REVOCABLENESS — RICHED

REVOCABLENESS — RICHED NWAD REVOCABLENESS.1

REVOCABLENESS, n. The quality of being revocable. NWAD REVOCABLENESS.1

REVOCATE, v.t. [L. revoco; re and voco, to call.] To recall; to call back. [Not in use. See Revoke.] NWAD REVOCATE.1

REVOCATION, n. [L. revocatio.] NWAD REVOCATION.1

1. The act of recalling or calling back; as the revocation of Calvin. NWAD REVOCATION.2

2. State of being recalled. NWAD REVOCATION.3

3. Repeal; reversal; as the revocation of the edict of Nantz. A law may cease to operate without an express revocation. so we speak of the revocation of a will, of a use, of a devise, etc. NWAD REVOCATION.4

REVOKE, v.t. [L. revoco; re and voco, to call.] NWAD REVOKE.1

1. To recall; to repeal; to reverse. A law, decree or sentence is revoked by the same authority which enacted or passed it. A charter or grant which vests rights in a corporation, cannot be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator. NWAD REVOKE.2

2. To check; to repress; as, to revoke rage. [Not in use.] NWAD REVOKE.3

3. To draw back. NWAD REVOKE.4

Seas are troubled when they do revoke their flowing waves into themselves again. [Unusual.] NWAD REVOKE.5

REVOKE, v.i. To renounce at cards. NWAD REVOKE.6

REVOKE, n. The act of renouncing at cards. NWAD REVOKE.7

REVOKED, pp. Repealed; reversed. NWAD REVOKED.1

REVOKEMENT, n. Revocation; reversal. [Little used.] NWAD REVOKEMENT.1

REVOKING, ppr. Reversing; repealing. NWAD REVOKING.1

REVOLT, v.i. [L. revolvo; re and volvo, to turn. Eng. wallow.] NWAD REVOLT.1

1. To fall off or turn from one to another. NWAD REVOLT.2

2. To renounce allegiance and subjection to one’s prince or state; to reject the authority of a sovereign; as a province or a number of people. It is not applied to individuals. NWAD REVOLT.3

The Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah. 2 Chronicles 21:8, 10. NWAD REVOLT.4

3. To change. [Not in use.] NWAD REVOLT.5

4. In Scripture, to disclaim allegiance and subjection to God; to reject the government of the King of kings. Isaiah 31:6. NWAD REVOLT.6

REVOLT, v.t. NWAD REVOLT.7

1. To turn; to put to flight; to overturn. NWAD REVOLT.8

2. To shock; to do violence to; to cause to shrink or turn away with abhorrence; as, to revolt the mind or the feelings. NWAD REVOLT.9

Their honest pride of their purer religion had revolted the Babylonians. NWAD REVOLT.10

REVOLT, n. NWAD REVOLT.11

1. Desertion; change of sides; more correctly, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to one’s prince or government; as the revolt of a province of the Roman empire. NWAD REVOLT.12

2. Gross departure from duty. NWAD REVOLT.13

3. In Scripture, a rejection of divine government; departure from God; disobedience. Isaiah 59:13. NWAD REVOLT.14

4. A revolter. [Not in use.] NWAD REVOLT.15

REVOLTED, pp. NWAD REVOLTED.1

1. Having swerved from allegiance or duty. NWAD REVOLTED.2

2. Shocked; grossly offended. NWAD REVOLTED.3

REVOLTER, n. NWAD REVOLTER.1

1. One who changes sides; a deserter. NWAD REVOLTER.2

2. One who renounces allegiance and subjection to his prince or state. NWAD REVOLTER.3

3. In Scripture, one who renounces the authority and laws of God. Jeremiah 6:28; Hosea 9:15. NWAD REVOLTER.4

REVOLTING, ppr. NWAD REVOLTING.1

1. Changing sides; deserting. NWAD REVOLTING.2

2. Disclaiming allegiance and subjection to a prince or state. NWAD REVOLTING.3

3. Rejecting the authority of God. NWAD REVOLTING.4

4. a. Doing violence, as to the feelings; exciting abhorrence. NWAD REVOLTING.5

REVOLUTE, a. [L. revolutus, from revolvo.] NWAD REVOLUTE.1

In botany, rolled back or downwards; as revolute foliation or leafing, when the sides of the leaves in the bud are rolled spirally back or towards the lower surface; a revolute leaf or tendril; a revolute corol or valve. NWAD REVOLUTE.2

REVOLUTION, n. [L. revolutus, revolvo.] NWAD REVOLUTION.1

1. In physics, rotation; the circular motion of a body on its axis; a course or motion which brings every point of the surface or periphery of a body back to the place at which it began to move; as the revolution of a wheel; the diurnal revolution of the earth. NWAD REVOLUTION.2

2. The motion of a body round any fixed point or center; as the annual revolution of the earth or other planet in its orbit round the center of the system. NWAD REVOLUTION.3

3. Motion of any thing which brings it to the same point or state; as the revolution of day and night or of the seasons. NWAD REVOLUTION.4

4. Continued course marked by the regular return of years; as the revolution of ages. NWAD REVOLUTION.5

5. Space measured by some regular return of a revolving body or of a state of things; as the revolution of a day. NWAD REVOLUTION.6

6. In politics, a material or entire change in the constitution of government. Thus the revolution in England, in 1688, was produced by the abdication of king James II the establishment of the house of Orange upon the throne, and the restoration of the constitution to its primitive state. So the revolutions in Poland, in the United States of America, and in France, consisted in a change of constitution. We shall rejoice to hear that the Greeks have effected a revolution. NWAD REVOLUTION.7

7. Motion backward. NWAD REVOLUTION.8

This word is used adjectively, as in the phrase, revolution principles. NWAD REVOLUTION.9

REVOLUTIONARY, a. NWAD REVOLUTIONARY.1

1. Pertaining to a revolution in government; as a revolutionary war; revolutionary crimes or disasters. NWAD REVOLUTIONARY.2

2. Tending to produce a revolution; as revolutionary measures. NWAD REVOLUTIONARY.3

REVOLUTIONER, n. NWAD REVOLUTIONER.1

1. One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. NWAD REVOLUTIONER.2

2. In England, one who favored the revolution in 1688. NWAD REVOLUTIONER.3

REVOLUTIONIST, n. One engaged in effecting a change of government; the favorer of a revolution. NWAD REVOLUTIONIST.1

REVOLUTIONIZE, v.t. NWAD REVOLUTIONIZE.1

1. To effect a change in the form of a political constitution; as, to revolutionize a government. NWAD REVOLUTIONIZE.2

2. To effect an entire change of principles in. NWAD REVOLUTIONIZE.3

The gospel, if received in truth, has revolutionized his soul. NWAD REVOLUTIONIZE.4

REVOLUTIONIZED, pp. Charged in constitutional form and principles. NWAD REVOLUTIONIZED.1

REVOLUTIONIZING, ppr. Changing the form and principles of a constitution. NWAD REVOLUTIONIZING.1

REVOLVENCY, n. State, act or principle of revolving; revolution. NWAD REVOLVENCY.1

Its own revolvency upholds the world. NWAD REVOLVENCY.2

REVOMIT, v.t. [re and vomit;] NWAD REVOMIT.1

To vomit or pour forth again; to reject from the stomach. NWAD REVOMIT.2

REVOMITED, pp. Vomited again. NWAD REVOMITED.1

REVOMITING, ppr. Vomiting again. NWAD REVOMITING.1

REVULSION, n. [L. revulsus, revello; re and vello, to pull.] NWAD REVULSION.1

1. In medicine, the act of turning or diverting a flux of humors or any cause of disease, from one part of the body to another. NWAD REVULSION.2

2. The act of holding or drawing back. NWAD REVULSION.3

REVULSIVE, a. Having the power of revulsion. NWAD REVULSIVE.1

REVULSIVE, n. NWAD REVULSIVE.2

1. That which has the power of diverting humors from one part to another. NWAD REVULSIVE.3

2. That which has the power of withdrawing. NWAD REVULSIVE.4

REW, n. A row. [Not in use.] NWAD REW.1

REWARD, v.t. a as aw. [L. re, denoting return.] NWAD REWARD.1

To give in return, either good or evil. NWAD REWARD.2

Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. 1 Samuel 24:17. NWAD REWARD.3

Hence, when good is returned for good, reward signifies to repay, to recompense, to compensate. When evil or suffering is return for injury or wickedness, reward signifies to punish with just retribution, to take vengeance on, according to the nature of the case. NWAD REWARD.4

I will render vengeance to my enemies; and will reward them that hate me. Deuteronomy 32:41. NWAD REWARD.5

The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Matthew 16:27. NWAD REWARD.6

In the latter passage, reward signifies to render with good and evil. NWAD REWARD.7

REWARD, n. NWAD REWARD.8

1. Recompense, or equivalent return for good done, for kindness, for services and the like. Rewards may consist of money, goods or any return of kindness or happiness. NWAD REWARD.9

The laborer is worthy of his reward. 1 Timothy 5:18. NWAD REWARD.10

Great is your reward in heaven. Matthew 5:12. NWAD REWARD.11

Rewards and punishments presuppose moral agency, and something voluntarily done, well or ill; without which respect, though we may receive good, it is only a benefit and not a reward. NWAD REWARD.12

2. The fruit of men’s labor or works. NWAD REWARD.13

The dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward. Ecclesiastes 9:5. NWAD REWARD.14

3. A bribe; a gift to pervert justice. Deuteronomy 27:25. NWAD REWARD.15

4. A sum of money offered for taking or detecting a criminal, or for recovery of any thing lost. NWAD REWARD.16

5. Punishment; a just return of evil or suffering for wickedness. NWAD REWARD.17

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Psalm 91:8. NWAD REWARD.18

6. Return in human applause. Matthew 6:2, 5, 16. NWAD REWARD.19

7. Return in joy and comfort. Psalm 19:11. NWAD REWARD.20

REWARDABLE, a. That may be rewarded; worthy of recompense. NWAD REWARDABLE.1

REWARDABLENESS, n. The state of being worthy of reward. NWAD REWARDABLENESS.1

REWARDED, pp. Requited; recompensed or punished. NWAD REWARDED.1

REWARDER, n. One who rewards; one that requites or recompenses. Hebrews 11:6. NWAD REWARDER.1

REWARDING, ppr. Making an equivalent return for good or evil; requiting; recompensing or punishing. NWAD REWARDING.1

REWORD, v.t. [re and word.] To repeat in the same words. [Not in use.] NWAD REWORD.1

REWRITE, v.t. To write a second time. NWAD REWRITE.1

REWRITTEN, pp. Written again. NWAD REWRITTEN.1

REYS, n. The master of an Egyptian bark or ship. NWAD REYS.1

RHABARBARATE, a. [See Rhubarb.] Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb. NWAD RHABARBARATE.1

RHABDOLOGY, n. [Gr. a staff or want, and discourse.] NWAD RHABDOLOGY.1

The act or art of computing or numbering by Napier’s rods or Napier’s bones. NWAD RHABDOLOGY.2

RHABDOMANCY, n. [Gr. a rod, and divination.] NWAD RHABDOMANCY.1

Divination by a rod or wand. NWAD RHABDOMANCY.2

RHAPSODIC, RHAPSODICAL, a. [from rhapsody.] Pertaining to or consisting of rhapsody; unconnected. NWAD RHAPSODIC.1

RHAPSODIST, n. [from rhapsody.] NWAD RHAPSODIST.1

1. One that writes or speaks without regular dependence of one part of his discourse on another. NWAD RHAPSODIST.2

2. One who recites or signs rhapsodies for a livelihood; or one who makes and repeats verses extempore. NWAD RHAPSODIST.3

3. Anciently, one whose profession was to recite the verses of Homer and other poets. NWAD RHAPSODIST.4

RHAPSODY, n. [Gr. to sew or unite, and a song.] NWAD RHAPSODY.1

Originally, a discourse in verse, sung or rehearsed by a rhapsodist; or a collection of verses, particularly those of Homer. In modern usage, a collection of passages thoughts or authorities, composing a new piece, but without necessary dependence or natural connection. NWAD RHAPSODY.2

RHEIN-BERRY, n. Buckthorn, a plant. NWAD RHEIN-BERRY.1

RHENISH, a. Pertaining to the river Rhine, or to Rheims in France; as Rhemish wine; as a noun, the wine produced on the hills about Rheims, which is remarkable as a solvent of iron. NWAD RHENISH.1

RHETIAN, a. Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or to Rhaetia, their country; as the Rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons. NWAD RHETIAN.1

RHETOR, n. [L. from Gr. an orator or speaker.] NWAD RHETOR.1

A rhetorician. [Little used.] NWAD RHETOR.2

RHETORIC, n. [Gr. from to speak, to flow. Eng. to read. The primary sense is to drive or send. See Read.] NWAD RHETORIC.1

1. The art of speaking with propriety, elegance and force. NWAD RHETORIC.2

2. The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms. We speak of the rhetoric of the tongue, and the rhetoric of the heart or eyes. NWAD RHETORIC.3

Sweet silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. NWAD RHETORIC.4

RHETORICAL, a. NWAD RHETORICAL.1

1. Pertaining to rhetoric; as the rhetorical art. NWAD RHETORICAL.2

2. Containing the rules of rhetoric; as a rhetorical treatise. NWAD RHETORICAL.3

3. Oratorial; as a rhetorical flourish. NWAD RHETORICAL.4

RHETORICALLY, adv. In the manner of rhetoric; according to the rules of rhetoric; as, to treat a subject rhetorically; a discourse rhetorically delivered. NWAD RHETORICALLY.1

RHETORICATE, v.i. To play the orator. [Not in use.] NWAD RHETORICATE.1

RHETORICATION, n. Rhetorical amplification. [Not in use.] NWAD RHETORICATION.1

RHETORICIAN, n. NWAD RHETORICIAN.1

1. One who teaches the art of rhetoric, or the principles and rules of correct and elegant speaking. NWAD RHETORICIAN.2

The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, who had young auditors, lived till they were a hundred years old. NWAD RHETORICIAN.3

2. One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric. NWAD RHETORICIAN.4

3. An orator. [Less proper.] NWAD RHETORICIAN.5

RHETORICIAN, a. [See the noun.] Suiting a master of rhetoric. [Not in use.] NWAD RHETORICIAN.6

RHETORIZE, v.i. To play the orator. NWAD RHETORIZE.1

RHETORIZE, v.t. To represent by a figure of oratory. NWAD RHETORIZE.2

RHEUM, n. [Gr. from to flow.] NWAD RHEUM.1

1. An increased and often inflammatory action of the vessels of an organ; but generally applied to the inflammatory action of the mucous glands, attended with increased discharge and an altered state of their excreted fluids. NWAD RHEUM.2

2. A thin serous fluid, secreted by the mucous glands, etc.; as in catarrh. NWAD RHEUM.3

RHEUMATIC, a. [L. rheumaticus; Gr. from rheum, which see.] NWAD RHEUMATIC.1

Pertaining to rheumatism, or partaking of its nature, as rheumatic pains or affections. NWAD RHEUMATIC.2

RHEUMATISM, n. [L. rheumatismus; Gr. from a watery humor, from to flow; the ancients supposing the disease to proceed from a defluxion of humors.] NWAD RHEUMATISM.1

A painful disease affecting muscles and joints of the human body, chiefly the larger joints, as the hips, knees, shoulders, etc. NWAD RHEUMATISM.2

RHEUMY, a. [from rheum.] NWAD RHEUMY.1

1. Full of rheum or watery matter; consisting of rheum or partaking of its nature. NWAD RHEUMY.2

2. Affected with rheum. NWAD RHEUMY.3

3. Abounding with sharp moisture; causing rheum. NWAD RHEUMY.4

RHIME. [See Rhyme.] NWAD RHIME.1

RHINO, n. A cant word for gold and silver, or money. NWAD RHINO.1

RHINOCERIAL, a. [from rhinoceros.] NWAD RHINOCERIAL.1

Pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros. NWAD RHINOCERIAL.2

RHINOCEROS, n. [L. rhinoceros; Gr. nose-horn.] NWAD RHINOCEROS.1

A genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, as a single horn growing almost erect from the nose. This animal when full grown, is said to be 12 feet in length. There is another species with two horns, the bicornis. They are natives of Asia and Africa. NWAD RHINOCEROS.2

RHINOCEROS-BIRD, n. A bird of the genus Buceros, having a crooked horn on the forehead, joined to the upper mandible. NWAD RHINOCEROS-BIRD.1

RHODIAN, a. Pertaining to Rhodes, an isle of the Mediterranean; as Rhodian laws. NWAD RHODIAN.1

RHODIUM, n. A metal recently discovered among grains of crude platinum. NWAD RHODIUM.1

RHODODENDRON, n. [Gr. a rose and a tree.] NWAD RHODODENDRON.1

The dwarf rosebay. NWAD RHODODENDRON.2

RHODONITE, n. A mineral of a red, reddish, or yellowish white color, and splintery fracture, occurring compact or fibrous in the Hartz at Strahlberg, etc. NWAD RHODONITE.1

RHOETIZITE, RHETIZITE, n. A mineral occurring in masses or in radiated concretions, and of a white color. NWAD RHOETIZITE.1

RHOMB, n. [L. rhombus; Gr from to turn or whirl round, to wander, to roam or rove; literally, a deviating square.] NWAD RHOMB.1

In geometry, an oblique angled parallelogram, or a quadrilateral figure whose sides are equal and parallel, but the angles unequal, two of the angles being obtuse and two acute. It consists of two equal and right cones united at the base. NWAD RHOMB.2

RHOMBIC, a. Having the figure of a rhomb. NWAD RHOMBIC.1

RHOMBO, n. A fish of turbot kind. NWAD RHOMBO.1

RHOMBOID, n. [Gr. rhomb, and form.] NWAD RHOMBOID.1

1. In geometry, a figure having some resemblance to a rhomb; or a quadrilateral figure whose opposite sides and angles are equal, but which is neither equilateral nor equiangular. NWAD RHOMBOID.2

2. a. In anatomy, the rhomboid muscle is a thin, broad and obliquely square fleshy muscle, between the basis of the scapula and the spina dorsi. NWAD RHOMBOID.3

RHOMBOIDAL, a. Having the shape of a rhomboid, or a shape approaching it. NWAD RHOMBOIDAL.1

RHOMB-SPAR, n. A mineral of a grayish white, occurring massive disseminated and crystallized in rhomboids, imbedded in chlorite slate, limestone, etc. It consists chiefly of carbonates of lime and magnesia. NWAD RHOMB-SPAR.1

RHUBARB, n. NWAD RHUBARB.1

A plant of the genus Rheum, of several species; as the rhapontic, or common rhubarb; the palmated, or true Chinese rhubarb; the compact or Tartarian; the undulated or wave-leafed Chinese rhubarb; and the rubes, or currant rhubarb of mount Libanus. The root is medicinal and much used as a moderate cathartic. NWAD RHUBARB.2

RHUBARBARINE, n. A vegetable substance obtained from rhubarb. NWAD RHUBARBARINE.1

RHUMB, n. [from rhomb.] In navigation, a vertical circle of any given place, or the intersection of such a circle with the horizon; in which last sense, rhumb is the same as a point of the compass. NWAD RHUMB.1

RHUMB-LINE, n. In navigation, a line prolonged from any point of the compass on a nautical chart, except from the four cardinal points. NWAD RHUMB-LINE.1

RHYME, RIME, n. [The deduction of this word from the Greek is a palpable error. The true orthography is rime or ryme; but as rime is hoar frost, and rhyme gives the true pronunciation, it may be convenient to continue the present orthography.] NWAD RHYME.1

1. In poetry, the correspondence of sounds in the terminating words or syllables of two verses, one of which succeeds the other immediately, or at no great distance. NWAD RHYME.2

For rhyme with reason may dispense, and sound has right to govern sense. NWAD RHYME.3

To constitute this correspondence in single words or in syllables, it is necessary that the vowel, and the final articulations or consonants, should be the same, or have nearly the same sound. The initial consonants may be different, as in find and mind, new and drew, cause and laws. NWAD RHYME.4

2. A harmonical succession of sounds. NWAD RHYME.5

The youth with songs and rhymes, some dance, and some haul the rope. NWAD RHYME.6

3. Poetry; a poem. NWAD RHYME.7

He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. NWAD RHYME.8

4. A word of sound to answer to another word. NWAD RHYME.9

Rhyme or reason, number or sense. NWAD RHYME.10

But from that time unto this season, I had neither rhyme nor reason. NWAD RHYME.11

RHYME, v.i. NWAD RHYME.12

1. To accord in sound. NWAD RHYME.13

But fagoted his notions as they fell, and if they rhym’d and rattl’d, all was well. NWAD RHYME.14

2. To make verses. NWAD RHYME.15

There march’d the bard and blockhead side by side, who rhym’d for hire, and patroniz’d for pride. NWAD RHYME.16

RHYME, v.t. To put into rhyme. NWAD RHYME.17

RHYMELESS, a. Destitute of rhyme; not having consonance of sound. NWAD RHYMELESS.1

RHYMER, RHYMIST, RHYMSTER, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a poor poet. NWAD RHYMER.1

RHYMIC, a. Pertaining to rhyme. NWAD RHYMIC.1

RHYTHM, RHYTHMUS, n. [Gr.] NWAD RHYTHM.1

1. In music, variety in the movement as to quickness or slowness, or length and shortness of the notes; or rather the proportion which the parts of the motion have to each other. NWAD RHYTHM.2

2. Meter; verse; number. NWAD RHYTHM.3

RHYTHMICAL, a. [Gr., L. rhythmicus.] NWAD RHYTHMICAL.1

Having proportion of sound, or one sound proportioned to another; harmonical. NWAD RHYTHMICAL.2

Duly regulated by cadences, accents and quantities. NWAD RHYTHMICAL.3

RIAL, n. A Spanish coin. [See Real.] NWAD RIAL.1

RIAL, n. [from royal.] A royal; a gold coin of the value of ten shillings sterling, formerly current in Britain. NWAD RIAL.2

RIANT, a. Laughing; exciting laughter. [Not anglicized.] NWAD RIANT.1

RIB, n. [L. costa, signifies side, border, extremity.] NWAD RIB.1

1. A bone of animal bodies which forms a part of the frame of the thorax. The ribs in the human body are twelve on each side, proceeding from the spine to the sternum, or towards it, and serving to inclose and protect the heart and lungs. NWAD RIB.2

2. In ship building, a piece of timber which forms or strengthens the side of a ship. NWAD RIB.3

Ribs of a parrel, are short pieces of plank, having holes through which are reeved the two parts of the parrel-rope. NWAD RIB.4

3. In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise. NWAD RIB.5

4. In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib. NWAD RIB.6

5. Something long, thin and narrow; a strip. NWAD RIB.7

RIB, v.t. NWAD RIB.8

1. To furnish with ribs. In manufactures, to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth; whence we say, ribbed cloth. NWAD RIB.9

2. To inclose with ribs. NWAD RIB.10

RIBALD, n. NWAD RIBALD.1

A low, vulgar, brutal wretch; a lewd fellow. NWAD RIBALD.2

RIBALD, a. Low; base; mean. NWAD RIBALD.3

RIBALDISH, a. Disposed to ribaldry. NWAD RIBALDISH.1

RIBALDRY, n. Mean, vulgar language; chiefly, obscene language. NWAD RIBALDRY.1

RIBAN, n. In heraldry, the eighth part of a bend. NWAD RIBAN.1

RIBBED, pp. or a. NWAD RIBBED.1

1. Furnished with ribs; as ribbed with steel. NWAD RIBBED.2

2. Inclosed as with ribs. NWAD RIBBED.3

3. Marked or formed with rising lines and channels; as ribbed cloth. NWAD RIBBED.4

RIBIN, n. NWAD RIBIN.1

1. A filet of silk; a narrow web of silk used for an ornament, as a badge, or for fastening some part of female dress. NWAD RIBIN.2

2. In naval architecture, a long narrow flexible piece of timber, nailed upon the outside of the ribs from the stem to the sternpost, so as to encompass the ship lengthwise; the principal are the floor-ribin and the breadth-ribin. NWAD RIBIN.3

RIBIN, v.t. To adorn with ribins. NWAD RIBIN.4

RIBROAST, v.t. [rib and roast.] To beat soundly; a burlesque word. NWAD RIBROAST.1

RIBROASTED, pp. Soundly beaten. NWAD RIBROASTED.1

RIBROASTING, ppr. Beating soundly. NWAD RIBROASTING.1

RIBWORT, n. A plant of the genus Plantago. NWAD RIBWORT.1

RIC, RICK, as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or a district over which government is exercised, as in bishopric. L. rego, to rule, and region. NWAD RIC.1

RIC, as a termination of names, denotes rich or powerful, as in Alfric, Fredrick, like the Greek Polycrates and Plutarchus. It is the first syllable of Richard. [See Rich.] NWAD RIC.2

RICE, n. [L. oryza; Gr.] NWAD RICE.1

A plant of the genus Oryza, and its seed. The calyx is a bivalvular uniflorous glume; the corol bivalvular, nearly equal, and adhering to the seed. There is only one species. This plant is cultivated in all warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America, it grows chiefly on low moist land, which can be overflowed. It is a light food, and said to be little apt to produce acidity in the stomach. Indeed it seems intended by the wise and benevolent Creator to be the proper food of men in warm climates. NWAD RICE.2

RICE-BIRD, RICE-BUNTING, n. A bird of the United States, the Emberiza oryzivora; so named from its feeding on rice in the southern states. In New England it is called bob-lincoln. NWAD RICE-BIRD.1

RICH, a. [L. rego, regnum, Eng. reach, region, from extending.] NWAD RICH.1

1. Wealthy; opulent; possessing a large portion of land, goods or money, or a larger portion than is common to other men or to men of like rank. A farmer may be rich with property which would not make a nobleman rich. An annual income of 500 sterling pounds would make a rich vicar, but not a rich bishop. Men more willingly acknowledge others to be richer, than to be wiser than themselves. NWAD RICH.2

Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold. Genesis 13:2. NWAD RICH.3

2. Splendid; costly; valuable; precious; sumptuous; as a rich dress; a rich border; a rich silk; rich furniture; a rich present. NWAD RICH.4

3. Abundant in materials; yielding great quantities of any thing valuable; as a rich mine; rich ore. NWAD RICH.5

4. Abounding in valuable ingredients or qualities; as a rich odor or flavor; rich spices. NWAD RICH.6

So we say, a rich description; a discourse rich in ideas. NWAD RICH.7

5. Full of valuable achievements or works. NWAD RICH.8

Each minute shall be rich in some great action. NWAD RICH.9

6. Fertile; fruitful; capable of producing large crops or quantities; as a rich soil; rich land; rich mold. NWAD RICH.10

7. Abundant; large; as a rich crop. NWAD RICH.11

8. Abundant; affording abundance; plentiful. NWAD RICH.12

The gorgeous East with richest hand pours on her sons barbaric pearl and gold. NWAD RICH.13

9. Full of beautiful scenery; as a rich landscape; a rich prospect. NWAD RICH.14

10. Abounding with elegant colors; as a rich picture. NWAD RICH.15

11. Plentifully stocked; as pastures rich in flocks. NWAD RICH.16

12. Strong; vivid; perfect; as a rich color. NWAD RICH.17

13. Having something precious; as a grove of rich trees. NWAD RICH.18

14. Abounding with nutritious qualities; as a rich diet. NWAD RICH.19

15. Highly seasoned; as rich paste; a rich dish of food. NWAD RICH.20

16. Abounding with a variety of delicious food; as a rich table or entertainment. NWAD RICH.21

17. Containing abundance beyond wants; as a rich treasury. NWAD RICH.22

18. In music, full of sweet or harmonious sounds. NWAD RICH.23

19. In Scripture, abounding; highly endowed with spiritual gifts; as rich in faith. James 2:5. NWAD RICH.24

20. Placing confidence in outward prosperity. Matthew 19:23-24. NWAD RICH.25

21. Self-righteous; abounding, in one’s own opinion, with spiritual graces. Revelation 3:17. NWAD RICH.26

Rich in mercy, spoken of God, full of mercy, and ready to bestow good things on sinful men. Ephesians 2:4; Romans 10:12. NWAD RICH.27

The rich, used as a noun, denotes a rich man or person, or more frequently in the plural, rich men or persons. NWAD RICH.28

The rich hath many friends. Proverbs 14:20. NWAD RICH.29