Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 9
Rantingly (adv.) In a ranting manner.
Rantipole (n.) A wild, romping young person. [Low] -- Marryat.
Rantipole (a.) Wild; roving; rakish. [Low]
Rantipole (v. i.) To act like a rantipole. [Low]
She used to rantipole about the house. -- Arbuthnot.
Rantism (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) Ranterism.
Ranty (a.) Wild; noisy; boisterous.
Ranula (n.) (Med.) A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.
Ranula (n.) A cyst on the underside of the tongue.
Ranunculaceous (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.
Ranunculuses (n. pl. ) of Ranunculus
Ranunculi (n. pl. ) of Ranunculus.
Ranunculus (n.) (Bot.) A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.
Ranunculus (n.) Annual, biennial or perennial herbs: buttercup; crowfoot [syn: Ranunculus, genus Ranunculus].
Ranz des vaches () The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
Rap (n.) [C] 叩擊（聲）；敲擊（聲）；拍擊（聲）[（+on/ at）]；饒舌音樂，饒舌歌曲 A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rap (v. t.) 叩擊；敲擊；拍擊；厲聲地說 [（+out）] To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. -- Chapman.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. -- Sir H.
Rap (v. t.) To hasten. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Rap (v. t.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. -- Addison.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun. -- Pope.
Rap (v. t.) To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
Rap (v. t.) To engage in a discussion, converse.
Rap (v. t.) (ca. 1985) To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see {rap music}.
{To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. -- Dryden.
"[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." -- Chaucer.
All they could rap and rend and pilfer. -- Hudibras.
{To rap out}, To utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. -- Addison.
Rap (n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn. -- Knight.
Rap (v. i.) 敲擊；拍擊 [（+on/ at）] To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.
Rapped (imp. & p. p.) of Rap.
Rapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap.
Rap (v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.
With one great peal they rap the door. -- Prior.
Rap (v. t.) (Founding) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
Rap (n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.
Rap (n.) Conversation; also, rapping.
Rap (n.) (ca. 1985) A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; {rap music}.
Rapped (imp. & p. p.) of Rap.
Rapt () of Rap.
Rapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rap.
Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps. -- Swift.
Tie it [her money] up so tight that you can't touch a rap, save with her consent. -- Mrs. Alexander.
{Not to care a rap}, To care nothing.
{Not worth a rap}, Worth nothing.
Rap (n.) A reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: {blame}, {rap}].
Rap (n.) A gentle blow [syn: {rap}, {strike}, {tap}].
Rap (n.) The sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {rap}, {tap}].
Rap (n.) Voluble conversation.
Rap (n.) Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: {rap}, {rap music}, {hip-hop}].
Rap (n.) The act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: {knock}, {belt}, {rap}, {whack}, {whang}].
Rap (v.) Strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles" [syn: {rap}, {knap}].
Rap (v.) Make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {rap}, {knock}, {pink}].
Rap (v.) Perform rap music.
Rap (v.) Talk volubly.
RAP () [Internet] Route Access Protocol (RFC 1476, Internet)
RAP () Remote Access Point.
RAP () Rich Ajax Platform (RCP, Eclipse).
Rapaces (n. pl.) Same as Accipitres.
Rapacious (a.) 強取的；貪婪的；捕食性的 Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.
Rapacious (a.) Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
[Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim -- Milton.
Syn: Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. -- {Ra*pa"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Ra*pa"cious*ness}, n.
Rapacious (a.) Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: {predatory}, {rapacious}, {raptorial}, {ravening}, {vulturine}, {vulturous}].
Rapacious (a.) Excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [syn: {rapacious}, {ravening}, {voracious}].
Rapacious (a.) Devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: {edacious}, {esurient}, {rapacious}, {ravening}, {ravenous}, {voracious}, {wolfish}].
Rapacious (a.) (Formal) 巧取豪奪的，貪婪的，掠奪的 Having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force.
// A rapacious landlord/ businessman.
// Her rapacious appetite for fame.
Rapacity (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Raparee (n.) See Rapparee.
Rape (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. -- Ray.
Rape (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
Rape (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.
Rape (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
Compare: Robbery
Robbery (n.) [Mass noun] [U][C] 搶劫；盜取；搶劫案； 【律】搶劫罪 The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.
‘He was involved in drugs, extortion, and robbery.’
[Count noun] ‘An armed robbery.’
Robbery (n.) [Mass noun] (Informal) Unashamed swindling or overcharging.
‘‘Twenty-five bucks! Robbery!’’
Rape (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Rape (n.) That which is snatched away.
Rape (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Rape (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
Compare: Ravish
Ravish (v.) [With object] (Archaic) (v. t.) 使陶醉，使狂喜，使銷魂 [H]；強姦； 【古】強奪，搶走 Seize and carry off (someone) by force.
‘There is no assurance that her infant child will not be ravished from her breast.’
Ravish (v.) [With object] [Dated] (Of a man) Rape (a woman).
‘An angry father who suspects that his daughter has been ravished.’
Ravish (v.) [With object] (Literary) Fill (someone) with intense delight; enrapture.
‘Ravished by a sunny afternoon, she had agreed without even thinking.’
Rape (v. i.) To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] -- Heywood.
Rape (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
Rape (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
Note: These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock ({Brassica oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole.
Broom rape. (Bot.) See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary.
Rape cake, The refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed.
Rape root. Same as Rape.
Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza.
Rape (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. -- Sandys.
Rape (n.) (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent.
See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Rape (n.) That which is snatched away. [Obs.]
Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. -- Sandys.
Rape (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.]
Rape (n.) (Fig., Colloq.) An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies.
Rape (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
Rape (v. t.) (Fig., Colloq.) To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; as, women raped first by their assailants, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd rape, n. 5.
To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.
Compare: Cole
Cole (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of Brassica oleracea called rape and coleseed.
Rape (n.) Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop [syn: rape, colza, Brassica napus].
Rape (n.) The act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rape, rapine].
Rape (n.) The crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault, ravishment].
Rape (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].
Rape (v.) Destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" [syn: rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder].
Rape (v. t.) To screw someone or something, violently; in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used in describing file-system damage. ?So-and-so was running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory.?
Rape (v. t.) To strip a piece of hardware for parts.
Rape (v. t.) [CMU/ Pitt] To mass-copy files from an anonymous ftp site. ?Last night I raped Simtel's dskutl directory.?
RAPE, () division of a country. In the English law, this is a district similar to that of a hundred; but oftentimes containing in it more hundreds than one.
RAPE, () crim. law. The carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and unlawfully against her will. In order to ascertain precisely the nature of this offence, this definition will be analysed.
RAPE, () Much difficulty has arisen in defining the meaning of carnal knowledge, and different opinions have been entertained some judges having supposed that penetration alone is sufficient, while other's deemed emission as an essential ingredient in the crime. Hawk. b. 1, c. 41, s. 3; 12 Co. 37; 1 Hale, P. C. 628; 2 Chit. Cr. L. 810. But in modern times the better opinion seems to be that both penetration and emission are necessary. 1 East, P. C. 439; 2 Leach, 854. It is, however, to be remarked, that very slight evidence may be sufficient to induce a jury to believe there was emission. Addis. R. 143; 2 So. Car. C. R. 351; 1 Beck's Med. Jur. 140. 4 Chit. Bl. Com. 213, note 8. In Scotland, emission is not requisite. Allis. Prin. 209, 210. See Emission; Penetration.
RAPE, () By the term man in this definition is meant a male of the human species, of the age of fourteen years and upwards; for an infant, under fourteen years, is supposed by law incapable of committing this offence. 1 Hale, P. C. 631; 8 C. & P. 738. But not only can an infant under fourteen years, if of sufficient mischievous discretion, but even a woman may be guilty as principals in the second degree. And the husband of a woman may be a principal in the second degree of a rape committed upon his wife, as where he held her while his servant committed the rape. 1 Harg St. Tr. 388.
RAPE, () The knowledge of the woman's person must be forcibly and against her will; and if her consent has not been voluntarily and freely given, (when she has the power to consent,) the offence will be complete, nor will any subsequent acquiescence on her part do away the guilt of the ravisher. A consent obtained from a woman by actual violence, by duress or threats of murder, or by the administration of stupefying drugs, is not such a consent as will shield the offender, nor turn his crime into adultery or fornication.
RAPE, () The matrimonial consent of the wife cannot be retracted, and, therefore, her husband cannot be guilty of a rape on her as his act is not unlawful. But, as already observed, he may be guilty as principal in the second degree.
RAPE, () As a child under ten years of age is incapable in law to give her consent, it follows, that the offence may be committed on such a child whether she consent or not. See Stat. 18 Eliz, c. 7, s. 4. See, as to the possibility of committing a rape, and as to the signs which indicate it, 1 Beck's Med. Jur. ch. 12; Merlin, Rep. mot Viol.; 1 Briand, Med. Leg. 1ere partic, c. 1, p. 66; Biessy, Manuel Medico-Legal, &c. p. 149; Parent Duchatellet, De la Prostitution dans la ville de Paris, c. 3, Sec. 5 Barr. on the Stat. 123; 9 Car. & P. 752 2 Pick. 380; 12 S. & R. 69; 7 Conn. 54 Const. R. 354; 2 Vir. Cas. 235.
Rapeful (a.) Violent. [Obs.]
Rapeful (a.) Given to the commission of rape. -- Byron.
Rapfully (adv.) Violently. [Obs.]
Raphaelesque (a.) 拉斐爾風格的 Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.
Raphaelism (n.) The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.
Raphaelite (n.) One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.
Raphany (n.) (Med.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.
Compare: Ergotism
Ergotism (n.) [Mass noun] 【醫】麥角中毒 Poisoning produced by eating food affected by ergot, typically resulting in headache, vomiting, diarrhoea, and gangrene of the fingers and toes.
Compare: Ergot
Ergot (n.) [Mass noun] 【農】麥角症；麥角 A fungal disease of rye and other cereals in which black elongated fruiting bodies grow in the ears of the cereal. Eating contaminated food can result in ergotism.
The fungus is Claviceps purpurea, subdivision Ascomycotina
Ergot (n.) A small horny protuberance on the back of each of a horse's fetlocks.
Raphe (n.) (Anat.) A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.
Raphe (n.) (Bot.) Same as {Rhaphe}.
Rhaphe (n.) (Bot.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. [Written also {raphe}.] -- Gray.
Raphe (n.) A ridge that forms a seam between two parts [syn: {raphe}, {rhaphe}].
Raphides (n. pl.) See Rhaphides.
Rapid (a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. -- Milton.
Rapid (a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
Rapid (a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman. Rapid
Rapid, Rapids (n.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes called whitewater; -- usually used in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. For boaters on the river, it is a place that can be hazardous, with danger of capsizing or crashing into large rocks.
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. -- Moore. Rapid-fire
Rapid (a.) Done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks."
Rapid (a.) Characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movement"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy" [syn: rapid, speedy].
Rapid (n.) A part of a river where the current is very fast.
RAPID, () Resource And Performance Interactive Display system.
Rapidity (n.) The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement.
Syn: Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
Rapidity (n.) A rate that is rapid [syn: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness].
Rapidly (adv.) In a rapid manner.
Rapidly (adv.) With rapid movements; "he works quickly" [syn: quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace] [ant: easy, slow, slowly, tardily].
Rapidness (n.) Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
Rapidness (n.) A rate that is rapid [syn: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness].
Rapier (n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
Rapier fish, () (Zool.), The swordfish. [Obs.] -- Grew.
Rapier (n.) A straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges [syn: rapier, tuck].
Rapiered (a.) Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures." -- Lowell.
Rapilli (n. pl.) [It.] (Min.) Lapilli.
Rapine (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. -- Macaulay.
Rapine (n.) Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Rapine (v. t.) To plunder. -- Sir G. Buck.
Rapine (n.) The act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rape, rapine].
RAPINE, () crim. law. This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. (q.v.) It is the felonious taking of another man's personal property, openly and by violence, against his will. The civilians define rapine to be the taking with violence, the movable property of another, with the fraudulent intent to appropriate it to one's own USC. Lec. El. Dr. Rom. Sec. 1071.
Rapinous (a.) Given to rapine. [Obs.]
Rappage (n.) (Founding) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern.
Rapparee (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. [Written also raparee.]
Rapped () imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.
Rapped () imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rappee (v.) A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
Rappee (n.) Strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco.
Rappel (n.) (Mil.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Rappel (n.) (Mountaineering) 坐式下降法，繞繩下降（一種登山方法或動作） A descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body [syn: rappel, abseil].
Rappel (v.) (v. i.) 用繩索（垂直）下降 Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down].
Rapper (n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. -- Sterne.
Rapper (n.) A forcible oath or lie. [Slang] -- Bp. Parker.
Rapper (n.) A musician specializing in rap music.
Rapper (n.) Someone who performs rap music.
Rapper (n.) A device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door [syn: knocker, doorknocker, rapper].
Rapport (n.) Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.
'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country. -- Sir W. Temple.
En` rap`port" ([aum]N` r[.a]`p[^o]r") [F.], in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in hypnotism, in that relation of sympathy which permits influence or communication.
Rapport (n.) A relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people [syn: rapport, resonance].
Rapscallion (n.) A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [Colloq.] -- Howitt.
Rapscallion (n.) A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet].
Rapscallion (n.) One who is playfully mischievous [syn: imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag].
Rapt () imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, To snatch away.
Rapt (a.) Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Waters rapt with whirling away. -- Spenser.
Rapt (a.) Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. "The rapt musician." -- Longfellow.
Rapt (a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. "Rapt in secret studies." -- Shak.
Rapt (n.) An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] -- Bp. Morton.
Rapt (n.) Rapidity. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Rapt (v. t.) To transport or ravish. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Rapt (v. t.) To carry away by force. [Obs.] -- Daniel.
Rapt (a.) Feeling great rapture or delight [syn: {ecstatic}, {enraptured}, {rapturous}, {rapt}, {rhapsodic}].
RAPT, () ["An Interpreter for a Language for Describing Assemblies", R.J. Popplestone et al, Artif Intell 14:79-107 (1980)].
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Rapter (n.) A raptor. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Raptor (n.) A ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.]
Raptor (n.) Any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals [syn: bird of prey, raptor, raptorial bird].
Raptores (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of birds, same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.
Raptores (n.) Term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes [syn: order Raptores].
Raptores (n. pl.) Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.
Raptorial (a.) (Zool.) 捕食生物的，猛禽類的 Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.
Raptorial (a.) (Zool.) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals.
Raptorial (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust.
Raptorial (a.) (Zool.) of Aves.
Raptorial (a.) Relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey."
Raptorial (a.) Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous].
Raptorious (a.) (Zool.) Raptorial.
Rapture (n.) A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.]
That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. -- Chapman.
Rapture (n.) 著迷，痴迷 [U]；狂喜，歡天喜地 [P] [（+at/ about/ over）] The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. -- Addison.
You grow correct that once with rapture writ. -- Pope.
Rapture (n.) A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
Raptured (imp. & p. p.) of Rapture.
Rapturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rapture.
Rapture (v. t.) 使狂喜，使歡天喜地 To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] -- Thomson.
Compare: Enrapture
Enrapture (v.) [With object] (v. t) 使著迷；使狂喜 Give intense pleasure or joy to.
‘Ruth was enraptured by the sleeping child.’
Rapture (n.) A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {rapture}, {transport}, {exaltation}, {raptus}].
Rapture (n.) A state of elated bliss [syn: {ecstasy}, {rapture}].
Compare: Overwhelming
Overwhelming (a.) 壓倒的；勢不可擋的；Overwhelm的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Very great in amount.
‘His party won overwhelming support.’
Overwhelming (a.) (Especially of an emotion) Very strong.
‘She felt an overwhelming desire to giggle.’