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Wild; roving; rakish. [Low]

Ranterism.

Wild; noisy; boisterous.

A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceæ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

Same as Accipitres.

der; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley.

The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.

See Rapparee.

Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. Ray.

Given to the commission of rape. Byron.

Violently. [Obs.]

Like Raphael's works; in Raphael's manner of painting.

The principles of painting introduced by Raphael, the Italian painter.

One who advocates or adopts the principles of Raphaelism.

A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.