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A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting. Rapier fish (Zoöl.), the swordfish. [Obs.] Grew.

Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures." Lowell.

Lapilli.

spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

Given to rapine. [Obs.]

The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.

derer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary. [Written also raparee.]

imp. & p. p. of Rap, to strike.

A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.

One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door. Sterne.

Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord. 'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country. Sir W. Temple. En` rap`port" ( Etym: [F.], in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympat…

Act or fact of coming or being drawn near or together; establishment or state of cordial relations.

A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow. [Colloq.] Howitt.

imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.

A raptor. [Obs.] Drayton.

A ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.]

Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.

Rapacious; living upon prey; -- said especially of certain birds.

Raptorial.