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Rabot
A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished.
Radicel
A small branch of a root; a rootlet.
radiograph
To make a radiograph of.
Rai
The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also , and .
Raiffeisen
Designating, or pertaining to, a form of coperative bank founded among the German agrarian population by (1818-88); The banks are unlimited-liability institutions making small loans at a low rate of interest, for a designated purpose, to worthy members only.
Rally
To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
Ranter
A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
Rase
To rub along the surface of; to graze.
Rational
A rational being.
Rattle-pated
Rattle-headed.
Reactionary
Being, causing, or favoring reaction; .
Reascension
The act of reascending; a remounting.
Reassert
To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so.
Reassessment
A renewed or second assessment.
Rebound
To send back; to reverberate.
Rebuke
A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
Reclaim
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
Recombination
Combination a second or additional time.
Recompense
To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
Reconvene
To convene or assemble again; to call or come together again.
Rectangular
Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.
Rectoral
Pertaining to a rector or governor.
Recule
To recoil.
Redeem
To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
Rencourage
To encourage again.
Reflectingly
With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully.
Reflorescence
A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.
Refund
To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; .
Refuser
One who refuses or rejects.
Regenerate
Reproduced.
Regerminate
To germinate again.
Regnant
Exercising regal authority; reigning; .
Reign
Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.
Reillume
To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine.
Relax
Relaxation.
Releasement
The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation.
Relievable
Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief.
Remenant
A remnant.
Rendezvous
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
Renne
To plunder; -- only in the phrase to rape and . See under , , to snatch.
Rensselaerite
A soft, compact variety of talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into inkstands and other articles.
Reostat
See .
Repedation
A stepping or going back.
Repleteness
The state of being replete.
Replevy
Replevin.
Repopulation
The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
Representer
One who shows, exhibits, or describes.
Reproduction
The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced
Resiant
A resident.
Resinaceous
Having the quality of resin; resinous.
Resinousness
The quality of being resinous.
Resist
To make opposition.
Resolutioner
One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century.
Respectless
Having no respect; without regard; regardless.
Restaurate
To restore.
Restorable
Admitting of being restored; capable of being reclaimed; .
Resum
A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.
Retch
To care for; to heed; to reck.
Reticularia
An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.
Retired
Private; secluded; quiet;
Retrocopulant
Copulating backward, or from behind.
Retroverted
In a state of retroversion.
Revenger
One who revenges.
Revie
To vie with, or rival, in return.
Review
To view or see again; to look back on.
Rhabdite
A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
Rhetorical
Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical;
Rhinologist
One skilled in rhinology.
Rhizine
A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.
Rhodophane
The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See .
Rifler
One who rifles; a robber.
Rift
of .
Rime
To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Rimose
Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
Roller bearing
A bearing containing friction rollers.
Romance
To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
Ronchil
An American marine food fish () of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish.
Roomily
Spaciously.
Rotiform
Wheel-shaped; .
Roughdry
in laundry work, to dry without smoothing or ironing.
Roup
To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.
Rout
To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
Roxburgh
A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.
Rubification
The act of making red.
Ruddle
To mark with ruddle; to raddle; to rouge.
Rufescent
Reddish; tinged with red.
Ruminate
To chew over again.
Rushbuckler
A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler.
Rushiness
The quality or state of abounding with rushes.
Russ
Of or pertaining to the Russians.