Dictionary
Found: 4,977 words.
Rankle
3 defs
To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
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With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.
The condition or quality of being rank.
A prostitute.
The erd shrew.
Ransack
5 defs
The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
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Ransom
5 defs
A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
Such as can be ransomed.
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One who ransoms or redeems.
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Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom.
Rant
2 defs
High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
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Ranter
3 defs
A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
The practice or tenets of the Ranters.
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In a ranting manner.
Rantipole
3 defs
A wild, romping young person.
Ranterism.
Wild; noisy; boisterous.
A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, mea...
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A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double an...
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The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
Rap
10 defs
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Same as Accipitres.
Rapacious
3 defs
Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
Rapacity
2 defs
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
See Rapparee.
Rape
11 defs
A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rapeful
2 defs
Given to the commission of rape.
Violently.
Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.
One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.
A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed c...
Raphe
2 defs
A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.
See Rhaphides.
Rapid
4 defs
Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
In a rapid manner.
Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.