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Rabble
A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
Rameous
Ramal.
Rampler
Roving; rambling.
Ramshackle
To search or ransack; to rummage.
Ransack
To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; .
Rappel
The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Rase
To rub along the surface of; to graze.
Rater
One who rates or estimates.
Rationalize
To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory, belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the principles of rationalism.
Rattlemouse
A bat.
Ray grass
A perennial European grass (); -- called also , and . See , and .
Reaccess
A second access or approach; a return.
Realist
One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that , or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the .
Rebaptizer
One who rebaptizes.
Rebiting
The act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.
Recadency
A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.
Receptiveness
The quality of being receptive.
Recess
To make a recess in; .
Recite
To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; .
Recoilingly
In the manner of a recoil.
Redintegration
Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal; renovation.
Redound
The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
Reduvid
Any hemipterous insect of the genus , or family . They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
Renact
To enact again.
Reformado
A monk of a reformed order.
Refractive
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction;
Registrate
To register.
Reglement
Regulation.
Religion
The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; .
Remiform
Shaped like an oar.
Reminder
One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
Renter
To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
Replum
The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off.
Republicanize
To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles;
Requirable
Capable of being required; proper to be required.
Rerebrace
Armor for the upper part of the arm.
Resentingly
With deep sense or strong perception.
Resiance
Residence; abode.
Resoluteness
The quality of being resolute.
Respell
To spell again.
Respiration
The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.
Resuscitant
One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
Retract
The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Rette
See .
Revisit
To visit again.
Revokingly
By way of revocation.
Rewet
A gunlock.
Reyn
Rain or rein.
Rill
A very small brook; a streamlet.
Riparian
Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; .
Robbery
The act or practice of robbing; theft.
Rose-cut
Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See , under . Cf. ,
Roseine
See .
Rosery
A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See , 1.
Rose water
Water tinctured with roses by distillation.
Roseworm
The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves, buds, or blossoms of the rose, especially , which rolls up the leaves for a nest, and devours both the leaves and buds.
Round
To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
Rove
To draw through an eye or aperture.
Ruricolist
An inhabitant of the country.
Rustle
To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.