Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 65
Riches (a.) That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like.
The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. -- Milton.
Note: Richesse, the older form of this word, was in the singular number. The form riches, however, is plural in appearance, and has now come to be used as a plural.
Against the richesses of this world shall they have misease of poverty. -- Chaucer.
In one hour so great riches is come to nought. -- Rev. xviii. 17.
And for that riches where is my deserving? -- Shak.
Syn: Wealth; opulence; affluence; wealthiness; richness; plenty; abundance.
Riches (n.) An abundance of material possessions and resources [syn: wealth, riches].
Riches, (n.) A gift from Heaven signifying, "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." John D. Rockefeller
The reward of toil and virtue. J.P. Morgan
The sayings of many in the hands of one. Eugene Debs
To these excellent definitions the inspired lexicographer feels that he can add nothing of value.
Richesse (n.) Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. [Obs.]
Some man desireth for to have richesse. -- Chaucer.
The richesse of all heavenly grace. -- Spenser.
Richly (adv.) 富裕地；豐富地；完全地；十足地 In a rich manner.
Richly (adv.) To an ample degree or in an ample manner; "these voices were amply represented"; "we benefited richly" [syn: amply, richly] [ant: meagerly, meagrely, slenderly, sparingly].
Richly (adv.) In a rich manner; "he lives high" [syn: high, richly, luxuriously].
Richly (adv.) In a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated" [syn: lavishly, richly, extravagantly].
Rich mom energy (n.) [U] The confident attitude and simple, elegant way of dressing that suggests a woman has a lot of money.
Richness (n.) [U] 富足，豐富；肥沃； 貴重，奢侈，豪華 The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).
Richness (n.) The property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn: profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia].
Richness (n.) Abundant wealth; "they studied forerunners of richness or poverty"; "the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty" [syn: affluence, richness].
Richness (n.) The property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing; "the music had a fullness that echoed through the hall"; "the cheap wine had no body, no mellowness"; "he was well aware of the richness of his own appearance" [syn: fullness, mellowness, richness].
Richness (n.) The quality of having high intrinsic value; "the richness of the mines and pastureland"; "the cut of her clothes and the richness of the fabric were distinctive".
Richness (n.) The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness" [syn: richness, rankness, prolificacy, fertility].
Richness (n.) A strong deep vividness of hue; "the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room".
Richness (n.) Splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora" [syn: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness].
Richweed (n.) (Bot.) 加拿大柯林森草（Collinsonia canadensis），俗稱富貴草或石根草，是薄荷科多年生草本植物。 它原產於北美東部，主要是密西西比河以東，在那里分布廣泛。它是柯林索尼亞屬中分佈最廣泛的成員，北至魁北克，南至佛羅里達。它的自然棲息地是營養豐富的濕地森林，最常見的是岩石、石灰質地區。 An herb ({Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.
Compare: Clearweed
Clearweed (n.) 【植】美豆 A plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves [syn: richweed, clearweed, dead nettle, Pilea pumilla].
Compare: Translucent
Translucent (a.) 半透明的；【罕】透明的；清澈的；清楚易懂的 Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.
Translucent (a.) Transparent; clear. [Poetic] "Fountain or fresh current . . . translucent, pure." -- Milton.
Replenished from the cool, translucent springs. -- Pope.
Syn: Translucent, Transparent.
Usage: A thing is translucent when it merely admits the passage of light, without enabling us to distinguish the color and outline of objects through it; it is transparent when we can clearly discern objects placed on the other side of it. Glass, water, etc., are transparent; ground glass is translucent; a translucent style.
Translucent (a.) Allowing light to pass through diffusely; "translucent amber"; "semitransparent curtains at the windows" [syn: translucent, semitransparent].
Richweed (n.) Erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States [syn: horse balm, horseweed, stoneroot, stone-root, richweed, stone root, Collinsonia canadensis].
Richweed (n.) A plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves [syn: richweed, clearweed, dead nettle, Pilea pumilla].
Ricinelaidic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an isomeric modification of ricinoleic acid obtained as a white crystalline solid.
Ricinelaidin (n.) (Chem.) The glycerin salt of ricinelaidic acid, obtained as a white crystalline waxy substance by treating castor oil with nitrous acid.
Ricinic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly, designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
Ricinine (n.) (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline alkaloid ({C8H8N2O2) extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant ({Ricinus communalis). Called also ricidine. Ingestion may cause vomiting and various other toxic reactions, including liver and kidney damage, convulsions, hypotension, and death.
Ricinoleate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.
Ricinoleic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a fatty acid analogous to oleic acid, obtained from castor oil as an oily substance, C18H34O3 with a harsh taste. Formerly written ricinolic and formerly referred to as palmic.
Ricinolein (n.) (Chem.) The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as a characteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.
Ricinolic (a.) (Chem.) Ricinoleic.
Ricinus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species ({Ricinus communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil is expressed. See Palma Christi.
Ricinus (n.) A genus of herb having only one known species: castor-oil plant [syn: Ricinus, genus Ricinus].
Rick (n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
Golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows. -- G. Eliot.
Rick (v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
Rick (n.) A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) [syn: crick, kink, rick, wrick].
Rick (n.) A stack of hay [syn: haystack, hayrick, rick].
Rick (v.) Pile in ricks; "rick hay".
Rick (v.) Twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days" [syn: twist, sprain, wrench, turn, wrick, rick].
Ricker (n.) A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat.
Ricketish (a.) Rickety. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Rickets (n. pl.) (Med.) 軟骨病，佝僂病 [U] [J] A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
Rickets (n.) Childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus [syn: rickets, rachitis].
Rickety (a.) 軟骨病的，患軟骨病的 [Z]；連接處不牢固的；搖晃的；東倒西歪的 Affected with rickets.
Rickety (a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
Rickety (a.) Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky].
Rickety (a.) Affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets; "rickety limbs and joints"; "a rachitic patient" [syn: rickety, rachitic].
Rickety (a.) Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly].
Rickrack (n.) 用以裝飾衣物之）Z字形花邊，荷葉邊 A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.
Rickrack (n.) A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming [syn: rickrack, ricrac].
Rickstand (n.) A flooring or framework on which a rick is made.
Ricochet (n.) [F.] 跳飛；【軍】跳彈 A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
Ricochet (n.) A peculiar gait used by certain animals such as the kangaroo who move by a type of bouncing motion.
Kangaroos and wallabies (macropodids) as well as kangaroo mice and jerboas, locate themselves differently, though, and do not use the forelimbs at all in their distinctive modus locatus, to which Muybridge applied the term "ricochet", . . . -- Jaime A. Headden
Ricochet firing (Mil.), The firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bound or skip along the ground.
Ricochetted (imp. & p. p.) of Ricochet.
Ricochetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ricochet.
Ricochet (v. t.) 使跳飛；【軍】用跳彈射擊 To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n.
Ricochet (v. i.) 跳飛；【軍】跳射 To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.
Ricochet (n.) A glancing rebound [syn: ricochet, carom].
Ricochet (v.) Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet].
Rictal (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles.
Ricture (n.) A gaping. [Obs.]
Rictus (n.) （鳥類的）嘴裂；（人在疼痛等時的）齜牙咧嘴 The gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth.
Rictus (n.) A gaping grimace.
Rid () imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
Rid (imp. & p. p.) of Rid.
Ridded () of Rid.
Ridding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rid.
Rid (v. t.) To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.
Rid (v. t.) To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
Rid (v. t.) To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
Rid (v. t.) To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.
Ridable (a.) Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.
Riddance (n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
Riddance (n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
Ridden () p. p. of Ride.
Ridder (n.) One who, or that which, rids.
Riddle (n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
Riddle (n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Riddled (imp. & p. p.) of Riddle.
Riddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riddle.
Riddle (v. t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
Riddle (v. t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Riddle (n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
Riddle (v. t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Riddle (v. i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Riddle (n.) (Question) [ C ] A type of question that describes something in a difficult and confusing way and has a clever or funny answer, often asked as a game.
Riddle (n.) [ C usually singular ] Something that is confusing, or a problem that is difficult to solve.
// Scientists may have solved the riddle of Saturn's rings.
Idiom:
Talk/ speak in riddles To say things in a confusing way.
Riddle (v.) [ T ] To make a lot of holes in something.
// The anti-aircraft guns riddled the plane's wings with bullets.
Riddler (n.) One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
Riddler (n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
Riddling (a.) Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
Rode (imp.) of Ride.
Rid () of Ride.
Ridden (p. p.) of Ride.
Rid () of Ride.
Riding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ride.
Ride (v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. -- Chaucer.
Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. -- Swift.
Ride (v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. -- Macaulay.
Ride (v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride. -- Dryden.
Ride (v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.
Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. -- Shak.
On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! -- Shak.
Ride (v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease. -- Dryden.
Ride (v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
To ride easy (Naut.), To lie at anchor without violent pitching or straining at the cables.
To ride hard (Naut.), To pitch violently.
To ride out. To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
To ride out. To ride in the open air. [Colloq.]
To ride to hounds, To ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.
Syn: Drive.
Usage: Ride, Drive. Ride originally meant (and is so used throughout the English Bible) to be carried on horseback or in a vehicle of any kind. At present in England, drive is the word applied in most cases to progress in a carriage; as, a drive around the park, etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a horse. Johnson seems to sanction this distinction by giving "to travel on horseback" as the leading sense of ride; though he adds "to travel in a vehicle" as a secondary sense. This latter use of the word still occurs to some extent; as, the queen rides to Parliament in her coach of state; to ride in an omnibus.
"Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. -- W. Black.
Ride (v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind. -- Milton.
Ride (v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. -- Swift.
Ride (v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side. -- Sir W. Scott.
Ride (v. t.) (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
To ride a hobby, To have some favorite occupation or subject of talk.
To ride and tie, To take turn with another in labor and rest; -- from the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance, and then ties him for the use of the other, who is coming up on foot. -- Fielding.
To ride down. To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy.
To ride down. (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.
To ride out (Naut.), To keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale.
Ride (n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
Ride (n.) A saddle horse. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Ride (n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Ride (n.) A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the family for a drive in his new car" [syn: drive, ride]
Ride (n.) A mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement.
Ride (v.) Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare" [syn: ride, sit].
Ride (v.) Be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" [ant: walk].
Ride (v.) Continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride".
Ride (v.) Move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the night sky".
Ride (v.) Harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]
Ride (v.) Be sustained or supported or borne; "His glasses rode high on his nose"; "The child rode on his mother's hips"; "She rode a wave of popularity"; "The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name".
Ride (v.) Have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: drive, ride].
Ride (v.) Be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" [syn: depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon].
Ride (v.) Lie moored or anchored; "Ship rides at anchor".
Ride (v.) Sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town".
Ride (v.) Climb up on the body; "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt keeps riding up my legs".
Ride (v.) Ride over, along, or through; "Ride the freeways of California".
Ride (v.) Keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot; "Don't ride the clutch!".
Ride (v.) Copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" [syn: ride, mount].
RIDE, () Research Issues in Data Engineering (IEEE-CS).
Rideau (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Riden () imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride.
Rident (a.) Laughing.
Rider (n.) One who, or that which, rides.
Rider (n.) Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.
Rider (n.) One who breaks or manages a horse.
Rider (n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
Rider (n.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
Rider (n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
Rider (n.) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
Rider (n.) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.
Rider (n.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
Rider (n.) A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
Rider (n.) A robber.
Riderless (a.) Having no rider; as, a riderless horse.
Ridge (n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest.
Ridge (n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
Ridge (n.) A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
Ridge (n.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
Ridge (n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
Ridged (imp. & p. p.) of Ridge.
Ridging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ridge.
Ridge (v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
Ridge (v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
Ridge (v. t.) To wrinkle.
Ridgeband (n.) The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger.