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Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. [R.] Dryden.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

A tumultuous crowd of low people; a rabble. "Rude rablement." Spenser.

A scraping tool for smoothing metal.

See Sagittal. [Written also rhabdoidal.]

The method or art of performing arithmetical operations by means of Napier's bones. See Napier's bones. [Written also rhabdology.]

Divination by means of rods or wands. [Written also rhabdomancy.] Sir T. Browne.

Furious; raging; extremely violent.

Rabidness; furiousness.

In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.

The quality or state of being rabid.

Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

A kind of small ordnance formerly in use. [Written also rabanet.] Ainsworth.

Fierce. [Obs.] Daniel.

A rubber of hard wood used in smoothing marble to be polished. Knight.

A term of reproach used by the Jews of our Savior's time, meaning "worthless."

A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.

lied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.

A root. "A race or two of ginger." Shak. Race ginger, ginger in the root, or not pulverized.

The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate.