers; as, to reduce an officer to the ranks.

3. A row; a line of things, or things in a line; as a rank of osiers.

4. Degree; grade; in military affairs; as the rank of captain, colonel or general; the rank of vice-admiral.

5. Degree of elevation in civil life or station; the order of elevation or of subordination. We say, all ranks and orders of men; every man's dress and behavior should correspond with his rank; the highest and the lowest ranks of men or of other intelligent beings.

6. Class; order; division; any portion or number of things to which place, degree or order is assigned. Profligate men, by their vices, sometimes degrade themselves to the rank of brutes.

7. Degree of dignity, eminence or excellence; as a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.

These are all virtues of a meaner rank.

8. Dignity; high place or degree in the orders of men; as a man of rank.

Rank and file, the order of common soldiers. Ten officers and three hundred rank and file fell in the action.

To fill the ranks, to supply the whole number, or a competent number.

To take rank, to enjoy precedence, or to have the right of taking a higher place. In Great Britain, the king's sons take rank of all the other nobles.

RANK, adjective [Latin rancidus, from ranceo, to smell strong. The primary sense of the root is to advance, to shoot forward, to grow luxuriantly, whence the sense of strong, vigorous.]

1. Luxuriant in growth; being of vigorous growth; as rank grass; rank weeds.

Seven ears came up upon one stalk, rank and good. Genesis 41:1.

2. Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, land is rank.

3. Strong scented; as rank smelling rue.

4. Rancid; musty; as oil of a rank smell.

5. Inflamed with venereal appetite.

6. Strong to the taste; high tasted.

Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.

7. Rampant; high grown; raised to a high degree; excessive; as rank pride; rank idolatry.

I do forgive thy rankest faults.

8. Gross; coarse.

9. Strong; clinching. Take rank hold. Hence,

10. Excessive; exceeding the actual value; as a rank modus in law.

To set rank, as the iron of a plane, to set it so as to take off a thick shaving.

RANK, verb transitive

1. To place abreast or in a line.

2. To place in a particular class, order or division.

Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.

Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.

3. To dispose methodically; to place in suitable order.

Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank your tribes?

Ranking all things under general and special heads.

RANK, verb intransitive

1. To be ranged; to be set or disposed; as in a particular degree, class, order or division.

Let that one article rank with the rest.

2. To be placed in a rank or ranks.

Go, rank in tribes, and quit the savage wood.

3. To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life. He ranks with a major. He ranks with the first class of poets. He ranks high in public estimation.

RANK, the old preterit tense of ring. [Nearly obsolete.]

Ranked

RANK'ED, participle passive Placed in a line; disposed in an order or class; arranged methodically.

Ranker

RANK'ER, noun One that disposes in ranks; one that arranges.

Ranking

RANK'ING, participle present tense Placing in ranks or lines; arranging; disposing in orders or classes; having a certain rank or grade.

Rankle

RANK'LE, verb intransitive [from rank.]

1. To grow more rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; as a rankling wound.

A malady that burns and rankles inward.

2. To become more violent; to be inflamed; to rage; as rankling malice; rankling envy. Jealousy rankles in the breast.

Rankly

RANK'LY, adverb

1. With vigorous growth; as, grass or weeks grow rankly

2. Coarsely; grossly.

Rankness

RANK'NESS, noun

1. Vigorous growth; luxuriance; exuberance; as the rankness of plants or herbage.

2. Exuberance; excess; extravagance; as the rankness of pride; the rankness of joy.

3. Extraordinary strength.

The crane's pride is in the rankness of her wing.

4. Strong taste; as the rankness of flesh or fish.

5. Rancidness; rank smell; as the rankness of oil.

6. Excessiveness; as the rankness of a composition or modus.

Ranny

RAN'NY, noun The shrew-mouse.

Ransack

RAN'SACK, verb transitive [Eng. rand, and ran is rapine. The last syllable coincides with the English verb to sack, to pillage.]

1. To plunder; to pillage completely; to strip by plundering; as, to ransack a house or city.

Their vow is made to ransack Troy.

2. To search thoroughly; to enter and search every place or part. It seems often to convey the sense of opening doors and parcels, and turning over things in search; as, to ransack files of papers.

I ransack the several caverns.

3. To violate; to ravish; to deflower; as ransacked chastity. [Not in use.]

Ransacked

RAN'SACKED, participle passive Pillaged; search narrowly.

Ransacking

RAN'SACKING, participle present tense Pillaging; searching narrowly.

Ransom

RAN'SOM, noun

1. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner or slave, or for goods captured by an enemy; that which procures the release of a prisoner or captive, or of captured property, and restores the one to liberty and the other to the original owner.

By his captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty, Richard was hindered from pursuing the conquest of Ireland.

2. Release from captivity, bondage or the possession of an enemy. They were unable to procure the ransom of the prisoners.

3. In law, a sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; or a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.

4. In Scripture, the price paid for a forfeited life, or for delivery or release from capital punishment.

Then he shall give for the ransom of his life, whatever is laid upon him. Exodus 21:30.

5. The price paid for procuring the pardon of sins and the redemption of the sinner from punishment.

Deliver him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom Job 33:24.

The Son of man came - to give his life a ransom for many. Matthew 20:28. Mark 10:45.

RAN'SOM, verb transitive

1. To redeem from captivity or punishment by paying an equivalent; applied to persons; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.

2. To redeem from the possession of an enemy by paying a price deemed equivalent; applied to goods or property.

3. In Scripture, to redeem from the bondage of sin, and from the punishment to which sinners are subjected by the divine law.

The ransomed of the Lord shall return. Isaiah 35:10.

4. To rescue; to deliver. Hosea 13.

Ransomed

RAN'SOMED, participle passive Redeemed or rescued from captivity, bondage or punishment by the payment of an equivalent.

Ransomer

RAN'SOMER, noun One that redeems.

Ransoming

RAN'SOMING, participle present tense Redeeming from captivity, bondage or punishment by giving satisfaction to the possessor; rescuing; liberating.

Ransomless

RAN'SOMLESS, adjective Free from ransom.

RANK, verb intransitive [Heb.]

To rave in violent, high sounding or extravagant language, without correspondent dignity of thought; to be noisy and boisterous in words or declamation; as a ranting preacher.

Look where my ranking host of the garter comes.

RANK, noun High sounding language without dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; as the rant of fanatics.

This is stoical rant, without any foundation in the nature of man, or reason of things.

Ranter

RANT'ER, noun A noisy talker; a boisterous preacher.

Ranting

RANT'ING, participle present tense Uttering high sounding words without solid sense; declaiming or preaching with boisterous empty words.

Rantipole

RANT'IPOLE, adjective [from rant.] Wild; roving; rakish. [A low word.]

RANT'IPOLE, verb intransitive To run about wildly. [Low.]

Rantism

RANT'ISM, noun The practice or tenets of ranters.

Ranty

RANT'Y, adjective Wild; noisy; boisterous.

Ranula

RAN'ULA, noun [Latin rana, a frog; dim. a little frog.]

A swelling under the tongue, similar to the encysted tumors in different parts of the body.

Ranunculus

RANUN'CULUS, noun [Latin from rana, a frog.]

In botany, crowfoot, a genus of plants of many species, some of them beautiful flowering plants, particularly the Asiatic, or Turkey and Persian ranunculus which is diversified with many rich colors.

Rap

RAP, verb intransitive [Latin rapio, rapidus, rapid.]

To strike with a quick sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

RAP, verb transitive To strike with a quick blow; to knock.

with one great peal they rap the door.

To rap out, to utter with sudden violence; as, to rap out an oath. [In the popular language of the United States, it is often pronounced rip, to rip out an oath; Latin crepo.]

RAP, verb transitive

1. 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.

I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.

RAPt into future times the bar begun.

2. To snatch or hurry away.

And rapt with whirling wheels.

RAPt in a chariot drawn by fiery steeds.

3. To seize by violence.

4. To exchange; to truck. [Low and not used.]

To rap and rend, to seize and tear or strip; to fall on and plunder; to snatch by violence. They brought off all they could rap and rend. [See Rend.]

RAP, noun a quick smart blow; as a rap on the knuckles.

Rapacious

RAPA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin rapax, from rapio, to seize. See Rap.]

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force; as a rapacious enemy.

Well may thy lord, appeas'd redeem thee quite from death's rapacious claim.

2. Accustomed to seize for food; subsisting on prey or animals seized by violence; as a rapacious tiger; a rapacious fowl.

Rapaciously

RAPA'CIOUSLY, adverb By rapine; by violent robbery or seizure.

Rapaciousness

RAPA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being rapacious; disposition to plunder or to exact by oppression.

Rapacity

RAPAC'ITY, noun [Latin rapacitas, from rapax, rapio.]

1. Addictedness to plunder; the exercise of plunder; the act or practice of seizing by force; as the rapacity of a conquering army; the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of a Turkish pashaw; the rapacity of extortioners.

2. Ravenousness; as the rapacity of animals.

3. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice.

Rape

RAPE, noun [Latin rapio, raptus. See Rap.]

1. In a general sense, a seizing by violence; also, a seizing and carrying away by force, as females.

2. In law, the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will.

3. Privation; the act of seizing or taking away.

And ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.

4. something taken or seized and carried away.

Where now are all my hopes? oh, never more shall they revive, nor death her rapes restore.

5. Fruit plucked from the cluster.

6. A division of a county in Sussex, in England; or an intermediate division between a hundred and a shire, and containing three or four hundreds.

RAPE, noun [Latin rapa, Gr.]

A plant of the genus Brassica, called also cole-rape and cole-seed, and of which the navew or French turnip is a variety.

The broom-rape is of the genus Orobanche.

Raperoot

RA'PEROOT. [See Rape.]

Rapeseed

RA'PESEED, noun The seed of the rape, from which oil is expressed.

Rapid

RAP'ID, adjective [Latin rapidus, from rapio, the primary sense of which is to rush.]

1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; as a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.

Part shun the goal with rapid wheels.

2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; as rapid growth; rapid improvement.

3. Of quick utterance of words; as a rapid speaker.

Rapidity

RAPID'ITY, noun [Latin rapiditas.]

1. Swiftness; celerity; velocity; as the rapidity of a current; the rapidity of motion of any kind.

2. Haste in utterance; as the rapidity of speech or pronunciation.

3. Quickness of progression or advance; as rapidity of growth or improvement.

Rapidly

RAP'IDLY, adverb

1. With great speed, celerity or velocity; swiftly; with quick progression; as, to run rapidly; to grow or improve rapidly

2. With quick utterance; as, to speak rapidly

Rapidness

RAP'IDNESS, noun Swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity.

Rapids

RAP'IDS, noun plural The part of a river where the current moves with more celerity than the common current. rapids imply a considerable descent of the earth, but not sufficient to occasion a fall of the water, or what is called a cascade or cataract.

Rapier

RA'PIER, noun A small sword used only in thrusting.

Rapier-Fish

RA'PIER-FISH, noun The sword-fish.

Rapil

RAP'IL,

RAPIL'LO, noun Pulverized volcanic substances.

Rapillo

RAPIL'LO, n. Pulverized volcanic substances.

Rapine

RAP'INE, noun [Latin rapina; rapio, to seize.]

1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force.

2. Violence; force.

RAP'INE, verb transitive To plunder.

Rapparee

RAPPAREE', noun A wild Irish plunderer; so called from rapery, a half pike that he carries.

Rappee

RAPPEE', noun A coarse kind of snuff.

Rapper

RAP'PER, noun [from rap.]

1. One that raps or knocks.

2. The knocker of a door. [Not in common use.]

3. An oath or a lie. [Not in use.]

Rapport

RAP'PORT, noun Relation; proportion. [Not in use.]

Rapt

RAPT, participle passive [from rap.] Transported; ravished.

RAPT, verb transitive To transport or ravish. [Not legitimate or in use.]

RAPT, noun

1. An ecstasy; a trance.

2. Rapidity. [Not in use.]

Rapter

RAP'TER,

RAP'TOR, noun [Latin raptor.] A ravisher; a plunderer.

Raptor

RAP'TOR, n. [l. raptor.] A ravisher; a plunderer.

Rapture

RAP'TURE, noun [Latin raptus, rapio.]

1. A seizing by violence. [Little used.]

2. Transport; ecstasy; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure.

Music when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion and advances praise into rapture

3. Rapidity with violence; a hurrying along with velocity; as rolling with torrent rapture

4. Enthusiasm; uncommon heat of imagination.

You grow correct, that once with rapture writ.

Raptured

RAP'TURED, adjective Ravished; transported.

[But enraptured is generally used.]

Rapturist

RAP'TURIST, noun An enthusiast.

Rapturous

RAP'TUROUS, adjective Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; as rapturous joy, pleasure or delight.

Rare

RARE, adjective [Latin rarus, thin.]

1. Uncommon; not frequent; as a rare event; a rare phenomenon.

2. Unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.

RARE work, all fill'd with terror and delight.

Above the rest I judge one beauty rare

3. Thinly scattered.

4. Thin; porous; not dense; as a rare and attenuate substance.

Water is nineteen times lighter and by consequence nineteen times rarer than gold.

5. Nearly raw; imperfectly roasted or boiled; as rare beef or mutton; eggs roasted rare

Rareeshow

RA'REESHOW, noun [rare and show.] A show carried in a box.

Rarefaction

RAREFAC'TION, noun [See Rarefy.]

The act or process of expanding or distending bodies, by separating the parts and rendering the bodies more rare or porous, by which operation they appear under a larger bulk, or require more room, without an accession of new matter; opposed to condensation; as the rarefaction of air.

Rarefiable

RAR'EFIABLE, adjective Capable of being rarefied.

Rarefy

RAR'EFY, verb transitive [Latin rarefacio; rarus, rare, and facio, to make.]

To make thin and porous or less dense; to expand or enlarge a body without adding to it any new portion of its own matter; opposed to condense.

RAR'EFY, verb intransitive To become thin and porous.

Rarefying

RAR'EFYING, participle present tense Making thin or less dense.

Rarely

RA'RELY, adverb

1. Seldom; not often; as things rarely seen.

2. Finely; nicely. [little used.]

Rareness

RA'RENESS, noun

1. The state of being uncommon; uncommonness; infrequency.

And let the rareness the small gift commend.

2. Value arising from scarcity.

3. Thinness; tenuity; as the rareness of air or vapor.

4. Distance from each other; thinness.

Rareripe

RA'RERIPE, adjective

Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.

RA'RERIPE, noun An early fruit, particularly a kind of peach which ripens early.

Rarity

RAR'ITY, noun [Latin raritas.]

1. Uncommonness; infrequency.

Far from being fond of a flower for its rarity -

2. A thing valued for its scarcity.

I saw three rarities of different kinds, which pleased me more than any other shows in the place.

3. Thinness; tenuity; opposed to density; as the rarity of air.

Rascal

RAS'CAL, noun

A mean fellow; a scoundrel; in modern usage, a trickish dishonest fellow; a rogue; particularly applied to men and boys guilty of the lesser crimes, and indicating less enormity or guilt than villain.

I have sense to serve my turn in store, and he's a rascal who pretends to more.

RAS'CAL, adjective

1. Lean; as a rascal deer.

2. Mean; low.

Rascalion

RASCAL'ION, noun [from rascal.] A low mean wretch.

Rascality

RASCAL'ITY, noun

1. The low mean people.

2. Mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. [This is its sense in present usage in America.]

Rascally

RAS'CALLY, adjective

1. Meanly trickish or dishonest; vile.

2. Mean; vile; base; worthless; as a rascally porter.

Rase

RASE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin rasus, rado.]

1. To pass along the surface of a thing, with striking or rubbing it at the same time; to graze.

Might not the bullet which rased his cheek, have gone into his head? obsolete

2. To erase; to scratch or rub out; or to blot out; to cancel.

[In this sense, erase is generally used.]

3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to rase a city.

[In this sense, raze is generally used. This orthography, rase may therefore be considered as nearly obsolete; graze, erase and raze having superseded it.]

RASE, n

1. A cancel; erasure. [Not in use.]

2. A slight wound. [Not in use.]

Rash

RASH, adjective

1. Hasty in council or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution, and thus encountering unnecessary hazard; applied to persons; as a rash statesman or minister; a rash commander.

2. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as rash words; rash measures.

3. Requiring haste; urgent.

I have scarce leisure to salute you, my matter is so rash

4. Quick; sudden; as rash gunpowder. [Not in use.]

RASH, noun Corn so dry as to fall out with handling. [Local.]

RASH, noun

1. Satin.

2. An eruption or efflorescence on the body.

RASH, verb transitive To slice; to cut into pieces; to divide.

Rasher

RASH'ER, noun A thin slice of bacon; a thin cut.

Rashly

RASH'LY, adverb With precipitation; hastily; without due deliberation.

He that doth any thing rashly must do it willingly.

So rashly brave, to dare the sword of Theseus.

Rashness

RASH'NESS, noun

1. To much haste in resolving or in undertaking a measure; precipitation; inconsiderate readiness or promptness to decide or act, implying disregard of consequences or contempt of danger; applied to persons. The failure of enterprises is often owing to rashness

We offend by rashness which is an affirming or denying before we have sufficiently informed ourselves.

2. The quality of being uttered or done without due deliberation; as the rashness of words or of undertakings.

Rasp

R'ASP, noun [See Rase.]

1. A large rough file; a grater.

2. A raspberry, which see.

R'ASP, verb transitive [See Rase.]

To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

Raspatory

R'ASPATORY, noun A surgeon's rasp.

Raspberry

R'ASPBERRY, noun [from rasp, so named from the roughness of the brambles.]

The fruit of a bramble or species of rubus; a berry growing on a prickly plant; as the black raspberry; the red and the white raspberry

Raspberry-Bush

R'ASPBERRY-BUSH, noun The bramble producing raspberries.

Rasure

RA'SURE, noun s as z. [Latin rasura, from rado, rasus. See Rase.]

1. The act of scraping or shaving; the act of erasing.

2. The mark by which a letter, word or any part of a writing is erased, effaced or obliterated; an erasure.

Rat

RAT, noun [Probably named from gnawing, and from the root of Latin rodo.]

A small quadruped of the genus Mus, which infests houses, stores and ships; a troublesome race of animals.

To smell a rat to be suspicious, to be on the watch from suspicion; as a cat by the scent or noise of a rat

Ratable

RA'TABLE, adjective [from rate.]

1. That may be rated, or set at a certain value; as a Danish ore ratable at two marks.

2. Liable or subjected by law to taxation; as ratable estate.

Ratably

RA'TABLY, adverb By rate or proportion; proportionally.

Ratafia

RATAFIA, noun ratafee'. A fine spirituous liquor, prepared from the kernels of several kinds of fruits, particularly of cherries, apricots and peaches.

Ratan

RATAN', noun A small cane, the growth of India.

RAT'-CATCHER, noun One who makes it his business to catch rats.

Ratch

RATCH, noun In clock work, a sort of wheel having twelve fangs, which serve to lift the detents every hour and thereby cause the clock to strike.

Ratchet

RATCH'ET, noun In a watch, a small tooth at the bottom of the fusee or barrel, which stops it in winding up.

Ratchil

RATCH'IL, noun Among miners, fragments of stone.

Rate

RATE, noun [Latin ratus, reor, contracted from retor, redor, or resor. See Ratio and Reason.]

1. The proportion or standard by which quantity or value is adjusted; as silver valued at the rate of six shillings and eight pence the ounce.

The rate and standard of wit was different then from what it is in these days.

2. Price or amount stated or fixed on any thing. A king may purchase territory at too dear a rate The rate of interest is prescribed by law.

3. Settled allowance; as a daily rate of provisions. 2 Kings 25:30.

4. Degree; comparative height or value.

I am a spirit of no common rate

In this did his holiness and godliness apear above the rate and pitch of other men's, in that he was so infintely merciful.

5. Degree in which any thing is done. the ship sails at the rate of seven knots an hour.

Many of the horse could not march at that rate nor come lup soon enough.

6. Degree of value; price. Wheat in England is often sold at the rate of fifty shillings the quarter. wit may be purchased at too dear a rate

7. a tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; as parish rates; town rates; highway rates.

8. In the navy, the order or class of a ship, according to its magnitude or force. Ships of the first rate mount a hundred guns or upwards; those of the second rate carry from 90 to 98 guns; those of the third rate carry from 64 to 80 guns; those of the fourth rate from 50 to 60 guns; those of the fifth rate from 32 to 44 guns; those of the sixth rate from 20 to 30 guns. Those of the two latter rates are called frigates.

RATE, verb transitive

1. To set a certain value on; to value at a certain price or degree of excellence.

You seem not high enough your joys to rate

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we too frequently rate the performance by the man.

2. To fix the magnitude, force or order, as of ships. A ship is rated in the first class, or as a ship of the line.

RATE, verb intransitive

1. To be set or considered in a class, as a ship. The ship rates as a ship of the line.

2. To make an estimate.

RATE, verb transitive [See Read. It is probably allied to rattle, and perhaps to Latin rudo.]

To chide with vehemence; to reprove; to scold; to censure violently.

Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy.

An old lord of the council rated me the other day in the street about you, sir.

Rated

RA'TED, participle passive

1. Set at a certain value; estimated; set in a certain order or rank.

2. Chid; reproved.

Rater

RA'TER, noun One who sets a value on or makes an estimate.

Rath

RATH, noun A hill. obsolete

RATH, adjective [See Ready.]

Early; coming before others, or before the usual time.

Bring the rath primrose, that forsaken dies.

We sometimes see the word rath-ripe, early ripe; but it is obsolete or nearly so. In the United States, I believe it is not used at all.

Rather

RATH'ER, adverb [I would rather go, or sooner go. The use is taken from pushing or moving forward.] [Latin ante, before.] But he said, yea rather happy are they that hear the word of God and keep it. Luke 11:28]

1. More readily or willingly; with better liking; with preference or choice.

My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than life. Job 7:15.

Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:19. Psalms 84:10.

2. In preference; preferably; with better reason. Good is rather to be chosen than evil. See Acts 5:29.

3. In a greater degree than otherwise.

He sought throughout the world, but sought in vain, and no where finding, rather fear'd her slain.

4. More properly; more correctly speaking.

This is an art which does mend nature, change it rather; but the art itself is nature.

5. Noting some degree of contrariety in fact.

She was nothing better, but rather grew worse. Mark 5:26.

Matthew 27:24.

The rather especially; for better reason; for particular cause.

You are come to me in a happy time, the rather for I have some sport in hand.

Had rather is supposed to be a corruption of would rather

I had rather speak five words with my understanding - 1 Corinthians 14:19. This phrase may have been originally, 'I'd rather ' for I would rather and the contraction afterwards mistaken for had. Correct speakers and writers generally use would in all such phrases; I would rather I prefer; I desire in preference.

Rathoffite

RATH'OFFITE, noun A mineral brought from Sweden, of the garnet kind. Its color is a dingy brownish black, and it is accompanied with calcarious spar and small crystals of hornblend.

Ratification

RATIFICA'TION, noun

1. The act of ratifying; confirmation.

2. The act of giving sanction and validity to something done by another; as the ratification of a treaty by the senate of the United States.

Ratified

RAT'IFIED, participle passive Confirmed; sanctioned; made valid.

Ratifier

RAT'IFIER, noun He or that which ratifies or sanctions.

Ratify

RAT'IFY, verb transitive [Latin ratum facio, to make firm.]

1. To confirm; to establish; to settle.

We have ratified to them the borders of Judea.

2. To approve and sanction; to make valid; as, to ratify an agreement or treaty.

Ratifying

RAT'IFYING, participle present tense Confirming; establishing; approving and sanctioning.

Rating

RA'TING, participle present tense [from rate.]

1. Setting at a certain value; assigning rant to; estimating.

2. Chiding; reproving.

Ratio

RA'TIO, noun ra'sho. [Latin from ratus, reor, to think or suppose, to set, confirm or establish. Reor is contracted from redor or retor, and primarily signifies to throw, to thrust, hence to speak, to set in the mind, to think, like Latin suppono; and setting gives the sense of a fixed rate or rule. See Reason.]

Proportion, or the relation of homogeneous things which determines the quantity of one from the quantity of another, without the intervention of a third.

The relation which one quantity has to another of the same kind, as expressed by the quotient of the one divided by the other. Thus the ratio of 4 to 2 is 4/2, or 2; and the ratio of 5 to 6 is 5/6. This is geometrical ratio which is that signified when the term is used without distinction; but arithmetical ratio is the difference between two quantities. Thus the arithmetical ratio of 2 to 6 is 4.

Ratio respects magnitudes of the same kind only. One line may be compared with another line, but a line cannot be compared with a superficies, and hence between a line and a superficies there can be no ratio

Ratiocinate

RA'TIOCINATE, verb intransitive [Latin ratiocinor, from ratio, reason.] To reason; to argue. [Little used.]

Ratiocination

RATIOCINA'TION, noun [Latin ratiocinatio.] The act or process of reasoning, or of deducing consequences from premises. [See Reasoning.]

Ratiocinative

RATIOC'INATIVE, adjective Argumentative; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; as a ratiocinative process. [A bad word and little used.]

Ration

RA'TION, noun [Latin ratio, proportion.]

A portion or fixed allowance of provisions, drink and forage, assigned to each soldier in an army for his daily subsistence and for the subsistence of horses. Officers have several rations according to their rank or number of attendants. Seamen in the navy also have rations of certain articles.

Rational

RA'TIONAL, adjective [Latin rationalis.]

1. Having reason or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason; opposed to irrational; as, man is a rational being; brutes are not rational animals.

It is our glory and happiness to have a rational nature.

2. Agreeable to reason; opposed to absurd; as a rational conclusion or inference; rational conduct.

3. Agreeable to reason; not extravagant.

4. Acting in conformity to reason; wise; judicious; as a rational man.

RA'TIONAL, noun A rational being.

Rationale

RATIONA'LE, noun

1. A detail with reasons; a series of reasons assigned; as Dr. Sparrow's rationale of the Common Prayer.

2. An account or solution of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, etc.

Rationalist

RA'TIONALIST, noun One who proceeds in his disquisitions and practice wholly upon reason.