Ridgebone (n.) The backbone.
Ridgel (n.) Same as Ridgelling.
Ridgelet (n.) A little ridge.
Ridgeling (n.) A half-castrated male animal.
Ridgepiece (n.) Alt. of Ridgeplate
Ridgeplate (n.) See Ridgepole.
Ridgepole (n.) The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.
Ridgerope (n.) See Life line (a), under Life.
Ridgingly (adv.) So as to form ridges.
Ridgy (a.) Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge.
Ridicle (n.) Ridicule.
Ridicule (n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
Ridicule (n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
Ridiculed (imp. & p. p.) of Ridicule
Ridiculing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ridicule
Ridicule (v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
Ridicule (a.) Ridiculous.
Ridiculer (n.) One who ridicules.
Ridiculize (v. t.) To make ridiculous; to ridicule.
Ridiculosity (n.) The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous.
Ridiculous (a.) Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
Ridiculous (a.) Involving or expressing ridicule.
Riding (n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding.
Riding (a.) Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk.
Riding (a.) Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
Riding (a.) Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
Riding (n.) The act or state of one who rides.
Riding (n.) A festival procession.
Riding (n.) Same as Ride, n., 3.
Riding (n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.
Ridotto (n.) A favorite Italian public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves.
Ridotto (v. i.) To hold ridottos.
Rie (n.) See Rye.
Rief (n.) Robbery.
Rietboc (n.) The reedbuck, a South African antelope (Cervicapra arundinacea); -- so called from its frequenting dry places covered with high grass or reeds. Its color is yellowish brown. Called also inghalla, and rietbok.
Rife (a.) Prevailing; prevalent; abounding.
Rife (a.) Having power; active; nimble.
Riffle (n.) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
Riffler (n.) A curved file used in carving wool and marble.
Riffraff (n.) Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.
Rifled (imp. & p. p.) of Rifle
Rifling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rifle
Rifle (v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
Rifle (v. t.) To strip; to rob; to pillage.
Rifle (v. t.) To raffle.
Rifle (v. i.) To raffle.
Rifle (v. i.) To commit robbery.
Rifle (n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
Rifle (n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
Rifle (n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
Rifle (v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
Riflebird (n.) Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.
Rifleman (pl. ) of Rifleman
Rifleman (n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
Rifler (n.) One who rifles; a robber.
Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
Rifling (n.) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
Rift () p. p. of Rive.
Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Rift (n.) A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Rifted (imp. & p. p.) of Rift
Rifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rift
Rift (v. t.) To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
Rift (v. i.) To burst open; to split.
Rift (v. i.) To belch.
Rifter (n.) A rafter.
Rig (n.) A ridge.
Rigged (imp. & p. p.) of Rig
Rigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rig
Rig (v. t.) To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
Rig (v. t.) To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out.
Rig (n.) The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
Rig (n.) Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.
Rig (n.) A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
Rig (n.) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
Rig (n.) A blast of wind.
Rig (v. i.) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
Rig (v. t.) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
Rigadoon (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France.
Riga fir () A species of pine (Pinus sylvestris), and its wood, which affords a valuable timber; -- called also Scotch pine, and red / yellow deal. It grows in all parts of Europe, in the Caucasus, and in Siberia.
Rigarion (n.) See Irrigation.
Rigel (n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.
Rigescent (a.) Growing stiff or numb.
Rigger (n.) One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
Rigger (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
Rigging (n.) DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails.
Riggish (a.) Like a rig or wanton.
Riggle (v. i.) See Wriggle.
Riggle (n.) The European lance fish.
Right (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
Right (a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
Right (a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
Right (a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
Right (a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
Right (a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
Right (a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
Right (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
Right (a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.