RIGLET
RIG'LET, noun [Latin regula, rego.] a flat thin piece of wood, used for picture frames; also used in printing; to regulate the margin, 7c.
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RIGMAROLE
RIG'MAROLE, noun a repetition of stories; a succession of stories.
RIGOL
RIG'OL, noun A circle; a diadem.
RIGOLI
RIG'OLI, noun a musical instrument consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads.
RIGOR
RIG'OR, noun [Latin from rigeo, to be stiff.1. Stiffness; rigidness; as Gorgonian rigor2. In medicine, a sense of chilliness, with contradiction of the skin; a convulsive shudde...
RIGOROUS
RIG'OROUS, adjective1. Severe; allowing no abatement or mitigation; as a rigorous officer of justice.2. Severe; exact; strict; without abatement or relaxation; as a rigorous exe...
RIGOROUSLY
RIG'OROUSLY, adverb1. Severely; without relaxation, abatement or mitigation; as a sentence rigorously executed.2. Strictly; exactly; with scrupulous nicety; rigidly.The people w...
RIGOROUSNESS
RIG'OROUSNESS, noun1. Severity without relaxation or mitigation; exactness.2. Severity
RILL
RILL, nounA small brook; a rivulet; a streamlet.RILL, verb intransitive to run in a small stream, or in streamlets.
RILLET
RILL'ET, noun A small stream; a rivulet.
RIM
RIM, noun1. the border, edge or margin of a thing; as the rim of a kettle or bason; usually applied to things circular or curving.2. the lower part of the belly or abdomen.RIM, ...
RIME
RIME, noun [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 pronunciatio...
RIMOSE
RI'MOSE,RI'MOUS, adjective [Latin rimosus, from rima.] In botany, chinky; abounding with clefts, cracks or chinks; as the bark of trees.
RIMOUS
RI'MOUS, a. [L. rimosus, from rima.] In botany, chinky; abounding with clefts, cracks or chinks; as the bark of trees.
RIMPLE
RIM'PLE, noun A fold or wrinkle. [See rumple.]RIM'PLE, verb transitive To rumple; to wrinkle.
RIMPLING
RIM'PLING, noun Undulation.
RIMY
RI'MY, adjective [from rime.] Abounding with rime; frosty.
RIND
RIND, noun [Gr.]The bark of a plant; the skin or coat of fruit that may be pared or peeled off; also, the inner bark of trees.RIND, verb transitive To bark; to decorticate. [Not...
RINDLE
RIN'DLE, noun A small water course or gutter.
RING
RING, noun1. A circle, or a circular line, or any thing in the form of a circular line or hoop. Thus we say of men, they formed themselves into a ring to see a wrestling match. ...
RING-BOLT
RING'-BOLT, noun An iron bolt with an eye to which is fitted a ring of iron.RING'-BONE, noun A callus growing in the hollow circle of the little pastern of a horse, just above t...
RING-STREAKED
RING'-STREAKED, adjective [ring and streak.] Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as ring-streaked goats. Genesis 30:35.
RING-WORM
RING'-WORM, noun [ring and worm.] A circular eruption on the skin; a kind of tetter. [Herpes serpigo.]
RINGDOVE
RING'DOVE, noun A species of pigeon, the Columba palumbus, the largest of the European species.
RINGENT
RING'ENT, adjective [Latin ringor, to make wry faces, that is, to wring or twist.]In botany, a ringent or labiate corol is one which is irregular, monopetalous, with the border ...
RINGER
RING'ER, noun One who rings. [In the sense of wringer, not used.]
RINGING
RING'ING, participle present tense Causing to sound, as a bell; sounding; fitting with rings.RING'ING, noun The act of sounding or of causing to sound.