Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 62
Rhapsodizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rhapsodize.
Rhapsodize (v. t.) 把……寫成狂想詩文；狂熱地吟誦 To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody -- Sterne.
Rhapsodize (v. i.) 狂熱地寫（或說）；寫（或吟誦）狂想詩文 To utter rhapsodies. -- Jefferson.
Rhapsodize (v.) Recite a rhapsody [syn: {rhapsodize}, {rhapsodise}].
Rhapsodize (v.) Say (something) with great enthusiasm [syn: {rhapsodize}, {rhapsodise}].
Rhapsodomancy (n.) Divination by means of verses.
Rhapsodies (n. pl. ) of Rhapsody.
Rhapsody (n.) A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
Rhapsody (n.) A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.
Rhapsody (n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."
Rhatany (n.) Alt. of Rhatanhy.
Rhatanhy (n.) The powerfully astringent root of a half-shrubby Peruvian plant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine.
Rhea (n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
Rhea (n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.
Rheae (n. pl.) A suborder of struthious birds including the rheas.
Rheeboc (n.) The peele.
Rheic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum).
Rhein (n.) Chrysophanic acid.
Rheinberry (n.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.
Rhematic (a.) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives.
Rhematic (n.) The doctrine of propositions or sentences.
Rhemish (a.) Of or pertaining to Rheimis, or Reima, in France.
Rhenish (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Rhine; as, Rhenish wine.
Rhenish (n.) Rhine wine.
Rheochord (n.) A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
Rheometer (n.) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer.
Rheometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current in the arteries.
Rheometric (a.) Of or pertaining to a rheometer or rheometry.
Rheometry (n.) The measurement of the force or intensity of currents.
Rheometry (n.) The calculus; fluxions.
Rheomotor (n.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
Rheophore (n.) A connecting wire of an electric or voltaic apparatus, traversed by a current.
Rheophore (n.) One of the poles of a voltaic battery; an electrode.
Rheoscope (n.) An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity.
Rheostat (n.) A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
Rheotome (n.) An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.
Rheotrope (n.) An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.
Rhesus (n.) A monkey; the bhunder.
Rhetian (a.) Pertaining to the
ancient Rhaeti, or Rhaetians, or to
Rhetic (a.) Same as Rhaetic.
Rhetizite (n.) Same as Rhaetizite.
Rhetor (n.) A rhetorician.
Rhetoric (n.) [U] 修辭；修辭學；修辭學著作；雄辯（術）；辯才 The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
Rhetoric (n.) Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force. -- Locke.
Rhetoric (n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
Rhetoric (n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes. -- Daniel.
Rhetoric (n.) Using language effectively to please or persuade.
Rhetoric (n.) High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" [syn: {grandiosity}, {magniloquence}, {ornateness}, {grandiloquence}, {rhetoric}].
Rhetoric (n.) Loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: {palaver}, {hot air}, {empty words}, {empty talk}, {rhetoric}].
Rhetoric (n.) Study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).
Rhetoric (n.) [ U ] 雄辯言辭；煽動性語言 Speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people.
// How far the president will be able to translate his campaign rhetoric into action remains to be seen.
// I was swayed by her rhetoric into donating all my savings to the charity.
Rhetoric (n.) [ U ] (specialized) (language) 修辭（學）；雄辯（術） The study of the ways of using language effectively.
Rhetoric (n.) [ U ] (Disapproving) 浮誇之詞 Clever language that sounds good but is not sincere or has no real meaning.
// In reply to the question, he just produced a lot of empty (= meaningless) rhetoric.
Rhetorical (a.) 修辭學的；華麗的；誇張的 Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.
They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense. -- M. Arnold. -- {Rhe*tor"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Rhe*tor"ic*al*ness}, n.
Rhetorical (a.) Of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford.
Rhetorical (a.) Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery" [ant: {unrhetorical}].
Rhetorical (a.) 詞藻華麗的；浮誇的；修辭的 Rhetorical speech or writing is intended to seem important or influence people.
// Repetition, that tedious rhetorical device.
Rhetoricate (v. i.) To play the orator.
Rhetorication (n.) Rhetorical amplification.
Rhetorician (n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
Rhetorician (n.) A teacher of rhetoric.
Rhetorician (n.) An orator; specifically, an artificial orator without genuine eloquence; a declaimer.
Rhetorician (a.) Suitable to a master of rhetoric.
Rhetorized (imp. & p. p.) of Rhetorize.
Rhetorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rhetorize.
Rhetorize (v. i.) To play the orator.
Rhetorize (v. t.) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
Rheum (n.) A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
Rheum (n.) A serous or mucous discharge, especially one from the eves or nose.
Rheumatic (a.) Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.
Rheumatic (a.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism; as, rheumatic pains or affections; affected with rheumatism; as, a rheumatic old man; causing rheumatism; as, a rheumatic day.
Rheumatic (n.) One affected with rheumatism.
Rheumatism (n.) A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple, local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, but also extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.
Rheumatismal (a.) Of or pertaining to rheumatism.
Rheumatismoid (a.) Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.
Rheumic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, rheum.
Rheumides (n. pl.) The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.
Rheumy (a.) Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
Rhigolene (n.) A mixture of volatile hydrocarbons intermediate between gsolene and cymogene. It is obtained in the purification of crude petroleum, and is used as a refregerant.
Rhime (n.) See Rhyme.
Rhinal (a.) Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.
Rhinaster (n.) The borele.
Rhine (n.) A water course; a ditch.
Rhinencephalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.
Rhinencephala (pl. ) of Rhinencephalon
Rhinencephalon (n.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.
Rhinestone (n.) A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
Rhinitis (n.) Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.
Rhino (n.) Gold and silver, or money.
Rhino- () A combining form from Greek //, ///, the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.
Rhinocerial (a.) Alt. of Rhinocerical
Rhinocerical (a.) Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn.
Compare: Pachyderm
Pachyderm (n.) (Zool.) 【動】厚皮動物；厚臉皮的人；遲鈍的人 Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, one of the Pachydermata.
Pachyderm (n.) Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus.
Rhinoceros (n.) (Zool.) 犀牛 [C]；名詞複數：rhinoceroses, Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
Note: The Indian, or white, and the Javan rhinoceroses ({Rhinoceros Indicus and Rhinoceros Sondaicus) have incisor and canine teeth, but only one horn, and the very thick skin forms shieldlike folds. The two or three African species belong to Atelodus, and have two horns, but lack the dermal folds, and the incisor and canine teeth. The two Malay, or East Indian, two-horned species belong to Ceratohinus, in which incisor and canine teeth are present. See Borele, and Keitloa.
Rhinoceros auk (Zool.), An auk of the North Pacific ({Cerorhina monocrata) which has a deciduous horn on top of the bill.
Rhinoceros beetle (Zool.), A very large beetle of the genus Dynastes, having a horn on the head.
Rhinoceros bird. (Zool.) (a) A large hornbill ({Buceros rhinoceros), native of the East Indies. It has a large hollow hornlike process on the bill. Called also rhinoceros hornbill. See Hornbill.
Rhinoceros bird. (Zool.) (b) An African beefeater ({Buphaga Africana). It alights on the back of the rhinoceros in search of parasitic insects.
Rhinoceros (n.) Massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout [syn: rhinoceros, rhino].
Rhinoceros (n.) (Zool.) Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, one of the Pachydermata.
Compare: Umhofo
Umhofo (n.) (Zool.) An African two-horned rhinoceros ({Atelodus simus or Rhinoceros simus); -- called also chukuru, and white rhinoceros.
White rhinoceros (n.) Large light-grey African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros [syn: white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, Diceros simus].
White rhinoceros (n.) 白犀牛 The white rhinoceros, white rhino, broad-lipped rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 19,682–21,077 wild-living animals in the year 2015, [3] and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females: Fatu, 18 and Najin, 29), both in captivity. Sudan, the world's last known male Northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018 at age 45. [4]
Rhinocerote (n.) A rhinoceros.
Rhinocerotic (a.) Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros.
Rhinolite (n.) Alt. of Rhinolith.
Rhinolith (n.) A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.
Rhinological (a.) Of or pertaining to rhinology.
Rhinologist (n.) One skilled in rhinology.
Rhinology (n.) The science which treats of the nose, and its diseases.
Rhinolophid (n.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.
Rhinolophine (a.) Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.
Rhinophore (n.) One of the two tentacle-like organs on the back of the head or neck of a nudibranch or tectibranch mollusk. They are usually retractile, and often transversely furrowed or plicate, and are regarded as olfactory organs. Called also dorsal tentacles. See Illust. under Pygobranchia, and Opisthobranchia.
Rhinoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.
Rhinoplasty (n.) Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.
Rhinopome (n.) Any old-world bat of the genus Rhinopoma. The rhinopomes have a long tail extending beyond the web, and inhabit caves and tombs.
Rhinoscleroma (n.) A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.
Rhinoscope (n.) A small mirror for use in rhinoscopy.
Rhinoscopic (a.) Of or pertaining to rhinoscopy.
Rhinoscopy (n.) The examination or study of the soft palate, posterior nares, etc., by means of a laryngoscopic mirror introduced into the pharynx.
Rhinothecae (n. pl. ) of Rhinotheca.
Rhinotheca (n.) The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.