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Rhea
  • (n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia

    Rhenish
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Rhine
  • (n.) Rhine wine.

    Rheometer
  • (n.) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents

    Rheostat
  • (n.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will

    Rhesus
  • (n.) A monkey

    Rhetoric
  • (n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction

    Rheum
  • (n.) A genus of plants.

    Rhinal
  • (a.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.

    Rhinencephalon
  • (n.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise

    Rhinestone
  • (n.) A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament

    Rhinitis
  • (n.) Infllammation of the nose

    Rhino
  • (n.) Gold and silver, or money.

    Rhizocarpous
  • (a.) Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems

    Rhizoid
  • (n.) A rootlike appendage.

    Rhizome
  • (n.) A rootstock.

    Rhizophagous
  • (a.) Feeding on roots

    Rhizopod
  • (n.) One of the Rhizopoda.

    Rhodium
  • (n.) A rare element of the light platinum group. It is found in platinum ores, and obtained free as a white inert metal which it is very difficult to fuse

    Rhodochrosite
  • (n.) Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite

    Rhododendron
  • (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers

    Rhodonite
  • (n.) Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses

    Rhodopsin
  • (n.) The visual purple.

    Rhomb
  • (n.) An equilateral parallelogram, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel

    Rhonchus
  • (n.) An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed

    Rhotacism
  • (n.) An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r

    Rhubarb
  • (n.) The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery

    Rhumb
  • (n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle

    Rhyme
  • (n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse
  • (v. t.) To influence by rhyme.

    Rhyolite
  • (n.) A quartzose trachyte, an igneous rock often showing a fluidal structure.

    Rhythm
  • (n.) A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables

    Rial
  • (a.) Royal.
  • (n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI

    Rib
  • (n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with ribs

    Ribald
  • (a.) Low
  • (n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch

    Ribband
  • (n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework

    Ribbed
  • (a.) Furnished or formed with ribs

    Ribbing
  • (n.) An assemblage or arrangement of ribs, as the timberwork for the support of an arch or coved ceiling, the veins in the leaves of some plants, ridges in the fabric of cloth, or the like

    Ribbon
  • (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons

    Rice
  • (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants

    Rich
  • (superl.) Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities
  • (v. t.) To enrich.

    Rick
  • (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching
  • (v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.

    Ricochet
  • (n.) A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water
  • (v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground
  • (v. t.) To operate upon by ricochet firing.

    Rictus
  • (n.) The gape of the mouth, as of birds

    Rid
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rid
  • (v. t.) To drive away

    Riddance
  • (n.) The act of ridding or freeing

    Ridden
  • (p. p.) of Ride

    Riddle
  • (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
  • (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
  • (v. t.) To explain

    Ride
  • (n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding
  • (v. i.) To be borne in a carriage
  • (v. t.) To convey, as by riding

    Ridge
  • (n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc
  • (v. t.) To form a ridge of

    Ridicule
  • (a.) Ridiculous.
  • (n.) An object of sport or laughter
  • (v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly

    Ridiculous
  • (a.) Fitted to excite ridicule

    Riding
  • (a.) Employed to travel
  • (n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.

    Ridotto
  • (n.) A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing
  • (v. i.) To hold ridottos.

    Rife
  • (a.) Having power

    Riffle
  • (n.) A ripple in a stream or current of water

    Riffraff
  • (n.) Sweepings

    Rifle
  • (n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
  • (v. i.) To commit robbery.
  • (v. t.) To grove

    Rifling
  • (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

    Rift
  • (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting
  • (v. i.) To belch.
  • (v. t.) To cleave

    Rig
  • (n.) A blast of wind.
  • (v. i.) To play the wanton
  • (v. t.) To dress

    Rigadoon
  • (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple

    Rigel
  • (n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.

    Rigger
  • (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

    Rigging
  • (n.) DRess

    Right
  • (a.) According with truth
  • (adv.) According to any rule of art
  • (v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.

    Rigid
  • (a.) Firm

    Rigmarole
  • (a.) Consisting of rigmarole
  • (n.) A succession of confused or nonsensical statements

    Rigor
  • (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin

    Rile
  • (v. t.) To render turbid or muddy

    Rill
  • (n.) A very small brook
  • (v. i.) To run a small stream.

    Rim
  • (n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a rim

    Rime
  • (n.) A rent or long aperture
  • (v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
  • (v. i. & t.) To rhyme.

    Rimose
  • (a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.

    Rimple
  • (n.) A fold or wrinkle.
  • (v. t. & i.) To rumple

    Rimy
  • (a.) Abounding with rime

    Rind
  • (n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.
  • (v. t.) To remove the rind of

    Rinforzando
  • (a.) Increasing

    Ring
  • (n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
  • (v. i.) To be filled with report or talk
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body

    Rink
  • (n.) An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating

    Rinse
  • (n.) The act of rinsing.
  • (v. t.) To cleancse by the introduction of water

    Riot
  • (n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting
  • (v. i.) To disturb the peace
  • (v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.

    Rip
  • (n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
  • (v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing

    Riparian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the bank of a river

    Ripe
  • (n.) The bank of a river.
  • (superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use
  • (v. i.) To ripen
  • (v. t.) To mature

    Ripieno
  • (a.) Filling up

    Ripper
  • (n.) Anything huge, extreme, startling, etc.

    Ripple
  • (n.) A little wave or undulation
  • (v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc
  • (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom
  • (v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear.

    Riprap
  • (n.) A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom
  • (v. t.) To form a riprap in or upon.

    Ripsaw
  • (v. t.) A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber

    Rise
  • (n.) Appearance above the horizon
  • (v.) In various figurative senses.
  • (v. i.) To cause to rise

    Risibility
  • (n.) The quality of being risible

    Risible
  • (a.) Exciting laughter

    Rising
  • (a.) Attaining a higher place
  • (n.) That which rises
  • (prep.) More than

    Risk
  • (n.) Hazard

    Risotto
  • (n.) A kind of pottage.

    Rissole
  • (n.) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

    Ritardando
  • (a.) Retarding

    Rite
  • (n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom

    Ritornello
  • (n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece

    Ritual
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual
  • (n.) A book containing the rites to be observed.

    Rivage
  • (n.) A bank, shore, or coast.

    Rival
  • (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims
  • (n.) A person having a common right or privilege with another
  • (v. i.) To be in rivalry.
  • (v. t.) To stand in competition with

    Rive
  • (n.) A place torn
  • (v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.
  • (v. t.) To rend asunder by force

    Rivulet
  • (n.) A small stream or brook

    Roach
  • (n.) A cockroach.
  • (v. t.) To cause to arch.

    Road
  • (n.) A journey, or stage of a journey.

    Roam
  • (n.) The act of roaming
  • (v. i.) To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction
  • (v. t.) To range or wander over.

    Roan
  • (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed
  • (n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco

    Roar
  • (n.) A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
  • (v. i.) To be boisterous
  • (v. t.) To cry aloud

    Roast
  • (a.) Roasted
  • (n.) That which is roasted
  • (v. i.) To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to heat to excess

    Rob
  • (n.) The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup
  • (v. i.) To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously

    Robalo
  • (n.) Any of several pikelike marine fishes of the West Indies and tropical America constituting the family Oxylabracidae, esp

    Robber
  • (n.) One who robs

    Robe
  • (v. t.) An outer garment

    Robin
  • (n.) An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish

    Roble
  • (n.) The California white oak (Quercus lobata).

    Roborant
  • (a.) Strengthening.
  • (n.) A strengthening medicine

    Robust
  • (a.) Evincing strength

    Roc
  • (n.) A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology.

    Rocaille
  • (n.) Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens.

    Rocambole
  • (n.) A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and A. Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot

    Rochet
  • (n.) A frock or outer garment worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

    Rock
  • (n.) A distaff used in spinning
  • (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward
  • (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath

    Rococo
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo
  • (n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century

    Rod
  • (n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office

    Rode
  • (imp.) of Ride
  • (n.) Redness

    Rodomontade
  • (n.) Vain boasting
  • (v. i.) To boast

    Roe
  • (n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

    Roebuck
  • (n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit

    Rogation
  • (n.) Litany

    Rogatory
  • (a.) Seeking information

    Rogue
  • (n.) A deliberately dishonest person
  • (v. i.) To wander
  • (v. t.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).

    Roguish
  • (a.) Pleasantly mischievous

    Roil
  • (v.) To disturb, as the temper
  • (v. i.) To romp.

    Roister
  • (v. i.) To bluster

    Role
  • (n.) A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama

    Roll
  • (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping
  • (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  • (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

    Romaic
  • (a.) Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
  • (n.) The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.

    Roman
  • (a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.
  • (n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome

    Romp
  • (n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
  • (v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously

    Rondeau
  • (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule

    Rondel
  • (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

    Rondo
  • (n.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains

    Rondure
  • (n.) A round

    Rood
  • (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length

    Roof
  • (n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house
  • (v. t.) To cover with a roof.

    Rook
  • (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections
  • (v. i.) To squat
  • (v. t. & i.) To cheat

    Room
  • (a.) Spacious
  • (n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy
  • (v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms

    Roost
  • (n.) A collection of fowls roosting together.
  • (v. i.) Fig.

    Root
  • (n.) An ancestor or progenitor
  • (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility
  • (v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth

    Rope
  • (n.) A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together
  • (v. i.) To be formed into rope
  • (v. t.) To bind, fasten, or tie with a rope or cord

    Ropy
  • (a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance

    Roque
  • (n.) A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shots

    Rorqual
  • (n.) A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus)

    Rosaceous
  • (a.) Like a rose in shape or appearance

    Rosaniline
  • (n.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts

    Rosarian
  • (n.) A cultivator of roses.

    Rosary
  • (n.) A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.

    Rose
  • (imp.) of Rise
  • (n.) A diamond.
  • (v. t.) To perfume, as with roses.

    Rosicrucian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.
  • (n.) One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature

    Rosin
  • (n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine
  • (v. t.) To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.

    Rostellum
  • (n.) A small beaklike process or extension of some part

    Roster
  • (n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve

    Rostrum
  • (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.

    Rosy
  • (superl.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities

    Rot
  • (n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi.
  • (v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly
  • (v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber

    Rota
  • (n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal

    Rote
  • (n.) A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning
  • (v. i.) To go out by rotation or succession
  • (v. t.) To learn or repeat by rote.

    Rotgut
  • (n.) Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious.

    Rotifer
  • (n.) One of the Rotifera.

    Rotor
  • (n.) The rotating part of a generator or motor.

    Rotten
  • (a.) Having rotted

    Rotund
  • (a.) Hence, complete
  • (n.) A rotunda.

    Roturier
  • (n.) A person who is not of noble birth

    Rouble
  • (n.) A coin.

    Rouge
  • (a.) red.
  • (n.) A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine
  • (v. i.) To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.
  • (v. t.) To tint with rouge

    Rough
  • (adv.) In a rough manner
  • (n.) A rude fellow
  • (v. t.) To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.

    Roulade
  • (n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios

    Rouleau
  • (n.) A little roll

    Roulette
  • (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game
  • (v. t.) To make short incisions in with a roulette

    Roumanian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Roumania.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of Roumania

    Round
  • (a.) Complete and consistent
  • (adv.) By or in a circuit
  • (n.) A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole
  • (prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle
  • (v. i.) To go or turn round
  • (v. i. & t.) To whisper.
  • (v. t.) To bring to fullness or completeness

    Roup
  • (n.) A disease in poultry.
  • (v. i. & t.) To cry or shout

    Rouse
  • (n.) A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
  • (v.) To cause to start from a covert or lurking place
  • (v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
  • (v. i. & t.) To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances

    Rousing
  • (a.) Having power to awaken or excite

    Roust
  • (n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel.
  • (v. t.) To rouse

    Rout
  • (n.) A bellowing
  • (v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly
  • (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder

    Roux
  • (n.) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.

    Rove
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
  • (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to wander
  • (v. t.) To draw out into flakes

    Roving
  • (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted

    Row
  • (a. & adv.) Rough
  • (n.) A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance
  • (v. i.) To be moved by oars
  • (v. t.) To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water

    Rowan
  • (n.) Rowan tree.

    Rowboat
  • (n.) A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

    Rowdy
  • (n.) One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels

    Rowel
  • (n.) A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
  • (v. t.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).

    Rowen
  • (n.) A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.

    Rowlock
  • (n.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar

    Royal
  • (a.) Kingly
  • (n.) An old English coin.

    Rub
  • (n.) A chance.
  • (v. i.) To fret
  • (v. t.) To cause (a body) to move with pressure and friction along a surface

    Rubato
  • (a.) Robbed

    Rubber
  • (n.) A coarse file, or the rough part of a file.

    Rubbish
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish
  • (n.) Waste or rejected matter

    Rubble
  • (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock

    Rubefacient
  • (a.) Making red.
  • (n.) An external application which produces redness of the skin.

    Rubella
  • (n.) An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms

    Rubellite
  • (n.) A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium

    Rubeola
  • (n.) Rubella.

    Rubescent
  • (a.) Growing or becoming red

    Rubicon
  • (n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar

    Rubicund
  • (a.) Inclining to redness

    Rubidium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined

    Rubiginous
  • (a.) Having the appearance or color of iron rust

    Rubious
  • (a.) Red

    Ruble
  • (n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents

    Rubric
  • (n.) A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing
  • (v. t.) To adorn ith red

    Ruby
  • (a.) Ruby-colored
  • (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast
  • (v. t.) To make red

    Ruche
  • (n.) A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

    Ruching
  • (n.) A ruche, or ruches collectively.

    Ruck
  • (n.) A heap
  • (v. i.) To cower
  • (v. t.) A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
  • (v. t. & i.) To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds

    Ruction
  • (n.) An uproar

    Rudbeckia
  • (n.) A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting of perennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemispherical involucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle

    Rudd
  • (n.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises

    Rude
  • (superl.) Barbarous

    Rudiment
  • (n.) An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with first principles or rules

    Rue
  • (n.) A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste
  • (v. i.) To feel sorrow and regret
  • (v. t.) Sorrow

    Rueful
  • (a.) Causing one to rue or lament

    Ruff
  • (n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion.
  • (v. i. & t.) To trump.
  • (v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

    Rug
  • (a.) A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.
  • (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily

    Ruga
  • (n.) A wrinkle

    Rugged
  • (n.) Full of asperities on the surface

    Rugose
  • (a.) Wrinkled

    Ruin
  • (n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use
  • (v. i.) To fall to ruins

    Rule
  • (a.) A composing rule.
  • (n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion
  • (v. i.) To have power or command

    Ruling
  • (a.) Predominant
  • (n.) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an oral decision, as in excluding evidence

    Rum
  • (a.) Old-fashioned
  • (n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations

    Rumble
  • (n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder
  • (v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine.

    Rumen
  • (n.) The cud of a ruminant.

    Ruminant
  • (a.) Chewing the cud
  • (n.) A ruminant animal

    Ruminate
  • (v. i.) To chew the cud
  • (v. t.) To chew over again.

    Rummage
  • (n.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship
  • (v. i.) To search a place narrowly.
  • (v. t.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo

    Rummer
  • (n.) A large and tall glass, or drinking cup.

    Rummy
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to rum
  • (n.) One who drinks rum

    Rumor
  • (n.) A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth
  • (v. t.) To report by rumor

    Rump
  • (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece.


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