Rake (v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
Rake (v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Rakehell (n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.
Rakehell (a.) Alt. of Rakehelly
Rakehelly (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.
Rakel (a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.
Raker (n.) One who, or that which, rakes
Raker (n.) A person who uses a rake.
Raker (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
Raker (n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
Raker (n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.
Rakery (n.) Debauchery; lewdness.
Rakeshame (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch.
Rakestale (n.) The handle of a rake.
Rake-vein (n.) See Rake, a mineral vein.
Raking (n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
Raking (n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
Rakish (a.) Dissolute; lewd; debauched.
Rakish (a.) Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.
Rakishly (adv.) In a rakish manner.
Rakishness (n.) The quality or state of being rakish.
Raku ware () A kind of earthenware made in Japan, resembling Satsuma ware, but having a paler color.
Rale (n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.
Rallentando (a.) Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.
Ralliance (n.) The act of rallying.
Rallier (n.) One who rallies.
Ralline (a.) Pertaining to the rails.
Rallied (imp. & p. p.) of Rally
Rallying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rally
Rally (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
Rally (v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
Rally (v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
Rally (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
Rallies (pl. ) of Rally
Rally (n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
Rally (n.) A political mass meeting.
Rally (v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
Rally (v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
Rally (n.) Good-humored raillery.
Ralph (n.) A name sometimes given to the raven.
Ralstonite (n.) A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.
Ram (n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
Ram (n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
Ram (n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
Ram (n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
Ram (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
Ram (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
Ram (n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
Ram (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
Ram (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Rammed (imp. & p. p.) of Ram
Ramming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ram
Ram (v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
Ram (v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
Ramadan (n.) The ninth Mohammedan month.
Ramadan (n.) The great annual fast of the Mohammedans, kept during daylight through the ninth month.
Ramage (n.) Boughs or branches.
Ramage (n.) Warbling of birds in trees.
Ramage (a.) Wild; untamed.
Ramagious (a.) Wild; not tame.
Ramal (a.) Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.
Ramayana (n.) The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.
Ramberge (n.) Formerly, a kind of large war galley.
Rambled (imp. & p. p.) of Ramble
Rambling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramble
Ramble (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
Ramble (v. i.) To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
Ramble (v. i.) To extend or grow at random.
Ramble (n.) A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
Ramble (n.) A bed of shale over the seam.
Rambler (n.) One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
Rambling (a.) Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
Ramblingly (adv.) In a rambling manner.
Rambooze (n.) A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.
Rambutan (n.) A Malayan fruit produced by the tree Nephelium lappaceum, and closely related to the litchi nut. It is bright red, oval in shape, covered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.
Rameal (a.) Same as Ramal.
Ramean (n.) A Ramist.
Ramed (a.) Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.
Ramee (n.) See Ramie.
Ramekin (n.) See Ramequin.
Rament (n.) A scraping; a shaving.
Rament (n.) Ramenta.
Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns.
Ramentaceous (a.) Covered with ramenta.
Rameous (a.) Ramal.
Ramequin (n.) A mixture of cheese, eggs, etc., formed in a mold, or served on bread.
Ramie (n.) The grass-cloth plant (B/hmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
Ramification (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
Ramification (n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
Ramification (n.) The production of branchlike figures.
Ramiflorous (a.) Flowering on the branches.
Ramiform (a.) Having the form of a branch.
Ramified (imp. & p. p.) of Ramify
Ramifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramify
Ramify (v. t.) To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Ramify (v. i.) To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
Ramify (v. i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
Ramigerous (a.) Bearing branches; branched.
Ramiparous (a.) Producing branches; ramigerous.