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Radial
Of or pertaining to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; .
Radiate
Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; .
Rag
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
Raghuvansa
A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
Raking
The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
Rampart
To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Ranchman
An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman.
Range
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; .
Rani
A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah.
Rapid-fire mount
A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitted with a device for taking up the recoil.
Rascaless
A female rascal.
Ravel
To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by ;
Ravish
To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
Ray
To mark with long lines; to streak.
Reamer
One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.
Reascend
To rise, mount, or climb again.
Rebaptize
To baptize again or a second time.
Rebate
Diminution.
Reckoning
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
Recover
To cover again.
Redound
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
Redshank
A common Old World limicoline bird (), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank () is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also , , and .
Reform
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation;
Refut
Refuge.
Regel
See .
Regnal
Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; .
Reinsurance
Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.
Reluctate
To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
Rely
To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with , formerly also with .
Removable
Admitting of being removed.
Rent
To tear. See .
Repetitive
Containing repetition; repeating.
Repiningly
With repening or murmuring.
Replevy
Replevin.
Report
To make a report, or response, in respect of a matter inquired of, a duty enjoined, or information expected; .
Reprimander
One who reprimands.
Repute
Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.
Res
A thing; the particular thing; a matter; a point.
Resection
The act of cutting or paring off.
Reseizer
One who seizes again.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to ; .
Resigned
Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.
Resolvableness
The quality of being resolvable; resolvability.
Responseless
Giving no response.
Ressaldar
In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.
Restagnant
Stagnant; motionless.
Retainal
The act of retaining; retention.
Retaliative
Same as .
Retrogradation
The act of retrograding, or moving backward.
Rhamphotheca
The horny covering of the bill of birds.
Rhapsodize
To utter rhapsodies.
Rheochord
A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
Riant
Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
Rib
One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
Ribes
A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.
Ricinus
A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil is expressed. See .
Rilievo
Same as , , 5.
Rinderpest
A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also , , and .
Rinking
Skating in a rink.
Ris
A bough or branch; a twig.
Roadbed
In railroads, the bed or foundation on which the superstructure (ties, rails, etc.) rests; in common roads, the whole material laid in place and ready for travel.
Romanist
One who adheres to Romanism.
Romanticism
A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medival forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
Romany
A gypsy.
Ropeband
A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar.
Roseal
resembling a rose in smell or color.
Rosiness
The quality of being rosy.
Rotundifolious
Having round leaves.
Rough
Boisterous weather.
Roughhewn
Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.
Roughshod
Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; .
Row
A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl.
Row
To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; .
Rowdy
One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.
Rudity
Rudeness; ignorance.
Rumicin
A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock () and identical with .
Ruptuary
One not of noble blood; a plebeian; a roturier.
Rusticate
To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
Rusticly
In a rustic manner; rustically.