In words which we have received from the Greek language, we follow the Latins, who wrote h after r, as the representative of the aspirated sound with which this letter was pronounced by the Greeks. It is the same in the Welsh language. But as the letter is not aspirated in English, h is entirely superfluous; rhapsody, rheum, rhetoric, being pronounced rapsody, reum, retoric. NWAD R.2
As an abbreviation, R. in English, stands for rex, king, as George R. NWAD R.3
As a numeral, R, in Roman authors, stands for 80, and with a dash over it, for 80,000. But in Greek, with a small mark over it, signifies 100, and with the same mark under it, it denoted 1000x100, or 100,000. In Hebrew, denoted 200, and with two horizontal points over it, 1000x200, or 200,000. NWAD R.4
Among physicians, R. stands for recipe, take. NWAD R.5
In falconry, to recover a hawk to the fist. NWAD RABATE.2
1. To pare down the edge of a board or other piece of timber, for the purpose of receiving the edge of another piece by lapping and thus uniting the two. NWAD RABBET.2
2. To lap and unite the edges of boards, etc. In ship carpentry, to let the edge of a plank into the keel. NWAD RABBET.3
A title assumed by the Jewish doctors, signifying master or lord. This title is not conferred by authority, but assumed or allowed by courtesy to learned men. NWAD RABBI.2
A small quadruped of the genus Lepus, which feeds on grass or other herbage, and burrows in the earth. The rabbit is said to be less sagacious than the hare. It is a very prolific animal, and is kept in warrens for the sake of its flesh. NWAD RABBIT.2
1. A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; the mob; a confused disorderly crowd. NWAD RABBLE.2
2. The lower class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people. NWAD RABBLE.3
A method of performing mathematical operations by little square rods. NWAD RABDOLOGY.2
Furious; raging; mad; as a rabid dog or wolf. It is particularly applied to animals of the canine genus, affected with the distemper called rabies, and whose bite communicates hydrophobia. NWAD RABID.2
1. The lineage of a family, or continued series of descendants from a parent who is called the stock. A race is the series of descendants indefinitely. Thus all mankind are called the race of Adam; the Israelites are of the race of Abraham and Jacob. Thus we speak of a race of kings, the race of Clovis or Charlemagne; a race of nobles, etc. NWAD RACE.2
Hence the long race of Alban fathers come. NWAD RACE.3
2. A generation; a family of descendants. A race of youthful and unhandled colts. NWAD RACE.4
3. A particular breed; as a race of mules; a race of horses; a race of sheep. NWAD RACE.5
Of such a race no matter who is king. NWAD RACE.6
4. A root; as race-ginger, ginger in the root or not pulverized. NWAD RACE.7
5. A particular strength or taste of wine; a kind of tartness. NWAD RACE.8
1. A running; a rapid course or motion, either on the feet, on horseback or in a carriage, etc.; particularly, a contest in running; a running in competition for a prize. NWAD RACE.10
The race was one of the exercises of the Grecian games. NWAD RACE.11
I wield the gauntlet and I run the race. NWAD RACE.12
2. Any sunning with speed. NWAD RACE.13
The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beast. NWAD RACE.14
3. A progress; a course; a movement or progression of any kind. NWAD RACE.15
My race of glory run. NWAD RACE.16
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12:1. NWAD RACE.17
4. Course; train; process; as the prosecution and race of the war. [Not now used.] NWAD RACE.18
5. A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; as a mill-race. NWAD RACE.19
6. By way of distinction, a contest in the running of horses; generally in the plural. The races commence in October. NWAD RACE.20
1. A cluster, as of grapes. NWAD RACEMATION.2
2. The cultivation of cluster of grapes. NWAD RACEMATION.3
In botany a species of inflorescence, consisting of a peduncle with short lateral branches. It is simple or compound, naked or leafy, etc. NWAD RACEME.2
Bearing racemes or clusters; as the racemiferous fig-tree. NWAD RACEMIFEROUS.2
And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize. NWAD RACER.2
1. An engine of torture, used for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons. The rack is entirely unknown in free countries. NWAD RACK.2
2. Torture; extreme pain; anguish. NWAD RACK.3
A fit of the stone puts a king to the rack and makes him as miserable as it does the meanest subject. NWAD RACK.4
3. Any instrument for stretching or extending any thing; as a rack for bending a bow. NWAD RACK.5
4. A grate on which bacon is laid. NWAD RACK.6
5. A wooden frame of open work in which hay is laid for horses and cattle for feeding. NWAD RACK.7
6. The frame of bones of an animal; a skeleton. We say, a rack of bones. NWAD RACK.8
7. A frame of timber on a ship’s bowsprit. NWAD RACK.9
The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. NWAD RACK.11
[The two foregoing words are doubtless from one original.] NWAD RACK.12
Properly, vapor; hence, thin flying broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. NWAD RACK.14
The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack - NWAD RACK.15
The great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded, leave not a rack behind. NWAD RACK.16
It is disputed however, whether rack in this passage should not be wreck. NWAD RACK.17
1. Properly, to steam; to rise, as vapor. NWAD RACK.20
[See Reek, which is the word used.] NWAD RACK.21
2. To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. NWAD RACK.22
1. To torture; to stretch or strain on the rack or wheel; as, to rack a criminal or suspected person, to extort a confession of his guilt, or compel him to betray his accomplices. NWAD RACK.24
2. To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish; as racked with deep despair. NWAD RACK.25
3. To harass by exaction. NWAD RACK.26
The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants. NWAD RACK.27
4. To stretch; to strain vehemently; to wrest; as, to rack and stretch Scripture; to rack invention. NWAD RACK.28
The wisest among the heathens racked their wits - NWAD RACK.29
5. To stretch; to extend. NWAD RACK.30
To draw off from the lees; to draw off, as pure liquor from its sediment; as, to rack cider or wine; to rack off liquor. NWAD RACK.32
1. Tortured; tormented; strained to the utmost. NWAD RACKED.2
2. Drawn off, as liquor. NWAD RACKED.3
1. A confused, clattering noise, less loud than uproar; applied to the confused sounds of animal voices, or such voices mixed with other sound. We say, the children make a racket; the racket of a flock of fowls. NWAD RACKET.2
2. Clamor; noisy talk. NWAD RACKET.3
The instrument with which players at tennis strike the ball. NWAD RACKET.6
1. Torturing; tormenting; straining; drawing off. NWAD RACKING.2
2. a. Tormenting; excruciating; as a racking pain. NWAD RACKING.3
1. Torture; a stretching on the rack. NWAD RACKING.5
2. Torment of the mind; anguish; as the rackings of conscience. NWAD RACKING.6
3. The act of stretching cloth on a frame for drying. NWAD RACKING.7
4. The act of drawing from the sediment, as liquors. NWAD RACKING.8
Strong; flavorous; tasting of the soil; as racy cider; racy wine. NWAD RACY.2
Rich racy verses, in which we the soil from which they come, taste, smell and see. NWAD RACY.3
To twist; to wind together. [Not in use.] NWAD RADDLE.2
[I believe the two foregoing words are not used in the United States, and probably they are local.] NWAD RADDLE.4
Pertaining to the radius or to the fore arm of the human body; as the radial artery or nerve. NWAD RADIAL.2
The radial muscles are two muscles of the fore arm, one of which bends the wrist, the other extends it. NWAD RADIAL.3
Radial curves, in geometry, curves of the spiral kind, whose ordinates all terminate in the center of the including circle, and appear like so many semidiameters. NWAD RADIAL.4
Properly, brightness shooting in rays or beams; hence in general, brilliant or sparkling luster; vivid brightness; as the radiance of the sun. NWAD RADIANCE.2
The Son girt with omnipotence, with radiance crown’d of majesty divine. NWAD RADIANCE.3
Mark what radiant state she spreads. NWAD RADIANT.2
Radiant in glittering arms and beamy pride. NWAD RADIANT.3
1. To issue in rays, as light; to dart, as beams of brightness; to shine. NWAD RADIATE.2
Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes. NWAD RADIATE.3
2. To issue and proceed in direct lines from a point. NWAD RADIATE.4
Or a flower with several semiflosculous florets set round a disk in form of a radiant star. NWAD RADIATE.7
1. Adorned with rays of light. NWAD RADIATED.2
2. Having crystals diverging from a center. NWAD RADIATED.3
1. The emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness. NWAD RADIATION.2
2. The shooting of any thing from a center, like the diverging rays of light. NWAD RADIATION.3
1. Pertaining to the root or origin; original; fundamental; as a radical truth or error; a radical evil; a radical difference of opinions or systems. NWAD RADICAL.2
2. Implanted by nature; native; constitutional; as the radical moisture of a body. NWAD RADICAL.3
3. Primitive; original; underived; uncompounded; as a radical word. NWAD RADICAL.4
4. Serving to origination. NWAD RADICAL.5
5. In botany, proceeding immediately from the root; as a radical leaf or peduncle. NWAD RADICAL.6
1. In philology, a primitive word; a radix, root, or simple underived uncompounded word. NWAD RADICAL.8
2. A primitive letter; a letter that belongs to the radix. NWAD RADICAL.9
3. in chimistry, an element, or a simple constituent part of a substance, which is incapable of decomposition. NWAD RADICAL.10
That which constitutes the distinguishing part of an acid, by its union with oxygen. NWAD RADICAL.11
Compound radical is the base of an acid composed of two or more substances. Thus a vegetable acid having a radical composed of hydrogen and carbon, is said to be an acid with a compound radical. NWAD RADICAL.12
Radical quantities, in algebra, quantities whose roots may be accurately expressed in numbers. The term is sometimes extended to all quantities under the radical sign. NWAD RADICAL.13
1. Origination. NWAD RADICALITY.2
2. A being radical; a quantity which has relation to a root. NWAD RADICALITY.3
1. Originally; at the origin or root; fundamentally; as a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. NWAD RADICALLY.2
2. Primitively; essentially; originally; without derivation. NWAD RADICALLY.3
These great orbs thus radically bright. NWAD RADICALLY.4
To root; to plant deply and firmly; as radicated opinions; radicated knowledge. NWAD RADICATE.2
Meditation will radicate these seeds. NWAD RADICATE.3
Prejudices of a whole race of people radicated by a succession of ages. NWAD RADICATE.5
1. The process of taking root deeply; as the radication of habits. NWAD RADICATION.2
2. In botany, the disposition of the root of a plant with respect to the ascending and descending caudex and the radicles. NWAD RADICATION.3
1. That part of the seed of a plant which upon vegetating becomes the root. NWAD RADICLE.2
2. The fibrous part of a root, by which the stock or main body of it is terminated. NWAD RADICLE.3
The forestaff, an instrument for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies. NWAD RADIOMETER.2
A plant of the genus Raphanus, the root of which is eaten raw. Horse-radish is of the genus Cochlearia. Water-radish is of the genus Sisymbrium. NWAD RADISH.2
1. In geometry, a right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery, and hence the semidiameter of the circle. In trigonometry, the radius is the whole sine, or sine of 90 degrees. NWAD RADIUS.2
2. In anatomy, the exterior bone of the fore arm, descending along with the ulna from the elbow to the wrist. NWAD RADIUS.3
3. In botany, a ray; the outer part or circumference of a compound radiate flower, or radiated discous flower. NWAD RADIUS.4
1. In etymology, a primitive word from which spring other words. NWAD RADIX.2
2. In logarithms, the base of any system of logarithms, or that number whose logarithm is unity. Thus in Briggs’, or the common system of logarithms, the radix is 10; in Napier’s, it is 2.7182818284. All other numbers are considered as some powers or roots of the radix, the exponents of which powers or roots, constitute the logarithms of those numbers respectively. NWAD RADIX.3
3. In algebra, radix sometimes denotes the root of a finite expression, from which a series is derived. NWAD RADIX.4
To sweep; to snatch, draw or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep. Obs. NWAD RAFF.2
Their causes and effects I thus raff up together. NWAD RAFF.3
1. The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob. This is used chiefly in the compound or duplicate, riff-raff. NWAD RAFF.5
2. A promiscuous heap or collection; a jumble. NWAD RAFF.6
To cast dice for a prize, for which each person concerned in the game lays down a stake, or hazards a part of the value; as, to raffle for a watch. NWAD RAFFLE.2
An assemblage of boards, planks or pieces of timber fastened together horizontally and floated down a stream; a float. NWAD RAFT.2
Torn; rent; severed. Obs. NWAD RAFT.4
A roof timber; a piece of timber that extends from the plate of a building to the ridge and serves to support the covering of the roof. NWAD RAFTER.2
1. Any piece of cloth torn from the rest; a tattered cloth, torn or worn till its texture is destroyed. Linen and cotton rags are the chief materials of paper. NWAD RAG.2
2. Garments worn out; proverbially, mean dress. NWAD RAG.3
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Proverbs 23:21. NWAD RAG.4
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. NWAD RAG.5
3. A fragment of dress. NWAD RAG.6
To scold; to rail. [Local.] NWAD RAG.8
A paltry fellow; a mean wretch. NWAD RAGAMUFFIN.2
1. Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury. Passion sometimes rises to rage. NWAD RAGE.2
Torment and loud lament and furious rage. NWAD RAGE.3
2. Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst. NWAD RAGE.4
3. Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest. NWAD RAGE.5
4. Enthusiasm; rapture. NWAD RAGE.6
Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage. NWAD RAGE.7
5. Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money. NWAD RAGE.8
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. NWAD RAGE.9
1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. NWAD RAGE.11
At this he inly rag’d. NWAD RAGE.12
2. To be violent and tumultuous. NWAD RAGE.13
Why do the heathen rage? Psalm 2:1. NWAD RAGE.14
3. To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds. NWAD RAGE.15
4. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo. NWAD RAGE.16
5. To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously. NWAD RAGE.17
The chariots shall rage in the streets. Nahum 2:4. NWAD RAGE.18
The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag’d. NWAD RAGE.19
6. To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.] NWAD RAGE.20
1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till its texture is broken; as a ragged coat; a ragged sail. NWAD RAGGED.2
2. Broken with rough edges; uneven; as a ragged rock. NWAD RAGGED.3
3. Having the appearance of being broken or torn; jagged; rough with sharp or irregular points. NWAD RAGGED.4
The moon appears, when looked upon through a good glass, rude and ragged. NWAD RAGGED.5
4. Wearing tattered clothes; as a ragged fellow. NWAD RAGGED.6
5. Rough; rugged. NWAD RAGGED.7
What shepherd owns those ragged sheep? NWAD RAGGED.8
1. The state of being dressed in tattered clothes. NWAD RAGGEDNESS.2
2. The state of being rough or broken irregularly; as the raggedness of a cliff. NWAD RAGGEDNESS.3
1. Acting with violence or fury. NWAD RAGING.2
2. a. Furious; impetuous; vehemently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or tempest. NWAD RAGING.3
1. A cross beam fixed at the ends in two upright posts. NWAD RAIL.2
[In New England, this is never called a beam; pieces of timber of the proper size for rails are called scantling.] NWAD RAIL.3
2. In the United States, a piece of timber cleft, hewed or sawed, rough or smooth, inserted in upright posts for fencing. The common rails among farmers, are rough, being used as they are split from the chestnut or other trees. The rails used in fences of boards or pickets round gentlemen’s houses and gardens, are usually sawed scantling and often dressed with the plane. NWAD RAIL.4
3. A bar of wood or iron used for inclosing any place; the piece into which ballusters are inserted. NWAD RAIL.5
4. A series of posts connected with cross beams, by which a place is inclosed. NWAD RAIL.6
In New England we never call this series a rail, but by the general term railing. In a picket fence, the pales or pickets rise above the rails; in a ballustrade, or fence resembling it, the ballusters usually terminate in the rails. NWAD RAIL.7
5. In a ship, a narrow plank nailed for ornament or security on a ship’s upper works; also, a curved piece of timber extending from the bows of a ship to the continuation of its stern, to support the knee of the head, etc. NWAD RAIL.8
A woman’s upper garment; retained in the word nightrail, but not used in the United States. NWAD RAIL.11
1. To inclose with rails. NWAD RAIL.13
2. To range in a line. NWAD RAIL.14
To utter reproaches; to scoff; to use insolent and reproachful language; to reproach or censure in opprobrious terms; followed by at or against, formerly by on. NWAD RAIL.16
And rail at arts he did not understand. NWAD RAIL.17
Lesbia forever on e rails. NWAD RAIL.18
1. Clamoring with insulting language; uttering reproachful words. NWAD RAILING.2
2. a. Expressing reproach; insulting; as a railing accusation. 2 Peter 2:11. NWAD RAILING.3
1. A series of rails; a fence. NWAD RAILING.7
2. Rails in general; or the scantling for rails. NWAD RAILING.8
Banter; jesting language; good humored pleasantry or slight satire; satirical merriment. NWAD RAILLERY.2
Let raillery be without malice or heat. NWAD RAILLERY.3
- Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. NWAD RAILLERY.4
1. Clothing in general; vestments; vesture; garments. Genesis 24:53; Deuteronomy 8:4. NWAD RAIMENT.2
Living, both food and raiment she supplies. NWAD RAIMENT.3
2. A single garment. NWAD RAIMENT.4
[In this sense it is rarely used, and indeed is improper.] NWAD RAIMENT.5
1. To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains; it will rain; it rained, or it has rained. NWAD RAIN.2
2. To fall or drop like rain; as, tears rained at their eyes. NWAD RAIN.3
Then said the Lord to Moses, behold I will rain bread from heaven for you. Exodus 16:4. NWAD RAIN.5
God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. Job 20:23. NWAD RAIN.6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and horrible tempest. Psalm 11:6. NWAD RAIN.7