RHAPSODY
RHAP'SODY, noun [Gr. to sew or unite, and a song.]Originally, a discourse in verse, sung or rehearsed by a rhapsodist; or a collection of verses, particularly those of Homer. In...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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RHEIN-BERRY
RHEIN-BERRY, noun Buckthorn, a plant.
RHENISH
RHE'NISH, adjective 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 solv...
RHETIAN
RHE'TIAN, adjective Pertaining to the ancient Rhaeti, or to Rhaetia, their country; as the rhetian Alps, now the country of Tyrol and the Grisons.
RHETIZITE
RHET'IZITE, noun A mineral occurring in masses or in radiated concretions, and of a white color.
RHETOR
RHE'TOR, noun [Latin from Gr. an orator or speaker.]A rhetorician. [Little used.]
RHETORIC
RHET'ORIC, noun [Gr. from to speak, to flow. Eng. to read. The primary sense is to drive or send. See Read.]1. The art of speaking with propriety, elegance and force.2. The powe...
RHETORICAL
RHETOR'ICAL, adjective1. Pertaining to rhetoric; as the rhetorical art.2. Containing the rules of rhetoric; as a rhetorical treatise.3. Oratorial; as a rhetorical flourish.
RHETORICALLY
RHETOR'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of rhetoric; according to the rules of rhetoric; as, to treat a subject rhetorically; a discourse rhetorically delivered.
RHETORICATE
RHETOR'ICATE, verb intransitive To play the orator. [Not in use.]
RHETORICATION
RHETORICA'TION, noun Rhetorical amplification. [Not in use.]
RHETORICIAN
RHETORI'CIAN, noun1. One who teaches the art of rhetoric, or the principles and rules of correct and elegant speaking.The ancient sophists and rhetoricians, who had young audito...
RHETORIZE
RHET'ORIZE, verb intransitive To play the orator.RHET'ORIZE, verb transitive To represent by a figure of oratory.
RHEUM
RHEUM, noun [Gr. from to flow.]1. An increased and often inflammatory action of the vessels of an organ; but generally applied to the inflammatory action of the mucous glands, a...
RHEUMATIC
RHEUMAT'IC, adjective [Latin rheumaticus; Gr. from rheum, which see.]Pertaining to rheumatism, or partaking of its nature, as rheumatic pains or affections.
RHEUMATISM
RHEU'MATISM, noun [Latin rheumatismus; Gr. from a watery humor, from to flow; the ancients supposing the disease to proceed from a defluxion of humors.]A painful disease affecti...
RHEUMY
RHEU'MY, adjective [from rheum.]1. Full of rheum or watery matter; consisting of rheum or partaking of its nature.2. Affected with rheum.3. Abounding with sharp moisture; causin...
RHIME
RHIME. [See Rhyme.]
RHINO
RHI'NO, noun A cant word for gold and silver, or money.
RHINOCERIAL
RHINOCE'RIAL, adjective [from rhinoceros.]Pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros.
RHINOCEROS
RHINOC'EROS, noun [Latin rhinoceros; Gr. nose-horn.]A genus of quadrupeds of two species, one of which, the unicorn, as a single horn growing almost erect from the nose. This an...
RHINOCEROS-BIRD
RHINOCEROS-BIRD, noun A bird of the genus Buceros, having a crooked horn on the forehead, joined to the upper mandible.
RHODIAN
RHO'DIAN, adjective Pertaining to Rhodes, an isle of the Mediterranean; as rhodian laws.
RHODIUM
RHO'DIUM, noun A metal recently discovered among grains of crude platinum.
RHODODENDRON
RHODODEN'DRON, noun [Gr. a rose and a tree.]The dwarf rosebay.
RHODONITE
RHO'DONITE, noun A mineral of a red, reddish, or yellowish white color, and splintery fracture, occurring compact or fibrous in the Hartz at Strahlberg, etc.
RHOETIZITE
RHOE'TIZITE,RHOMB, noun [Latin rhombus; Gr from to turn or whirl round, to wander, to roam or rove; literally, a deviating square.]In geometry, an oblique angled parallelogram, ...