1. A kind of kite with a whitish tail. NWAD RING-TAIL.2
2. A small quadrilateral sail, set on a small mast on a ship’s tafferel. NWAD RING-TAIL.3
1. To wash; to cleanse by washing. But in present usage, NWAD RINSE.2
2. To cleanse with a second or repeated application of water, after washing. We distinguish washing from rinsing. Washing is performed by rubbing, or with the use of soap; rinsing is performed with clean water, without much rubbing or the use of soap. Clothes are rinsed by dipping and dashing; and vessels are rinsed by dashing water on them, or by slight rubbing. A close barrel may be rinsed, but cannot well be washed. NWAD RINSE.3
1. In a general sense, tumult; uproar; hence technically, in law, a riotous assembling of twelve persons or more, and not dispersing upon proclamation. NWAD RIOT.2
The definition of riot must depend on the laws. In Connecticut, the assembling of three persons or more, to do an unlawful act by violence against the person or property of another, and not dispersing upon proclamation, is declared to be a riot. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the number necessary to constitute a riot is twelve. NWAD RIOT.3
2. Uproar; wild and noisy festivity. NWAD RIOT.4
3. Excessive and expensive feasting. 2 Peter 2:13. NWAD RIOT.5
4. Luxury. NWAD RIOT.6
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today. NWAD RIOT.7
To run riot, to act or move without control or restraint. NWAD RIOT.8
1. To revel; to run to excess in feasting, drinking or other sensual indulgences. NWAD RIOT.10
2. To luxuriate; to be highly excited. NWAD RIOT.11
No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. NWAD RIOT.12
3. To banquet; to live in luxury; to enjoy. NWAD RIOT.13
How base is the ingratitude which forgets the benefactor, while it is rioting on the benefit! NWAD RIOT.14
4. To raise an uproar or sedition. NWAD RIOT.15
1. One who indulges in loose festivity or excessive feasting. NWAD RIOTER.2
2. In law, one guilty of meeting with others to do an unlawful act, and declining to retire upon proclamation. NWAD RIOTER.3
1. Luxurious; wanton or licentious in festive indulgences; as riotous eaters of flesh. Proverbs 23:20. NWAD RIOTOUS.2
2. Consisting of riot; tumultuous; partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly; seditious. NWAD RIOTOUS.3
3. Guilty of riot; applied to persons. NWAD RIOTOUS.4
1. With excessive or licentious luxury. NWAD RIOTOUSLY.2
2. In the manner of an unlawful assembly; tumultuously; seditiously. NWAD RIOTOUSLY.3
1. To separate by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip open a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip open a sack; to rip off the shingles or clapboards of a house; to rip up a floor. We never use lacerate in these senses, but apply it to a partial tearing of the skin and flesh. NWAD RIP.2
2. To take out or away by cutting or tearing. NWAD RIP.3
He’ll rip the fatal secret from her heart. NWAD RIP.4
3. To tear up for search or disclosure or for alteration; to search to the bottom; with up. NWAD RIP.5
You rip up the original of Scotland. NWAD RIP.6
They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion. NWAD RIP.7
4. To rip out, as an oath. [L crepo.] NWAD RIP.8
1. A tearing; a place torn; laceration. NWAD RIP.10
2. A wicker basket to carry fish in. NWAD RIP.11
3. Refuse. [Not in use or local.] NWAD RIP.12
1. Brought to perfection in growth or to the best state; mature; fit for use; as ripe fruit; ripe corn. NWAD RIPE.2
2. Advanced to perfection; matured; as ripe judgment, or ripe in judgment. NWAD RIPE.3
3. Finished; consummate; as a ripe scholar. NWAD RIPE.4
4. Brought to the point of taking effect; matured; ready; prepared; as things just ripe for war. NWAD RIPE.5
5. Fully qualified by improvement; prepared; as a student ripe for the university; a saint ripe for heaven. NWAD RIPE.6
6. Resembling the ripeness of fruit; as a ripe lip. NWAD RIPE.7
7. Complete; proper for use. NWAD RIPE.8
When time is ripe. NWAD RIPE.9
8. Maturated; suppurated; as an abscess or tumor. NWAD RIPE.10
1. To grow ripe; to be matured; as grain or fruit. Grain ripens best in dry weather. NWAD RIPEN.2
2. To approach or come to perfection; to be fitted or prepared; as, a project is ripening for execution. NWAD RIPEN.3
1. To mature; to make ripe; as grain or fruit. NWAD RIPEN.5
2. To mature; to fit or prepare; as, to ripen one for heaven. NWAD RIPEN.6
3. To bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment. NWAD RIPEN.7
1. The state of being ripe or brought to that state of perfection which fits for use; maturity; as the ripeness of grain. NWAD RIPENESS.2
2. Full growth. NWAD RIPENESS.3
Time which made them their fame outlive, to Cowley scarce did ripeness give. NWAD RIPENESS.4
3. Perfection; completeness; as the ripeness of virtue, wisdom or judgment. NWAD RIPENESS.5
4. Fitness; qualification. NWAD RIPENESS.6
5. Complete maturation or suppuration, as of an ulcer or abscess. NWAD RIPENESS.7
6. A state of preparation; as the ripeness of a project for execution. NWAD RIPENESS.8
1. A tearing. NWAD RIPPING.3
2. A discovery. Obs. NWAD RIPPING.4
To fret on the surface; as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom, appears rough and broken, or as if ripped or torn. NWAD RIPPLE.2
1. To clean, as flax. NWAD RIPPLE.4
2. To agitate the surface of water. NWAD RIPPLE.5
1. The fretting of the surface of water; little curling waves. NWAD RIPPLE.7
2. A large comb or hatchel for cleaning flax. NWAD RIPPLE.8
1. The ripple dashing on the shore, or the noise of it. NWAD RIPPLING.3
2. The act or method of cleaning flax; a hatcheling. NWAD RIPPLING.4
1. To move to pass upward in any manner; to ascend; as, a fog rises from a river or from low ground; a fish rises in water; fowls rise in the air; clouds rise from the horizon towards the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds. NWAD RISE.2
2. To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed. NWAD RISE.3
3. To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall. NWAD RISE.4
4. To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, to rise from a sofa or chair. NWAD RISE.5
5. To spring; to grow; as a plant; hence, to be high or tall. A tree rises to the height of 60 feet. NWAD RISE.6
6. To swell in quantity or extent; to be more elevated; as, a river rises after a rain. NWAD RISE.7
7. To break forth; to appear; as, a boil rises on the skin. NWAD RISE.8
8. To appear above the horizon; to shine; as, the sun or a star rises. NWAD RISE.9
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good. Matthew 5:45. NWAD RISE.10
9. To begin to exist; to originate; to come into being or notice. Great evils sometimes rise from small imprudences. NWAD RISE.11
10. To be excited; to begin to move or act; as, the wind rose at 12 o’clock. NWAD RISE.12
11. To increase in violence. The wind continued to rise till 3 o’clock. NWAD RISE.13
12. To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader’s view. NWAD RISE.14
13. To appear in sight; also, to appear more elevated; as in sailing towards a shore, the land rises. NWAD RISE.15
14. To change a station; to leave a place; as, to rise from a siege. NWAD RISE.16
15. To spring; to be excited or produced. A thought now rises in my mind. NWAD RISE.17
16. To gain elevation in rank, fortune or public estimation; to be promoted. Men may rise by industry, by merit, by favor, or by intrigue. NWAD RISE.18
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. NWAD RISE.19
When the wicked rise, men hide themselves. Proverbs 28:28. NWAD RISE.20
17. To break forth into public commotions; to make open opposition to government; or to assemble and oppose government; or to assemble in arms for attacking another nation. The Greeks have risen against their oppressors. NWAD RISE.21
No more shall nation against nation rise. NWAD RISE.22
18. To be excited or roused into action. NWAD RISE.23
Rise up to the battle. Jeremiah 49:14. NWAD RISE.24
19. To make a hostile attack; as when a man riseth against his neighbor. Deuteronomy 22:26. NWAD RISE.25
Also, to rebel. 2 Samuel 18:32. NWAD RISE.26
20. To increase; to swell; to grow more or greater. A voice, feeble at first, rises to thunder. The price of good rises. The heat rises to intensity. NWAD RISE.27
21. To be improved; to recover from depression; as, a family may rise after misfortune to opulence and splendor. NWAD RISE.28
22. To elevate the style or manner; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence. NWAD RISE.29
23. To be revived from death. NWAD RISE.30
The dead in Christ shall rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16. NWAD RISE.31
24. To come by chance. NWAD RISE.32
25. To ascend; to be elevated above the level or surface; as, the ground rises gradually one hundred yards. The Andes rise more than 20,000 feet above the level of the ocean; a mountain in Asia is said to rise still higher. NWAD RISE.33
26. To proceed from. NWAD RISE.34
A scepter shall rise out of Israel. Numbers 24:17. NWAD RISE.35
27. To have its sources in. Rivers rise in lakes, ponds and springs. NWAD RISE.36
28. To be moved, roused, excited, kindled or inflamed, as passion. His wrath rose to rage. NWAD RISE.37
29. To ascend in the diatonic scale; as, to rise a tone or semitone. NWAD RISE.38
30. To amount. The public debt rises to a hundred million. NWAD RISE.39
31. To close a session. We say, congress will rise on the 4th of March; the legislature or the court will rise on a certain day. NWAD RISE.40
This verb is written also arise, which see. In general, it is indifferent which orthography is used; but custom has, in some cases, established one to the exclusion of the other. Thus we never say, the price of goods arises, when we mean advanced, but we always say, the price rises. We never say, the ground arises to a certain altitude, and rarely, a man arises into an office or station. It is hardly possible to class or define the cases in which usage has established a difference in the orthography of this verb. NWAD RISE.41
1. The act of rising, either in a literal or figurative sense; ascent; as the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of mercury in the barometer; the rise of water in a river. NWAD RISE.43
2. The act of springing or mounting from the ground; as the rise of the feet in leaping. NWAD RISE.44
3. Ascent; elevation, or degree of ascent; as the rise of a hill or mountain. NWAD RISE.45
4. Spring; source; origin; as the rise of a stream in a mountain. All sin has its rise in the heart. NWAD RISE.46
5. Any place elevated above the common level; as a rise of land. NWAD RISE.47
6. Appearance above the horizon; as the rise of the sun or a star. NWAD RISE.48
7. Increase; advance; as a rise in the price of wheat. NWAD RISE.49
8. Advance in rank, honor, property or fame. Observe a man after his rise to office, or a family after its rise from obscurity. NWAD RISE.50
9. Increase of sound on the same key; a swelling of the voice. NWAD RISE.51
10. Elevation or ascent of the voice in the diatonic scale; as a rise of a tone or semitone. NWAD RISE.52
11. Increase; augmentation. NWAD RISE.53
12. A bough or branch. [Not in use.] NWAD RISE.54
1. One that rises; as an early riser. NWAD RISER.2
2. Among joiners, the upright board of a stair. NWAD RISER.3
1. The quality of laughing, or of being capable of laughter. Risibility is peculiar to the human species. NWAD RISIBILITY.2
2. Proneness to laugh. NWAD RISIBILITY.3
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing. Man is a risible animal. NWAD RISIBLE.2
2. Laughable; capable of exciting laughter. The description of Falstaff in Shakespeare, exhibits a risible scene. Risible differs from ludicrous, as species from genus; ludicrous expressing that which is playful and sportive; risible, that which may excite laughter. Risible differs from ridiculous, as the latter implies something mean or contemptible, and risible does not. NWAD RISIBLE.3
1. Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceeding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, etc. NWAD RISING.2
2. Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as a rising state; a rising character. NWAD RISING.3
1. The act of getting up from any recumbent or sitting posture. NWAD RISING.5
2. The act of ascending; as the rising of vapor. NWAD RISING.6
3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as the rising of the legislature. NWAD RISING.7
4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon. NWAD RISING.8
5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection. Mark 9:10. NWAD RISING.9
6. A tumor on the body. Leviticus 13:2. NWAD RISING.10
7. An assembling in opposition to government; insurrection; sedition or mutiny. NWAD RISING.11
1. Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to harm. He, at the risk of his life, saved a drowning man. NWAD RISK.2
2. In commerce, the hazard of loss, either of ship, goods or other property. Hence, risk signifies also the degree of hazard or danger; for the premiums of insurance are calculated upon the risk. The underwriters now take risks at a low premium. NWAD RISK.3
To run a risk, is to incur hazard; to encounter danger. NWAD RISK.4
1. To hazard; to endanger; to expose to injury or loss; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one’s person in battle; to risk one’s fame by a publication; to risk life in defense of rights. NWAD RISK.6
2. To venture; to dare to undertake; as, to risk a battle or combat. NWAD RISK.7
The manner of performing divine or solemn service as established by law, precept or custom; formal act of religion, or other solemn duty. The rites of the Israelites were numerous and expensive; the rites of modern churches are more simple. Funeral rites are very different in different countries. The sacrament is a holy rite. NWAD RITE.2
In music, a repeat; the burden of a song, or the repetition of a verse or strain. NWAD RITORNELLO.2
1. Pertaining to rites; consisting of rites; as ritual service or sacrifices. NWAD RITUAL.2
2. Prescribing rites; as the ritual law. NWAD RITUAL.3
1. One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can possess; a competitor; as rivals in love; rivals for a crown. Love will not patiently bear a rival. NWAD RIVAL.2
2. One striving to equal or exceed another in excellence; as two rivals in eloquence. NWAD RIVAL.3
3. An antagonist; a competitor in any pursuit or strife. NWAD RIVAL.4
Equal in years and rival in renown. NWAD RIVAL.6
1. To stand in competition with; to strive to gain the object which another is contending for; as, to rival one in love. NWAD RIVAL.8
2. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate. NWAD RIVAL.9
To rival thunder in its rapid course. NWAD RIVAL.10
1. The state or character of a rival. NWAD RIVALSHIP.2
2. Strife; contention for superiority; emulation; rivalry. NWAD RIVALSHIP.3
To split; to cleave; to rend asunder by force; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles with wedges; the riven oak; the riven clouds. NWAD RIVE.2
The scolding winds have riv’d the knotty oaks. NWAD RIVE.3
Freestone rives, splits and breaks in any direction. NWAD RIVE.5
To contract into wrinkles; to shrink; as riveled fruits; riveled flowers. NWAD RIVEL.2
1. A large stream of water flowing in a channel on land towards the ocean, a lake or another river. It is larger than a rivulet or brook; but is applied to any stream from the size of a mill-stream to that of the Danube, Maranon and Mississippi. We give this name to large streams which admit the tide and mingle salt water with fresh, as the rivers Hudson, Delaware and St. Lawrence. NWAD RIVER.3
2. A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as rivers of blood; rivers of oil NWAD RIVER.4
1. To fasten with a rivet or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron. NWAD RIVET.2
2. To clinch; as, to rivet a pin or bolt. NWAD RIVET.3
3. To fasten firmly; to make firm, strong or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection. NWAD RIVET.4
By fountain or by shady rivulet, he sought them. NWAD RIVULET.2
A brawl or quarrel. [Not in use.] NWAD RIXATION.2
A silver coin of Germany, Denmark and Sweden, of different value in different places. In Hamburg and some other parts of Germany, its value is the same as the American dollar, or 4-6d sterling. In other parts of Germany, its value is 3-6d sterling, or about 78 cents. NWAD RIX-DOLLAR.2
A fish of the genus Cyprinus, found in fresh water, easily caught and tolerably good for food. NWAD ROACH.2
As sound as a roach, is a phrase supposed to have been originally, as sound as a rock. NWAD ROACH.3
1. An open way or public passage; ground appropriated for travel, forming a communication between one city, town or place and another. The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street and lane. The military roads of the Romans were paved with stone, or formed of gravel or pebbles, and some of them remain to this day entire. NWAD ROAD.2
2. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; sometimes called roadstead, that is, a place for riding, meaning at anchor. NWAD ROAD.3
3. A journey. [Not used, but we still use ride as a noun; as a long ride; a short ride; the same word differently written.] NWAD ROAD.4
4. An inroad; incursion of an enemy. [Not in use.] NWAD ROAD.5
On the road, passing; traveling. NWAD ROAD.6
To wander; to ramble; to rove; to walk or move about from place to place without any certain purpose or direction. The wolf and the savage roam in the forest. NWAD ROAM.2
Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. NWAD ROAM.3
1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound; to bellow, as a beast; as a roaring bull; a roaring lion. NWAD ROAR.2
2. To cry aloud, as in distress. NWAD ROAR.3
The suff’ring chief roar’d out for anguish. NWAD ROAR.4
3. To cry aloud; to bawl; as a child. NWAD ROAR.5
4. To cause a loud continued sound. We say, the sea or the wind roars; a company roar in acclamation. NWAD ROAR.6
5. To make a loud noise. NWAD ROAR.7
The brazen throat of war had ceas’d to roar. NWAD ROAR.8
1. A full loud sound of some continuance; the cry of a beast; as the roar of a lion or bull. NWAD ROAR.10
2. The loud cry of a child or person in distress. NWAD ROAR.11
3. Clamor; outcry of joy or mirth; as a roar of laughter. he set the company in a roar. NWAD ROAR.12
4. The loud continued sound of the sea in a storm, or the howling of a tempest. NWAD ROAR.13
5. Any loud sound of some continuance; as the roar of cannon. NWAD ROAR.14
1. To cook, dress or prepare meat for the table by exposing it to heat, as on a spit. In a bake-pan, in an oven or the like. We now say, to roast meat on a spit, in a pan, or in a tin oven, etc.; to bake meat in an oven; to broil meat on a gridiron. NWAD ROAST.2
2. To prepare for food by exposure to heat; as, to roast apples or potatoes; to roast eggs. NWAD ROAST.3
3. To heat to excess; to heat violently. NWAD ROAST.4
Roasted in wrath and fire. NWAD ROAST.5
4. To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee. NWAD ROAST.6
5. In metallurgy, to dissipate the volatile parts of ore by heat. NWAD ROAST.7
6. In common discourse, to jeer; to banter severely. NWAD ROAST.8
1. One that roasts meat; also, a gridiron. NWAD ROASTER.2
2. A pig for roasting. NWAD ROASTER.3
1. Preparing for the table by exposure to heat on a spit; drying and parching. NWAD ROASTING.2
2. Bantering with severity. NWAD ROASTING.3
The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, mixed with honey or sugar to the consistence of a conserve. NWAD ROB.2
1. In law, to take from the person of another feloniously, forcibly and by putting him in fear; as, to rob a passenger on the road. NWAD ROB.4
2. To seize and carry from any thing by violence and with felonious intent; as, to rob a coach; to rob the mail. NWAD ROB.5
3. To plunder; to strip unlawfully; as, to rob an orchard; to rob a man of his just praise. NWAD ROB.6
4. To take away by oppression or by violence. NWAD ROB.7
Rob not the poor because he is poor. Proverbs 22:22. NWAD ROB.8
5. To take from; to deprive. A large tree robs smaller plants near it of their nourishment. NWAD ROB.9
6. In a loose sense, to steal; to take privately without permission of the owner. NWAD ROB.10
7. To withhold what is due. Malachi 3:8. NWAD ROB.11
1. In law, one that takes goods or money from the person of another by force or menaces, and with a felonious intent. NWAD ROBBER.2
2. In a looser sense, one who takes that to which he has no right; one who steals, plunders or strips by violence and wrong. NWAD ROBBER.3
1. In law, the forcible and felonious taking from the person of another any money or goods, putting him in fear, that is, by violence or by menaces of death or personal injury. Robbery differs from theft, as it is a violent felonious taking from the person or presence of another; whereas theft is a felonious taking of goods privately from the person, dwelling, etc. of another. These words should not be confounded. NWAD ROBBERY.2
2. A plundering; a pillaging; a taking away by violence, wrong or oppression. NWAD ROBBERY.3
1. A kind of gown or long loose garment worn over other dress, particularly by persons in elevated stations. The robe is properly a dress of state or dignity, as of princes, judges, priests, etc. See 1 Samuel 24:4; Matthew 27:28. NWAD ROBE.2
2. A splendid female gown or garment. 2 Samuel 13:18. NWAD ROBE.3
3. An elegant dress; splendid attire. NWAD ROBE.4
4. In Scripture, the vesture of purity or righteousness, and of happiness. Job 29:14; Luke 15:22. NWAD ROBE.5
1. To put on a robe; or to dress with magnificence; to array. NWAD ROBE.7
2. To dress; to invest, as with beauty or elegance; as fields robed with green. NWAD ROBE.8
Such was his power over the expression of his countenance, that he could in an instant shake off the sternness of winter, and robe it in the brightest smiles of spring. NWAD ROBE.9
1. A bird of the genus Motacilla, called also redbreast. This is the English application of the word. NWAD ROBIN.2
2. In the United States, a bird with a red breast, a species of Turdus. NWAD ROBIN.3
A strengthening. [Little used.] NWAD ROBORATION.2
Made of oak. NWAD ROBOREOUS.2
1. Strong; lusty; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; forceful; as a robust body; robust youth. It implies full flesh and sound health. NWAD ROBUST.2
2. Sound; vigorous; as robust health. NWAD ROBUST.3
3. Violent; rough; rude. NWAD ROBUST.4
Romp loving miss is haul’d about in gallantry robust. NWAD ROBUST.5
4. Requiring strength; as robust employment. NWAD ROBUST.6
[Note. This is one of the words in which we observe a strong tendency in practice to accentuate the first syllable, as in access; and there are many situations of the word in which this is the preferable pronunciation. Robustious is extremely vulgar, and in the United States nearly obsolete.] NWAD ROBUST.7