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rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.

Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.

In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.

c use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

Prior; earlier; former. [Obs.] Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.

ants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.

reconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the rural population in or about towns and villages for convenience in political or military administration, as in Cuba during the revolution of 1895-98.

Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith. Macaulay.

oleridge. According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs." W. Irving.

ve aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town. Now lend assistance and relieve the poor. Dryden.

hat an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

A revolutionist. [R.] Dumfries was a Tory town, and could not tolerate a revolutionary. Prof. Wilson.

A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.

To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.

One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [Obs.] But what's the action we are for now Robbing a ripper of his fish. Beau & Fl.

sons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

A seaport town in France. Rochelle powders. Same as Seidlitz powders. -- Rochelle salt (Chem.), the double tartrate of sodium and potassium, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and…

be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter. The rocking town Supplants their footsteps. J. Philips .

ting; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.

terials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.