Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 66
Ridgebone (n.) The backbone. [Obs.]
Ridgel (n.) (Zool.) Same as Ridgelling.
Ridgel (n.) A colt with undescended testicles [syn: ridgeling, ridgling, ridgel, ridgil].
Ridgelet (n.) A little ridge.
Ridgeling (n.) (Zool.) A half-castrated male animal. Ridgepiece
Ridgeling (n.) A colt with undescended testicles [syn: ridgeling, ridgling, ridgel, ridgil].
Ridgepiece (n.) Alt. of Ridgeplate.
Ridgeplate (n.) See Ridgepole.
Ridgepole (n.) (Arch.) The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are secured.
Ridgepole (n.) A beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters [syn: ridge, ridgepole, rooftree].
Compare: Ridgeband
Ridgeband (n.) The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. -- Halliwell.
Ridgerope (n.) (Naut.) See Life line (a), under Life.
Ridgingly (adv.) So as to form ridges.
Ridgy (a.) Having a ridge or ridges; rising in a ridge. "Lifted on a ridgy wave." -- Pope.
Ridicle (n.) Ridicule. [Obs.] -- Foxe.
Ridicule (n.) 嘲笑，愚弄，笑柄 An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. -- Buckle.
To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. -- Foxe.
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.
We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, -- the laughable, -- and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings. -- Hare.
Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. -- Pope.
Ridicule (n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. [Obs.]
To see the ridicule of this practice. -- Addison.
Syn: Derision; banter; raillery; burlesque; mockery; irony; satire; sarcasm; gibe; jeer; sneer; ribbing.
Usage: Ridicule, Derision, mockery, ribbing: All four words imply disapprobation; but ridicule and mockery may signify either good-natured opposition without manifest malice, or more maliciously, an attempt to humiliate. Derision is commonly bitter and scornful, and sometimes malignant. ribbing is almost always good-natured and fun-loving.
Ridiculed (imp. & p. p.) of Ridicule.
Ridiculing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ridicule.
Ridicule (v. t.) 嘲笑，嘲弄，愚弄 To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. -- Goldsmith.
Syn: To deride; banter; rally; burlesque; mock; satirize; lampoon. See Deride.
Ridicule (a.) [F.] Ridiculous. [Obs.]
This action . . . became so ridicule. -- Aubrey.
Ridicule (n.) Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate.
Ridicule (n.) The act of deriding or treating with contempt [syn: derision, ridicule].
Ridicule (v.) Subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" [syn: ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun].
Ridiculer (n.) One who ridicules.
Ridiculer (n.) A humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm [syn: satirist, ironist, ridiculer].
Ridiculize (v. t.) To make ridiculous; to ridicule. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Ridiculosity (n.) The quality or state of being ridiculous; ridiculousness; also, something ridiculous. [Archaic] -- Bailey.
Ridiculous (a.) 可笑的，荒謬的 Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior.
Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the thrust and close, commanded three Batavian cohorts . . . to draw up and come to handy strokes. -- Milton.
Ridiculous (a.) Involving or expressing ridicule. [R.]
[It] provokes me to ridiculous smiling. -- Shak.
Syn: Ludicrous; laughable; risible; droll; comical; absurd; preposterous. See Ludicrous.--- Ri*dic"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Ri*dic"u*lous*ness, n.
Ridiculous (a.) Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years" -- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic, ridiculous, silly].
Ridiculous (a.) Incongruous; inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous].
Ridiculous (a.) Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous].
Ridiculously (adv.) 可笑地；荒謬地 So as to arouse or deserve laughter; "her income was laughably small, but she managed to live well" [syn: laughably, ridiculously, ludicrously, preposterously].
Riding (n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the
Riding (a.) Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." -- Ayliffe.
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 clerk. (a) A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs. Eng.]
Riding clerk. (b) One of the "six clerks" formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery.
Riding hood. (a) A hood formerly worn by women when riding.
Riding hood. (b) A kind of cloak with a hood.
Riding master, An instructor in horsemanship.
Riding rhyme (Pros.), The meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. -- Dr. Guest.
Riding school, A school or place where the art of riding is taught.
Riding (n.) The act or state of one who rides.
Riding (n.) A festival procession. [Obs.]
When there any riding was in Cheap. -- Chaucer.
Riding (n.) Same as Ride, n., 3. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Riding (n.) A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]
Compare: Trithing
Trithing (n.) [See Ist Riding.] One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. [Written also riding.] -- Blackstone.
Riding (n.) The sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements [syn: riding, horseback riding, equitation].
Riding (n.) Travel by being carried on horseback [syn: riding, horseback riding].
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 (n. 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.
The Great Rift Valley, Kenya (n.) 肯亞東非大裂谷的湖泊系統是肯亞的一處世界遺產，由三個淺水湖泊組成，分別為博戈尼亞湖、納庫魯湖、Elementaita湖。肯亞東非大裂谷的湖泊系統於2011年列入世界遺產名錄，面積32 034 ha，緩衝區面積3 581 ha[1] 。 Is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south. It is part of the Gregory Rift, the eastern branch of the East African Rift, which starts in Tanzania to the south and continues northward into Ethiopia. [1] It was formed on the "Kenyan Dome" a geographical upwelling created by the interactions of three major tectonics: the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates. [2] In the past, it was seen as part of a "Great Rift Valley" that ran from Madagascar to Syria. Most of the valley falls within the former Rift Valley Province.
The valley contains the Cherangani Hills and a chain of volcanoes, some of which are still active. The climate is mild, with temperatures usually below 28 °C (82 °F). Most rain falls during the March–June and October–November periods. [3] The Tugen Hills to the west of Lake Baringo contain fossils preserved in lava flows from the period 14 to 4 million years ago. The relics of many hominids, ancestors of humans, were found here. [4]
Rifter (n.) A rafter.
Rig (n.) A ridge. [Prov. or Scott.]
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.
Jack was rigged out in his gold and silver lace. -- L'Estrange.
To rig a purchase, To adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc.
To rig a ship (Naut.), To fit the shrouds, stays, braces, etc., to their respective masts and yards.
Rig (n.) (Naut.) 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. [Colloq.]
Rig (n.) A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Rig (n.) A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
Rig (n.) A blast of wind. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
That uncertain season before the rigs of Michaelmas were yet well composed. -- Burke.
To run a rig, To play a trick; to engage in a frolic; to do something strange and unbecoming.
He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig. -- Cowper.
Rig (v. i.) To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks. "Rigging and rifling all ways." -- Chapman.
Rig (v. t.) To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer. [Obs. or Prov.] -- Tusser.
To rig the market (Stock Exchange), To raise or lower market prices, as by some fraud or trick. [Cant]
Rig (n.) Gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise.
Rig (n.) A truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together [syn: trailer truck, tractor trailer, trucking rig, rig, articulated lorry, semi].
Rig (n.) Formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel [syn: rig, rigging].
Rig (n.) A set of clothing (with accessories); "his getup was exceedingly elegant" [syn: outfit, getup, rig, turnout].
Rig (n.)5: Gear used in fishing [syn: fishing gear, tackle, fishing tackle, fishing rig, rig].
Rig (n.) A vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses [syn: carriage, equipage, rig].
Rig (n.) The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: swindle, cheat, rig].
Rig (v.) Arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election" [syn: rig, set up].
Rig (v.) Manipulate in a fraudulent manner; "rig prices" [syn: rig, manipulate].
Rig (v.) Connect or secure to; "They rigged the bomb to the ignition".
Rig (v.) Equip with sails or masts; "rig a ship" [syn: rig, set, set up].
RIG, () Related Interest Group.
RIG, () Rochester Intelligent Gateway (OS).
Rigadoon (n.) A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. -- W. Irving.
Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. -- Wolcott.
Riga fir () (Bot.) 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. [Obs.]
Rigel (n.) (Astron.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion. [Written also Regel.]
Rigel (n.) The brightest star in Orion [syn: Rigel, Beta Orionis]
Rigel, () A database language? Based on Pascal. Listed by M.P. Atkinson & J.W. Schmidt in a tutorial presented in Zurich, 1989. (1994-10-28)
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. [R.]
Rigger (n.) (Painting) A long slender, and pointed sable brush for making fine lines, etc.; -- said to be so called from its use by marine painters for drawing the lines of the rigging.
Rigger (n.) Someone who rigs ships.
Rigger (n.) A long slender pointed sable brush used by artists [syn: rigger, rigger brush].
Rigger (n.) Someone who works on an oil rig [syn: rigger, oil rigger].
Rigger (n.) A sailing vessel with a specified rig; "a square rigger".
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.
Running rigging (Naut.), all those ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.
Standing rigging (Naut.), The shrouds and stays.
Riggish (a.) Like a rig or wanton. [Obs.] "Riggish and unmaidenly." -- Bp. Hall.
Riggle (v. i.) See Wriggle.
Riggle (n.) The European lance fish. [Prov. Eng.]
Right (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line. "Right as any line." -- Chaucer
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.
That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. -- Whately.
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. "His right wife." -- Chaucer.
In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. -- Milton.
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.
You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well. -- Shak.
If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." -- Locke.
Right (a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
The lady has been disappointed on the right side. -- Spectator.
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.
Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand. -- Longfellow.
Note: In designating the banks of a river, right and left are used always with reference to the position of one who is facing in the direction of the current's flow.
Right (a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.