Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Ransomable

Ran″som‐a‐ble (–ȧ‐b'l), a. Such as can be ransomed.

488

Ransomer

Ran″som‐er (–ẽr), n. One who ransoms or redeems.

489

Ransomless

Ran″som‐less, a. Incapable of being ransomed; without ransom. Shak.

490

Rant

Rant (rănt), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Ranted; p. pr. & vb. n.Ranting.] [OD. ranten, randen, to dote, to be enraged.] To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, withou...

491

Rant (2)

Rant, n. High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.This is a stoical rant, without any f...

492

Ranter

Rant″er (–ẽr), n. 1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.2. (Eccl. Hist.) (a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; — called also Seekers. See Seeker. (b) One of the P...

493

Ranterism

Rant″er‐ism (–ĭz'm), n.(Eccl. Hist.) The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

494

Rantingly

Rant″ing‐ly, adv. In a ranting manner.

495

Rantipole

Rant″i‐pole (–ĭ‐pōl), n. [Ranty + pole, poll, head.] A wild, romping young person. Marryat.

496

Rantipole (2)

Rant″i‐pole, a. Wild; roving; rakish.

497

Rantipole (3)

Rant″i‐pole, v. i. To act like a rantipole.She used to rantipole about the house. Arbuthnot.

498

Rantism

Rant″ism (–ĭz'm), n.(Eccl. Hist.) Ranterism.

499

Ranty

Rant″y (–y̆), a. Wild; noisy; boisterous.

500

Ranula

‖Ran″u‐la (răn″ū̍‐lȧ), n. [L., a little frog, a little swelling on the tongue of cattle, dim. of rana a frog.] (Med.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct o...

501

Ranunculaceous

Ra‐nun′cu‐la″ceous (rȧ‐nŭṉ′kū̍‐lā″shŭs), a. [See Ranunculus.] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceæ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which ...

502

Ranunculus

Ra‐nun″cu‐lus (rȧ‐nŭṉ″kū̍‐lŭs), n.; pl. E. Ranunculuses (–ĕz), L. Ranunculi (–lī). [L., a little frog, a medicinal plant, perhaps crowfoot, dim. of rana a frog; cf. raccare to r...

503

Ranz des vaches

‖Ranz″ des′ vaches″ (räNs″ dā̍′ vȧsh″). The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and so...

504

Rap

Rap (răp), n. A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. Knight.

505

Rap (2)

Rap, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Rapped (răpt); p. pr. & vb. n.Rapping.] [Akin to Sw. rappa to strike, rapp stroke, Dan. rap, perhaps of imitative origin.] To strike with a quick, sharp ...

506

Rap (3)

Rap, v. t. 1. To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.With one great peal they rap the door. Prior.2. (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so...

507

Rap (4)

Rap, n. A quick, smart blow; a knock.

508

Rap (5)

Rap, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Rapped (răpt), usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n.Rapping.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to m...

509

Rap (6)

Rap, n. [Perhaps contr. fr. raparee.] A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin ...

510

Rapaces

‖Ra‐pa″ces (rȧ‐pā″sēz), n. pl. [NL. See Rapacious.] (Zoöl.) Same as Accipitres.

511

Rapacious

Ra‐pa″cious (–shŭs), a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See Rapid.]1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizin...

512

Rapacity

Ra‐pac″i‐ty (rȧ‐păs″ĭ‐ty̆), n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacité. See Rapacious.] 1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the r...

513

Raparee

Rap′a‐ree″ (răp′ȧ‐rē″), n. See Rapparee.