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36,747 words match “RA”

RALLY v. 9 definitions
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. The Grecians rally, and their powers unite. Dryden. Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world. Tillotson.…
RALPH n.
A name sometimes given to the raven.
RALSTONITE n.
A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.
RAM n. 11 definitions
The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
RAMADAN n. 2 definitions
The ninth Mohammedan month.
RAMAGE n. 3 definitions
Boughs or branches. [Obs.] Crabb.
RAMAGIOUS a.
Wild; not tame. [Obs.] Now is he tame that was so ramagious. Remedy of Love.
RAMAL a.
Of or pertaining to a ramus, or branch; rameal.
RAMAYANA n.
The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.
RAMBERGE n.
Formerly, a kind of large war galley.
RAMBLE v. 5 definitions
determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind Locke.
RAMBLER n.
One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
RAMBLING a.
Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
RAMBLINGLY adv.
In a rambling manner.
RAMBOOZE n.
A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. [Obs.] Blount.
RAMBUTAN n.
vered with coarse hairs (whence the name), and contains a pleasant acid pulp. Called also ramboostan.
RAMEAL a.
Same as Ramal. Gray.
RAMEAN n.
A Ramist. Shipley.
RAMED a.
Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.
RAMEE n.
See Ramie.
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