Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 13
Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
Ravine (n.) A deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water).
Ravine, PA -- U.S. Census Designated
Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 629
Housing Units (2000): 281
Land area (2000): 1.075791 sq. miles (2.786286 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.075791 sq. miles (2.786286 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63536
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.567729 N, 76.392063 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ravine, PA
Ravine
Raving (a.) Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- Rav"ing*ly, adv.
Raving (adv.) In a raving manner; "raving mad" [syn: raving, ravingly].
Raving (n.) Declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs."
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.
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee. -- Shak.
This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. -- Dryden.
Ravish (v. t.) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. "Ravished . . . for the joy." -- Chaucer.
Thou hast ravished my heart. -- Cant. iv. 9.
Ravish (v. t.) To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape. -- Shak.
Syn: To transport; entrance; enrapture; delight; violate; deflower; force.
Ravish (v.) Force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage].
Ravish (v.) Hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant, disillusion].
Ravisher (n.) One who ravishes (in any sense).
Ravisher (n.) Someone who assaults others sexually [syn: violator, debaucher, ravisher].
Ravisher (n.) A very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish].
Ravishing (a.) Rapturous; transporting.
Ravishing (a.) Stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde."
Ravishingly (adv.) In a ravishing manner.
Ravishingly (adv.) In a ravishing manner or to a ravishing degree; "she was ravishingly beautiful".
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. -- Blackstone.
Ravishment (n.) The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. -- Spenser.
In whose sight all things joy, with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. -- Milton.
Ravishment (n.) The act of ravishing a woman; rape.
Ravishment (n.) A feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment [syn: entrancement, ravishment].
Ravishment (n.) The crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault, ravishment].
Ravishment, () crim. law. This word has several meanings. 1. It is an unlawful taking of a woman, or an heir in ward. 2. It is sometimes used synonymously with rape.
Ravissant (a.) [F.] (Her.) In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey.
Raw (a.) 生的，未煮過的；未加工的；處於自然狀態的 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 (a.) Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit.
Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude. -- De Quincey.
Raw (a.) Not worked in due form; in the natural state; untouched by art; unwrought. Specifically:
Raw (a.) Not distilled; as, raw water. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Raw (a.) Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.
Raw (a.) Not mixed or diluted; as, raw spirits.
Raw (a.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.
Raw (a.) Not tanned; as, raw hides.
Raw (a.) Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.
Raw (a.) Not covered; bare. Specifically:
Raw (a.) Bald. [Obs.] "With skull all raw." -- Spenser
Raw (a.) Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.
Raw (a.) Sore, as if by being galled.
And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment. -- Spenser.
Raw (a.) Disagreeably damp or cold; chilly; bleak; as, a raw wind. "A raw and gusty day." -- Shak.
{Raw material}, Material that has not been subjected to a (specified) process of manufacture; as, ore is the raw material used in smelting; leather is the raw material of the shoe industry.
{Raw pig}, Cast iron as it comes from the smelting furnace.
Raw (n.) 擦傷處；紅腫發炎部分 [C]；不戴手套的雙拳 [the P] A raw, sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw.
Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw. -- De Quincey.
Raw (a.) (Used especially of commodities) Being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: {natural}, {raw(a)}, {rude(a)}].
Raw (a.) Having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound."
Raw (a.) Not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant: {cooked}].
Raw (a.) Not processed or refined; "raw sewage."
Raw (a.) Devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power" [syn: {naked}, {raw}].
Raw (a.) Brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal."
Raw (a.) Not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: {crude}, {raw}].
Raw (a.) Untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty."
Raw (a.) Hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: {sensitive}, {sore}, {raw}, {tender}].
Raw (a.) Unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" [syn: {bleak}, {cutting}, {raw}].
Raw (a.) Used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: {raw(a)}, {unsanded}].
Raw (a.) Lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: {raw}, {new}].
Raw (a.) (Used informally) Completely unclothed [syn: {bare-assed}, {bare-ass}, {in the altogether}, {in the buff}, {in the raw}, {raw}, {peeled}, {naked as a jaybird}, {stark naked}].
Raw (n.) Informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: {raw}, {altogether}, {birthday suit}].
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. [Obs.] -- Sir T. More.
Ray (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. [Obs.] "The filth that did it ray." -- Spenser.
Ray (n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress. [Obs.]
And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray. -- Spenser.
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.) (Bot.) 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.) (Zool.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
Ray (n.) (Zool.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
Ray (n.) (Physics) 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.) (Physics) 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.
All eyes direct their rays On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze. -- Pope.
Ray (n.) (Geom.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
Bundle of rays. (Geom.) See Pencil of rays, below.
Extraordinary ray (Opt.), That one of two parts of a ray divided by double refraction which does not follow the ordinary law of refraction.
Ordinary ray (Opt.) That one of the two parts of a ray divided by double refraction which follows the usual or ordinary law of refraction.
Pencil of rays (Geom.), A definite system of rays.
Ray flower, or Ray floret (Bot.), One of the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed.
Ray point (Geom.), The common point of a pencil of rays.
Roentgen ray, R["o]ntgen ray (Phys.), A form of electromagnetic radiation generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by an electrical discharge; now more commonly called X-ray. It is composed of electromagnetic radiation of wavelength shorter than that of ultraviolet light but longer than that of gamma rays. It is capable of passing through many bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the internal structure of opaque objects are made, called X-rays, radiographs, sciagraphs, X-ray photographs, radiograms. So called from the discoverer, W. C. R["o]ntgen.
X ray, The R["o]ntgen ray; -- so called by its discoverer because of its enigmatical character, x being an algebraic symbol for an unknown quantity.
Ray (v. i.) To shine, as with rays. -- Mrs. Browning.
Ray (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
Ray (n.) (Zool.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.
Bishop ray, A yellow-spotted, long-tailed eagle ray ({Aetobatus narinari syn. Stoasodon narinari) of the Southern United States and the West Indies; also called the spotted eagle ray and white-spotted eagle ray.
Butterfly ray, A short-tailed American sting ray ({Pteroplatea Maclura), having very broad pectoral fins.
Devil ray. See Sea Devil.
Eagle ray, Any large ray of the family Myliobatidae, or Aetobatidae. The common European species ({Myliobatis aquila) is called also whip ray, and miller.
Electric ray, or Cramp ray, A torpedo.
Starry ray, A common European skate ({Raia radiata"> Starry ray, a common European skate ({Raia radiata).
Sting ray, Any one of numerous species of rays of the family Trygonidae having one or more large, sharp, barbed dorsal spines on the whiplike tail. Called also stingaree.
Rayed (imp. & p. p.) of Ray.
Raying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ray.
Ray (v. t.) To mark with long lines; to streak. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ray (v. t.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. [R.] -- Thomson.
Ray (n.) A column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation].
Ray (n.) A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence.
Ray (n.) (Mathematics) A straight line extending from a point.
Ray (n.) A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation [syn: beam, ray, electron beam].
Ray (n.) The syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: re, ray].
Ray (n.) Any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish.
Ray (n.) Cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins.
Ray (v.) Emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky."
Ray (v.) Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions" [syn: radiate, ray].
Ray (v.) Expose to radiation; "irradiate food" [syn: irradiate, ray].
Ray -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 23354
Housing Units (2000): 9371
Land area (2000): 569.465468 sq. miles (1474.908728 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.108651 sq. miles (10.641357 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 573.574119 sq. miles (1485.550085 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.321065 N, 94.023249 W
Headwords:
Ray
Ray, MO
Ray County
Ray County, MO
Ray, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 534
Housing Units (2000): 296
Land area (2000): 1.004687 sq. miles (2.602128 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.036858 sq. miles (0.095463 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.041545 sq. miles (2.697591 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65580
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.344875 N, 103.166292 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ray, ND
Ray
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 (n.) (Naut.) 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. -- Totten.
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 (n.) A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head ; also called a straight razor. "Take thee a barber's razor." -- Ezek. v. 1.
Razor (n.) A device used for shaving, having a replaceable blade with a very sharp edge; also called safety razor. Also a similar device, made of plastic, in which the blade is neither replaceable nor can be sharpened, intended to be discarded after the blade dulls -- called a disposable razor.
Razor (n.) (Zool.) A tusk of a wild boar.
Razor fish. (Zool.) (a) A small Mediterranean fish ({Coryphaena novacula), prized for the table.
Razor fish. (Zool.) (b) The razor shell.
Razor grass (Bot.), A West Indian plant ({Scleria scindens), the triangular stem and the leaves of which are edged with minute sharp teeth.
Razor grinder (Zool.), The European goat-sucker.
Razor shell (Zool.), Any marine bivalve shell belonging to Solen and allied genera, especially Solen ensis (or Ensatella ensis), and Solen Americana, which have a long, narrow, somewhat curved shell, resembling a razor handle in shape. Called also razor clam, razor fish, knife handle.
Razor stone. Same as Novaculite.
Razor strap, or razor strop, A strap or strop used in sharpening razors.
Razor (n.) Edge tool used in shaving
Razor (v.) Shave with a razor.
Razor, () The Nazarites were forbidden to make use of the razor (Num. 6:5; Judg. 13:5). At their consecration the Levites were shaved all over with a razor (Num. 8:7; comp. Ps. 52:2; Ezek. 5:1).
Razor, (n.) An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.
Razorable (a.) Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved. [R.] -- Shak.
Razorback (n.) The rorqual.
Compare: Rorqual
Rorqual (n.) (Zool.) A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale ({Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback.
Note: It is one of the largest of the whales, somethimes becoming nearly one hundred feet long, but it is more slender than the right whales, and is noted for its swiftness. The name is sometimes applied to other related species of finback whales.
Razorback (a.) Having a sharp narrow back; "a razor-backed horse"; "razorback hogs" [syn: razorback, razor-backed].
Razorback (n.) A mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States [syn: razorback, razorback hog, razorbacked hog]
Razorback (n.) Any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin [syn: rorqual, razorback].
Razor-backed (a.) (Zool.) Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.
Razor-backed (a.) Having a sharp narrow back; "a razor-backed horse"; "razorback hogs" [syn: razorback, razor-backed].
Razorbill (n.) (Zool.) A species of auk ({Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix.
Razorbill (n.) See Cutwater, 3.
Compare: Cutwater
Cutwater (n.) (Naut.) The fore part of a ship's prow, which cuts the water.
Cutwater (n.) (Naut.) A starling or other structure attached to the pier of a bridge, with an angle or edge directed up stream, in order better to resist the action of water, ice, etc.; the sharpened upper end of the pier itself.
Cutwater (n.) (Naut.) (Zool.) A sea bird of the Atlantic ({Rhynchops nigra); -- called also black skimmer, scissorsbill, and razorbill. See Skimmer.
Razorbill (n.) Black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill [syn: razorbill, razor-billed auk, Alca torda].
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.
Razzmatazz (n.) 【口】狂歡；興奮；華麗炫耀；噱頭 1 : A confusing or colorful often gaudy action or display : razzle-dazzle. 2 : Inflated, involved, and often deliberately ambiguous language : double-talk. 3 : Vim, zing.
// We were disappointed by the candidate's speech, which offered plenty of razzmatazz but little substance.
Razzmatazz (n.) [ U ] (Also Razzamatazz) 令人眼花繚亂的活動；熱鬧喧囂的宣傳 Noisy and noticeable activity, intended to attract attention.
// The new car was launched with great razzmatazz: champagne, food, free gifts, and dancers.
Razzmatazz (n.) 活潑，興奮，反話，華麗堂皇 Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent [syn: {razzle-dazzle}, {razzle}, {razzmatazz}, {razmataz}].
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. -- Cheyne.
Reach (n.) An effort to vomit. [R.]
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.
Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her heeles down they raughten. -- Rom. of R.
Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side. -- John xx. 27.
Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their pampered boughs. -- Milton.
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.
He reached me a full cup. -- 2 Esd. xiv. 39.
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.
O patron power, . . . thy present aid afford, Than I may reach the beast. -- Dryden.
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.
If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine. -- Locke.
Reach (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. -- Milton.
Reach (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
Before this letter reaches your hands. -- Pope.
Reach (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality. -- Cheyne.
Reach (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.]
Do what, sir? I reach you not. -- Beau. & Fl.