Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
Raving (a.) Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic.
Ravished (imp. & p. p.) of Ravish
Ravishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravish
Ravish (v. t.) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
Ravish (v. t.) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
Ravish (v. t.) To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Ravisher (n.) One who ravishes (in any sense).
Ravishing (a.) Rapturous; transporting.
Ravishingly (adv.) In a ravishing manner.
Ravishment (n.) The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.
Ravishment (n.) The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy.
Ravishment (n.) The act of ravishing a woman; rape.
Ravissant (a.) In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.
Raw (superl.) Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.
Raw (superl.) Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.
Raw (superl.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought.
Raw (superl.) Not distilled; as, raw water
Raw (superl.) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton
Raw (superl.) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits
Raw (superl.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow
Raw (superl.) Not tanned; as, raw hides
Raw (superl.) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
Raw (superl.) Not covered; bare.
Raw (superl.) Bald.
Raw (superl.) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
Raw (superl.) Sore, as if by being galled.
Raw (superl.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind.
Raw (n.) A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.
Rawbone (a.) Rawboned.
Rawboned (a.) Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt.
Rawhead (n.) A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.
Rawhide (n.) A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.
Rawish (a.) Somewhat raw.
Rawly (adv.) In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience.
Rawly (adv.) Without proper preparation or provision.
Rawness (n.) The quality or state of being raw.
Ray (v. t.) To array.
Ray (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
Ray (n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
Ray (n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.
Ray (n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.
Ray (n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
Ray (n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
Ray (n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.
Ray (n.) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.
Ray (n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
Ray (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
Rayed (imp. & p. p.) of Ray
Raying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ray
Ray (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
Ray (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
Ray (v. i.) To shine, as with rays.
Ray (n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
Ray (n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.
Rayah (n.) A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax.
Ray grass () A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass.
Rayless (a.) Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
Rayon (n.) Ray; beam.
Rayonnant (a.) Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
Raze (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
Razed (imp. & p. p.) of Raze
Razing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raze
Raze (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
Raze (v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
Razed (a.) Slashed or striped in patterns.
Razee (v. t.) An armed ship having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
Razeed (imp. & p. p.) of Razee
Razeeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Razee
Razee (v. t.) To cut down to a less number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class, as a ship; hence, to prune or abridge by cutting off or retrenching parts; as, to razee a book, or an article.
Razor (v. t.) A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head.
Razor (v. t.) A tusk of a wild boar.
Razorable (a.) Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved.
Razorback (n.) The rorqual.
Razor-backed (a.) Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.
Razorbill (n.) A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.
Razorbill (n.) See Cutwater, 3.
Razure (n.) The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.
Razure (n.) An erasure; a change made by erasing.
Razzia (n.) A plundering and destructive incursion; a foray; a raid.
Re- () A prefix signifying back, against, again, anew; as, recline, to lean back; recall, to call back; recede; remove; reclaim, to call out against; repugn, to fight against; recognition, a knowing again; rejoin, to join again; reiterate; reassure. Combinations containing the prefix re- are readily formed, and are for the most part of obvious signification.
Re () A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale.
Reabsorb (v. t.) To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.
Reabsorption (n.) The act or process of reabsorbing.
Reaccess (n.) A second access or approach; a return.
Reaccuse (v. t.) To accuse again.
Reach (v. i.) To retch.
Reach (n.) An effort to vomit.
Reached (imp. & p. p.) of Reach
Raught () of Reach
Reaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reach
Reach (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
Reach (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
Reach (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
Reach (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
Reach (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
Reach (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
Reach (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
Reach (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
Reach (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.