Rail (n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.
Rail (n.) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.
Rail (n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.
Rail (n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.
Railed (imp. & p. p.) of Rail
Railing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rail
Rail (v. t.) To inclose with rails or a railing.
Rail (v. t.) To range in a line.
Rail (v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
Rail (v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.
Rail (v. t.) To rail at.
Rail (v. t.) To move or influence by railing.
Railer (n.) One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
Railing (a.) Expressing reproach; insulting.
Railing (n.) A barrier made of a rail or of rails.
Railing (n.) Rails in general; also, material for making rails.
Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Raillery (n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
Railleur (n.) A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
Railroad (n.) Alt. of Railway
Railway (n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
Railway (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.
Railroading (n.) The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad.
Raiment (n.) Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.
Raiment (n.) An article of dress.
Rain (n. & v.) Reign.
Rain (n.) Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.
Rained (imp. & p. p.) of Rain
Raining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rain
Rain (n.) To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.
Rain (n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.
Rain (v. t.) To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.
Rain (v. t.) To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.
Rainbow (n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.
Rainbowed (a.) Formed with or like a rainbow.
Raindeer (n.) See Reindeer.
Raindrop (n.) A drop of rain.
Rainfall (n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.
Raininess (n.) The state of being rainy.
Rainless (a.) Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.
Rain-tight (a.) So tight as to exclude rain; as, a rain-tight roof.
Rainy (a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Raip (n.) A rope; also, a measure equal to a rod.
Rais (n.) Same as 2d Reis.
Raisable (a.) Capable of being raised.
Raised (imp. & p. p.) of Raise
Raising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raise
Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
Raise (v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
Raise (v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
Raise (v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
Raise (v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
Raise (v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
Raise (v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
Raise (v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
Raise (v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
Raise (v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
Raise (v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
Raise (v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
Raise (v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
Raise (v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
Raise (v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
Raised (a.) Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.
Raised (a.) Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4.
Raiser (n.) One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).
Raisin (n.) A grape, or a bunch of grapes.
Raisin (n.) A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat.
Raising (n.) The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.
Raising (n.) Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising.
Raising (n.) The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Raisonne (a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.
Raivel (n.) A separator.
Raj (n.) Reign; rule.
Raja (n.) Same as Rajah.
Rajah (a.) A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.
Rajahship (n.) The office or dignity of a rajah.
Rajpoot (n.) Alt. of Rajput
Rajput (n.) A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.
Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
Rake (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
Raked (imp. & p. p.) of Rake
Raking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rake
Rake (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
Rake (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
Rake (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
Rake (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
Rake (v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
Rake (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Rake (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
Rake (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
Rake (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
Rake (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.