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Right
RIGHT, adjective rite. [Latin rectus, from the root of rego, properly to strain or stretch, whence straight.]
Properly; strained; stretched to straightness; hence,
1. Straight. A right line in geometry is the shortest line that can be drawn or imagined between two points. A right line may be horizontal, perpendicular, or inclined to the plane of the horizon.
2. In morals and religion, just; equitable; accordant to the standard of truth and justice or the will of God. That alone is right in the sight of God, which is consonant to his will or law; this being the only perfect standard of truth and justice. In social and political affairs, that is right which is consonant to the laws and customs of a country, provided these laws and customs are not repugnant to the laws of God. A man's intentions may be right though his actions may be wrong in consequence of a defect in judgment.
3. Fit; suitable; proper; becoming. In things indifferent, or which are regulated by no positive law, that is right which is best suited to the character, occasion or purpose, or which is fitted to produce some good effect. It is right for a rich man to dress himself and his family in expensive clothing, which it would not be right for a poor man to purchase. It is right for every man to choose his own time for eating or exercise.
RIGHT is a relative term; what may be right for one end, may be wrong for another.
4. Lawful; as the right heir of an estate.
5. True; not erroneous or wrong; according to fact.
If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right 'let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'
6. Correct; passing a true judgment; not mistaken or wrong.
You are right justice, and you weigh this well.
7. Not left; most convenient or dextrous; as the right hand, which is generally most strong or most convenient in use.
8. Most favorable or convenient.
The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
9. Properly placed, disposed or adjusted; orderly; well regulated.
10. Well performed, as an art or act.
11. Most direct; as the right way from London to Oxford.
12. Being on the same side as the right hand; as the right side.
13. Being on the right hand of a person whose face is towards the mouth of a river; as the right bank of the Hudson.
RIGHT, adverb
1. In a right or straight line; directly.
Let thine eyes look right on. .
2. According to the law or will of God, or to the standard of truth and justice; as, to judge right
3. According to any rule of art.
You with strict discipline instructed right
4. According to fact or truth; as, to tell a story right
5. In a great degree; very; as right humble; right noble; right valiant. [Obsolescent or inelegant.]
6. It is prefixed to titles; as in right honorable; right reverend.
RIGHT, is used elliptically for it is right what you say is right it is true, etc.
RIGHT, cries his lordship.
On the right on the side with the right hand.
RIGHT, noun
1. Conformity to the will of God, or to his law, the perfect standard of truth and justice. In the literal sense, right is a straight line of conduct, and wrong a crooked one. right therefore is rectitude or straightness, and perfect rectitude is found only in an infinite Being and his will.
2. Conformity to human laws, or to other human standard of truth, propriety or justice. When laws are definite, right and wrong are easily ascertained and understood. In arts, there are some principles and rules which determine what is right In many things indifferent, or left without positive law, we are to judge what is right by fitness or propriety, by custom, civility or other circumstances.
3. Justice; that which is due or proper; as, to do right to every man.
Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, and well deserv'd had fortune done him right
4. Freedom from error; conformity with truth or fact.
Seldom your opinions err, your eyes are always in the right
5. Just claim; legal title; ownership; the legal power of exclusive possession and enjoyment. In hereditary monarchies, a right to the throne vests in the heir on the decease of the king. A deed vests the right of possession in the purchaser of land. right and possession are very different things. We often have occasion to demand and sue for rights not in possession.
6. Just claim by courtesy, customs, or the principles of civility and decorum. Every man has a right to civil treatment. The magistrate has a right to respect.
7. Just claim by sovereignty; prerogative. God, as the author of all things, has a right to govern and dispose of them at his pleasure.
8. That which justly belongs to one.
Born free, he sought his right
9. Property; interest.
A subject in his prince may claim a right
10. Just claim; immunity; privilege. All men have a right to the secure enjoyment of life, personal safety, liberty and property. We deem the right of trial by jury invaluable, particularly in the case of crimes. Rights are natural, civil, political, religious, personal, and public.
11. Authority; legal power. We have no right to disturb others in the enjoyment of their religious opinions.
12. In the United States, a tract of land; or a share or proportion of property, as in a mine or manufactory.
13. The side opposite to the left; as on the right Look to the right
1. To rights, in a direct line; straight. [Unusual.]
2. Directly; soon.
To set to rights,
To put to rights, to put into good order; to adjust; to regulate what is out of order.
Bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself.
Writ of right a writ which lies to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
RIGHT, verb transitive
1. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; as, to right an injured person.
2. In seamen's language, to right a ship, is to restore her to an upright position from a careen.
To right the helm, to place it in the middle of the ship.
RIGHT, verb intransitive To rise with the masts erect, as a ship.
Right-Hand
RIGHT-HAND, noun The hand opposite to the left, usually the strongest, most convenient or dextrous hand, and hence its name in other languages, as well as in our.
Righted
RIGHTED, participle passive Relieved from injustice; set upright.
Righten
RIGHTEN, verb transitive To do justice to. obsolete
Righteous
RIGHTEOUS, adjective ri'chus.
1. Just; accordant to the divine law. Applied to persons, it denotes one who is holy in heart, and observant of the divine commands in practice; as a righteous man. Applied to things, it denotes consonant to the divine will or to justice; as a righteous act. It is used chiefly in theology, and applied to God, to his testimonies and to his saints.
The righteous in Scripture, denote the servants of God, the saints.
2. Just; equitable; merited.
And I thy righteous doom will bless.
Righteously
RIGHTEOUSLY, adverb ri'chusly. Justly; in accordance with the laws of justice; equitably; as a criminal righteously condemned.
Thou shalt judge the people righteously .
Righteousness
RIGHTEOUSNESS, noun ri'chusness.
1. Purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law. righteousness as used in Scripture and theology, in which it is chiefly used, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart, and conformity of life to the divine law. It includes all we call justice, honesty and virtue, with holy affections; in short, it is true religion.
2. Applied to God, the perfection or holiness of his nature; exact rectitude; faithfulness.
3. The active and passive obedience of Christ, by which the law of God is fulfilled. .
4. Justice; equity between man and man. .
5. The cause of our justification.
The Lord our righteousness .
Righter
RIGHTER, noun One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.
Rightful
RIGHTFUL, adjective
1. Having the right or just claim according to established laws; as the rightful heir to a throne or an estate.
2. Being by right, or by just claim; as a rightful lord; rightful property; rightful judge.
3. Just; consonant to justice; as a rightful cause; a rightful war.
Rightfully
RIGHTFULLY, adverb According to right, law or justice; as a title rightfully vested.
Rightfulness
RIGHTFULNESS, noun
1. Justice; accordance with the rules of right; as the rightfulness of a claim to lands or tenements.
2. Moral rectitude.
But still although we fail of perfect rightfulness [Not usual.]
Righting
RIGHTING, participle passive Doing justice; to; setting upright.
Rightly
RIGHTLY, adverb
1. According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; as duty rightly performed.
2. Properly; fitly; suitably; as a person rightly named.
3. According to truth or fact; not erroneously. He has rightly conjectured.
4. Honestly; uprightly.
5. Exactly.
Thou didst not rightly see.
6. Straightly; directly. [Not in use.]
Rightness
RIGHTNESS, noun
1. Correctness; conformity to truth or to the divine will, which is the standard of moral rectitude. It is important that a man should have such persuasion of the rightness of his conscience as to exclude rational doubt.
2. Straightness; as the rightness of a line.
Rigid
RIG'ID, adjective [Gr. to be stiff; Latin frigeo, frigidus; Heb. to be still, to be stiff.]
1. Stiff; not pliant; not easily bent. It is applied to bodies or substances that are naturally soft or flexible, but not fluid. We never say, a rigid stone or rigid iron, nor do we say, rigid ice; but we say, an animal body or limb, when cold, is rigid rigid is then opposed to flexible, but expresses less than inflexible.
2. Strict in opinion, practice or discipline; severe in temper; opposed to lax or indulgent; as a rigid father or master; a rigid officer.
3. Strict; exact; as a rigid law or rule; rigid discipline; rigid criticism.
4. Severely just; as a rigid sentence or judgment.
5. Exactly according to the sentence or law; as rigid execution.
Rigidity
RIGID'ITY, noun [Latin rigiditas.]
1. Stiffness; want of pliability; the quality of not being easily bent.
2. A brittle hardness, as opposed to ductibility, malleability and softness.
3. Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or airy elegance.
Rigidly
RIG'IDLY, adverb
1. Stuffy; unpliantly.
2. Severely; strictly; exactly; without laxity, indulgence or abatement; as, to judge rigidly; to criticize rigidly; to execute a law rigidly
Rigidness
RIG'IDNESS, noun
1. Stiffness of a body; the quality of not being easily bent; as the rigidness of a limb or of flesh.
2. Severity of temper; strictness in opinion or practice; but expressing less than inflexibility.
Riglet
RIG'LET, noun [Latin regula, rego.] a flat thin piece of wood, used for picture frames; also used in printing; to regulate the margin, 7c.
Rigmarole
RIG'MAROLE, noun a repetition of stories; a succession of stories.
Rigol
RIG'OL, noun A circle; a diadem.
Rigoli
RIG'OLI, noun a musical instrument consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads.
Rigor
RIG'OR, noun [Latin from rigeo, to be stiff.
1. Stiffness; rigidness; as Gorgonian rigor
2. In medicine, a sense of chilliness, with contradiction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or slight tremor, as in the cold fit of a fever.
3. Stiffness of opinion or temper; severity; sternness.
All his rigor is turned to grief and pity.
4. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence or mortification.
5. Strictness; exactness without allowance, latitude or indulgence; as the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor
6. violence; fury. [Not in use.]
7. Hardness; solidity. [Unusual.]
8. Severity; asperity; as the rigors of a cold winter.
Rigorous
RIG'OROUS, adjective
1. Severe; allowing no abatement or mitigation; as a rigorous officer of justice.
2. Severe; exact; strict; without abatement or relaxation; as a rigorous execution of law; an enforcement of rigorous discipline.
3. Exact; strict; scrupulously accurate; as a rigorous definition or demonstration.
4. Severe; very cold; as a rigorous winter.
Rigorously
RIG'OROUSLY, adverb
1. Severely; without relaxation, abatement or mitigation; as a sentence rigorously executed.
2. Strictly; exactly; with scrupulous nicety; rigidly.
The people would examine his works more vigorously than himself.
Rigorousness
RIG'OROUSNESS, noun
1. Severity without relaxation or mitigation; exactness.
2. Severity
Rill
RILL, noun
A small brook; a rivulet; a streamlet.
RILL, verb intransitive to run in a small stream, or in streamlets.
Rillet
RILL'ET, noun A small stream; a rivulet.
Rim
RIM, noun
1. the border, edge or margin of a thing; as the rim of a kettle or bason; usually applied to things circular or curving.
2. the lower part of the belly or abdomen.
RIM, verb transitive to put on a rim or hoop at the border.
RIME, noun This is the more correct orthography, but rhyme is commonly used, which see.]
RIME, noun
White or hoar frost; congealed dew or vapor.
RIME, noun [Latin rima.]
A chink; a fissure; a rent or long aperture. [Not in use.]
RIME, verb intransitive to freeze or congeal into hoar frost.
Rime
RIME, noun [The deduction of this word from the Greek is a palpable error. The true orthography is rime or ryme; but as rime is hoar frost, and rhyme gives the true pronunciation, it may be convenient to continue the present orthography.
1. In poetry, the correspondence of sounds in the terminating words or syllables of two verses, one of which succeeds the other immediately, or at no great distance.
For rhyme with reason may dispense, and sound has right to govern sense.
To constitute this correspondence in single words or in syllables, it is necessary that the vowel, and the final articulations or consonants, should be the same, or have nearly the same sound. The initial consonants may be different, as in find and mind, new and drew, cause and laws.
2. A harmonical succession of sounds.
The youth with songs and rhymes, some dance, and some haul the rope.
3. Poetry; a poem.
He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
4. A word of sound to answer to another word.
Rhyme or reason, number or sense.
But from that time unto this season, I had neither rhyme nor reason.
RHYME, verb intransitive
1. To accord in sound.
But fagoted his notions as they fell, and if they rhym'd and rattl'd, all was well.
2. To make verses.
There march'd the bard and blockhead side by side, who rhym'd for hire, and patroniz'd for pride.
RHYME, verb transitive To put into rhyme.
Rimose
RI'MOSE,
RI'MOUS, adjective [Latin rimosus, from rima.] In botany, chinky; abounding with clefts, cracks or chinks; as the bark of trees.
Rimous
RI'MOUS, a. [L. rimosus, from rima.] In botany, chinky; abounding with clefts, cracks or chinks; as the bark of trees.
Rimple
RIM'PLE, noun A fold or wrinkle. [See rumple.]
RIM'PLE, verb transitive To rumple; to wrinkle.
Rimpling
RIM'PLING, noun Undulation.
Rimy
RI'MY, adjective [from rime.] Abounding with rime; frosty.
Rind
RIND, noun [Gr.]
The bark of a plant; the skin or coat of fruit that may be pared or peeled off; also, the inner bark of trees.
RIND, verb transitive To bark; to decorticate. [Not in use.]
Rindle
RIN'DLE, noun A small water course or gutter.
Ring
RING, noun
1. A circle, or a circular line, or any thing in the form of a circular line or hoop. Thus we say of men, they formed themselves into a ring to see a wrestling match. Rings of gold were made for the ark. . Rings of gold or other material are worn on the fingers and sometimes in the ears, as ornaments.
2. A circular course.
Place me, O place me in the dusty ring where youthful charioteers contend for glory.
RING, noun [from the verb.]
1. A sound; particularly, the sound of metals; as the ring of a bell.
2. Any loud sound, or the sounds of numerous voices; or sound continued, repeated or reverberated; as the ring of acclamations.
3. A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
RING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive rung.
To cause to sound, particularly by striking a metallic body; as, to ring a bell. This word expresses appropriately the sounding of metals.
RING, verb transitive [from the noun.
1. To encircle.
2. To fit with rings, as the fingers, or as a swine's snout. Farmers ring swine to prevent their rooting.
And ring these fingers with thy household worms.
RING, verb intransitive
1. To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
2. To practice the art of making music with bells.
3. To sound; to resound.
With sweeter notes each rising temple rung.
4. To utter, as a bell; to sound.
The shardborn beetle with his drowsy hums, hath rung night's yawning peal.
5. To tinkle; to have the sensation of sound continued.
My ears still ring with noise.
6. To be filled with report or talk. The whole town rings with his fame.
Ring-Bolt
RING'-BOLT, noun An iron bolt with an eye to which is fitted a ring of iron.
RING'-BONE, noun A callus growing in the hollow circle of the little pastern of a horse, just above the coronet.
Ring-Streaked
RING'-STREAKED, adjective [ring and streak.] Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as ring-streaked goats. .
Ring-Worm
RING'-WORM, noun [ring and worm.] A circular eruption on the skin; a kind of tetter. [Herpes serpigo.]
Ringdove
RING'DOVE, noun A species of pigeon, the Columba palumbus, the largest of the European species.
Ringent
RING'ENT, adjective [Latin ringor, to make wry faces, that is, to wring or twist.]
In botany, a ringent or labiate corol is one which is irregular, monopetalous, with the border usually divided into two parts called the upper and lower lip; or irregular and gaping, like the mouth of an animal.
Ringer
RING'ER, noun One who rings. [In the sense of wringer, not used.]
Ringing
RING'ING, participle present tense Causing to sound, as a bell; sounding; fitting with rings.
RING'ING, noun The act of sounding or of causing to sound.
Ringlead
RING'LEAD, verb transitive To conduct. [Little used.]
Ringleader
RING'LEADER, noun [ring and leader.] The leader of any association of men engaged in violating of law or an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers and the like. this name is derived from the practice which men associating to oppose law have sometimes adopted, of signing their names to articles of agreement in a ring, that no one of their number might be distinguished as the leader.
Ringlet
RING'LET, noun
1. A small ring.
2. A curl; particularly, a curl of hair.
Her golden tresses in wanton ringlets wav'd
3. A circle.
To dance our ringlets in the whistling wind.
RING'-OUSEL, noun A bird of the genus Turdus, inhabiting the hilly and mountainous parts of Great Britain.
Rinse
RINSE, verb transitive rins. [Our common people pronounce this word rens, retaining their native pronunciation. This is one of a thousand instances in which the purity of our vernacular language has been corrupted by those who have understood French better than their mother tongue.]
1. To wash; to cleanse by washing. But in present usage,
2. To cleanse with a second or repeated application of water, after washing. We distinguish washing from rinsing. Washing is performed by rubbing, or with the use of soap; rinsing is performed with clean water, without much rubbing or the use of soap. Clothes are rinsed by dipping and dashing; and vessels are rinsed by dashing water on them, or by slight rubbing. A close barrel may be rinsed, but cannot well be washed.
Rinsed
RINS'ED, participle passive Cleansed with a second water; cleaned.
Rinser
RINS'ER, noun One that rinses.
Rinsing
RINS'ING, participle present tense Cleansing with a second water.
Riot
RI'OT, noun
1. In a general sense, tumult; uproar; hence technically, in law, a riotous assembling of twelve persons or more, and not dispersing upon proclamation.
The definition of riot must depend on the laws. In Connecticut, the assembling of three persons or more, to do an unlawful act by violence against the person or property of another, and not dispersing upon proclamation, is declared to be a riot In Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the number necessary to constitute a riot is twelve.
2. Uproar; wild and noisy festivity.
3. Excessive and expensive feasting. .
4. Luxury.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today.
To run riot to act or move without control or restraint.
RI'OT, verb intransitive
1. To revel; to run to excess in feasting, drinking or other sensual indulgences.
2. To luxuriate; to be highly excited.
No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows.
3. To banquet; to live in luxury; to enjoy.
How base is the ingratitude which forgets the benefactor, while it is rioting on the benefit!
4. To raise an uproar or sedition.
Rioter
RI'OTER, noun
1. One who indulges in loose festivity or excessive feasting.
2. In law, one guilty of meeting with others to do an unlawful act, and declining to retire upon proclamation.
Rioting
RI'OTING, participle present tense Reveling; indulging in excessive feasting.
RI'OTING, noun A reveling.
Riotise
RI'OTISE, noun Dissoluteness; luxury. [Not in use.]
Riotous
RI'OTOUS, adjective
1. Luxurious; wanton or licentious in festive indulgences; as riotous eaters of flesh. .
2. Consisting of riot; tumultuous; partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly; seditious.
3. Guilty of riot; applied to persons.
Riotously
RI'OTOUSLY, adverb
1. With excessive or licentious luxury.
2. In the manner of an unlawful assembly; tumultuously; seditiously.
Riotousness
RI'OTOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being riotous.
Rip
RIP, verb transitive [Latin rapio. Eng. reap and rive; allied perhaps to the Latin crepo.]
1. To separate by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip open a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip open a sack; to rip off the shingles or clapboards of a house; to rip up a floor. We never use lacerate in these senses, but apply it to a partial tearing of the skin and flesh.
2. To take out or away by cutting or tearing.
He'll rip the fatal secret from her heart.
3. To tear up for search or disclosure or for alteration; to search to the bottom; with up.
You rip up the original of Scotland.
They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.
4. To rip out, as an oath. [L crepo.]
RIP, noun
1. A tearing; a place torn; laceration.
2. A wicker basket to carry fish in.
3. Refuse. [Not in use or local.]
Ripe
RIPE, adjective
1. Brought to perfection in growth or to the best state; mature; fit for use; as ripe fruit; ripe corn.
2. Advanced to perfection; matured; as ripe judgment, or ripe in judgment.
3. Finished; consummate; as a ripe scholar.
4. Brought to the point of taking effect; matured; ready; prepared; as things just ripe for war.
5. Fully qualified by improvement; prepared; as a student ripe for the university; a saint ripe for heaven.
6. Resembling the ripeness of fruit; as a ripe lip.
7. Complete; proper for use.
When time is ripe
8. Maturated; suppurated; as an abscess or tumor.
RIPE, verb intransitive To ripen; to grow ripe; to be matured. [Not used. See Ripen.]
RIPE, verb transitive To mature; to ripen. [Not used.]
Ripely
RI'PELY, adverb Maturely; at the fit time.
Ripen
RIPEN, verb intransitive ri'pn.
1. To grow ripe; to be matured; as grain or fruit. Grain ripens best in dry weather.
2. To approach or come to perfection; to be fitted or prepared; as, a project is ripening for execution.
RIPEN, verb transitive ri'pn.
1. To mature; to make ripe; as grain or fruit.
2. To mature; to fit or prepare; as, to ripen one for heaven.
3. To bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
Ripeness
RI'PENESS, noun
1. The state of being ripe or brought to that state of perfection which fits for use; maturity; as the ripeness of grain.
2. Full growth.
Time which made them their fame outlive, to Cowley scarce did ripeness give.
3. Perfection; completeness; as the ripeness of virtue, wisdom or judgment.
4. Fitness; qualification.
5. Complete maturation or suppuration, as of an ulcer or abscess.
6. A state of preparation; as the ripeness of a project for execution.
Riphean
RIPHE'AN, adjective An epithet given to certain mountains in the north of Asia, probably signifying snowy mountains.
Ripier
RIP'IER,
RIP'PED, participle passive Torn or cut off or out; torn open.
RIP'PER, noun One who tears or cuts open.
Ripped
RIP'PED, pp. Torn or cut off or out; torn open.
Ripper
RIP'PER, noun In old laws, one who brings fish to market in the inland country.
Ripping
RIP'PING, participle present tense Cutting or tearing off or open; tearing up.
RIP'PING, noun
1. A tearing.
2. A discovery. obsolete
Ripple
RIP'PLE, verb intransitive
To fret on the surface; as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom, appears rough and broken, or as if ripped or torn.
RIP'PLE, verb transitive
1. To clean, as flax.
2. To agitate the surface of water.
RIP'PLE, noun
1. The fretting of the surface of water; little curling waves.
2. A large comb or hatchel for cleaning flax.
Rippling
RIP'PLING, participle present tense Fretting on the surface.
RIP'PLING, noun
1. The ripple dashing on the shore, or the noise of it.
2. The act or method of cleaning flax; a hatcheling.
Ript
RIPT, participle passive for ripped.
Riptowell
RIP'TOWELL, noun A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn.
Rise
RISE, verb intransitive rize. preterit tense rose; participle passive risen; pronoun rose, rizn. [See Raise.]
1. To move to pass upward in any manner; to ascend; as, a fog rises from a river or from low ground; a fish rises in water; fowls rise in the air; clouds rise from the horizon towards the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds.
2. To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed.
3. To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall.
4. To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, to rise from a sofa or chair.
5. To spring; to grow; as a plant; hence, to be high or tall. A tree rises to the height of 60 feet.
6. To swell in quantity or extent; to be more elevated; as, a river rises after a rain.
7. To break forth; to appear; as, a boil rises on the skin.
8. To appear above the horizon; to shine; as, the sun or a star rises.
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good. .
9. To begin to exist; to originate; to come into being or notice. Great evils sometimes rise from small imprudences.
10. To be excited; to begin to move or act; as, the wind rose at 12 o'clock.
11. To increase in violence. The wind continued to rise till 3 o'clock.
12. To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader's view.
13. To appear in sight; also, to appear more elevated; as in sailing towards a shore, the land rises.
14. To change a station; to leave a place; as, to rise from a siege.
15. To spring; to be excited or produced. A thought now rises in my mind.
16. To gain elevation in rank, fortune or public estimation; to be promoted. Men may rise by industry, by merit, by favor, or by intrigue.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
When the wicked rise men hide themselves. .
17. To break forth into public commotions; to make open opposition to government; or to assemble and oppose government; or to assemble in arms for attacking another nation. The Greeks have risen against their oppressors.
No more shall nation against nation rise
18. To be excited or roused into action.
RISE up to the battle. .
19. To make a hostile attack; as when a man riseth against his neighbor. .
Also, to rebel. .
20. To increase; to swell; to grow more or greater. A voice, feeble at first, rises to thunder. The price of good rises. The heat rises to intensity.
21. To be improved; to recover from depression; as, a family may rise after misfortune to opulence and splendor.
22. To elevate the style or manner; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence.
23. To be revived from death.
The dead in Christ shall rise first. .
24. To come by chance.
25. To ascend; to be elevated above the level or surface; as, the ground rises gradually one hundred yards. The Andes rise more than 20, 000 feet above the level of the ocean; a mountain in Asia is said to rise still higher.
26. To proceed from.
A scepter shall rise out of Israel. .
27. To have its sources in. Rivers rise in lakes, ponds and springs.
28. To be moved, roused, excited, kindled or inflamed, as passion. His wrath rose to rage.
29. To ascend in the diatonic scale; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
30. To amount. The public debt rises to a hundred million.
31. To close a session. We say, congress will rise on the 4th of March; the legislature or the court will rise on a certain day.
This verb is written also arise, which see. In general, it is indifferent which orthography is used; but custom has, in some cases, established one to the exclusion of the other. Thus we never say, the price of goods arises, when we mean advanced, but we always say, the price rises. We never say, the ground arises to a certain altitude, and rarely, a man arises into an office or station. It is hardly possible to class or define the cases in which usage has established a difference in the orthography of this verb.
RISE, noun rise
1. The act of rising, either in a literal or figurative sense; ascent; as the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of mercury in the barometer; the rise of water in a river.
2. The act of springing or mounting from the ground; as the rise of the feet in leaping.
3. Ascent; elevation, or degree of ascent; as the rise of a hill or mountain.
4. Spring; source; origin; as the rise of a stream in a mountain. All sin has its rise in the heart.
5. Any place elevated above the common level; as a rise of land.
6. Appearance above the horizon; as the rise of the sun or a star.
7. Increase; advance; as a rise in the price of wheat.
8. Advance in rank, honor, property or fame. Observe a man after his rise to office, or a family after its rise from obscurity.
9. Increase of sound on the same key; a swelling of the voice.
10. Elevation or ascent of the voice in the diatonic scale; as a rise of a tone or semitone.
11. Increase; augmentation.
12. A bough or branch. [Not in use.]
Risen
RIS'EN, participle passive [See Rise.]
Riser
RI'SER, noun
1. One that rises; as an early riser
2. Among joiners, the upright board of a stair.
Risibility
RISIBIL'ITY, noun [from risible.]
1. The quality of laughing, or of being capable of laughter. risibility is peculiar to the human species.
2. Proneness to laugh.
Risible
RI'SIBLE, adjective [Latin risibilis, from rideo, risi, to laugh. See Ridiculous.]
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing. Man is a risible animal.
2. Laughable; capable of exciting laughter. The description of Falstaff in Shakespeare, exhibits a risible scene. risible differs from ludicrous, as species from genus; ludicrous expressing that which is playful and sportive; risible that which may excite laughter. risible differs from ridiculous, as the latter implies something mean or contemptible, and risible does not.
Rising
RI'SING, participle present tense
1. Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceeding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, etc.
2. Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as a rising state; a rising character.
RI'SING, noun
1. The act of getting up from any recumbent or sitting posture.
2. The act of ascending; as the rising of vapor.
3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as the rising of the legislature.
4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon.
5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection.
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6. A tumor on the body. .
7. An assembling in opposition to government; insurrection; sedition or mutiny.
Risk
RISK, noun
1. Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to harm. He, at the risk of his life, saved a drowning man.
2. In commerce, the hazard of loss, either of ship, goods or other property. Hence, risk signifies also the degree of hazard or danger; for the premiums of insurance are calculated upon the risk The underwriters now take risks at a low premium.
To run a risk is to incur hazard; to encounter danger.
RISK, verb transitive
1. To hazard; to endanger; to expose to injury or loss; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication; to risk life in defense of rights.
2. To venture; to dare to undertake; as, to risk a battle or combat.
Risked
RISK'ED, participle passive Hazarded; exposed to injury or loss.
Risker
RISK'ER, noun One who hazards.
Risking
RISK'ING, participle present tense Hazarding; exposing to injury or loss.
Risse
RISSE, obsolete preterit tense of rise.
Rite
RITE, noun [Latin ritus.]
The manner of performing divine or solemn service as established by law, precept or custom; formal act of religion, or other solemn duty. The rites of the Israelites were numerous and expensive; the rites of modern churches are more simple. Funeral rites are very different in different countries. The sacrament is a holy rite
Ritornello
RITORNEL'LO, noun
In music, a repeat; the burden of a song, or the repetition of a verse or strain.
Ritual
RIT'UAL, adjective
1. Pertaining to rites; consisting of rites; as ritual service or sacrifices.
2. Prescribing rites; as the ritual law.
RIT'UAL, noun A book containing the rites to be observed, or the manner of performing divine service in a particular church, diocese or the like.
Ritualist
RIT'UALIST, noun One skilled in the ritual.
Ritually
RIT'UALLY, adverb By rites; or by a particular rite.
Rivage
RIV'AGE, noun A bank, shore or coast. [Not in use.]
Rival
RI'VAL, noun [Latin rivalis; Heb. to contend, to strive. See Raffle.]
1. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can possess; a competitor; as rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Love will not patiently bear a rival
2. One striving to equal or exceed another in excellence; as two rivals in eloquence.
3. An antagonist; a competitor in any pursuit or strife.
RI'VAL, adjective Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions.
Equal in years and rival in renown.
RI'VAL, verb transitive
1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain the object which another is contending for; as, to rival one in love.
2. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.
To rival thunder in its rapid course.
RI'VAL, verb intransitive To be competitors. [Not in use.]
Rivality
RIVAL'ITY, noun Rivalry. [Not in use.]
Rivalry
RI'VALRY, noun [from rival.] Competition; a strife or effort to obtain an object which another is pursuing; as rivalry in love; or an endeavor to equal or surpass another in some excellence; emulation; as rivalry for superiority at the bar or in the senate.
Rivalship
RI'VALSHIP, noun
1. The state or character of a rival.
2. Strife; contention for superiority; emulation; rivalry.
Rive
RIVE, verb transitive preterit tense rived; participle passive rived or riven. [Latin rumpo, rupi. It may be allied to the family of Latin rapio, reap, rip.]
To split; to cleave; to rend asunder by force; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles with wedges; the riven oak; the riven clouds.
The scolding winds have riv'd the knotty oaks.
RIVE, verb intransitive To be split or rent asunder.
Freestone rives, splits and breaks in any direction.
Rivel
RIV'EL, verb transitive [This word is obsolete, but shrivel, from the same root, is in use. It may be allied to ruffle.]
To contract into wrinkles; to shrink; as riveled fruits; riveled flowers.
Riven
RIV'EN, participle passive of rive. Split; rent or burst asunder.
River
RI'VER, noun One who rives or splits.
RIV'ER, noun [Latin rivus, rivulus, rips.]
1. A large stream of water flowing in a channel on land towards the ocean, a lake or another river It is larger than a rivulet or brook; but is applied to any stream from the size of a mill-stream to that of the Danube, Maranon and Mississippi. We give this name to large streams which admit the tide and mingle salt water with fresh, as the rivers Hudson, Delaware and St. Lawrence.
2. A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as rivers of blood; rivers of oil
River-Dragon
RIV'ER-DRAGON, noun A crocodile; a name given by Milton to the king of Egypt.
River-God
RIV'ER-GOD, noun A deity supposed to preside over a river, as its tutelary divinity; a naiad.
River-Horse
RIV'ER-HORSE, noun The hippopotamus, an animal inhabiting rivers.
River-Water
RIV'ER-WATER, noun The water of a river, as distinguished from rain-water.
Riveret
RIV'ERET, noun A small river. [Not in use.]
Rivet
RIV'ET, verb transitive [Heb. to drive.]
1. To fasten with a rivet or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
2. To clinch; as, to rivet a pin or bolt.
3. To fasten firmly; to make firm, strong or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
RIV'ET, noun a pin of iron or other metal with a head, driven through a piece of timber or metal, and the point bent or spread and beat down fast, to prevent its being drawn out; or a pin or bolt clinched at both ends.
Riveted
RIV'ETED, participle passive Clinched; made fast.
Riveting
RIV'ETING, participle present tense Clinching; fastening firmly.
Rivulet
RIV'ULET, noun [Latin rivulus.] A small stream or book; a streamlet.
By fountain or by shady rivulet he sought them.
Rix-Dollar
RIX-DOL'LAR, noun
A silver coin of Germany, Denmark and Sweden, of different value in different places. In Hamburg and some other parts of Germany, its value is the same as the American dollar, or 4-6d sterling. In other parts of Germany, its value is 3-6d sterling, or about 78 cents.
Rixation
RIXA'TION, noun [Latin rixatio, from rixor, to brawl or quarrel.]
A brawl or quarrel. [Not in use.]
Roach
ROACH, noun
A fish of the genus Cyprinus, found in fresh water, easily caught and tolerably good for food.
As sound as a roach is a phrase supposed to have been originally, as sound as a rock.
Road
ROAD, noun [Latin gradior. See Grade.]
1. An open way or public passage; ground appropriated for travel, forming a communication between one city, town or place and another. The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street and lane. The military roads of the Romans were paved with stone, or formed of gravel or pebbles, and some of them remain to this day entire.
2. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; sometimes called roadstead, that is, a place for riding, meaning at anchor.
3. A journey. [Not used, but we still use ride as a noun; as a long ride; a short ride; the same word differently written.]
4. An inroad; incursion of an enemy. [Not in use.]
On the road passing; traveling.
Roader
ROADER,
ROADSTEAD. [See Road.]
Roadstead
ROADSTEAD. [See Road.]
Roadster
ROADSTER, noun Among seamen, a vessel riding at anchor in a road or bay.
Roadway
ROADWAY, noun A highway.
Roam
ROAM, verb intransitive [If m is radical, this word seems to be connected with ramble, Latin ramus.]
To wander; to ramble; to rove; to walk or move about from place to place without any certain purpose or direction. The wolf and the savage roam in the forest.
Daphne roaming through a thorny wood.
ROAM, verb transitive To range; to wander over; as, to roam the woods; but the phrase is elliptical.
Roamer
ROAMER, noun A wanderer; a rover; a rambler; a vagrant.
Roaming
ROAMING, participle present tense Wandering; roving.
ROAMING, noun The act of wandering.
Roan
ROAN, adjective A roan horse is one that is of a bay, sorrel or dark color, with spots of gray or white thickly interspersed.
Roan-Tree
ROAN-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Sorbus; the mountain ash.
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.