Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 12
Ratter (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
Ratter (n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.
Ratter (n.) A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter].
Ratter (n.) Any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats [syn: rat terrier, ratter].
Rattinet (n.) A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.
Ratting (n.) The conduct or practices of one who rats. See Rat, v. i., 1. -- Sydney Smith.
Ratting (n.) The low sport of setting a dog upon rats confined in a pit to see how many he will kill in a given time.
Ratting (n.) To furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) [syn: informing, ratting].
Rattled (imp. & p. p.) of Rattle.
Rattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rattle.
Rattle (v. i.) 發出咯咯聲；喀嚓喀嚓行進 [Q] To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. -- Addison.
'T was but the wind,
Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. -- Byron.
Rattle (v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles. [Colloq.]
Rattle (v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour. [Colloq.]
Rattle (v. t.) 使發出咯咯聲；【口】使窘迫不安，使驚惶失措；使惱火 To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
Rattle (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
Sound but another [drum], and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear. -- Shak.
Rattle (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. [Colloq.]
Rattle (v. t.) To scold; to rail at. -- L'Estrange.
{To rattle off}. (ph.) 急促地背誦；移動時發出嘈雜聲 (a) To tell glibly or noisily; as, to rattle off a story.
{To rattle off}. (b) To rail at; to scold. "She would sometimes rattle off her servants sharply." -- Arbuthnot.
Rattle (n.) 咯咯聲；吵鬧聲 [S]；發出咯咯聲的東西；（嬰兒玩的）撥浪鼓 [C] A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum. -- Prior.
Rattle (n.) Noisy, rapid talk.
All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit. -- Hakewill.
Rattle (n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. -- Pope.
Rattle (n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle. -- Macaulay.
Rattle (n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke. [Obs.] --Heylin.
Rattle (n.) (Zool.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
Note: The rattle of a rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and so modified in form as to make a series of loose, hollow joints.
Rattle (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See {R[^a]le}.
To spring a rattle, to cause it to sound.
Yellow rattle (Bot.), A yellow-flowered herb ({Rhinanthus Crista-galli), the ripe seeds of which rattle in the inflated calyx.
Rattle (n.) A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" [syn: {rattle}, {rattling}, {rale}].
Rattle (n.) A baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken.
Rattle (n.) Loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail.
Rattle (v.) Make short successive sounds.
Rattle (v.) Shake and cause to make a rattling noise.
Rattlebox (n.) A toy that makes a rattling sound; a rattle.
Rattlebox (n.) (Bot.) An American herb ({Crotalaria sagittalis), the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod.
Rattlebox (n.) (Bot.) Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
Rattlebox (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops [syn: crotalaria, rattlebox].
Rattle-brained (a.) Giddy; rattle-headed.
Rattlehead (n.) An empty, noisy talker.
Rattle-headed (a.) Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
Rattlemouse (n.) A bat. [Obs.] -- Puttenham.
Rattlepate (n.) A rattlehead. -- C. Kingsley.
Rattle-pated (a.) Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." -- W. Irving.
Rattler (n.) One who, or that which, rattles.
Rattlesnake (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus; sometimes also called rattler. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States ({Crotalus horridus), and the diamondback rattlesnake (also called diamondback rattler, and diamondback) of the South and East ({Crotalus adamanteus) and West ({Crotalus atrox}), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.
Ground rattlesnake (Zool.), A small rattlesnake ({Caudisona miliaria or Sistrurus miliaria) of the Southern United States, having a small rattle. It has nine large scales on its head.
Rattlesnake fern (Bot.), A common American fern ({Botrychium Virginianum) having a triangular decompound frond and a long-stalked panicle of spore cases rising from the middle of the frond.
Rattlesnake grass (Bot.), A handsome American grass ({Glyceria Canadensis) with an ample panicle of rather large ovate spikelets, each one composed of imbricated parts and slightly resembling the rattle of the rattlesnake. Sometimes called quaking grass.
Rattlesnake plantain (Bot.), See under Plantain.
Rattlesnake root (Bot.), A name given to certain American species of the composite genus Prenanthes ({Prenanthes alba and Prenanthes serpentaria), formerly asserted to cure the bite of the rattlesnake. Called also lion's foot, gall of the earth, and white lettuce.
Rattlesnake's master (Bot.) (a) A species of Agave ({Agave Virginica) growing in the Southern United States.
Rattlesnake's master (Bot.) (b) An umbelliferous plant ({Eryngium yuccaefolium) with large bristly-fringed linear leaves.
Rattlesnake's master (Bot.) (c) A composite plant, the blazing star ({Liatris squarrosa).
Rattlesnake weed (Bot.), A plant of the composite genus Hieracium+({Hieracium+venosum">Hieracium ({Hieracium venosum); -- probably so named from its spotted leaves. See also Snakeroot.
Rattlesnake (n.) Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken [syn: rattlesnake, rattler].
Rattlesnake, (n.) Our prostrate brother, _Homo ventrambulans_.
Rattler (n.) Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken [syn: rattlesnake, rattler].
Rattler (n.) A railroad train consisting of freight cars [syn: freight train, rattler].
Rattletrap (n.) Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. [Colloq.] -- A. Trollope.
Rattleweed (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
Rattlewings (n.) (Zool.) The golden-eye.
Rattlewort (n.) Same as Rattlebox.
Rattlings (n. pl.) Ratlines.
Rattoon (n.) One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.
Rattooned (imp. & p. p.) of Rattoon.
Rattooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rattoon.
Rattoon (v. i.) To sprout or spring up from the root, as sugar cane from the root of the previous year's planting.
Raucid (a.) Hoarse; raucous.
Raucity (n.) Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.
Raucous (a.) Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.
Raught () imp. & p. p. of Reach.
Raught () imp. & p. p. of Reck.
Raunch (v. t.) See Ranch.
Raunchy (a.) 不整潔的，不修邊幅的，骯臟的，淫穢的 Earthy and sexually explicit; "a raunchy novel".
Raunchy (a.) Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: {lewd}, {obscene}, {raunchy}, {salacious}].
Raunchy (a.) Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: {begrimed}, {dingy}, {grimy}, {grubby}, {grungy}, {raunchy}].
Raunchy (a.) (Informal) 不整潔的；不修邊幅的；淫蕩的；猥褻的；粗野的；身體不適的；喝醉的 Energetically earthy and sexually explicit.
‘His raunchy new novel’
Raunchy (a.) (US) Shabby or grubby.
‘The restaurant's style is raunchy and the sanitation chancy’
Raunsoun (n.) Ransom.
Ravage (n.) 破壞；蹂躪 Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time.
Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble soul? -- Addison.
Syn: Despoilment; devastation; desolation; pillage; plunder; spoil; waste; ruin.
Ravaged (imp. & p. p.) of Ravage.
Ravaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravage.
Ravage (v. t.) (v. t.) 使荒蕪；毀滅，毀壞；蹂躪；劫掠 [H] (v. i.) 毀滅；蹂躪；劫掠 To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Already Caesar Has ravaged more than half the globe. -- Addison.
His lands were daily ravaged, his cattle driven away. -- Macaulay.
Syn: To despoil; pillage; plunder; sack; spoil; devastate; desolate; destroy; waste; ruin.
Ravage (n.) (Usually plural) A destructive action; "the ravages of time"; "the depredations of age and disease" [syn: {ravage}, {depredation}].
Ravage (v.) Make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes [syn: {harry}, {ravage}].
Ravage (v.) Cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: {lay waste to}, {waste}, {devastate}, {desolate}, {ravage}, {scourge}].
Ravager (n.) One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
Rave () imp. of Rive.
Rave (n.) One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
Raved (imp. & p. p.) of Rave.
Raving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rave.
Rave (v. i.) To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
Rave (v. i.) To rush wildly or furiously.
Rave (v. i.) To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
Rave (v. t.) To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense.
Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum.
Raveled (imp. & p. p.) of Ravel.
Ravelled () of Ravel.
Raveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ravel.
Ravelling () of Ravel.
Ravel (v. t.) 解開；弄清；使錯綜複雜 To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
Ravel (v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
Ravel (v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
Ravel (v. i.) （線等）鬆開；纏結 To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
Ravel (v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
Ravel (v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
Raveler (n.) One who ravels.
Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.
Raveling (n.) The act of untwisting or of disentangling.
Raveling (n.) That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.
Raven (n.) A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
Raven (a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
Raven (n.) Rapine; rapacity.
Raven (n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Ravened (imp. & p. p.) of Raven.
Ravening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raven.
Raven (v. t.) To obtain or seize by violence.
Raven (v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.
Raven (v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Ravenala (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana.
Ravener (n.) One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
Ravener (n.) A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture.
Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
Ravening (a.) Greedily devouring; rapacious; as, ravening wolves.
Ravenous (a.) 餓極了的，狼吞虎嚥的；貪婪的 Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.
Ravenous (a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- {Rav"en*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Rav"en*ous*ness}, n.
Ravenous (a.) Extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [syn: {famished}, {ravenous}, {sharp-set}, {starved}, {esurient}].
Ravenous (a.) Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {esurient}, {rapacious} {ravening}, {ravenous}, {voracious}, {wolfish}].
Raven's-duck (n.) A fine quality of sailcloth.
Raver (n.) One who raves.
Ravin (a.) Ravenous.
Ravin (n.) Alt. of Ravine.
Ravine (n.) Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
Ravin (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Ravine.
Ravine (v. t. & i.) See Raven, v. t. & i.
Ravine (n.) A torrent of water.