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Rationality
RATIONAL'ITY, noun
1. The power of reasoning.
God has made rationality the common portion of mankind.
2. Reasonableness.
Well directed intentions, whose rationalities will not bear a rigid examination.
Rationally
RA'TIONALLY, adverb In consistency with reason; reasonably. We rationally expect every man will pursue his own happiness.
Rationalness
RA'TIONALNESS, noun The state of being rational or consistent with reason.
Ratlin
RAT'LIN,
RAT'LINE, noun A small line traversing the shrouds of a ship, making the step of a ladder for ascending to the mast-heads.
Ratline
RAT'LINE, n. A small line traversing the shrouds of a ship, making the step of a ladder for ascending to the mast-heads.
Ratoon
RATOON', noun
A sprout from the root of the sugar cane, which has been cut.
Ratsbane
RATS'BANE, noun [rat and bane.] Poison for rats; arsenic.
Ratsbaned
RATS'BANED, adjective Poisoned by ratsbane.
RAT'-TAIL, noun In farriery, an excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
Ratteen
RATTEEN', noun A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.
Rattinet
RATTINET', noun A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.
Rattle
RAT'TLE, verb intransitive
1. To make a quick sharp noise rapidly repeated, by the collision of bodies not very sonorous. When bodies are sonorous, it is called jingling. We say, the wheels rattle over the pavement.
And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms.
He fagoted his notions as they fell, and if they rhym'd and rattl'd, all was well.
2. To speak eagerly and noisily; to utter words in a clattering manner.
Thus turbulent in rattling tone she spoke.
He rattles it out against popery.
RAT'TLE, verb transitive
1. To cause to make a rattling sound or a rapid succession of sharp sounds; as, to rattle a chain.
2. To stun with noise; to drive with sharp sounds rapidly repeated.
Sound but another, and another shall, as loud as thine, rattle the welkin's ear.
3. To scold; to rail at clamorously; as, to rattle off servants sharply.
RAT'TLE, noun
1. A rapid succession of sharp clattering sounds; as the rattle of a drum.
2. A rapid succession of words sharply uttered; loud rapid talk; clamorous chiding.
3. An instrument with which a clattering sound is made.
The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.
The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy.
4. A plant of the genus Pedicularis, louse-wort.
Yellow rattle a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.
Rattle-Headed
RAT'TLE-HEADED, adjective Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
Rattlesnake
RAT'TLESNAKE, noun A snake that has rattles at the tail, of the genus Crotalus. The rattles consist of articulated horny cells, which the animal vibrates in such a manner as to make a rattling sound. The poison of the rattlesnake is deadly.
Rattlesnake-Root
RATTLESNAKE-ROOT, noun A plant or root of the genus Polygala, and another of the genus Prenanthes.
Rattlesnake-Weed
RATTLESNAKE-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Eryngium.
Rattling
RAT'TLING, participle present tense Making a quick succession of sharp sounds.
RAT'TLING, noun A rapid succession of sharp sounds.
Raucity
RAU'CITY, noun [Latin raucus, hoarse. Raucus is the Eng. rough, which see.]
1. Hoarseness; a loud rough sound; as the raucity of a trumpet.
2. Among physicians, hoarseness of the human voice.
Raucous
RAU'COUS, adjective Hoarse; harsh. [Not in use.]
Raught
RAUGHT, the old participle of reach. obsolete
Raunch
RAUNCH. [See Wrench.]
Ravage
RAV'AGE, noun [Latin rapio.]
1. Spoil; ruin; waste; destruction by violence, wither by men, beasts or physical causes; as the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army.
Would one think 'twene possible for love to make such ravage in a noble soul.
2. Waste; ruin; destruction by decay; as the ravages of time.
RAV'AGE, verb transitive
1. To spoil; to plunder; to pillage; to sack.
Already Cesar has ravag'd more than half the globe!
2. To lay waste by any violent force; as, a flood or inundation ravages the meadows.
The shatter'd forest and the ravag'd vale.
3. to waste or destroy by eating; as fields ravaged by swarms of locusts.
Ravaged
RAV'AGED, participle passive Wasted; destroyed; pillaged.
Ravager
RAV'AGER, noun a plunderer a spoiler; he or that which lays waste.
Ravaging
RAV'AGING, participle present tense Plundering; pillaging; laying waste.
Rave
RAVE, verb intransitive [Latin rabio, to rave to rage or be furious; rabies, rage.]
1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk irrationally; to be wild.
when men thus rave we may conclude their brains are turned.
2. To utter furious exclamations; to be furious or raging; as a madman.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
3. To dote; to be unreasonably fond; followed by upon; as, to rave upon antiquity. [Hardly proper.]
RAVE, noun the upper side-piece of timber of the body of a cart.
Ravel
RAVEL, verb transitive rav'l.
1. To entangle; to entwist together; to make intricate; to involve; to perplex.
What glory's due to him that could divide such ravel'd inte'rests, has the knot unty'd?
2. To untwist; to unweave or unknot; to disentangle; as, to ravel out a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
Sleep, that knits up the ravel'd sleeve of care.
3. to hurry or run over in confusion. [Not in use.]
RAVEL, verb intransitive rav'l.
1. To fall into perplexity and confusion.
Till by their own perplexities involv'd, they ravel more, still less resolv'd.
2. To work in perplexities; to busy one's self with intricacies; to enter by winding and turning.
It will be needless to ravel far into the records of elder times.
The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters - produced infinite diputes.
3. To be unwoven.
[As far as my observation extends, ravel in the United States, is used only in the second sense above, viz. to unweave, to separate the texture of that which is woven or knit; so that ravel and unravel are with us always synonymous. etymology proves this to be the true sense of the word ravel ]
Raveled
RAV'ELED, participle passive Twisted together; made intricate; disentangled.
Ravelin
RAV'ELIN, noun
In fortification, a detached work with two faces which make a salient angle, without any flanks, and raised before the counterscarp, of the place. In this it differs from a half moon, which is placed before an angle.
Raveling
RAV'ELING, participle present tense Twisting or weaving; untwisting; disentangling.
Raven
RAVEN, noun ra'ven. [Heb. from its color. But this may be Latin corvus, rapio.]
A large fowl of a black color, of the genus Corvus.
RAVEN, verb transitive rav'n.
1. To devour with great eagerness; to eat with voracity.
Our natures do pursue, like rats that raven down their proper bane, a thirsty evil, and when we drink, we die.
Like a roaring lion, ravening the prey. .
2. To obtain by violence.
RAVEN, verb intransitive rav'n. To prey with rapacity.
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. .
RAVEN, noun rav'n.
1. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
2. Rapine; rapacity.
Ravened
RAV'ENED, participle passive Devoured with voracity.
Ravener
RAV'ENER, noun One that ravens or plunders.
Ravening
RAV'ENING, participle present tense Preying with rapacity; voraciously devouring; as a ravening wolf.
RAV'ENING, noun Eagerness for plunder. .
Ravenous
RAV'ENOUS, adjective
1. Furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; devouring with rapacious eagerness; as a ravenous wolf, lion or vulture.
2. Eager for prey or gratification; as ravenous appetite or desire.
Ravenously
RAV'ENOUSLY, adverb With raging voracity.
Ravenousness
RAV'ENOUSNESS, noun Extreme voracity; rage for prey; as the ravenousness of a lion.
RAVEN'S DUCK, noun A species of sail cloth.
Raver
RA'VER, noun [from rave.] One that raves or is furious.
Ravet
RAV'ET, noun An insect shaped like a cock-chaffer, which infests the West Indies.
Ravin
RAVIN. [See raven.]
RAV'IN, adjective Ravenous. [Not in use.]
Ravine
RAV'INE, noun A long deep hollow worn by a stream or torrent of water; hence, any long deep hollow or pass through mountains, etc.
Raving
RA'VING, participle present tense or adjective Furious with delirium; mad; distracted.
Ravingly
RA'VINGLY, adverb With furious wildness or frenzy; with distraction.
Ravish
RAV'ISH, verb transitive [Latin rapio.]
1. To seize and carry away by violence.
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin, will quicken and accuse thee.
This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.
2. To have carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her consent. . .
3. To bear away with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy; to transport.
Thou hast ravished my heart. .
Ravished
RAV'ISHED, participle passive Snatched away by violence; forced to submit to carnal embrace; delighted to ecstasy.
Ravisher
RAV'ISHER, noun
1. One that takes by violence.
2. One that forces a woman to his carnal embrace.
3. One that transports with delight.
Ravishing
RAV'ISHING, participle present tense
1. Snatching or taking by violence; compelling to submit to carnal intercourse; delighting to ecstasy.
2. adjective Delighting to rapture; transporting.
RAV'ISHING, noun
1. A seizing and carrying away by violence.
2. Carnal knowledge by force against consent.
3. Ecstatic delight; transport.
Ravishingly
RAV'ISHINGLY, adverb To extremity of delight.
Ravishment
RAV'ISHMENT, noun
1. The act of forcing a woman to carnal connection; forcible violation of chastity.
2. Rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy; pleasing violence of the mind or senses.
All things joy with ravishment attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
3. The act of carrying away; abduction; as the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.
Raw
RAW, adjective [Latin crudus, rodo.]
1. Not altered from its natural state; not roasted, boiled or cooked; not subdued by heat; as raw meat.
2. Not covered with skin; bare, as flesh.
If there is quick raw flesh in the risings, it is an old leprosy. .
3. sore.
And all his sinews waxen weak and raw through long imprisonment.
4. Immature; unripe; not concocted.
5. Not altered by heat; not cooked or dressed; being in its natural state; as raw fruit.
6. Unseasoned; unexperienced; unripe in skill; as people while young and raw
so we say, raw troops; and new seamen are called raw hands.
7. New; untried; as a raw trick.
8. Bleak; chilly; cold, or rather cold and damp; as a raw day; a raw cold climate.
Once upon a raw and gusty day -
9. Not distilled; as raw water. [Not used.]
10. Not spun or twisted; as raw silk.
11. Not mixed or adulterated; as raw spirits.
12. Bare of flesh.
13. Not tried or melted and strained; as raw tallow.
14. Not tanned; as raw hides.
RAW'-BONED, adjective Having little flesh on the bones.
Rawhead
RAW'HEAD, noun The name of a specter, mentioned to frighten children; as rawhead and bloody bones.
Rawish
RAW'ISH, adjective Somewhat raw; cool and damp. [Not much used.]
Rawly
RAW'LY, adverb
1. In a raw manner.
2. Unskillfully; without experience.
3. Newly.
Rawness
RAW'NESS, noun
1. The state of being raw; uncooked; unaltered by heat; as the rawness of flesh.
2. Unskillfulness; state of being inexperienced; as the rawness of seamen or troops.
3. Hasty manner. [Not legitimate.]
4. Chilliness with dampness.
Ray
RAY, noun [Latin radius.]
1. a line of light, or the right line supposed to be described by a particle of light. a collection of parallel rays constitutes a beam; a collection of diverging or converging rays, a pencil.
The mixed solar beam contains, 1st. calorific rays, producing heat and expansion, but not vision and color; 2d. colorific rays, producing vision and color, but not heat nor expansion; 3d. chimical rays, producing certain effects on the composition of bodies, but neither heat, expansion, vision or color; 4th. a power producing magnetism, but whether a distinct or associated power, is not determined. It seems to be associated with the violet, more than with the other rays.
2. Figuratively, a beam of intellectual light.
3. Light; luster.
The air sharpen'd his visual ray
4. In botany, the outer part or circumference of a compound radiate flower.
5. In ichthyology, a bony or cartilaginous ossicle in the fins of fishes, serving to support the membrane.
6. A plant, [lolium.]
7. ray for array. [Not in use.]
Pencil of rays, a number of rays of light issuing from a point and diverging.
RAY, noun A fish; a common name for the species of the genus Raia, including the skate, thornback, torpedo, stingray, etc.
RAY, verb intransitive
1. To streak; to mark with long lines.
2. To foul; to beray. [Not in use.]
3. To array. [Not in use.]
4. To shoot forth.
Rayless
RA'YLESS, adjective Destitute of light; dark; not illuminated.
Raze
RAZE, noun A root. [See Race-ginger, under Race.]
RAZE, verb transitive [Latin rasus, rado. See Rase and Erase.]
1. To subvert from the foundation; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish; as, to raze a city to the ground.
The royal hand that raz'd unhappy Troy.
2. To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Razing the characters of your renown.
[In this sense, rase and erase are now used.]
3. To extirpate.
And raze their factions and their family.
Razed
RA'ZED, participle passive Subverted; overthrown; wholly ruined; erased; extirpated.
Razee
RAZEE', noun A ship of war cut down to a smaller size.
Razing
RA'ZING, participle present tense subverting; destroying; erasing; extirpating.
Razor
RA'ZOR, noun [Latin rasus, rado, to scrape.]
An instrument for shaving off beard or hair. Razors of a boar, a boar's tusks.
Razor-Bill
RA'ZOR-BILL, noun An aquatic fowl, the Alca torda; also, the Rhynchops nigra or cut-water.
Razor-Fish
RA'ZOR-FISH, noun A species of fish with a compressed body.
Razorable
RA'ZORABLE, adjective Fit to be shaved. [Not in use.]
Razure
RA'ZURE, noun [Latin rasura, from rado.]
The act of erasing or effacing; obliteration.
[See Rasure.]
Re
RE, a prefix or inseparable particle in the composition of words, denotes return, repetition, iteration. It is contracted from red, which the Latins retained in words beginning with a vowel, as in redamo, redeo, redintegro. In a few English words, all or most of which, I believe, we receive from the French, it has lost its appropriate signification, as in rejoice, recommend, receive.
Re-Collect
RE-COLLECT', verb transitive To gather again; to collect what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.
Re-Create
RE-CREA'TE, verb transitive To create or form anew.
An opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reinforcing, it was necessary to re-create the army.
Re-Created
RE-CREA'TED, participle passive Created or formed anew.
Re-Creating
RE-CREA'TING, participle present tense Creating or forming anew.
Re-Creation
RE-CREA'TION, noun A forming anew.
Re-Echo
RE-ECH'O, verb intransitive [re and echo.] To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills re-echo the roar of cannon.
RE-ECH'O, verb intransitive [supra.] To echo back; to return back or be reverberated; as an echo.
And a loud groan re-echoes from the main.
RE-ECH'O, noun The echo of an echo.
Re-Echoed
RE-ECH'OED, participle passive [supra.] Returned, as sound; reverberated again.
Re-Echoing
RE-ECH'OING, participle present tense Returning or reverberating an echo.
Re-Edification
RE-EDIFICA'TION, noun [from re-edify.] Act or operation of rebuilding; state of being rebuilt.
Re-Edified
RE-ED'IFIED, participle passive Rebuilt.
Re-Edify
RE-ED'IFY, verb transitive
To rebuild; to build again after destruction.
Re-Edifying
RE-ED'IFYING, participle present tense Rebuilding.
Re-Elect
RE-ELECT', verb transitive [re and elect.] To elect again; as, to re-elect the former governor.
Re-Elected
RE-ELECT'ED, participle passive Elected again; re-chosen.
Re-Electing
RE-ELECT'ING, participle present tense Electing again.
Re-Election
RE-ELEC'TION, noun Election a second time, or repeated election; as the re-election of a former representative.
Re-Eligibility
RE-ELIGIBIL'ITY, noun The capacity of being re-elected to the same office.
Re-Eligible
RE-EL'IGIBLE, adjective [re and eligible.] Capable of being elected again to the same office.
Re-Embark
RE-EMB'ARK, verb transitive [re and embark.] To embark or put on board again.
RE-EMB'ARK, verb intransitive To embark or go on board again.
Re-Embarkation
RE-EMBARKA'TION, noun A putting on board or a going on board again.
Re-Embattle
RE-EMBAT'TLE, verb transitive [re and embattle.] To array again for battle; to arrange again in the order of battle.
Re-Embattled
RE-EMBAT'TLED, participle passive Arrayed again for battle.
Re-Embattling
RE-EMBAT'TLING, participle present tense Arranging again in battle array.
Re-Embody
RE-EMBOD'Y, verb transitive [re and embody.] To embody again.
Re-Enact
RE-ENACT', verb transitive [re and enact.] To enact again.
Re-Enacted
RE-ENACT'ED, participle passive Enacted again.
Re-Enacting
RE-ENACT'ING, participle present tense Enacting anew; passing again into a law.
Re-Enaction
RE-ENAC'TION, noun The passing into a law again.
Re-Enactment
RE-ENACT'MENT, noun The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.
Re-Enforce
RE-ENFORCE, verb transitive [re and enforce.] To strengthen with new force, assistance or support, as to re-enforce an argument; but particularly, to strengthen an army or a fort with additional troops, or a navy with additional ships.
Re-Enforced
RE-ENFORCED, participle passive Strengthened by additional force, troops or ships.
Re-Enforcement
RE-ENFORCEMENT, noun
1. The act of re-enforcing.
2. Additional force; fresh assistance; particularly, additional troops or force to augment the strength of an army or of ships.
3. Any augmentation of strength or force by something added.
Re-Enforcing
RE-ENFORCING, participle present tense Strengthening by additional force.
Re-Engage
RE-ENGA'GE, verb transitive To engage a second time.
RE-ENGA'GE, verb intransitive To engage again; to enlist a second time; to covenant again.
Re-Enjoy
RE-ENJOY', verb transitive [re and enjoy.] To enjoy anew or a second time.
Re-Enjoyed
RE-ENJOY'ED, participle passive Enjoyed again.
Re-Enjoying
RE-ENJOY'ING, participle present tense Enjoying anew.
Re-Enjoyment
RE-ENJOY'MENT, noun A second or repeated enjoyment.
Re-Enkindle
RE-ENKIN'DLE, verb transitive [re and enkindle.] To enkindle again; to rekindle.
Re-Enkindled
RE-ENKIN'DLED, participle passive Enkindled again.
Re-Enkindling
RE-ENKIN'DLING, participle present tense Enkindling anew.
Re-Enlist
RE-ENLIST', verb transitive To enlist a second time. [See Re-inlist.]
Re-Enter
RE-EN'TER, verb transitive [re and enter.] To enter again or anew.
RE-EN'TER, verb intransitive To enter anew.
Re-Entered
RE-EN'TERED, participle passive Entered again.
Re-Entering
RE-EN'TERING, participle present tense
1. Entering anew.
2. Entering in return; as salient and re-entering angles.
Re-Enthrone
RE-ENTHRO'NE, verb transitive [re and enthrone.] To enthrone again; to replace on a throne.
Re-Enthroned
RE-ENTHRO'NED, participle passive Raised again to a throne.
Re-Enthroning
RE-ENTHRO'NING, participle present tense Replacing on a throne.
Re-Entrance
RE-EN'TRANCE, noun [re and entrance.] The act of entering again.
Re-Establish
RE-ESTAB'LISH, verb transitive [re and establish.] To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; as, to re-establish a covenant; to re-establish health.
Re-Established
RE-ESTAB'LISHED, participle passive Established or confirmed again.
Re-Establisher
RE-ESTAB'LISHER, noun One who establishes again.
Re-Establishing
RE-ESTAB'LISHING, participle present tense Establishing anew; confirming again.
Re-Establishment
RE-ESTAB'LISHMENT, noun The act of establishing again; the state of being re-established; renewed confirmation; restoration.
Re-Estate
RE-ESTA'TE, verb transitive [re and estate.] To re-establish. [Not used.]
Re-Examination
RE-EXAMINA'TION, noun A renewed or repeated examination.
Re-Examine
RE-EXAM'INE, verb transitive [re and examine.] To examine anew.
Re-Examined
RE-EXAM'INED, participle present tense Examined again.
Re-Examining
RE-EXAM'INING, participle present tense Examining anew.
Re-Exchange
RE-EXCHANGE, noun [re and exchange.]
1. A renewed exchange.
2. In commerce, the exchange chargeable on the redraft of a bill of exchange.
The rate of re-exchange is regulated with respect to the drawer, at the course of exchange between the place where the bill of exchange was payable, and the place where it was drawn. Re-exchanges cannot be emulated.
Re-Export
RE-EXPORT, verb transitive [re and export.] To export again; to export what has been imported. In the United States, a drawback is allowed on commodities re-exported.
RE-EX'PORT, noun Any commodity re-exported.
Re-Exportation
RE-EXPORTA'TION, noun The act of exporting what has been imported.
Re-Exported
RE-EXPORTED, participle passive Exported after being imported.
Re-Exporting
RE-EXPORTING, participle present tense Exporting what has been imported.
Re-Ferment
RE-FERMENT', verb transitive [re and ferment.] To ferment again.
Re-Find
RE-FIND, verb transitive [re and find.] To find again; to experience anew.
Re-Formation
RE-FORMA'TION, noun The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as the re-formation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
Re-Resolve
RE-RESOLVE, verb transitive re-rezolv'. To resolve a second time.
Reabsorb
REABSORB', verb transitive [re and absorb.]
1. To draw in or inbibe again what has been effused, extravasated or thrown off; used of fluids; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, blood, gas, etc.
2. To swallow up again.
Reabsorbed
REABSORB'ED, participle passive Imbibed again.
Reabsorbing
REABSORB'ING, participle present tense Reimbibing.
Reabsorption
REABSORP'TION, noun The act or process of inbibing what has been previously thrown off, effused or extravasated; the swallowing a second time.
Reaccess
REACCESS', noun [re and access.] A second access or approach; a visit renewed.
Reach
REACH, verb transitive Raught, the ancient preterit, is obsolete. The verb is now regular; participle passive reached. Latin rego, to rule or govern, to make right or straight, that is, to strain or stretch, the radical sense. The English sense of reach appears in Latin porrigo and porricio. Greek, to reach to stretch, the radical sense of desiring. Latin fragro. But the primary sense is the same, to reach to extend, to shoot forth, to urge.]
1. To extend; to stretch; in a general sense; sometimes followed by out and forth; as, to reach out the arm. Hence,
2. To extend to; to touch by extending either the arm alone, or with an instrument in the hand; as, to reach a book on the shelf; I cannot reach the object with my cane; the seaman reaches the bottom of the river with a pole or a line.
3. To strike from a distance.
O patron power, thy present aid afford, that I may reach the beast.
4. To deliver with the hand by extending the arm; to hand. He reached [to] me an orange.
He reached me a full cup.
5. To extend or stretch from a distance.
REACH hither thy finger - reach hither thy hand. .
6. To arrive at; to come to. The ship reached her port in safety. We reached New York on Thursday. The letter reached me at seven o'clock.
7. To attain to or arrive at, by effort, labor or study; hence, to gain or obtain. Every artist should attempt to reach the point of excellence.
The best accounts of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach come short of its reality.
8. To penetrate to.
Whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind, there is no perception.
9. To extend to so as to include or comprehend in fact or principle.
The law reached the intention of the promoters, and this act fixed the natural price of money.
If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine.
10. To extend to.
Thy desire leads to no excess that reaches blame.
11. To extend; to spread abroad.
Trees reach'd too far their pampered boughs.
12. To take with the hand.
Lest therefore now his bolder hand reach also of the tree of life and eat. [Unusual.]
13. To overreach; to deceive.
REACH, verb intransitive
1. To be extended.
The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.
The border shall descend, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward. .
And behold, a ladder set on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. .
2. To penetrate.
Ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth to heaven. .
3. To make efforts to vomit. [See Retch.]
To reach after, to make efforts to attain to or obtain.
He would be in a posture of mind, reaching after a positive idea of infinity.
REACH, noun
1. In a general sense, extension; a stretching; extent.
2. The power of extending to, or of taking by the hand, or by any instrument managed by the hand. The book is not within my reach The bottom of the sea is not within the reach of a line or cable.
3. Power of attainment or management, or the limit of power, physical or moral. He used all the means within his reach The causes of phenomena are often beyond the reach of human intellect.
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
4. Effort of the mind in contrivance or research; contrivance; scheme.
- Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
5. A fetch; an artifice to obtain an advantage.
The duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own underhand, to cross the design.
6. Tendency to distant consequences.
Strain not my speech to grosser issues, nor to larger reach than to suspicion.
7. Extent.
And on the left hand, hell with long reach interpos'd.
8. Among seamen, the distance between two points on the banks of a river, in which the current flows in a straight course.
9. An effort to vomit.
Reached
RE'ACHED, participle passive Stretched out; extended; touched by extending the arm; attained to; obtained.
Reacher
RE'ACHER, noun One that reaches or extends; one that delivers by extending the arm.
Reaching
RE'ACHING, participle present tense Stretching out; extending; touching by extension of the arm; attaining to; gaining; making efforts to vomit.
React
REACT', verb transitive [re and act.] To act or perform a second time; as, to react a play. The same scenes were reacted at Rome.
REACT', verb intransitive
1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force. Every elastic body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
2. To act in opposition; to resist any influence or power.
Reacted
REACT'ED, participle passive Acted or performed a second time.
Reacting
REACT'ING, participle present tense Acting again; in physics, resisting the impulse of another body.
Reaction
REAC'TION, noun
1. In physics, counteraction; the resistance made by a body to the action or impulse of another body, which endeavors to change its state, either of motion or rest. Action and reaction are equal.
2. Any action in resisting other action or power.
Read
READ, noun [See the Verb.]
1. Counsel. [Obs.]
2. Saying; sentence. obsolete
READ, verb transitive The preterit and participle passive read is pronounced red. [Gr. to say or tell, to flow; a speaker, a rhetorician. The primary sense of read is to speak, to utter, that is, to push, drive or advance. This is also the primary sense of ready, that is, prompt or advancing, quick. Latin gratia, the primary sense of which is prompt to favor, advancing towards, free. The elements of these words are the same as those of ride and Latin gradior, etc. The sense of reason is secondary, that which is uttered, said or set forth; hence counsel also. See Ready.]
1. To utter or pronounce written or printed words, letters or characters in the proper order; to repeat the names or utter the sounds customarily annexed to words, letters or characters; as, to read a written or printed discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music.
2. To inspect and understand words or characters; to peruse silently; as, to read a paper or letter without uttering the words; to read to one's self.
3. To discover or understand by characters, marks or features; as, to read a man's thoughts in his countenance.
To read the interior structure of the globe.
An armed corse did lie, in whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
4. To learn by observation.
Those about her from her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
5. To know fully.
Who is't can read a woman?
6. To suppose; to guess. obsolete
7. To advise. obsolete
READ, verb intransitive
1. To perform the act of reading.
So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. .
2. To be studious; to practice much reading.
It is sure that Fleury roads.
3. To learn by reading.
I have read of an eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence.
4. To tell; to declare. [Not in use.]
READ, participle passive red.
1. Uttered; pronounced, as written words in the proper order; as, the letter was read to the family.
2. Silently perused.
READ, adjective red. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. Well read is the phrase commonly used; as well read in history; well read in the classics.
A poet well read in Longinus -
Readable
RE'ADABLE, adjective That may be read; fit to be read.
Readeption
READEP'TION, noun [from Latin re and adeptus, obtained.]
A regaining; recovery of something lost. [Not much used.]
Reader
RE'ADER, noun
1. One that reads; any person who pronounces written words; particularly, one whose office is to read prayers in a church.
2. By way of distinction, one that reads much; one studious in books.
Readership
RE'ADERSHIP, noun [See Read.] the office of reading prayers in a church.
Readily
READILY, adverb red'ily. [See Ready.]
1. Quickly; promptly; easily. I readily perceive the distinction you make.
2. Cheerfully; without delay or objection; without reluctance. He readily granted my request.
Readiness
READINESS, noun red'iness. [from ready.]
1. Quickness; promptness; promptitude; facility; freedom from hinderance or obstruction; as readiness of speech; readiness of thought; readiness of mind in suggesting an answer; readiness of reply.
2. Promptitude; cheerfulness; willingness; alacrity; freedom from reluctance; as, to grant a request or assistance with readiness
They received the word with all readiness of mind. .
3. A state of preparation; fitness of condition. The troops are in readiness
Reading
RE'ADING, participle present tense
1. Pronouncing or perusing written or printed words or characters of a book or writing.
2. Discovering by marks; understanding.
RE'ADING, noun
1. The act of reading; perusal.
2. Study of books; as a man of extensive reading
3. A lecture or prelection.
4. Public recital.
The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.
5. In criticism, the manner of reading the manuscripts of ancient authors, where the words or letters are obscure. No small part of the business of critics is to settle the true reading or real words used by the author; and the various readings of different critics are often perplexing.
6. A commentary or gloss on a law, text or passage.
7. In legislation, the formal recital of a bill by the proper officer, before the house which is to consider it. In Congress and in the state legislatures, a bill must usually have three several readings on different days, before it can be passed into a law.
Readjourn
READJOURN', verb transitive [re and adjourn.]
1. To adjourn a second time.
2. To cite or summon again. [Not used.]
Readjust
READJUST', verb transitive [re and adjust.] To settle again; to put in order again what had been discomposed.
Readjusted
READJUST'ED, participle passive Adjusted again; resettled.
Readjusting
READJUST'ING, participle present tense Adjusting again.
Readjustment
READJUST'MENT, noun A second adjustment.
Readmission
READMIS'SION, noun [re and admission.] The act of admitting again what had been excluded; as the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
Readmit
READMIT', verb transitive [re and admit.] To admit again.
Whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the suppliant.
Readmittance
READMIT'TANCE, noun A second admittance; allowance to enter again.
Readopt
READOPT', verb transitive [re and adopt.] To adopt again.
Readorn
READORN', verb transitive To adorn anew; to decorate a second time.
Readvertency
READVERT'ENCY, noun [re and advertency.] The act of reviewing.
Ready
READY, adjective red'y. [Eng. to rid; redo, ready; rida, to ride; bereda, to prepare. Gr. easy. The primary sense is to go, move, or advance forward, and it seems to be clear that ready ride, read, riddle, are all of one family, and probably from the root of Latin gradior. See Read and Red.]
1. Quick; prompt; not hesitating; as ready wit; a ready consent.
2. Quick to receive or comprehend; not slow or dull; as a ready apprehension.
3. Quick in action or execution; dextrous; as an artist ready in his business; a ready writer. .
4. Prompt; not delayed present in hand. He makes ready payment; he pays ready money for every thing he buys.
5. Prepared; fitted; furnished with what is necessary, or disposed in a manner suited to the purpose; as a ship ready for sea.
My oxen and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready .
6. Willing; free; cheerful to do or suffer; not backward or reluctant; as a prince always ready to grant the reasonable requests of his subjects.
The spirit is ready but the flesh is weak. .
I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. .
7. Willing; disposed. Men are generally ready to impute blame to others. They are more ready to give than to take reproof.
8. Being at the point; near; not distant; about to do or suffer.
A Syrian ready to perish was my father. . . .
9. Being nearest or at hand.
A sapling pine he wrench'd from out the ground, the readiest weapon that his fury found.
10. Easy; facile; opportune; short; near, or most convenient; the Greek sense.
Sometimes the readiest way which a wise man has to conquer, is to flee.
Through the wild desert, not the readiest way.
The ready way to be thought mad, is to contend you are not so.
1. To make ready to prepare; to provide and put in order.
2. An elliptical phrase, for make things ready; to make preparations; to prepare.
READY, adverb red'y. In a state of preparation, so as to need no delay.
We ourselves will go ready armed before the house of Israel. .
READY, noun red'y. For ready money.
Lord Strut was not flush in ready either to go to law, or to clear old debts. [A low word.]
READY, verb transitive red'y. To dispose in order; to prepare. [Not in use.]
Reaffirm
REAFFIRM', verb transitive [re and affirm.] To affirm a second time.
Reaffirmance
REAFFIRM'ANCE, noun A second confirmation.
Reagent
REA'GENT, noun [re and agent.] In chimistry, a substance employed to precipitate another in solution, or to detect the ingredients of a mixture.
Bergman reckons barytic muriate to be one of the most sensible reagents.
Reaggravation
REAGGRAVA'TION, noun [re and aggravation.]
In the Romish ecclesiastical law, the last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication. Before they proceed to fulminate the last excommunication, they publish an aggravation and a reaggravation
Reak
REAK, noun A rush. [Not in use.]
Real
RE'AL, adjective [Low Latin realis. The Latin res and Eng. thing coincide exactly with the Heb. a word, a thing, an event. See Read and Thing.]
1. Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as a description of real life. The author describes a real scene or transaction.
2. True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit or factitious; as real Madeira wine; real ginger.
3. True; genuine; not affected; not assumed. The woman appears in her real character.
4. Relating to things, not to persons; not personal.
Many are perfect in men's humors, that are not greatly capable of the real part of business. [Little used or obsolete.]
5. In law, pertaining to things fixed, permanent or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as real estate, opposed to personal or movable property.
Real action, in law, is an action which concerns real property.
Real assets, assets consisting in real estate, or lands and tenements descending to an heir, sufficient to answer the charges upon the estate created by the ancestor.
Chattels real are such chattels as concern or savor of the reality; as a term for years of land, wardships in chivalry, the next presentation to a church, estate by statue-merchant, elegit, etc.
Real composition, is when an agreement is made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof.
Real presence, in the Romish church, the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ.
Realgar
RE'ALGAR, noun
A combination of sulphur and arsenic; red sulphuret of arsenic. realgar differs from orpiment in having undergone a greater degree of heat.
Realist
RE'ALIST, noun A scholastic philosopher, who maintains that things and not words, are the objects of dialectics; opposed to nominal or nominalist.
RE'AL, noun A small Spanish coin of the value of forty maravedis; but its value is different in different provinces, being from five or six to ten cents, or six pence sterling. It is sometimes written rial.
Reality
REAL'ITY, noun
1. Actual being or existence of any thing; truth; fact; in distinction from mere appearance.
A man may fancy he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
2. Something intrinsically important, not merely matter of show.
And to realities yield all her shows.
3. In the schools, that may exist of itself, or which has a full and absolute being of itself, and is not considered as a part of any thing else.
4. In law, immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of property; as chattels which savor of the reality [This word is so written in law, for reality ]
Realization
REALIZA'TION, noun [from realize.]
1. The act of realizing or making real.
2. The act of converting money into land.
3. The act of believing or considering as real.
4. The act of bringing into being or act.
Realize
RE'ALIZE, verb transitive
1. To bring into being or act; as, to realize a scheme or project.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain of sand against the globe of earth.
2. To convert money into land, or personal into real estate.
3. To impress on the mind as a reality; to believe, consider or treat as real. How little do men in full health realize their frailty and mortality.
Let the sincere christian realize the closing sentiment.
4. To bring home to one's own case or experience; to consider as one's own; to feel in all its force. Who, at his fire side, can realize the distress of shipwrecked mariners?
This allusion must have had enhanced strength and beauty to the eye of a nation extensively devoted to a pastoral life, and therefore realizing all its fine scenes and the tender emotions to which they gave birth.
5. To bring into actual existence and possession; to render tangible or effective. He never realized much profit from his trade or speculations.
Realized
RE'ALIZED, participle passive Brought into actual being; converted into real estate; impressed, received or treated as a reality; felt in its true force; rendered actual, tangible or effective.
Realizing
RE'ALIZING, participle present tense
1. Bringing into actual being; converting into real estate; impressing as a reality; feeling as one's own or in its real force; rendering tangible or effective.
2. adjective That makes real, or that brings home as a reality; as a realizing view of eternity.
Realledge
REALLEDGE, verb transitive reallej'. [re and alledge.] To alledge again.
Really
RE'ALLY, adverb
1. With actual existence.
2. In truth; in fact; not in appearance only; as things really evil.
The anger of the people is really a short fit of madness.
In this sense, it is used familiarly as a slight corroboration of an opinion or declaration.
Why really sixty five is somewhat old.
Realm
REALM, noun relm. [Latin rex, king, whence regalis, royal.]
1. A royal jurisdiction or extent of government; a kingdom; a king's dominions; as the realm of England.
2. Kingly government; as the realm of bees. [Unusual.]
Realty
RE'ALTY, noun [Latin rex.]
1. Lovalty. [Not in use.]
2. Reality. [Not in use.]
3. In law, immobility. [See Reality.]
Ream
REAM, noun [Latin remus., ramus, a branch, for the shoots of trees or shrubs were the first bands used by men. See Gird and Withe.]
A bundle or package of paper, consisting of twenty quires.
Reanimate
REAN'IMATE, verb transitive [re and animate.]
1. To revive; to resuscitate; to restore to life; as a person dead or apparently dead; as, to reanimate a drowned person.
2. To revive the spirits when dull or languid; to invigorate; to infuse new life or courage into; as, to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate drowsy senses or languid spirits.
Reanimated
REAN'IMATED, participle passive Restored to life or action.
Reanimating
REAN'IMATING, participle present tense Restoring life to; invigorating with new life and courage.
Reanimation
REANIMA'TION, noun The act or operation of reviving from apparent death; the act or operation of giving fresh spirits, courage or vigor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.