RINGLEAD
RING'LEAD, verb transitive To conduct. [Little used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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RINGLEADER
RING'LEADER, noun [ring and leader.] The leader of any association of men engaged in violating of law or an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers and the like. this name is ...
RINGLET
RING'LET, noun1. A small ring.2. A curl; particularly, a curl of hair.Her golden tresses in wanton ringlets wav'd3. A circle.To dance our ringlets in the whistling wind.RING'-OU...
RINSE
RINSE, verb transitive rins. [Our common people pronounce this word rens, retaining their native pronunciation. This is one of a thousand instances in which the purity of our ve...
RINSED
RINS'ED, participle passive Cleansed with a second water; cleaned.
RINSER
RINS'ER, noun One that rinses.
RINSING
RINS'ING, participle present tense Cleansing with a second water.
RIOT
RI'OT, noun1. In a general sense, tumult; uproar; hence technically, in law, a riotous assembling of twelve persons or more, and not dispersing upon proclamation.The definition ...
RIOTER
RI'OTER, noun1. One who indulges in loose festivity or excessive feasting.2. In law, one guilty of meeting with others to do an unlawful act, and declining to retire upon procla...
RIOTING
RI'OTING, participle present tense Reveling; indulging in excessive feasting.RI'OTING, noun A reveling.
RIOTISE
RI'OTISE, noun Dissoluteness; luxury. [Not in use.]
RIOTOUS
RI'OTOUS, adjective1. Luxurious; wanton or licentious in festive indulgences; as riotous eaters of flesh. Proverbs 23:20.2. Consisting of riot; tumultuous; partaking of the natu...
RIOTOUSLY
RI'OTOUSLY, adverb1. With excessive or licentious luxury.2. In the manner of an unlawful assembly; tumultuously; seditiously.
RIOTOUSNESS
RI'OTOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being riotous.
RIP
RIP, verb transitive [Latin rapio. Eng. reap and rive; allied perhaps to the Latin crepo.]1. To separate by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by...
RIPE
RIPE, adjective1. Brought to perfection in growth or to the best state; mature; fit for use; as ripe fruit; ripe corn.2. Advanced to perfection; matured; as ripe judgment, or ri...
RIPELY
RI'PELY, adverb Maturely; at the fit time.
RIPEN
RIPEN, verb intransitive ri'pn.1. To grow ripe; to be matured; as grain or fruit. Grain ripens best in dry weather.2. To approach or come to perfection; to be fitted or prepared...
RIPENESS
RI'PENESS, noun1. The state of being ripe or brought to that state of perfection which fits for use; maturity; as the ripeness of grain.2. Full growth.Time which made them their...
RIPHEAN
RIPHE'AN, adjective An epithet given to certain mountains in the north of Asia, probably signifying snowy mountains.
RIPIER
RIP'IER,RIP'PED, participle passive Torn or cut off or out; torn open.RIP'PER, noun One who tears or cuts open.
RIPPED
RIP'PED, pp. Torn or cut off or out; torn open.
RIPPER
RIP'PER, noun In old laws, one who brings fish to market in the inland country.
RIPPING
RIP'PING, participle present tense Cutting or tearing off or open; tearing up.RIP'PING, noun1. A tearing.2. A discovery. obsolete
RIPPLE
RIP'PLE, verb intransitiveTo fret on the surface; as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom, appears rough and broken, or as if ripped or torn.RIP'PLE, verb transiti...
RIPPLING
RIP'PLING, participle present tense Fretting on the surface.RIP'PLING, noun1. The ripple dashing on the shore, or the noise of it.2. The act or method of cleaning flax; a hatche...
RIPT
RIPT, participle passive for ripped.