Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 68
Riling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rile.
Rile (v. t.) 【美】把……攪渾濁；激怒；使煩躁 To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
Rile (v. t.) To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.
Note: In both senses provincial in England and colloquial in the United States.
Rile (v.) Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil].
Rile (v.) Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of [syn: roil, rile].
Rilievo (n.) (Sculp. & Arch.) 浮雕 Same as Relief, n., 5.
Rilievo (n.) Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background [syn: relief, relievo, rilievo, embossment, sculptural relief].
Rill (n.) A very small brook; a streamlet.
Rill (n.) (Astron.) See Rille.
Rill (v. i.) To run a small stream. [R.] -- Prior.
Rill (n.) A small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet].
Rill (n.) A small channel (as one formed by soil erosion).
Rille (n.) (Astron.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
Rillet (n.) A little rill. -- Burton.
Rily (a.) Roily. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
Rimmed (imp. & p. p.) of Rim.
Rimming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rim.
Rim (v. t.) To furnish with a rim; to border.
Rim (n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
Rim (n.) The lower part of the abdomen. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Arch rim (Phonetics), The line between the gums and the palate.
Rim-fire cartridge. (Mil.) See under Cartridge.
Rim lock. See under Lock.
Rim (n.) The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
Rim (n.) (Basketball) The hoop from which the net is suspended; "the ball hit the rim and bounced off."
Rim (n.) The outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached.
Rim (n.) A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object [syn: flange, rim].
Rim (n.) The top edge of a vessel or other container [syn: brim, rim, lip].
Rim (v.) Run around the rim of; "Sugar rimmed the dessert plate".
Rim (v.) Furnish with a rim; "rim a hat."
Rim (v.) Roll around the rim of; "the ball rimmed the basket."
RIM, () Registry Information Model (ebXML).
RIM, () Remote Installation and Maintenance.
Rimae (n. pl. ) of Rima.
Rima (n.) [L.] (Anat.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Rimau
dahan () (Zool.)
The clouded tiger cat ({Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the
Rimbase (n.) (Mil.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.
Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. -- Sir T. Browne.
Rime (n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
The trees were now covered with rime. -- De Quincey.
Rimed (imp. & p. p.) of Rime.
Riming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rime.
Rime (v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Rime (n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
Rime (n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme. -- Coleridge. -- Landor.
Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.
Rime (v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Rhyme (n.) An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. "Railing rhymes." -- Daniel.
A ryme I learned long ago. -- Chaucer.
He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. -- Milton.
Rhyme (n.) (Pros.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.
For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense. -- Prior.
Rhyme (n.) Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
Rhyme (n.) A word answering in sound to another word.
Female rhyme. See under Female.
Male rhyme. See under Male.
Rhyme or reason, Sound or sense.
Rhyme royal (Pros.), A stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.
Rhyme (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Rhymed; p. pr. & vb. n. Rhyming.]
To make rhymes, or verses. "Thou shalt no longer ryme." -- Chaucer.
There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride. -- Pope.
Rhyme (v. i.) To accord in rhyme or sound.
And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. -- Dryden.
Rhyme (v. t.) To put into rhyme. -- Sir T. Wilson.
Rhyme (v. t.) To influence by rhyme.
Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good. -- Herbert.
Rhyme (n.) Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) [syn: rhyme, rime].
Rhyme (n.) A piece of poetry [syn: verse, rhyme].
Rhyme (v.) Compose rhymes [syn: rhyme, rime].
Rhyme (v.) Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" [syn: rhyme, rime].
Rime (n.) Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime].
Rime (n.) Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) [syn: rhyme, rime].
Rime (v.) Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" [syn: rhyme, rime].
Rime (v.) Compose rhymes [syn: rhyme, rime].
RIME, () Relaynet International Message Exchange.
Rime, (n.) Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled "rhyme."
Rimer (n.) A rhymer; a versifier.
Rimer (n.) A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
Rimer (n.) A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires.
Then the domestic dog, to east and west, Expounds the passions burning in his breast.
The rising moon o'er that enchanted land Pauses to hear and yearns to understand. Mowbray Myles
Rimey (v. t.) To compose in rhyme; to versify. [Obs.]
[Lays] rimeyed in their first Breton tongue. -- Chaucer.
Rimmer (n.) An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer. -- Knight.
Rimose (a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
Rimose (a.) (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.
Rimose (a.) Having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices; "a tree with rimose bark."
Rimosely (adv.) In a rimose manner.
Rimosity (n.) State of being rimose.
Rimous (a.) Rimose.
Rimple (n.) A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.
Rimpled (imp. & p. p.) of Rimple.
Rimpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rimple.
Rimple (v. t. & i.) To rumple; to wrinkle.
Rimy (a.) Abounding with rime; frosty.
Rimy (a.) Covered with frost; "a frosty glass"; "hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost" -- Wm.Faulkner [syn: frosty, rimed, rimy].
Rind (n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled. -- Milton.
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind. -- Shak.
Rind (v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark. [R.]
Rind (n.) The natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating).
Rinderpest (n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
Rinderpest (n.) An acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes [syn: rinderpest, cattle plague].
Rindle (n.) A small water course or gutter. -- Ash.
Rindless (a.) Destitute of a rind.
Rindy (a.) Having a rind or skin. -- Ash.
Rine (n.) See Rind. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Rined (a.) Having a rind. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Rinforzando (a.) (Mus.) Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.
Rang (imp.) of Ring. v. t. & i.
Rung () of Ring.
Rung (p. p.) of Ring.
Ringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring.
Ring (v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
Ring (v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. -- Shak.
Ring (v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
To ring a peal, To ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.
To ring the changes upon. See under Change.
To ring in or To ring out, To usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. -- Tennyson.
To ring the bells backward, To sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. -- Sir W. Scott.
Range. () This word is used in the land laws of the United States to designate the order of the location of such lands, and in patents from the United States to individuals they are described as being within a certain range.
Ring (v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. -- Chaucer.
Why ring not out the bells? -- Shak.
Ring (v. i.) To practice making music with bells. -- Holder.
Ring (v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
With sweeter notes each rising temple rung. -- Pope.
The hall with harp and carol rang. -- Tennyson.
My ears still ring with noise. -- Dryden.
Ring (v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
The assertion is still ringing in our ears. -- Burke.
Ring (v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
Ring (n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
Ring (n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
The ring of acclamations fresh in his ears. -- Bacon
Ring (n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
As great and tunable a ring of bells as any in the world. -- Fuller.
Ring (n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
Ring (n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. -- Chaucer.
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. -- Shak.
Ring (n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. -- E. Smith.
Ring (n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting. ”The road was an institution, the ring was an institution.” -- Thackeray.
Ring (n.) A circular group of persons.
And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's alter sing. -- Milton.
Ring (n.) (Geom.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.
Ring (n.) (Geom.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
Ring (n.) (Astron. & Navigation) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
Ring (n.) (Bot.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
Ring (n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
The ruling ring at Constantinople. -- E. A. Freeman.
{Ring armor}, Armor composed of rings of metal. See {Ring mail}, below, and {Chain mail}, under {Chain}.
{Ring blackbird} (Zool.), The ring ousel.
{Ring canal} (Zool.), The circular water tube which surrounds the esophagus of echinoderms.
{Ring dotterel}, or {Ringed dotterel}. (Zool.) See {Dotterel}, and Illust. of {Pressiroster}.
{Ring dropper}, A sharper who pretends to have found a ring (dropped by himself), and tries to induce another to buy it as valuable, it being worthless.
{Ring fence}. See under {Fence}.
{Ring finger}, The third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage.
{Ring formula} (Chem.), A graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See
Illust. under {Benzene}.
{Ring mail}, A kind of mail made of small steel rings sewed upon a garment of leather or of cloth.
{Ring micrometer}. (Astron.) See {Circular micrometer}, under {Micrometer}.
{Saturn's rings}. See {Saturn}.
{Ring ousel}. (Zool.) See {Ousel}.
{Ring parrot} (Zool.), Any one of several species of Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially {Palaeornis torquatus}, common in India, and {Palaeornis Alexandri} of {Java}.
{Ring plover}. (Zool.) (a) The ringed dotterel.
{Ring plover}. (Zool.) (b) Any one of several small American plovers having a dark ring around the neck, as the semipalmated plover ({Aegialitis semipalmata}).
{Ring snake} (Zool.), A small harmless American snake ({Diadophis punctatus}) having a white ring around the neck. The back is ash-colored, or sage green, the belly of an orange red.
{Ring stopper}. (Naut.) See under {Stopper}.
{Ring thrush} (Zool.), The ring ousel.
{The prize ring}, The ring in which prize fighters contend; prize fighters, collectively.
{The ring}. (a) The body of sporting men who bet on horse races. [Eng.]
{The ring}. (b) The prize ring.
Ringed (imp. & p. p.) of Ring.
Ringing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ring.
Ring (v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle. "Ring these fingers." -- Shak.
Ring (v. t.) (Hort.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
Ring (v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
Ring (v. i.) (Falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
Ring (n.) A characteristic sound; "it has the ring of sincerity."
Ring (n.) A toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" [syn: ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor ring].
Ring (n.) A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" [syn: hoop, ring].
Ring (n.) (Chemistry) A chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop [syn: closed chain, ring] [ant: open chain].
Ring (n.) An association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring, mob].
Ring (n.) The sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells" -- E. A. Poe [syn: ring, ringing, tintinnabulation].
Ring (n.) A platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle.
Ring (n.) Jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band" [syn: ring, band].
Ring (n.) A strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) [syn: band, ring].
Ring (v.) Sound loudly and sonorously; "the bells rang" [syn: ring, peal].
Ring (v.) Ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter" [syn: resound, echo, ring, reverberate].
Ring (v.) Make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification; "Ring the bells"; "My uncle rings every Sunday at the local church" [syn: ring, knell].
Ring (v.) Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone, call up, phone, ring].
Ring (v.) Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring, skirt, border].
Ring (v.) Attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns" [syn: ring, band].
Ring, () Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings were used as a signet (Gen. 38:18). They were given as a token of investment with authority (Gen. 41:42; Esther 3:8-10; 8:2), and of favour and dignity (Luke 15:22). They were generally worn by rich men (James 2:2).
They are mentioned by Isiah (3:21) among the adornments of Hebrew women.
Ringbill (n.) (Zool.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.
Ring-necked (a.) (Zool.) Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
Ring-necked duck (Zool.), An American scaup duck ({Aythya collaris). The head, neck, and breast of the adult male are black, and a narrow, but conspicuous, red ring encircles the neck. This ring is absent in the female. Called also ring-neck, ring-necked blackhead, ringbill, tufted duck, and black jack.
Ringbird (n.) (Zool.) The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.
Ringbolt (n.) An eyebolt having a ring through the eye.
Ringbone (n.) (Far.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. -- J. H. Walsh.
Ringdove (n.) (Zool.) A European wild pigeon ({Columba palumbus) having a white crescent on each side of the neck, whence the name. Called also wood pigeon, and cushat.
Ringdove (n.) Greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged [syn: ringdove, Streptopelia risoria].
Ringdove (n.) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck [syn: wood pigeon, ringdove, cushat, Columba palumbus].
Ringed (a.) Encircled or marked with, or as with, a ring or rings.
Ringed (a.) Wearning a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded. "A ringed wife." -- Tennyson.
Ringed+seal+(Zool.),+A+North+Pacific+seal+({Phoca+foetida">Ringed seal (Zool.), a North Pacific seal ({Phoca foetida)
having ringlike spots on the body.
Ringed snake (Zool.) A harmless European snake ({Tropidonotus natrix) common in England.
Ringed worm (Zool.), An annelid.
Ringed (a.) Shaped like a ring [syn: annular, annulate, annulated, circinate, ringed, ring-shaped, doughnut-shaped].
Ringed (a.) Having colored rings around the body.
Ringed (a.) Wearing a wedding ring; lawfully married; "a ringed wife" -- Tennyson
Ringent (a.) (Bot.) Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.
Ringer (n.) One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
Ringer (n.) (Mining) A crowbar. -- Simmonds.
Ringer (n.) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
Ringer (n.) A person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) [syn: toller, bell ringer, ringer].
Ringer (n.) A person who is almost identical to another [syn: ringer, dead ringer, clone].
Ringer (n.) A contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses.
Ringer (n.) (Horseshoes) The successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg.
Ringhead (n.) (Cloth Manuf.) An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
Ringing () a & n. from Ring, v.
Ringing engine, A simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
Ringing (n.) The sound of a bell ringing; "the distinctive ring of the church bell"; "the ringing of the telephone"; "the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells" -- E. A. Poe [syn: ring, ringing, tintinnabulation].
Ringing (n.) The giving of a ring as a token of engagement.
Ringing (n.) Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy].
Ringingly (adv.) In a ringing manner.
Ringleader (n.) The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. -- Barrow.
Ringleader (n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.
The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. -- Macaulay.
Ringleader (n.) A person who leads (especially in illicit activities).
Ringlestone (n.) (Zool.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [Prov. Eng.]
Ringlet (n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites. -- Shak.
Ringlet (n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
[Her golden tresses] in wanton ringlets waved. -- Milton.
Ringlet (n.) A round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil, whorl,
roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll].
Ringlet (n.) A strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl].
Ringlet (n.) A small ring.
Ringlet (n.) Any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae [syn: ringlet, ringlet butterfly].