Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 68

Riling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rile

Rile (v. t.) To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

Rile (v. t.) To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.

Rilievo (n.) Same as Relief, n., 5.

Rill (n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.

Rill (n.) See Rille.

Rill (v. i.) To run a small stream.

Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

Rillet (n.) A little rill.

Rily (a.) Roily.

Rim (n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

Rim (n.) The lower part of the abdomen.

Rimmed (imp. & p. p.) of Rim

Rimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rim

Rim (v. t.) To furnish with a rim; to border.

Rimae (pl. ) of Rima

Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Rimau dahan () The clouded tiger cat (Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the East Indies.

Rimbase (n.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

Rime (n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

Rimed (imp. & p. p.) of Rime

Riming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rime

Rime (v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Rime (n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

Rime (n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.

Rime (v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.

Rimer (n.) A rhymer; a versifier.

Rimer (n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

Rimey (v. t.) To compose in rhyme; to versify.

Rimmer (n.) An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer.

Rimose (a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.

Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

Rimosely (adv.) In a rimose manner.

Rimosity (n.) State of being rimose.

Rimous (a.) Rimose.

Rimple (n.) A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.

Rimpled (imp. & p. p.) of Rimple

Rimpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rimple

Rimple (v. t. & i.) To rumple; to wrinkle.

Rimy (a.) Abounding with rime; frosty.

Rind (n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.

Rind (v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark.

Rinderpest (n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

Rindle (n.) A small water course or gutter.

Rindless (a.) Destitute of a rind.

Rindy (a.) Having a rind or skin.

Rine (n.) See Rind.

Rined (a.) Having a rind

Rinforzando (a.) Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.

Rang (imp.) of Ring

Rung () of Ring

Rung (p. p.) of Ring

Ringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring

Ring (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

Ring (v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.

Ring (v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.

Ring (v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.

Ring (v. i.) To practice making music with bells.

Ring (v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.

Ring (v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.

Ring (v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

Ring (n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.

Ring (n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

Ring (n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.

Ring (n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.

Ring (n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.

Ring (n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.

Ring (n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.

Ring (n.) A circular group of persons.

Ring (n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.

Ring (n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.

Ring (n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.

Ring (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

Ring (n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.

Ringed (imp. & p. p.) of Ring

Ringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring

Ring (v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.

Ring (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.

Ring (v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.

Ring (v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.

Ringbill (n.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.

Ringbird (n.) The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.

Ringbolt (n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.

Ringbone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones.

Ringdove (n.) A European wild pigeon (Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.

Ringed (a.) Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.

Ringed (a.) Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.

Ringent (a.) Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.

Ringer (n.) One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

Ringer (n.) A crowbar.

Ringer (n.) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

Ringhead (n.) An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.

Ringing () a & n. from Ring, v.

Ringingly (adv.) In a ringing manner.

Ringleader (n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.

Ringleader (n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.

Ringlestone (n.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover.

Ringlet (n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.

Ringlet (n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.

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