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See Puncheon.

A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.

Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- Push"ing*ly, adv.

A white crystalline substance, C6H4(OH)2, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.

A yellow crystalline hydrocardon extracted from crude wood spirit; -- called also eblanin.

Rapturous; transporting.

In a ravishing manner.

Reviving; reanimating. -- Re*fresh"ing*ly, adv. -- Re*fresh"ing*ness, n.

Resplendent. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

Og or pertaining to the nose or olfactory organs.

The borele.

A water course; a ditch. [Written also rean.] [Prov. Eng.] Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.

The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.

Gold and silver, or money. [Cant] W. Wagstaffe. As long as the rhino lasted. Marryat.

A combining form from Greek the nose, as in rhinolith, rhinology.

Of or pertaining to the rhinoceros; resembling the rhinoceros, or his horn. Tatler.