<B>rabble</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>-bled,</B> <B>-bling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an iron bar bent at one end, used for stirring, skimming, or gathering molten metal in puddling. <BR> <I>Ex. The slag is now drawn with a rabble into molds prepared for it (Rossiter Raymond).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar instrument. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to stir, skim, or gather with a rabble. <BR> <I>Ex. The molten metal is thoroughly stirred, or rabbled, to make it uniform (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>rabble</B> (3), transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-bled,</B> <B>-bling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect, Especially British.) to speak in a rapid, confused manner; gabble. </DL>
<B>rabbler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who works with or uses a rabble in puddling. </DL>
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<B>rabble-rouser, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who tries to stir up groups of people with speeches tending to arouse them to acts of violence against some existing condition, usually to serve his own ends; agitator. <BR> <I>Ex. Hitler, although half-educated, was ... an eminently successful rabble-rouser (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>rabble-rousing, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> inciting or agitating as or like a rabble-rouser; demagogic. <BR> <I>Ex. a rabble-rousing speech or speaker.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> the actions or methods of a rabble-rouser; demagoguery. <BR> <I>Ex. to engage in rabble-rousing, to stir up the public by rabble-rousing against the government.</I> </DL>
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<B>rabboni, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> master, a Jewish title of honor (applied especially to religious teachers and learned persons). John 20:16. </DL>
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<B>Rabelaisian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the French writer Francois Rabelais (1494?-1553). <DD><B> 2. </B>suggesting Rabelais; characterized by broad, coarse humor. <BR> <I>Ex. Rabelaisian drinking parties (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<B>rabi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the spring crop, sown in autumn in India. <BR> <I>Ex. Where indigo is grown in the kharif, barley is its usual accompaniment in the rabi (Arthur H. Church).</I> </DL>
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<B>Rabi I,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the third month of the Moslem year. It has 30 days. </DL>
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<B>Rabi II,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the fourth month of the Moslem year. It has 29 days. </DL>
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<B>rabic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or caused by rabies. <BR> <I>Ex. rabic symptoms.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>affected with rabies. <BR> <I>Ex. a rabic animal.</I> </DL>
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<B>rabid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>unreasonably extreme; fanatical; violent. <BR> <I>Ex. The rebels are rabid idealists.</I> (SYN) impassioned. <DD><B> 2. </B>furious; raging. <BR> <I>Ex. He was rabid with anger.</I> (SYN) frantic, raving. <DD><B> 3a. </B>having rabies; mad. <BR> <I>Ex. a rabid dog.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>of rabies. adv. <B>rabidly.</B> noun <B>rabidness.</B> </DL>
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<B>rabidity, </B>noun. =rabidness.</DL>
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<B>rabies, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a virus disease that attacks the central nervous system of warm-blooded animals, causing mental disturbance, muscular spasms, and paralysis; hydrophobia. It is transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal, such as a mad dog or fox. <BR> <I>Ex. Rabies is almost sure death to both man and animals unless serum is given before symptoms of the disease appear (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>R.A.C.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Royal Automobile Club (of Great Britain). </DL>
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<B>raca, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> worthless (an ancient Jewish expression of contempt. In the Bible, Matthew 5:22) </DL>
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<B>raccoon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, grayish animal with a bushy, ringed tail. Raccoons are mammals that live in wooded areas of North America and South America near water and are active at night, living mostly in trees by day. <DD><B> 2. </B>its fur. Also, <B>racoon.</B> </DL>
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<B>raccoon dog,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small Asiatic wild dog, somewhat like a raccoon. </DL>
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<B>race</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>raced,</B> <B>racing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any contest of speed, as in running, driving, riding, or sailing. <BR> <I>Ex. a horse race, a boat race. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>Often, <B>races.</B> a series of horse races run at a set time over a regular course. <DD><B> 3. </B>any contest that suggests a race. <BR> <I>Ex. a political race.</I> (SYN) rivalry. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) onward movement; course. <BR> <I>Ex. the race of life.</I> (SYN) progress. <DD><B> 5. </B>a strong or fast current of water. <BR> <I>Ex. This evening the Talbot weighed and went back to the Cowes, because her anchor would not hold here, the tide set with so strong a race (John Winthrop).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>the channel of a stream. <BR> <I>Ex. The race, ... a canal 20 to 30 feet wide, ... carried ... through rocks and hills (Jedidiah Morse).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a channel leading water to or from a place where its energy is utilized. <BR> <I>Ex. The water, brought through races by miles of fluming, spouted clear and strong over heaps of auriferous earth (Rolf Boldrewood).</I> (SYN) sluice, conduit, canal. <DD><B> 8. </B>a track, groove, or the like, for a sliding or rolling part of a machine, such as a channel for ball bearings. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a split bushing was pressed in place between the main journal and the inner race of the ball bearings (Purvis and Toboldt).</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>the current of air driven back by a propeller of an aircraft. <DD><B> 10. </B>(Scottish.) the act of running; run. <BR> <I>Ex. The noble stag ... Held westward with unwearied race (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 11. </B>(in Australia) a fenced path used to separate sheep from a fold. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to run to see who will win; engage in a contest of speed. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys raced to see who would get to the water fountain first.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to run, move, or go swiftly. <BR> <I>Ex. Race to the doctor for help.</I> (SYN) dash, rush. <DD><B> 3. </B>(of a motor, wheel, propeller, or the like) to run faster than necessary when load or resistance is lessened or when the transmission is not engaged. <BR> <I>Ex. The motor engine raced before it was shut off (Sinclair Lewis).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to try to beat in a contest of speed; run a race with. <BR> <I>Ex. I'll race you to the corner.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause to run in a race. <BR> <I>Ex. The driver raced his car down the road at top speed.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to cause to run, move, or go swiftly. <DD><B> 4. </B>to make go faster than necessary; cause (a motor, wheel, propeller, or the like) to run too fast with reduced load or when the transmission is not engaged. </DL>
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<B>race</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of the major divisions of mankind, each having distinctive physical characteristics and a common ancestry. <BR> <I>Ex. the white race. The whole concept of race, as it is traditionally defined, may be profoundly modified or even dropped altogether, once the genetic approach has been fully exploited (Beals and Hoijer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a group of persons connected by common descent or origin. <BR> <I>Ex. the Nordic race. We were two daughters of one race (Tennyson). Troy's whole race thou wouldst confound (Alexander Pope).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>human beings, as a group. <BR> <I>Ex. the human race, to which so many of my readers belong (Gilbert K. Chesterton).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a group of animals or plants having the same ancestry. <BR> <I>Ex. the canine race, the race of fishes.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a group, class, or kind, especially of people. <BR> <I>Ex. the brave race of seamen.</I> <DD><B> 6a. </B>the condition of belonging to a particular stock. <BR> <I>Ex. Race was considered important by the Nazis, who claimed that they were Aryans. Goodbye to the Anglo-Saxon race, Farewell to the Norman blood! (A. L. Gordon). ... a planet ... undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color, or theory (Stephen Vincent Benet).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the qualities due to this. <DD><B> 7. </B>stock of high quality. <BR> <I>Ex. The look of race, which had been hers since childhood (Winston Churchill).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a lively or stimulating quality. <DD><B> 9. </B>the characteristic taste of a particular type of wine. <DD><B> 10. </B>(Zoology.) a variety characteristic of a given area. <BR> <I>Ex. The plains ... bred a generous race of horses (Edward Gibbon).</I> <DD><B> 11. </B>(Botany.) any group whose characters continue from one generation to another. <BR> <I>Ex. A race, in this technical sense of the term, is a variety which is perpetuated with considerable certainty by sexual propagation (Asa Gray).</I> </DL>
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<B>race</B> (3), noun. <B>=rhizome.</B> <I>Ex. a race or two of ginger (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
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<B>race</B> (4), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a narrow white mark down the face of a horse or dog. </DL>
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<B>raceable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can run in a race. <BR> <I>Ex. a raceable horse.</I> adv. <B>raceably.</B> </DL>
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<B>raceabout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a type of racing yacht with a short bowsprit and a rig like that of a sloop. <DD><B> 2. </B>a type of automobile built or remodeled for racing. </DL>
<A NAME="racebaiter">
<B>race-baiter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person given to race-baiting. </DL>
<A NAME="racebaiting">
<B>race-baiting, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the persecution of people of a different race or races. </DL>
<A NAME="racecard">
<B>race card,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) form sheet (def. 1). </DL>
<A NAME="racecourse">
<B>race course,</B> or <B>racecourse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> ground laid out for racing; race track. </DL>
<A NAME="racegoer">
<B>racegoer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who frequently goes to horse races, automobile races, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="racehorse">
<B>race horse,</B> or <B>racehorse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a horse bred, trained, or kept for racing. </DL>
<A NAME="raceknife">
<B>race knife,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a knife with a bent lip, as for marking or numbering. </DL>
<A NAME="racemate">
<B>racemate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a salt or ester of racemic acid. </DL>
