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Revivificate

REVIV'IFICATE, verb transitive [Latin re and vivifico; vivus, alive, and facio, to make.]

To revive; to recall or restore to life. [Little used.]

Revivification

REVIVIFICA'TION, noun

1. Renewal of life; restoration of life; or the act of recalling to life.

2. In chimistry, the reduction of a metal to its metallic state.

Revivify

REVIV'IFY, verb transitive

1. To recall to life; to reanimate.

2. To give new life or vigor to.

Reviving

REVI'VING, participle present tense Bringing to life again; reanimating; renewing; recalling to the memory; recovering from neglect or depression; refreshing with joy or hope; reducing to a metallic state.

Reviviscence

REVIVIS'CENCE,

REVIVIS'CENCY, noun Renewal of life; return to life.

Reviviscency

REVIVIS'CENCY, n. Renewal of life; return to life.

Reviviscent

REVIVIS'CENT, adjective Reviving; regaining or restoring life or action.

Revivor

REVI'VOR, noun In law, the reviving of a suit which is abated by the death of any of the parties. This is done by a bill of revivor

Revocable

REV'OCABLE, adjective [Latin revocabilis. See Revoke.]

That may be recalled or revoked; that may be repealed or annulled; as a revocable edict or grant.

Revocableness

REV'OCABLENESS, noun The quality of being revocable.

Revocate

REV'OCATE, verb transitive [Latin revoco; re and voco, to call.] To recall; to call back. [Not in use. See revoke.]

Revocation

REVOCA'TION, noun [Latin revocatio.]

1. The act of recalling or calling back; as the revocation of Calvin.

2. State of being recalled.

3. Repeal; reversal; as the revocation of the edict of Nantz. A law may cease to operate without an express revocation so we speak of the revocation of a will, of a use, of a devise, etc.

Revoke

REVO'KE, verb transitive [Latin revoco; re and voco, to call.]

1. To recall; to repeal; to reverse. A law, decree or sentence is revoked by the same authority which enacted or passed it. A charter or grant which vests rights in a corporation, cannot be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator.

2. To check; to repress; as, to revoke rage. [Not in use.]

3. To draw back.

Seas are troubled when they do revoke their flowing waves into themselves again. [Unusual.]

REVO'KE, verb intransitive To renounce at cards.

REVO'KE, noun The act of renouncing at cards.

Revoked

REVO'KED, participle passive Repealed; reversed.

Revokement

REVO'KEMENT, noun Revocation; reversal. [Little used.]

Revoking

REVO'KING, participle present tense Reversing; repealing.

Revolt

REVOLT', verb intransitive [Latin revolvo; re and volvo, to turn. Eng. wallow.]

1. To fall off or turn from one to another.

2. To renounce allegiance and subjection to one's prince or state; to reject the authority of a sovereign; as a province or a number of people. It is not applied to individuals.

The Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah.

2 Chronicles 21:10.

3. To change. [Not in use.]

4. In Scripture, to disclaim allegiance and subjection to God; to reject the government of the King of kings. Isaiah 31:6.

REVOLT', verb transitive

1. To turn; to put to flight; to overturn.

2. To shock; to do violence to; to cause to shrink or turn away with abhorrence; as, to revolt the mind or the feelings.

Their honest pride of their purer religion had revolted the Babylonians.

REVOLT', noun

1. Desertion; change of sides; more correctly, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to one's prince or government; as the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.

2. Gross departure from duty.

3. In Scripture, a rejection of divine government; departure from God; disobedience. Isaiah 59:13.

4. A revolter. [Not in use.]

Revolted

REVOLT'ED, participle passive

1. Having swerved from allegiance or duty.

2. Shocked; grossly offended.

Revolter

REVOLT'ER, noun

1. One who changes sides; a deserter.

2. One who renounces allegiance and subjection to his prince or state.

3. In Scripture, one who renounces the authority and laws of God. Jeremiah 6:28. Hosea 9.

Revolting

REVOLT'ING, participle present tense

1. Changing sides; deserting.

2. Disclaiming allegiance and subjection to a prince or state.

3. Rejecting the authority of God.

4. adjective Doing violence, as to the feelings; exciting abhorrence.

Revolute

REV'OLUTE, adjective [Latin revolutus, from revolvo.]

In botany, rolled back or downwards; as revolute foliation or leafing, when the sides of the leaves in the bud are rolled spirally back or towards the lower surface; a revolute leaf or tendril; a revolute corol or valve.

Revolution

REVOLU'TION, noun [Latin revolutus, revolvo.]

1. In physics, rotation; the circular motion of a body on its axis; a course or motion which brings every point of the surface or periphery of a body back to the place at which it began to move; as the revolution of a wheel; the diurnal revolution of the earth.

2. The motion of a body round any fixed point or center; as the annual revolution of the earth or other planet in its orbit round the center of the system.

3. Motion of any thing which brings it to the same point or state; as the revolution of day and night or of the seasons.

4. Continued course marked by the regular return of years; as the revolution of ages.

5. Space measured by some regular return of a revolving body or of a state of things; as the revolution of a day.

6. In politics, a material or entire change in the constitution of government. Thus the revolution in England, in 1688, was produced by the abdication of king James II the establishment of the house of Orange upon the throne, and the restoration of the constitution to its primitive state. So the revolutions in Poland, in the United States of America, and in France, consisted in a change of constitution. We shall rejoice to hear that the Greeks have effected a revolution

7. Motion backward.

This word is used adjectively, as in the phrase, revolution principles.

Revolutionary

REVOLU'TIONARY, adjective

1. Pertaining to a revolution in government; as a revolutionary war; revolutionary crimes or disasters.

2. Tending to produce a revolution; as revolutionary measures.

Revolutioner

REVOLU'TIONER, noun

1. One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist.

2. In England, one who favored the revolution in 1688.

Revolutionist

REVOLU'TIONIST, noun One engaged in effecting a change of government; the favorer of a revolution.

Revolutionize

REVOLU'TIONIZE, verb transitive

1. To effect a change in the form of a political constitution; as, to revolutionize a government.

2. To effect an entire change of principles in.

The gospel, if received in truth, has revolutionized his soul.

Revolutionized

REVOLU'TIONIZED, participle passive Charged in constitutional form and principles.

Revolutionizing

REVOLU'TIONIZING, participle present tense Changing the form and principles of a constitution.

Revolvency

REVOLV'ENCY, noun State, act or principle of revolving; revolution.

Its own revolvency upholds the world.

Revomit

REVOM'IT, verb transitive [re and vomit; ]

To vomit or pour forth again; to reject from the stomach.

Revomited

REVOM'ITED, participle passive Vomited again.

Revomiting

REVOM'ITING, participle present tense Vomiting again.

Revulsion

REVUL'SION, noun [Latin revulsus, revello; re and vello, to pull.]

1. In medicine, the act of turning or diverting a flux of humors or any cause of disease, from one part of the body to another.

2. The act of holding or drawing back.

Revulsive

REVUL'SIVE, adjective Having the power of revulsion.

REVUL'SIVE, noun

1. That which has the power of diverting humors from one part to another.

2. That which has the power of withdrawing.

Rew

REW, noun A row. [Not in use.]

Reward

REWARD', verb transitive a as aw. [[Latin re, denoting return.]

To give in return, either good or evil.

Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. 1 Samuel 24:19.

Hence, when good is returned for good, reward signifies to repay, to recompense, to compensate. When evil or suffering is return for injury or wickedness, reward signifies to punish with just retribution, to take vengeance on, according to the nature of the case.

I will render vengeance to my enemies; and will reward them that hate me. Deuteronomy 32:41.

The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Matthew 16:27.

In the latter passage, reward signifies to render with good and evil.

REWARD', noun

1. Recompense, or equivalent return for good done, for kindness, for services and the like. Rewards may consist of money, goods or any return of kindness or happiness.

The laborer is worthy of his reward 1 Timothy 5:18.

Great is your reward in heaven. Matthew 5:12.

REWARDs and punishments presuppose moral agency, and something voluntarily done, well or ill; without which respect, though we may receive good, it is only a benefit and not a reward

2. The fruit of men's labor or works.

The dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward Ecclesiastes 9:5.

3. A bribe; a gift to pervert justice. Deuteronomy 27:25.

4. A sum of money offered for taking or detecting a criminal, or for recovery of any thing lost.

5. Punishment; a just return of evil or suffering for wickedness.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalms 91:8.

6. Return in human applause. Mat 6.

7. Return in joy and comfort. Psalms 19:11.

Rewardable

REWARD'ABLE, adjective That may be rewarded; worthy of recompense.

Rewardableness

REWARD'ABLENESS, noun The state of being worthy of reward.

Rewarded

REWARD'ED, participle passive Requited; recompensed or punished.

Rewarder

REWARD'ER, noun One who rewards; one that requites or recompenses. Hebrews 11:6.

Rewarding

REWARD'ING, participle present tense Making an equivalent return for good or evil; requiting; recompensing or punishing.

Reword

REWORD, verb transitive [re and word.] To repeat in the same words. [Not in use.]

Rewrite

REWRI'TE, verb transitive To write a second time.

Rewritten

REWRIT'TEN, participle passive Written again.

Reys

REYS, noun The master of an Egyptian bark or ship.

Rhabarbarate

RHAB'ARBARATE, adjective [See Rhubarb.] Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.

Rhabdology

RHABDOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a staff or want, and discourse.]

The act or art of computing or numbering by Napier's rods or Napier's bones.

Rhabdomancy

RHAB'DOMANCY, noun [Gr. a rod, and divination.]

Divination by a rod or wand.

Rhapsodic

RHAPSOD'IC,

RHAPSOD'ICAL, adjective [from rhapsody.] Pertaining to or consisting of rhapsody; unconnected.

Rhapsodical

RHAPSOD'ICAL, a. [from rhapsody.] Pertaining to or consisting of rhapsody; unconnected.

Rhapsodist

RHAP'SODIST, noun [from rhapsody.]

1. One that writes or speaks without regular dependence of one part of his discourse on another.

2. One who recites or signs rhapsodies for a livelihood; or one who makes and repeats verses extempore.

3. Anciently, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Homer and other poets.

Rhapsody

RHAP'SODY, noun [Gr. to sew or unite, and a song.]

Originally, a discourse in verse, sung or rehearsed by a rhapsodist; or a collection of verses, particularly those of Homer. In modern usage, a collection of passages thoughts or authorities, composing a new piece, but without necessary dependence or natural connection.

Rhein-Berry

RHEIN-BERRY, noun Buckthorn, a plant.

Rhenish

RHE'NISH, adjective Pertaining to the river Rhine, or to Rheims in France; as Rhemish wine; as a noun, the wine produced on the hills about Rheims, which is remarkable as a solvent of iron.

Rhetian

RHE'TIAN, adjective Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or to Rhaetia, their country; as the rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.

Rhetizite

RHET'IZITE, noun A mineral occurring in masses or in radiated concretions, and of a white color.

Rhetor

RHE'TOR, noun [Latin from Gr. an orator or speaker.]

A rhetorician. [Little used.]

Rhetoric

RHET'ORIC, noun [Gr. from to speak, to flow. Eng. to read. The primary sense is to drive or send. See Read.]

1. The art of speaking with propriety, elegance and force.

2. The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms. We speak of the rhetoric of the tongue, and the rhetoric of the heart or eyes.

Sweet silent rhetoric of persuading eyes.

Rhetorical

RHETOR'ICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to rhetoric; as the rhetorical art.

2. Containing the rules of rhetoric; as a rhetorical treatise.

3. Oratorial; as a rhetorical flourish.

Rhetorically

RHETOR'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of rhetoric; according to the rules of rhetoric; as, to treat a subject rhetorically; a discourse rhetorically delivered.

Rhetoricate

RHETOR'ICATE, verb intransitive To play the orator. [Not in use.]

Rhetorication

RHETORICA'TION, noun Rhetorical amplification. [Not in use.]

Rhetorician

RHETORI'CIAN, noun

1. One who teaches the art of rhetoric, or the principles and rules of correct and elegant speaking.

The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, who had young auditors, lived till they were a hundred years old.

2. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.

3. An orator. [Less proper.]

RHETORI'CIAN, adjective [See the noun.] Suiting a master of rhetoric. [Not in use.]

Rhetorize

RHET'ORIZE, verb intransitive To play the orator.

RHET'ORIZE, verb transitive To represent by a figure of oratory.

Rheum

RHEUM, noun [Gr. from to flow.]

1. An increased and often inflammatory action of the vessels of an organ; but generally applied to the inflammatory action of the mucous glands, attended with increased discharge and an altered state of their excreted fluids.

2. A thin serous fluid, secreted by the mucous glands, etc.; as in catarrh.

Rheumatic

RHEUMAT'IC, adjective [Latin rheumaticus; Gr. from rheum, which see.]

Pertaining to rheumatism, or partaking of its nature, as rheumatic pains or affections.

Rheumatism

RHEU'MATISM, noun [Latin rheumatismus; Gr. from a watery humor, from to flow; the ancients supposing the disease to proceed from a defluxion of humors.]

A painful disease affecting muscles and joints of the human body, chiefly the larger joints, as the hips, knees, shoulders, etc.

Rheumy

RHEU'MY, adjective [from rheum.]

1. Full of rheum or watery matter; consisting of rheum or partaking of its nature.

2. Affected with rheum.

3. Abounding with sharp moisture; causing rheum.

Rhime

RHIME. [See Rhyme.]

Rhino

RHI'NO, noun A cant word for gold and silver, or money.

Rhinocerial

RHINOCE'RIAL, adjective [from rhinoceros.]

Pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros.

Rhinoceros

RHINOC'EROS, noun [Latin rhinoceros; Gr. nose-horn.]

A genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, as a single horn growing almost erect from the nose. This animal when full grown, is said to be 12 feet in length. There is another species with two horns, the bicornis. They are natives of Asia and Africa.

Rhinoceros-Bird

RHINOCEROS-BIRD, noun A bird of the genus Buceros, having a crooked horn on the forehead, joined to the upper mandible.

Rhodian

RHO'DIAN, adjective Pertaining to Rhodes, an isle of the Mediterranean; as rhodian laws.

Rhodium

RHO'DIUM, noun A metal recently discovered among grains of crude platinum.

Rhododendron

RHODODEN'DRON, noun [Gr. a rose and a tree.]

The dwarf rosebay.

Rhodonite

RHO'DONITE, noun A mineral of a red, reddish, or yellowish white color, and splintery fracture, occurring compact or fibrous in the Hartz at Strahlberg, etc.

Rhoetizite

RHOE'TIZITE,

RHOMB, noun [Latin rhombus; Gr from to turn or whirl round, to wander, to roam or rove; literally, a deviating square.]

In geometry, an oblique angled parallelogram, or a quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and parallel, but the angles unequal, two of the angles being obtuse and two acute. It consists of two equal and right cones united at the base.

Rhomb

RHOMB, n. [L. rhombus; Gr from to turn or whirl round, to wander, to roam or rove; literally, a deviating square.] In geometry, an oblique angled parallelogram, or a quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and parallel, but the angles unequal, two of the angles being obtuse and two acute. It consists of two equal and right cones united at the base.

Rhomb-Spar

RHOMB-SPAR, noun A mineral of a grayish white, occurring massive disseminated and crystallized in rhomboids, imbedded in chlorite slate, limestone, etc. It consists chiefly of carbonates of lime and magnesia.

Rhombic

RHOMB'IC, adjective Having the figure of a rhomb.

Rhombo

RHOM'BO, noun A fish of turbot kind.

Rhomboid

RHOM'BOID, noun [Gr. rhomb, and form.]

1. In geometry, a figure having some resemblance to a rhomb; or a quadrilateral figure whose opposite sides and angles are equal, but which is neither equilateral nor equiangular.

2. adjective In anatomy, the rhomboid muscle is a thin, broad and obliquely square fleshy muscle, between the basis of the scapula and the spina dorsi.

Rhomboidal

RHOMBOID'AL, adjective Having the shape of a rhomboid, or a shape approaching it.

Rhubarb

RHU'BARB, noun

A plant of the genus Rheum, of several species; as the rhapontic, or common rhubarb; the palmated, or true Chinese rhubarb; the compact or Tartarian; the undulated or wave-leafed Chinese rhubarb; and the rubes, or currant rhubarb of mount Libanus. The root is medicinal and much used as a moderate cathartic.

Rhubarbarine

RHUB'ARBARINE, noun A vegetable substance obtained from rhubarb.

Rhumb

RHUMB, noun [from rhomb.] In navigation, a vertical circle of any given place, or the intersection of such a circle with the horizon; in which last sense, rhumb is the same as a point of the compass.

Rhumb-Line

RHUMB-LINE, noun In navigation, a line prolonged from any point of the compass on a nautical chart, except from the four cardinal points.

Rhyme

RHYME,

RHY'MELESS, adjective Destitute of rhyme; not having consonance of sound.

Rhymer

RHY'MER,

RHY'MIC, adjective Pertaining to rhyme.

Rhymic

RHY'MIC, a. Pertaining to rhyme.

Rhymist

RHY'MIST,

RHY'MSTER, noun One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a poor poet.

Rhythm

RHYTHM,

RHYTH'MICAL, adjective [Gr., Latin rhythmicus.]

Having proportion of sound, or one sound proportioned to another; harmonical.

Duly regulated by cadences, accents and quantities.

Rhythmus

RHYTH'MUS, noun [Gr.]

1. In music, variety in the movement as to quickness or slowness, or length and shortness of the notes; or rather the proportion which the parts of the motion have to each other.

2. Meter; verse; number.

Rial

RIAL, noun A Spanish coin. [See Real.]

RI'AL, noun [from royal.] A royal; a gold coin of the value of ten shillings sterling, formerly current in Britain.

Riant

RI'ANT, adjective Laughing; exciting laughter. [Not anglicized.]

Rib

RIB, noun [Latin costa, signifies side, border, extremity.]

1. A bone of animal bodies which forms a part of the frame of the thorax. The ribs in the human body are twelve on each side, proceeding from the spine to the sternum, or towards it, and serving to inclose and protect the heart and lungs.

2. In ship building, a piece of timber which forms or strengthens the side of a ship.

RIBs of a parrel, are short pieces of plank, having holes through which are reeved the two parts of the parrel-rope.

3. In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise.

4. In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib

5. Something long, thin and narrow; a strip.

RIB, verb transitive

1. To furnish with ribs. In manufactures, to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth; whence we say, ribbed cloth.

2. To inclose with ribs.

Ribald

RIB'ALD, noun

A low, vulgar, brutal wretch; a lewd fellow.

RIB'ALD, adjective Low; base; mean.

Ribaldish

RIB'ALDISH, adjective Disposed to ribaldry.

Ribaldry

RIB'ALDRY, noun Mean, vulgar language; chiefly, obscene language.

Riban

RIB'AN, noun In heraldry, the eighth part of a bend.

Ribbed

RIB'BED, participle passive or adjective

1. Furnished with ribs; as ribbed with steel.

2. Inclosed as with ribs.

3. Marked or formed with rising lines and channels; as ribbed cloth.

Ribin

RIB'IN, noun

1. A filet of silk; a narrow web of silk used for an ornament, as a badge, or for fastening some part of female dress.

2. In naval architecture, a long narrow flexible piece of timber, nailed upon the outside of the ribs from the stem to the sternpost, so as to encompass the ship lengthwise; the principal are the floor-ribin and the breadth-ribin.

RIB'IN, verb transitive To adorn with ribins.

Ribroast

RIB'ROAST, verb transitive [rib and roast.] To beat soundly; a burlesque word.

Ribroasted

RIB'ROASTED, participle passive Soundly beaten.

Ribroasting

RIB'ROASTING, participle present tense Beating soundly.

Ribwort

RIB'WORT, noun A plant of the genus Plantago.

Ric

RIC,

RICE, noun [Latin oryza; Gr.]

A plant of the genus Oryza, and its seed. The calyx is a bivalvular uniflorous glume; the corol bivalvular, nearly equal, and adhering to the seed. There is only one species. This plant is cultivated in all warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America, it grows chiefly on low moist land, which can be overflowed. It is a light food, and said to be little apt to produce acidity in the stomach. Indeed it seems intended by the wise and benevolent Creator to be the proper food of men in warm climates.

Rice

RICE, n. [L. oryza; Gr.] A plant of the genus Oryza, and its seed. The calyx is a bivalvular uniflorous glume; the corol bivalvular, nearly equal, and adhering to the seed. There is only one species. This plant is cultivated in all warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America, it grows chiefly on low moist land, which can be overflowed. It is a light food, and said to be little apt to produce acidity in the stomach. Indeed it seems intended by the wise and benevolent Creator to be the proper food of men in warm climates.

Rice-Bird

RICE-BIRD,

RICE-BUNTING, noun A bird of the United States, the Emberiza oryzivora; so named from its feeding on rice in the southern states. In New England it is called bob-lincoln.

Rice-Bunting

RICE-BUNTING, n. A bird of the United States, the Emberiza oryzivora; so named from its feeding on rice in the southern states. In New England it is called bob-lincoln.

Rich

RICH, adjective [Latin rego, regnum, Eng. reach, region, from extending.]

1. Wealthy; opulent; possessing a large portion of land, goods or money, or a larger portion than is common to other men or to men of like rank. A farmer may be rich with property which would not make a nobleman rich An annual income of 500 sterling pounds would make a rich vicar, but not a rich bishop. Men more willingly acknowledge others to be richer, than to be wiser than themselves.

Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold.

Genesis 13:2.

2. Splendid; costly; valuable; precious; sumptuous; as a rich dress; a rich border; a rich silk; rich furniture; a rich present.

3. Abundant in materials; yielding great quantities of any thing valuable; as a rich mine; rich ore.

4. Abounding in valuable ingredients or qualities; as a rich odor or flavor; rich spices.

So we say, a rich description; a discourse rich in ideas.

5. Full of valuable achievements or works.

Each minute shall be rich in some great action.

6. Fertile; fruitful; capable of producing large crops or quantities; as a rich soil; rich land; rich mold.

7. Abundant; large; as a rich crop.

8. Abundant; affording abundance; plentiful.

The gorgeous East with richest hand pours on her sons barbaric pearl and gold.

9. Full of beautiful scenery; as a rich landscape; a rich prospect.

10. Abounding with elegant colors; as a rich picture.

11. Plentifully stocked; as pastures rich in flocks.

12. Strong; vivid; perfect; as a rich color.

13. Having something precious; as a grove of rich trees.

14. Abounding with nutritious qualities; as a rich diet.

15. Highly seasoned; as rich paste; a rich dish of food.

16. Abounding with a variety of delicious food; as a rich table or entertainment.

17. Containing abundance beyond wants; as a rich treasury.

18. In music, full of sweet or harmonious sounds.

19. In Scripture, abounding; highly endowed with spiritual gifts; as rich in faith. James 2:5.

20. Placing confidence in outward prosperity. Matthew 19:23.

21. Self-righteous; abounding, in one's own opinion, with spiritual graces. Revelation 3:17.

RICH in mercy, spoken of God, full of mercy, and ready to bestow good things on sinful men. Ephesians 2:4. Romans 10:12.

The rich used as a noun, denotes a rich man or person, or more frequently in the plural, rich men or persons.

The rich hath many friends. Proverbs 14:20.

RICH, verb transitive To enrich. [Not used. See Enrich.]

Riched

RICH'ED, participle passive Enriched. [Not used.]

Riches

RICH'ES, noun [This is in the singular number in fact, but treated as the plural.]

1. Wealth; opulence; affluence; possessions of land, good or money in abundance.

Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbors.

2. Splendid sumptuous appearance.

The riches of heav'n's pavement, trodden gold.

3. In Scripture, an abundance of spiritual blessings.

Luke 16:11.

The riches of God, his fullness of wisdom, power, mercy, grace and glory, Ephesians 1:7, 2; or the abundance supplied by his works. Psalms 104:24.

The riches of Christ, his abundant fullness of spiritual and eternal blessings for men. Ephesians 3:8.

The riches of a state or kingdom, consist less in a full treasury than in the productiveness of its soil and manufactures, and in the industry of its inhabitants.

Richly

RICH'LY, adverb

1. With riches; with opulence; with abundance of goods or estate; with ample funds; as a hospital richly endowed.

In Belmont is a lady richly left.

2. Gaily; splendidly; magnificently; as richly dressed; richly ornamented.

3. Plenteously; abundantly; amply as, to be richly paid for services. The reading of ancient authors will richly reward us for the perusal.

4. Truly; really; abundantly; fully; as a chastisement richly deserved.

Richness

RICH'NESS, noun

1. Opulence; wealth.

2. Finery; splendor.

3. Fertility; fecundity; fruitfulness; the qualities which render productive; as the richness of a oil.

4. Fullness; abundance; as the richness of a treasury.

5. Quality of abounding with something valuable; as the richness of a mine or an ore; the richness of milk or of cane-juice.

6. Abundance of any ingredient or quality; as the richness of spices or of fragrance.

7. Abundance of beautiful scenery; as the richness of a landscape or prospect.

8. Abundance of nutritious qualities; as the richness of diet.

9. Abundance of high seasoning; as the richness of cake.

10. Strength; vividness; or whatever constitutes perfection; as the richness of color or coloring.

11. Abundance of imagery or of striking ideas; as richness of description.

RICK, noun [Eng. ridge.]

A heap or pile of grain or hay in the field or open air, but sheltered with a kind of roof. In America, we usually give this name to a long pile; the round and conical pile being called stack. In the north of England, it is said this name is given to small piles of corn in the field.

Rick

RICK, as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or a district over which government is exercised, as in bishopric. Latin rego, to rule, and region.

RIC, as a termination of names, denotes rich or powerful, as in Alfric, Fredrick, like the Greek Polycrates and Plutarchus. It is the first syllable of Richard. [See Rich.]

Rickets

RICK'ETS, noun [In technical language, rachitis, Gr. from back or spine, Eng. rack, applied to the neck piece of meat. See Rack and Ridge.]

A disease which affects children, and in which the joints become knotted, and the legs and spine grow crooked. As the child advances in life, the head is enlarged, the thorax is compressed on the sides, and the sternum rises.

Rickety

RICK'ETY, adjective

1. Affected with rickets.

2. Weak; feeble in the joints; imperfect.

Ricochet

RIC'OCHET, noun In gunnery, the firing of guns, mortars or howitzers with small charges, and elevated a few degrees, so as to carry the balls or shells just over the parapet, and cause them to roll along the opposite rampart. This is called ricochet-firing, and the batteries are called ricochet-batteries.

Rid

RID, pret of ride.

RID, verb transitive preterit tense rid; participle passive id.

1. To free; to deliver; properly, to separate, and thus to deliver or save.

That he might rid him out of their hands. Genesis 37:22.

I will rid you out of their bondage. Exodus 6:6.

2. To separate; to drive away.

I will rid evil beasts out of the land. Leviticus 26:6.

[This use is not common.]

3. To free; to clear; to disencumber; as, to rid one of his care. It is not easy to rid the sea of pirates.

Resolv'd at once to rid himself of pain.

4. To dispatch.

For willingness rids away.

5. To drive away; to remove by violence; to destroy.

Ah death's men! you have rid this sweet young prince.

RID, pp or adjective Free; clear; as, to be rid of trouble.

To get rid of, to free one's self.

Riddance

RID'DANCE, noun

1. Deliverance; a setting free; as riddance from all adversity.

2. Disencumbrance.

3. The act of clearing away.

Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Leviticus 23:22.

Ridden

RID'DEN,

RID, participle passive of ride.

Ridding

RID'DING, participle present tense Freeing; clearing; disencumbering.

Riddle

RID'DLE, noun [See Cradle.]

An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated button, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.

RID'DLE, verb transitive To separate, as grain from the chaff with a riddle; as, to riddle wheat. [Note. The machines now used have nearly superseded the riddle ]

RID'DLE, noun [See Read.]

1. An enigma; something proposed for conjecture, or that is to be solved by conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition. Judges 14:12.

2. Any thing ambiguous or puzzling.

RID'DLE, verb transitive To solve; to explain; but we generally use unriddle, which is more proper.

Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.

RID'DLE, verb intransitive To speak ambiguously, obscurely or enigmatically.

Riddler

RID'DLER, noun One who speaks ambiguously or obscurely.

Riddlingly

RID'DLINGLY, adverb In the manner of a riddle; secretly.

Ride

RIDE, verb intransitive preterit tense rode or rid; participle passive rid, ridden. [L rheda, a chariot or vehicle.]

1. To be carried on horseback, or on any beast, or in any vehicle. We ride on a horse, on a camel, in a coach, chariot, wagon, etc.

2. To be borne on or in a fluid. A ship rides at anchor; the ark rode on the flood; a balloon rides in the air.

He rode on a cherub and did fly; yea, he did fly on the wings of the wind. Psalms 18:1.

3. To be supported in motion.

Strong as the axle-tree on which heaven rides.

4. To practice riding. He rides often for his health.

5. To manage a horse well.

He rode, he fenc'd, he mov'd with graceful ease.

6. To be supported by something subservient; to sit.

On whose foolish honesty my practices rid easy.

To ride easy, in seaman's language, is when a ship does not labor or feel a great strain on her cables.

To ride hard, is when a ship pitches violently, so as to strain her cables, masts and hull.

To ride out, as a gale, signifies that a ship does not drive during a storm.

RIDE, verb transitive

1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse.

They ride the air in whirlwind.

2. To manage insolently at will; as in priestridden.

The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers and brewers.

3. To carry. [Local.]

RIDE, noun

1. An excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

2. A saddle horse. [Local.]

3. A road cut in a wood or through a ground for the amusement of riding; a riding.

Rider

RI'DER, noun

1. One who is borne on a horse or other beast, or in a vehicle.

2. One who breaks or manages a horse.

3. The matrix of an ore.

4. An inserted leaf or an additional clause, as to a bill in parliament.

5. In ship building, a short of interior rib fixed occasionally in a ships's hold, opposite to some of the timbers to which they are bolted, and reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.

Ridge

RIDGE, noun [Latin rugo.]

1. The back or top of the back.

2. A long or continued range of hills or mountains; or the upper part of such a range. We say, a long ridge of hills, or the highest ridge

3. A steep elevation, eminence or protuberance.

Part rise in crystal wall, or ridge direct.

4. A long rising land, or a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows. Psalms 65:10.

5. The top of the roof of a building.

6. Any long elevation of land.

7. Ridges of a horse's mouth, are wrinkles or risings of flesh in the roof of the mouth.

RIDGE, verb transitive

1. To form a ridge; as bristles that ridge the back of a boar.

2. In tillage, to form into ridges with the plow. The farmers in Connecticut ridge their land for maize, leaving a balk between two ridges.

3. To wrinkle.

Ridgil

RIDG'IL,

RIDG'LING, noun The male of any beast half gelt.

Ridgling

RIDG'LING, n. The male of any beast half gelt.

Ridgy

RIDG'Y, adjective Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.

Ridicule

RID'ICULE, noun [Latin ridiculum, from rideo, to laugh or laugh at.]

1. Contemptuous laughter; laughter with some degree of contempt; derision. It expresses less than scorn. ridicule is aimed at what is not only laughable, but improper, absurd or despicable. Sacred subjects should never be treated with ridicule [See Ludicrous.]

Ridicule is too rough an entertainment for the polished and refined. It is banished from France, and is losing ground in England.

2. That species of writing which excites contempt with laughter. It differs from burlesque, which may excite laughter without contempt, or it may provoke derision.

Ridicule and derision are not exactly the same, as derision is applied to persons only, and ridicule to persons or things. We deride the man, but ridicule the man or his performances.

RID'ICULE, verb transitive

1. To laugh at with expressions of contempt; to deride.

2. To treat with contemptuous merriment; to expose to contempt or derision by writing.

RID'ICULE, adjective Ridiculous. [Not in use.]

Ridiculed

RID'ICULED, participle passive Treated with laughter and contempt; derided.

Ridiculer

RID'ICULER, noun One that ridicules.

Ridiculing

RID'ICULING, participle present tense Laughing at in contempt; exposing to contempt and derision.

Ridiculous

RIDIC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin ridiculus.]

That may justly excite laughter with contempt; as a ridiculous dress; ridiculous behavior. A fop and a dandy are ridiculous in their dress.

Ridiculously

RIDIC'ULOUSLY, adverb In a manner worthy of contemptuous merriment; as a man ridiculously vain.

Ridiculousness

RIDIC'ULOUSNESS, noun The quality of being ridiculous; as the ridiculousness of worshiping idols.

Riding

RI'DING, participle present tense [from ride.]

1. Passing or traveling on a beast or in a vehicle; floating.

2. adjective Employed to travel on any occasion.

No suffragan bishop shall have more than one riding apparitor.

RI'DING, noun

1. A road cut in a wood or through a ground, for the diversion of riding therein.

2. [corrupted from trithing, third.] One of the three intermediate jurisdictions between a three and a hundred, into which the county of York, in England, is divided, anciently under the government of a reeve.

Riding-Clerk

RI'DING-CLERK, noun In England, one of the six clerks in chancery.

Riding-Coat

RI'DING-COAT, noun A coat for riding on a journey.

Riding-Habit

RI'DING-HABIT, noun A garment worn by females when they ride or travel.

Riding-Hood

RI'DING-HOOD, noun A hood used by females when they ride; a kind of cloak with a hood.

Riding-School

RI'DING-SCHOOL, noun A school or place where the art of riding is taught. It may in some places be called a riding-house.

Ridotto

RIDOT'TO, noun [Latin reductus.]

1. A public assembly.

2. A musical entertainment consisting of singing and dancing, in the latter of which the whole company join.

Rie

RIE. [See Rye.]

Rife

RIFE, adjective [Heb. to multiply.]

Prevailing; prevalent. It is used of epidemic diseases.

The plague was then rife in Hungary.

Rifely

RI'FELY, adverb Prevalently; frequently.

It was rifely reported that the Turks were coming in a great fleet.

Rifeness

RI'FENESS, noun Frequency; prevalence.

Riffraff

RIFF'RAFF, noun Sweepings; refuse.

Rifle

RI'FLE, verb transitive [This is one of the family of rip, rive, reap, raffle, Latin rapio. Eng. rub, etc.]

1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away.

Till time shall rifle ev'ry youthful grace.

2. To strip; to rob; to pillage; to plunder.

You have rifled my master.

RI'FLE, noun [This word belongs to the family of rip, rive, Latin rapio, etc. supra. The word means primarily a channel or groove.]

A gun about the usual length and size of a musket, the inside of whose barrel is rifled, that is, grooved, or formed with spiral channels.

RI'FLE, verb transitive To groove; to channel.

Rifled

RI'FLED, participle passive Seized and carried away by violence; pillaged; channeled.

Rifleman

RI'FLEMAN, noun A man armed with a rifle.

Rifler

RI'FLER, noun A robber; one that seizes and bears away by violence.

Rifling

RI'FLING, participle present tense Plundering; seizing and carrying away by violence; grooving.

Rift

RIFT, noun [from rive.] A cleft; a fissure; an opening made by riving or splitting.

RIFT, verb transitive to cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock.

RIFT, verb intransitive

1. to burst open; to split.

Timber - not apt to rift with ordnance.

2. to belch; to break wind. [Local.]

Rifted

RIFT'ED, participle passive split; rent; cleft.

Rifting

RIFT'ING, participle present tense splitting; cleaving; bursting.

Rig

RIG, noun A ridge, which see.

RIG, verb transitive

1. to dress; to put on; when applied to persons, not elegant, but rather a ludicrous word, to express the putting on of a gay, flaunting or unusual dress.

Jack was rigged out in his gold and silver lace, with a feather in his cap.

2. To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.

3. To rig a ship, in seamen's language, is to fit the shrouds, stays, braces, etc. to their respective masts and yards.

RIG, noun [See the Verb.]

1. Dress; also, bluster.

2. A romp; a wanton; a strumpet.

To run the rig to play a wanton trick.

To run the rig upon, to practice a sportive trick on.

RIG, verb intransitive to play the wanton.

Rigadoon

RIGADOON', noun a gay brisk dance performed by one couple, and said to have been borrowed from Provdence in France.

Rigation

RIGA'TION, noun [Latin rigatio, from rigo, Gr. See Rain.]

The act of watering; but irrigation is generally used.

Rigged

RIG'GED, participle passive Dressed; furnished with shrouds, stays, etc. as a ship.

Rigger

RIG'GER, noun One that rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.

Rigging

RIG'GING, participle present tense Dressing; fitting with shrouds, braces, etc.

RIG'GING, noun Dress; tackle; particularly, the ropes which support the masts, extend and contract the sails, etc. of a ship. This is of two kinds, standing rigging as the shrouds and stays, and running rigging such as braces, sheets, halliards, clewlines, etc.

Riggish

RIG'GISH, adjective Wanton; lewd. [Not in use.]

Riggle

RIG'GLE, verb intransitive To move one way and the other. [See Wriggle.]